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Airfoil Bruce Artwick
An airfoil or aerofoil is the cross-sectional shape of a Bruce Artwick (born January 1, 1953) is an American
wing, blade, or sail. An airfoil-shaped body moving software engineer. He is the creator of the first
through a fluid produces an aerodynamic force. The consumer flight simulator software. He founded
component of this force perpendicular to the direction subLOGIC after graduating from the University of
of motion is called lift. The component parallel to the Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1977, and released
direction of motion is called drag. the first version of Flight Simulator for the Apple II
the following year. His original Apple II software was
Airspeed Indicator
purchased by Microsoft in 1982 and became
The airspeed indicator shows the aircraft's speed
Microsoft Flight Simulator.
(usually in knots) relative to the surrounding air. It works
by measuring the ram-air pressure in the aircraft's pitot After subLOGIC, Bruce founded the Bruce Artwick
tube relative to the ambient static pressure. The Organization which continued development of flight
indicated airspeed (IAS) must be corrected for simulator products which were eventually bought
nonstandard pressure and temperature in order to out by Microsoft.
obtain the true airspeed (TAS). The instrument is color
CTAF
coded to indicate important airspeeds such as the stall Common traffic advisory frequency (CTAF) is the
speed, never-exceed airspeed, or safe flap operation
name given to the VHF radio frequency used for air-
speeds.
to-air communication at United States, Canadian and
Attitude Indicator Australian non-towered airports.
The attitude indicator (also known as an artificial
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horizon) shows the aircraft's relation to the horizon.
Flight Simulation is a great hobby, but it's even
From this the pilot can tell whether the wings are level better when people get involved. There are many
(roll) and if the aircraft nose is pointing above or below
ways to this, with some of the most popular being:
the horizon (pitch). This is a primary instrument for
posting in the forums, writing tutorials and reviews
instrument flight and is also useful in conditions of poor (something I enjoy doing), and if you are really keen,
visibility. Pilots are trained to use other instruments in
and have the time, creating scenery and objects.
combination should this instrument or its power fail.
Delta Wing
Automatic Direction Finder (ADF)
The delta wing is a wing shaped in the form of a
The Automatic direction finder (ADF) indicator
triangle. It is named for its similarity in shape to the
instrument can be a fixed-card, movable card, or a Radio Greek uppercase letter delta. Although long studied,
Magnetic Indicator (RMI). An RMI is remotely coupled to
it did not find significant applications until the jet
a gyrocompass so that it automatically rotates the
age, when it proved suitable for high-speed subsonic
azimuth card to represent aircraft heading. While simple and supersonic flight.
ADF displays may have only one needle, a typical RMI
has two, coupled to different ADF receivers, allowing for DirectX
position fixing using one instrument. Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application
Blade Element Theory programming interfaces for handling tasks related to
Blade element theory (BET) is a mathematical process multimedia, especially game programming and
originally designed by William Froude (1878), David W. video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names
Taylor (1893) and Stefan Drzewiecki to determine the of these APIs all began with Direct, such as Direct3D,
behavior of propellers. It involves breaking a blade down DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound,
into several small parts then determining the forces on and so forth. Both Microsoft Flight Simulator and
each of these small blade elements. Prepar3D use DirectX.
