Hi there, good sim, I've been into linux for 2 yrs now and I'm glad to see such a great sim being under linux os. I got some off the wall questions for anyone that may know. First off, I'd like to know if there are any plans to make a extreemly graphic version for more of a corp use, like something that would benifit from using a cluster, I've seen some "supercomputers run big sims but I'm not sure if thier duties are mostly graphic or what. Reason I ask is that I'm just wanting to find a really good excuse to build a 10-20 node beowulf, and a TB or two of SATA storage. Next question: Is there a online tutorial about making these aircraft for FG? I'd like to see how other people do this so that I can put out a few good planes, like PC-6 turbo porter, LanceairV-P, and some russian beauties too like the an-2 and that one huge helicopter.Thanks for your time. Tell all the Developers to keep up the good work.

> Next question: Is there a online tutorial about making these>aircraft for FG? I'd like to see how other people do this so>that I can put out a few good planes, like PC-6 turbo porter,>LanceairV-P, and some russian beauties too like the an-2 and>that one huge helicopter.The 3d models of the aircrafts are made with normal 3d modeling software like Blender or AC3d.www.blender.orgwww.ac3d.orgThe 3d aircraft model files are saved in *.ac file formatso that flightgear can use them.Blender is free, it is Open Source softwareand can be downloaded from the Blender website.AC3d is commercial software but easier to learn.So if you want to create some 3d aircraft models for flightgearjust use one of those two 3d modeling programmes.That was the visual eye candy part.The physical part of the aircrafts are defined via xml filesand one of the 3 available flight dynamic models in flightgear.Just look at the Documentation on the flightgear website.http://www.flightgear.org/docs.htmlhttp://www.seedwiki.com/page.cfm?wikiid=24...c=Flight%20GearAnimations like gears and rudders are defined via those xml files too.