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F-42 Night Manta Flight-Sim for Android is coming soon!

Scheduled release date: Feb 2012.
Availability: Android Marketplace and Amazon App Store.

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Synopsis & Project Status

Palomino is an open-source flight simulator
for UNIX (Linux, FreeBSD, Apple Mac).

For advanced users who know how to compile programs.
Has only two basic missions: land-on-carrier and destroy-SAM.
More features (air-to-air combat etc) might be implemented in the future.

Screenshots

more screenshots

screenshot of open-source flight simulator

Videos

Flight-simulator videos.

YouTube video of flight simulator low-res videos flight sim videoF-14 Tomcat takeoff (13MB)
flight sim videoSR-71 Blackbird, Arizona, OSSIM (8MB) flight sim videoF-14 Tomcat, carrier landing (5MB)
flight sim videoSR-71 Blackbird, Oregon, OSSIM (34MB) flight sim videoF4U Corsair, crash landing (7MB)

News / Changes

  • [2011/04] Minor code improvements and maintenance.
  • [2010/11] Corrected shaders.
  • [2010/04] Corrected minor bugs, improved particle-system.
  • [2009/12] Compiles with SDL (improved sound, joystick support on Apple Mac et al).
  • [2009/12] Improved joystick support (can select which joystick).
  • [2009/12] Weather fx (pass -rain/-snow).
  • [2009/11] Should compile with Apple MacPorts.
  • [2009/11] Lots of bug fixes.
  • [2009/11] OSSIM: Last version that could compile with OSSIM.
  • [2009/06] Added Space Shuttle model.
  • [2009/06] Linux magazine article  [alt]
  • [2009/05] Improved graphics (shaders, shadows).
  • [2009/05] Improved views (can zoom-in very close to aircraft).
  • [2009/05] Fixes: collision at reset, aircraft selection, etc.
  • [2008/12] Aircraft control surfaces are animated.
  • [<=2008] Missiles, destroy SAM mission.
  • [<=2008] Special simulation of F-14 Tomcat model: (press '[' ']' or joystick buttons 4,5 to sweep wings).
  • [<=2008] Clouds.
  • [<=2008] Replay.
  • [<=2008] GUI (FLTK)
  • [<=2008] Lua scripting.
  • [<=2008] Carrier landing mission.
  • [<=2008] Motion blur (-motion-blur).
  • [<=2008] Sky dome.
  • [<=2008] Sound effects (PLIB)
  • [<=2008] Particle-system (improved explosions).
  • [<=2008] Collision-detection.
  • [<=2008] New aircraft models (from FlightGear) to fly in the simulator:
    Spitfire, F4U Corsair, F-82 Twin Mustang, F-15 Eagle, F-16 Falcon, F-18 Hornet, SR-71 Blackbird, F-86 Sabre, Mirage 2000, SU-37 Flanker.
  • [<=2008] OSSIM: Pass -llh [lat lon height] to set location on Earth (degree,degree,meters).
  • [<=2008] OSSIM: Can download satellite imagery and render spherical Earth using OSSIM.
  • [<=2008] Fixed rendering glitches.
  • [<=2008] Physics model based on metric SI units.
  • [<=2008] Automatic coordinated turning.
  • [<=2008] Support for 4 axis joysticks (roll,pitch,yaw,throtle), joystick.conf.
     
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