This repository contains a dump of my Master's thesis in Aerospace Engineering that I finished in 2006, an helicopter simulator.
This is abandonware but I thought it might prove useful for someone. I personally don't have any plans to update and maintain it, at least in the short and mid term (unless paid :) ).
If you can read Spanish have a look at the thesis itself.
Code in src is under MIT license (see src/LICENSE).
Documentation in doc is under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (see doc/LICENSE).
The bad:
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It's written in Python 2, using old libraries.
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I didn't have much experience back then.
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The ground collision model sucks completely. Just throw it away. Who would have know after fighting with aerodynamics that rigid bodies still had surprises?
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Documentation is written in Spanish.
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Uses FlightGear for the graphical interface. I doubt it still works.
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It's just a flight dynamics model: no instrumentation, no fuel consumption, just the bare physics.
The good:
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Blade flapping.
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Finite state wake model plus blade element model for rotor aerodynamics.
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Wake effect on tail rotor.
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A simple ground effect model.
Hahahaha!