Re: FLASH: Please test site:'How do airplanes...................?'

[Marc Hoffman]

At 09:37 PM 10/23/98 +0200, you wrote:

>Hi,

>

>as a aerospace engineering student and a complete Flash newbie, I decided to

>devote some of my time to explain about: How do airplanes............?.

>So for you out there who are interested in the topic, please visit the

>preliminary test site at:

http://www.lr.tudelft.nl/~lr806482/why/wing.htm

><SNIP>

>Geoffrey Stoel

>New to Flash, but devoted for life (and addicted).

>

>


Yes, Flash is addictive.  Welcome to the program.


This is a good use of Flash.  May I suggest you add some action, perhaps

some comic relief.  You could have a scrolling background to create the

illusion of flight, show the entire plane, and have the plane crash when it

stalls.  


I think the circles with the degrees in them are redundant; the arrow

controls are enough, or you could replace all with a whatever that tilting

thing is that pilots use.  It's possible in Flash to have the user click on

the steering control and then create the illusion of moving the control up

and down.  This is done by having a bunch of buttons that look like the

control but appear only on mouse rollover.  Each button directs the wing to

a different position. A few more increments of lift would be nice, so that

the user gets to interact a bit longer before crashing the plane.  Sound

would be a natural: putt-putt, stall, and crash effects.  They will add to

your file size but you can use a lot of compression on them and use looping

for the first two.


Good luck.



Marc Hoffman

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