Problem with design

[ampwelder]

The British De Havilland Comet was the first jet liner produced. It was also the first pressurized air liner. They had
several crashes and the cause was found found to be that cracks would develop at the corners of the windows in the
aluminum skin of the air frame. The cracks were caused by repeated cycles of pressurization and decompresuon. The
problem was solved by making the corners round. This is why today airliner windows have rounded corneres.
   It is now comonly known that stress is concentrated at sharp corners!!!!!
   The DGIII has sharp corners in it's windows and is designed to fly in space so would have even more stresses
building up at stress points such as sharp corners in windows the the Comet had. This would certenly lead to failure
after a few flights, and I think that would simply be a very bad thing....

[StarLost]

That's nice.

Mind you, most spacecraft do not see repeated cycles of pressurization and decompression. The areas of the craft that do, are
separate from the rest of the craft and either have no windows or a round window in the door.

Also, this is a SIMULATOR. It is within the realm of fantasy. It is meant to accurately model spaceflight physics, not
necessarily aerodynamic physics and mechanical physics. In time maybe.

It is the development of one man. The addons are usually also developed by one man (occasionally a team). It is not developed
by a huge graphics house.

You want it to model spacecraft stresses now?  Take a Tylenol.

[Quick_Nick]

It's not supposed to be realistic in flight! Do you really think something the size of the shuttle could go to the moon?
or be able to do aerobatics with that much fuel?

[Simonpro]

The DG has windows that are very similar to those on the Shuttle (either shuttle), and I'd say they are fairly realistic.
Also, a spacecraft doesn't have as many pressurisation problems as an aircraft. The aircraft may go through it's
pressure cycle 5 times per day, every day for months on end. A spacecraft is likely only to go through the cycle once
over two weeks, and then not again for months, if not years.

[Mole]

While you're on the topic, I wonder if that big canopy would withstand vacuum pressure real well.....