Cool! One of my old bosses was a good friend of Ron Schara and did a bunch of video production for him on side projects. A few years after I moved on from that company and had long lost touch, both our daughters were randomly in the same class together in school and became close friends. My daughter was telling me about her friend, and when she told me her name, I said ... wait a second! that's too unique of a last name. Anyway ... random trivia ...
Sometimes I arm wrestle with some of the other FlightGear founders over who really started the project, but if you ask me, FlightGear was founded and developed in Minnesota.
But ok, lots of other people made critical and early contributions, perhaps even before the first lines of code were written.