Many thanks to Ian Bell and David Braben for writing Elite in the first place. Most modern titles seem to have thumpy sound tracks and cinematic opening titles to make up for a lack of gameplay. Elite boasted original gameplay by the bucket load and ahead of its time graphics. 

Additional thanks to Ian Bell for publishing the original Elite ship geometries on his web site.

Special thanks to Clive Gringras for sending me the ship sources from the excellent ArcElite that he and Warren Burch wrote.

Elite © 1984 Ian Bell & David Braben
ArcElite © 1991 Hybrid Software. Written by Warren Burch and Clive Gringras