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It just won't fly.....

2 Meruto  3.3 years ago

https://imgur.com/a/ZtqUfcj

I've tried reducing its weight(it used to be 99,000 pounds), adding canards, increasing engine power, and even at one point I removed all fuel tanks to make it weigh around 40000 pounds- but it just won't fly.

Am I missing something? Is it the CoM? I have tested making the front slightly more heavier to move the CoM a bit more forward, still didn't fly, I tried putting the CoM behind, still didn't fly.

I've spent about 2 hours on this just planning and experimenting on stuff until I came up with this- and when I tried flying it for the first time, it failed to do so. Any help?

Also I'm a new player, I only have about 35 hours in the game, and about half of that is just playing with downloaded aircraft.

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    2 Meruto

    I have found the problem, apparently it was the "wing loading".

    So I just made my plane longer, from 14 meters to 19 meters and I was able to make my wings larger and the aircraft flies a bit properly now. The pitch rate is slow however but other than that, it's a pretty good one so far.

    3.3 years ago
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    11.7k JesusChrist

    Move the back landing gear closer to the CoM (red circle) and maybe make the wings bigger, that might work.

    3.3 years ago