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Troubles with flipping

1,503 Samwise  8.6 years ago

I have almost finished creating a new plane, however as soon as I take off the plane goes into a backflip and then starts somersaulting to its destruction. I'm not really sure what the problem is

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    @Samwise no bother, I'm glad to be of use! As a quick overview, the wings types are for generating different amounts of lift in level flight. Symmetric generates none, semi generates some, and flat-bottom generates a lot. This is just for balancing your plane (in situations such as your own), so if one end of your plane needs more or less lift, you can change the type.

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    1,503 Samwise

    Thanks for the advice about the wing type! Now it works

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    Sounds like either your CoL is ahead of your CoM, or your wings ahead of the CoM are semi-symmetric/flat-bottomed while everything behind it is symmetric

    8.6 years ago