SimplePlanes | 1930's Naval Biplane Fighter v1.0

1930's Naval Biplane Fighter v1.0

17.4k karlosdarkness 8.8 years ago

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In the period between the two world wars naval aviation really began to develop. This open cockpit biplane has great agility and the ability to approach and fly off a carrier at really low speeds but would soon be superseded by faster more heavily armed monoplanes. Activate group 1 and pull the slider down to put the wings in place for flight, the prop will turn as long as you have power on and don't go to 100% power.

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RailfanEthan 6.3 years ago

General Characteristics

Successors 2 airplane(s)
Created On Android
Wingspan 26.2ft (8.0m)
Length 37.6ft (11.5m)
Height 13.8ft (4.2m)
Empty Weight 6,191lbs (2,808kg)
Loaded Weight 9,025lbs (4,093kg)

Performance

Power/Weight Ratio 1.493
Wing Loading 10.2lbs/ft² (49.6kg/m²)
Wing Area 887.8ft² (82.5m²)
Drag Points 3517

Parts

Number of Parts 121
Control Surfaces 9
Performance Cost 391

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258 stormy780

Ok thanks :)@karlosdarkness
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17.4k karlosdarkness

@stormy780 Feel free to use the props
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258 stormy780

Would you mind if I used and experimented with your prop engines from your planes?@karlosdarkness
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258 stormy780

Ok thanks I see how you got the wings to fold in the comments @karlosdarkness
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17.4k karlosdarkness

@Stormy780 many thanks for rating, the answer to your question is in the comments above.
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3,683 LjSpike

@Karlosdarkness thanks, that'll help a lot.
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258 stormy780

Great plane! In the air it looks and flies great! I was wondering how you got the wings to fold???? Thanks for the great plane!
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17.4k karlosdarkness

@LjSpike mk2 just uploaded with better air breathing
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3,683 LjSpike

@karlosdarkness Pretty much. Yeah. Preferably not needing additional inlets
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17.4k karlosdarkness

@LjSpike you are more than welcome to pull the rotators and wings off this if they can help just you have to understand that each plane requires a fair amount of work to get the wings to work correctly and you cant mirror the plane so save the bits as sub assemblies. As for the TJet are you looking for a cylinder with the jet embedded?
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17.4k karlosdarkness

@letsgofast11 @ramjet many thanks.
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3,683 LjSpike

@karlosdarkness Beautifal! It'd be really nice if you'd make a pack of some wings attached to rotators, and I could really do with an efficient >LARGE< prop (turboprop) with an modded higher power prop hidden inside of it.
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11.7k letsgofast11

Awesome☺
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6,432 Me600

@karlosdarkness sorry I didn't read above posts
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17.4k karlosdarkness

@Me600 as explained two posts above its all black magic.
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6,432 Me600

This plane is Great! Please tell me how you do the rotating wings
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17.4k karlosdarkness

@Walrus aircraft feel free to alter as you see fit, just be careful not to make it too fast as that's why I left it with restricted airflow 200mph seems about right for the period.
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108k WalrusAircraft

I finally got to try it, and it works in beta. I digg your design. I have some ideas on how to make this better. Simple mods that can improve things. For example, modded intake position to remove the air issue, modded COM, modded thrust port angle. Let me know if you are interested in exploring these.
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17.4k karlosdarkness

@WaterAirLand - black magic..... modded xml file to adjust the attachment point on the rotator and then it really is just a case of rotation and building. I personally blame @WalrusAircraft he's the first person I saw create the modified rotator and without him a third of my stuff would be wingless, without propellers or landing gear free.
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50.3k Stingray

Lot of torque to overcome post-takeoff. Still worked, though.
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50.3k Stingray

Creative. Launched off the USS Tiny with this!
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327k SpiritusRaptor

Folding the wings in mid-flight is cool...
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77.9k Cedy117

Go right ahead@karlosdarkness
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17.4k karlosdarkness

@Cedy117 can I have a play with the wings on your Helldiver see if we could get the wings to fold?
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17.4k karlosdarkness

@blueangelproduction rather than reinvent the wheel here's a rather lovely Dauntless; https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/1mOq1I/SBD-Dauntless
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1930's Naval Biplane Fighter v1.0

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