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LEGO Plane 31028

4,593 RejsDen  one month ago
Auto Credit Based on Sockdragger's The "Santa Claus Needs Toy Planes" Challenge (Ended)

Did you think I'd stop at just one LEGO airplane? NO!

P.S. Be careful when landing it on water, because the LEGO designers didn't anticipate that

General Characteristics

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 22.564
  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.083
  • Wing Loading 6.6lbs/ft2 (32.3kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 451.4ft2 (41.9m2)
  • Drag Points 4692

Parts

  • Number of Parts 139
  • Control Surfaces 5
  • Performance Cost 470
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    8,496 Sockdragger

    Grading:

    1) look and feel: Perfect. This is a Lego toy.
    2) Construction Perfect: nice imitation of the Lego construction.
    3) Flyability slightly subpar. Tends to flip over when landing on water.

    Overall verdict: Nice Lego plane. Too bad it's so hard to land
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    worthy contestant: congratulations!

    12 days ago
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    4,593 RejsDen

    @B25mitchel Thanks. Although it's not perfect either (I posted the Lego pieces with perfect proportions, but it was very difficult to maintain them

    one month ago
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    1,757 B25mitchel

    Wow this is nice! I made a lego plane too but its not even half as good as this

    +1 one month ago
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    8,496 Sockdragger

    @Seeras thanks

    one month ago
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    90.8k Seeras

    @Sockdragger
    Done 🎅

    one month ago
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    8,496 Sockdragger

    @seeras This plane is a contender for the Santa Claus needs Toy Planes challenge. Can you please make it a successor to this

    one month ago
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    8,496 Sockdragger

    No problem. I can request an admin to add it.

    The short version to get the plane into the competition is to just detach the cockpit, then save the plane -without cockpit- as a subassembly. Then download the cockpit from the challenge, and add the plane you just saved to that one. Simpleplanes looks at the cockpit to determine'successors' and by building your plane on your previous one, you made it a successor to that.

    one month ago
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    4,593 RejsDen

    @Sockdragger I wanted to add this to the challenge, but I don't know how to make it a receiver. I assume it's not a problem if it's a receiver of an aircraft already participating in the challenge?

    one month ago