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STOL 'n Thunder

1,965 PlayingSimple  5.3 years ago

Hard Landing version

All electric, all terrain. Features modelled, flexible wings, leading edge slats and landing struts, super quiet powerful electric engine and 45 degree flaps for extreme lift. Also features remote charging, the plane is able to tune into frequencies of energy directed towards it from the ground allowing for near indefinite flight.

VTOL for flaps,
AG6 for formation light,
AG7 for landing lights,
AG 8 to toggle directional lighting/beacons.

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General Characteristics

  • Successors 4 airplane(s)
  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 33.2ft (10.1m)
  • Length 28.0ft (8.5m)
  • Height 12.6ft (3.8m)
  • Empty Weight 2,559lbs (1,160kg)
  • Loaded Weight 6,826lbs (3,096kg)

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 1.977
  • Wing Loading 23.2lbs/ft2 (113.5kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 293.6ft2 (27.3m2)
  • Drag Points 4610

Parts

  • Number of Parts 374
  • Control Surfaces 7
  • Performance Cost 1,650
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    It rhymes with "Stolen thunder"

    11 months ago
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    3,298 Subnerdica

    When I first saw this it blew my mind.

    4.2 years ago
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    @Aeromen Nice, thank you for that!

    5.0 years ago
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    11.5k shipster

    First post gets 34 spotlights and 98 upvotes xD

    +2 5.1 years ago
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    364 Phantom7

    Great ✈️

    5.2 years ago
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    @asteroidbook345 only missed you by 22 hours... =( lol

    5.2 years ago
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    Ohhh ok@PlayingSimple

    5.3 years ago
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    @RocketFuel Yep. It's supposed to be ambiguous.

    5.3 years ago
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    i read the name as stolen thunder

    5.3 years ago
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    Alrighty then ;) @PlayingSimple

    5.3 years ago
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    @JelloAircraftCorporation I deleted my old accounts in a rage quit. Won't do you any good to know the name unless you're overly familiar with what I had built before. Keep the guesses coming and I'll out myself when someone's correct.

    5.3 years ago
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    If you don't mind me asking, what was your old account? You're clearly a very talented builder, and I was wondering if you were a well-known user.

    5.3 years ago
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    @CustomAircraftMods Thanks, as others have pointed out, this is a first post, not a first build. They're playing guess the platinum right now XD I've been gone for quite some time.

    5.3 years ago
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    Wow. One post, and you already have more points than me! I congratulate you for that! @PlayingSimple

    5.3 years ago
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    @Chancey21 I use stylistic elements and techniques that I think they use as well. Also I agree, it is STOL but there's a lot of room for improvement.
    I had considered reducing fuel weight (barely burns anyways with "electric" engine) and maybe increasing wing surface area but I felt that would kind of be cheating. Not that there's rules or anything but OCD said no.

    +1 5.3 years ago
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    69.2k Chancey21

    Do see some mikoyanster in this... technically it is stol; it can takeoff in 500 feet... but it isn’t very good stol for its size @jamesPLANESii @PlayingSimple

    5.3 years ago
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    @PlayingSimple k

    5.3 years ago
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    @StallFlight nope

    5.3 years ago
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    WAIT ARE YOU AUDIODUD3

    5.3 years ago
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    26.7k Gameboi17

    I'm speechless

    5.3 years ago
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    @BogdanX LOL long time fan, probably missing a couple hundred of my updoots from last rage quit, didn't think through

    +2 5.3 years ago
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    @BogdanX Technically accurate is accurate.

    5.3 years ago
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    @BogdanX First "Post" XD

    5.3 years ago
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    31.3k Mostly

    Really awesome build! That detail and build quality is stunning.

    5.3 years ago
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    @jamesPLANESii Not Mikoyanster but flattered if it's reminiscent. I'm not sure if there's a specific stall speed req to be STOL but it takes off pretty quick if you throttle up with the brakes on and then release the brakes when it tips up on two wheels. It also stops within the square at the end of the runway so it felt STOL as close as I could manage without shrinking down really really big wings and breaking the physics... I probably should have looked up a relative stall speed and tried to match but I let the builder dictate its abilities.

    +2 5.3 years ago
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