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OLD SCHOOL SimplePlanes Challenge

9,403 GabrielFangster70  18 hours ago

Waaaaay back when the Simple in SimplePlanes meant something



In order to celebrate SimplePlanes’ upcoming 11th birthday , I have decided to make a challenge.

This one is pretty Simple

In this challenge, you’re gonna make an aircraft. But the aircraft must be that using old SimplePlanes parts. Here’s the rules.


Rules

The rules are pretty SIMPLE

  • NO FUNKY TREES

  • NO NORMAL FUSELAGE

  • NO GLASS FUSELAGE

  • NO SMOOTH FUSELAGE

  • NO VR PARTS

  • no helicopter engines

  • no gyroscopes

  • No guns, Rockets, missiles, bombs, cannons.

  • no flight computer.

And no Funky Trees.

literally none of that

Edit: do not use the large retractable landing gear, wing landing gear, or rear landing gears on your challenge entry.

Want bigger propellers? You’ll need to Make them using rotators, wings, and vtol engines and nozzles (at least in this challenge)


In this challenge, you are going to be using, blocks, and making aircraft the way it was when SimplePlanes first came out 11 years ago


These are the engines that you could use for the aircraft back then (the inlet and the small inlet are missing in the image above but they could be used too)
Edit: don’t worry, the propeller engine and the small propeller engine are here (the two propellers in the middle next to the cockpit ) they were removed a few patches later, but they still exist. All you gotta do is add them as a sub assembly part

Instead of major Chad, you had the plain old passenger,( which you can see on the thumbnail of this post,).

Basically, it’s like any other challenge, except you will be using blocks and all of the old parts from SimplePlanes, and only those parts (you can still use detachers)


I’ll be rating your design out of 4

  1. can it function?

  2. does it look good?

  3. Does it function well

  4. Do I like it (does the paint job look good? Does the plane itself look good? or is it both)

  5. is it Simple


rewards

🥇: a spotlight and from me and others , a

🥈 : a spotlight from me on your entry and 2 of your other builds

🥉: just one spotlight from me, on your entry and 1 build

If I’m not able to spotlight you (because you have more points than me) then don’t worry, cause I’ll be making a foreign post going down the winners, and honestly, it doesn’t matter whether I can or cannot spotlight your build. You you Win. That’s it.

if you want to give me a way then I can reward people in my future challenges, let me know, and I’ll keep it in mind (in a way that shows that they want whether I can or cannot spotlight them)

Note: I can make a challenge alone, but the rewards part is what I don’t get, if you can tell me how the part with the spotlight and the upvotes work, I could really appreciate it.


Deadline: you have until December 21st to get this done, I won’t be accepting anymore afterwards.

by clicking here you will watch the first ever trailer for SimplePlanes, here’s where you can get an idea for what you can make as an entry here, I QUITE RECOMMEND YOU DO SO OTHERWISE YOUR ENTRY MAY NOT MEET RULES, or you can search on Google for some ideas.

why I’m making this

Not only am I making this to celebrate this games 11th birthday but also to show how far this game has come, it’s basically how far we’ve come from 2014 all the way until now. (and maybe to see if a belt like this could potentially work in SimplePlanes two, which I think might not do so properly)

Edit: here are some other vids you can see for ideas : vid 1, Vid 2

Spotlights

General Characteristics

  • Successors 9 airplane(s) +210 bonus
  • Created On iOS
  • Wingspan 24.5ft (7.5m)
  • Length 9.8ft (3.0m)
  • Height 20.3ft (6.2m)
  • Empty Weight 1,360lbs (617kg)
  • Loaded Weight 1,360lbs (617kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 2.244
  • Wing Loading N/A
  • Wing Area 0.0ft2 (0.0m2)
  • Drag Points 640

Parts

  • Number of Parts 3
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 121
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    @avDude4 Part count? Honestly, doesn’t really matter, but if I had to put one, it would be 500,000 parts.

    But thanks for reminding me about the part count I forgot to put that down

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    Important: before you begin, please add the small propeller engine, the propeller engine, the passenger, and the two nose cones to the subassemblies part.

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    I haven’t made something in a long time, whether it could be high school (I’m graduating HS next year), or just a lack of interest in the game overall whatever it is. Well, I’m deciding to post this to commemorate this game, so take this here with a grain of salt.

    (the only stuff I’ve made here were just forum posts, nothing else, haven’t made aircraft in a long time)

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    Posted December 5, 2025

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    @avDude4 yep, they were added during the games first ever patch V1.1

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    @IRISHAEROSPACEGROUP fine.

    2 hours ago
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    Can i download this just for the person@GabrielFangster70

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    @Kav np

    +1 3 hours ago
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    9,680 Kav

    @GabrielFangster70 Thank you so much my friend! :D

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    @Kerbango abracadabra, please wake up.

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    18.6k avDude4

    @GabrielFangster70 aight

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    @Kav honestly, I don’t think any sort of modeling. Any sort of modeling was allowed at this time, at the time the game came out I don’t think modding was a thing. If only one of the OG‘s of this game participated in the challenge then they would probably answer your question, I started playing the game (with account) in late 2020, this account being made in 2021 (literally on New Year’s Eve).

    but I have played this game before. like 7 years ago. Back when I was still a little kid in elementary school, who drank out of Capri Suns juice pouches and had to wait for his turn on the swing sets. (only thing was I didn’t have an account, back then unlike now)

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    9,680 Kav

    Which parts aren't allowed? Is overload allowed?

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    @avDude4 But really most of the aircraft that were made 11-10 years ago weren’t as big as they are now a days I think, I could be wrong though

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    18.6k avDude4

    What’s the maximum part count?

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    116k Kerbango

    Ugggh, NEED C☕️FFEE!

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    116k Kerbango

    Can you please summon me after 6:00am pst. I need my sleep..💤

    6 hours ago
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    116k Kerbango

    POOF

    6 hours ago
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    I summon you

    @EternalDarkness

    @LunarEclipseSP

    @Kerbango

    I summon you three here

    Edit: I shall summon three more
    @BaconAircraft

    @jamesPLANESii

    @WinsWings

    I’m probably gonna get banned if I do another three

    Edit: also if you can tell me how the part with the spotlight and the upvotes work with the rewards and stuff, I could really appreciate it.

    6 hours ago
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    75 Hooha12

    My F105 with old parts is done, I assume that rotators would be allowed as it says up that use rotators for large prop engines.

    12 hours ago
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    2,669 COM9927

    Ooo another challenge

    12 hours ago
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    75 Hooha12

    @GabrielFangster70 is using scaling tool and rotators with landing gear input against rules?

    12 hours ago
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    75 Hooha12

    Is XML allowed?

    14 hours ago
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    26.9k TheRLAF

    Old school?
    Hollywood?

    15 hours ago
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    18.6k avDude4

    @Boeing727200F you might

    15 hours ago
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