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An ornithoptor meant to be built based on a falcon. Made smaller than the eagle with wings based on the aformentioned rapttor. Adding the body seemed to jack up the performance immensely, now this thing can reach past 200 in straight flight and surpass 400 in a closed wing dive.
VTOL up to close wings and throttle to flap them. Note that this thing needs careful speed management to fly well, but can climb and reach the top of Krakabola.
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 24.2ft (7.4m)
- Length 12.7ft (3.9m)
- Height 3.4ft (1.0m)
- Empty Weight 356lbs (161kg)
- Loaded Weight 356lbs (161kg)
Performance
- Wing Loading 3.0lbs/ft2 (14.7kg/m2)
- Wing Area 118.9ft2 (11.0m2)
- Drag Points 4
Parts
- Number of Parts 57
- Control Surfaces 6
- Performance Cost 446
It's new, but it's hard to control it.
@Jetliner101
The propulsion system is based directly on zackattack316's ornithoptor, which is a very simple but effective mechanism for flap powered flight.
For the wings started by building the wing 'bones' with fuselage blocks and hinge rotators, putting them in a manner as to mimick the joints of a bird's wing. Then I added and shaped the wings.
Then I used Overload to adjust the rotators and get them to properly bend and close the wing with use of VTOL.
What would follow would be a number of Overload adjustment and improvements to try to get the speed up. Initially I struggled to get it past 100 mph but then managed to give it decent speed. Then somehow adding he bird fuselage boosted the speed in level and diving by a lot.
I used a lot of Overload tinkering with drag, weight, and especially the rotators.
@Jetliner101 Were you trying to pitch up a lot? Like up to 30 degrees?
@Jetliner101 No....that is strange.
@Jetliner101 They are simple, but I'll add a note that you throttle up to get wings flapping.