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AIRLIFT CHALLENGE [CLOSED]

83.9k Walvis  1.7 years ago

“An airlift is the organized delivery of supplies or personnel primarily via military transport aircraft.”

The role aircraft can play in delivering supplies is vital in modern combat. A large part of almost every air force consists of aircraft dedicated to airlifting, either tactically transporting troops around the battlefield or by strategically moving vast quantities of cargo to the frontlines. However, when you look on the SimplePlanes website, military cargo and transport aircraft are few and far between. Let’s change that!

In this challenge, I task you to build an aircraft, be it a plane or helicopter, designed for airlifting operations. In essence, your creation must be capable of transporting cargo. This may be personnel, a shipping container, a vehicle, etc. How you chose to carry your cargo around, is completely up to you. If you would like more information about airlifting and the vehicles used to do this, check out the Wikipedia page.

Rules for this challenge:

  • Your submission must be a vehicle capable of airlifting in a somewhat realistic matter. (Sci-fi creations are allowed, but it needs to be believable).

  • Your creation may be a modern vehicle, but historical airlifting aircraft are also allowed.

  • Your creation should have a cockpit (does not need to be ultra-fancy, but at least functional).

  • Must be a sucessor to this post!

  • No more than 1850 parts. (Disable the drag calculations on parts that do not need to have their drag calculated!)

  • Preferably no modded parts (XML modding is fine. Build that require me to download a mod will be ignored.)

  • Feel free to submit multipole builds.

  • The description of your creation should include the controls for your of your creation, as well as a bit of an explanation / lore behind it’s design. Please use your description to explain how your aircraft would be used if it were a real aircraft.



Awards / After the deadline:
Once all builds have been submitted, I plan on livestreaming while I check out and comment on the submitted creations. I will do this on my YouTube channel.
A recording will be uploaded to YouTube, however I might only make it accessible through the SP website.
Alternatively, there might be a video instead of a livestream.

(*If there are a lot of submission, I may choose to only look at creations that got more than 5 upvotes during the livestream due to time constrains. *)

There may or may not be an award for my personal favourite submission + straw poll favourite in the form of extra SP website points. However, I’m still looking into if this is possible.

Ofcourse, all builds submitted will receive an upvote.

Aircraft in the thumbnail is made by Spillo, it can be found here.

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General Characteristics

  • Successors 53 airplane(s) +4628 bonus
  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 1.6ft (0.5m)
  • Length 3.3ft (1.0m)
  • Height 3.3ft (1.0m)
  • Empty Weight 595lbs (270kg)
  • Loaded Weight 595lbs (270kg)

Performance

  • Wing Loading N/A
  • Wing Area 0.0ft2 (0.0m2)
  • Drag Points 385

Parts

  • Number of Parts 3
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 7
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    I made a "Fixed" version of my entrie, so if the live stream ever happens I suggest using that one to fly since the original entire is a bit buggy.

    +1 11 months ago
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    @FeatherWing If said person had 10 creations that is, if they didn't then you would have to just wait till they do I guess.

    +1 1.2 years ago
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    @FeatherWing ohhhh ok thanks 👍

    +1 1.2 years ago
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    22.4k FeatherWing

    @Australianbulider676
    You pull up 10 of their builds and upvote them. That's how I do it at least.

    +2 1.2 years ago
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    So I want to do my own challenge but I wondering about the prizes
    Like if the winner of the challenge gets like 10 upvotes how would you give that person 10 up votes?

    +1 1.2 years ago
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    22.4k SPairforce

    @Walvis
    It's ok, take all the time that you need. Don't feel pressured to prioritize this stream over working and studying.

    1.5 years ago
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    83.9k Walvis

    There will be a stream / video / post at some point, it will just take me a while.
    I work 16 hours a week, and I study 40 hours a week. Please allow me some time.

    +13 1.5 years ago
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    22.4k SPairforce

    @MobileGamer21
    OOF, it really sucks when the game doesn't let you test the plane properly.

    1.5 years ago
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    @SPairforce Yea.. I want to see it for the fun of it and also to see my own thing because its so laggy I never have flown it because if I tried to my game would crash.

    1.5 years ago
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    22.4k SPairforce

    @MobileGamer21
    I honestly don't care who wins, I just want to see other people's creations on stream.

    1.5 years ago
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    @SPairforce Same

    1.5 years ago
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    lol after he said "Feel free to submit things" to TOPGUN1 then the download count started back up

    1.5 years ago
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    22.4k SPairforce

    I’ve been waiting forever, I hope the stream/video happens soon. It’s something I’m looking forward to.

    1.5 years ago
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    @Walvis OOOh... allright, didn't understand for a while, but now i finally get it

    1.5 years ago
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    83.9k Walvis

    @WolfHunter9111 Yes... Like I said: "There has yet to be any video or stream"

    +1 1.5 years ago
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    @Walvis there is no one in your YT channel

    1.5 years ago
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    83.9k Walvis

    @WolfHunter9111 There has yet to be any video or stream

    +1 1.5 years ago
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    Is the video replay isn't out yet?

    +1 1.5 years ago
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    83.9k Walvis

    @TOPGUN1 Feel free to still submit things.

    1.5 years ago
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    873 TOPGUN1

    @Walvis I know the challenge is closed but could I resubmit my entry I managed to fix the issue so now it actually looks good and flies good with out needing the exposed wings

    1.5 years ago
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    He was not joking lol.. 2 days came and went although taking time was not a option anyway tho because he closed it a few hours later

    +1 1.6 years ago
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    83.9k Walvis

    @BlackWidowSquadron Take your time, it will be a while before I stream

    1.6 years ago
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    Forgot to say I finished.. Submission

    1.6 years ago
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    @Walvis When is the stream because I'm still working on my stuff

    1.6 years ago
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    18.3k AnomalyYeet

    Closed?

    1.6 years ago
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