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Leaf Spring Buggy V1

5,954 Maximum777  4.2 years ago

Solid axle Leaf Spring Suspension is unique, its very bouncy because its very stiff and can cary tons of weight. This rather quick build was just to do some more messing about with good old long travel leaf spring, its still rather bouncy but its really fun reguardess to see the leaf's auctualy compressing and holding the axle in place. Also since its long travle I ensured the axles would stay properly in place with some restraining linkages that dont support the axle at all, but keep it from moving forward or backwords, left or right. All in all a fairly random build to prove yet again that leaf spring does work in SP. Oh and the body is fairly random, I had no real plans for it, it just looks kind of interesting so I kept it to make the build look more complete. Enjoy!

General Characteristics

  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 15.5ft (4.7m)
  • Length 24.3ft (7.4m)
  • Height 10.9ft (3.3m)
  • Empty Weight 20,717lbs (9,397kg)
  • Loaded Weight 20,903lbs (9,481kg)

Performance

  • Wing Loading 1,942.0lbs/ft2 (9,481.9kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 10.8ft2 (1.0m2)
  • Drag Points 7605

Parts

  • Number of Parts 240
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 1,537