My submission to Deloreandude's Challenge!!! Steam birds! Le Pamplemouse Embue (bad french for the steaming grapefruit) is a fighter built in secret by members of the French resistance. After Germany nuked Paris, a group of surviving French machinists began work in ernest to exact some measure of revenge. Suffering from radiation sickness, and working in secret in an abandoned garage the resistance members could not hope for perfection. Lacking quality material and proper tooling, they were unable to provide adequate shielding from the fusion reaction, nor were they able to sustain high pressures within the boiler. The result of these short comings was the need to vent irradiated steam to prevent overpressurization. (Actual affect achieved using minature Jets set to 0 propulsion and 3x exhaust size- seriously, take the 500 hp prop off and the aircraft will not move). The aircraft is consutructed mostly of scrap fabric stretched over wood. Some copper was hammered out to provide a little bit of protection to the cockpit, and brass and steel tubing was used to assemble to engine. Vive le France!
Specifications
Spotlights
- livetoplay11 7.6 years ago
General Characteristics
- Predecessor CHALLENGE!!! Steam Birds!
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 30.9ft (9.4m)
- Length 27.8ft (8.5m)
- Height 10.1ft (3.1m)
- Empty Weight 2,026lbs (919kg)
- Loaded Weight 2,026lbs (919kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 4.99
- Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.246
- Wing Loading 7.4lbs/ft2 (36.0kg/m2)
- Wing Area 274.5ft2 (25.5m2)
- Drag Points 3808
Parts
- Number of Parts 103
- Control Surfaces 12
- Performance Cost 394
@Deloreandude 2nd not too shabby I guess
@Deloreandude cool, thanks! Fun challenge.
Congratulations! You came in 2nd place in the challenge! This aircraft has an interesting backstory as well as great battle performance and good detail! As I said in the challenge, half of the competitors upvotes would go to you, so i shall tag them in. @Pacman126 @Sarpanitu
Thanks folks!
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@Deloreandude Thanks, it was definately fun to build. i was a bit worried about those jets, but really wanted dirty steam shooting out- (only side effect is they burn fuel at the standard rate). Great challenge!
This looks and preforms pretty well! Now, as for the challenge rules you will be graded on the aircraft :D
Looks: Fits the description of the aircraft you provided greatly! Fits the 40s era type planes from Steam-Birds. The detail is pretty good, especially on the engine! Also, the water cooled machine guns look much like the WW1 vickers which makes it look great!
Backstory: Very in-depth good backstory!
Performance: Great maneuverability on this aircraft. Jet engines on the aircraft arent exactly allowed in this challenge, but yours dont exactly affect preformance, so it's fine :D. It could probably out-turn, but not out-run, a Bristol (main fighter of steam-birds).
8/10 Great aircraft designing and great maneuverability and detail!
Thank you, never done steampunk before. definately allows for some fun with different styling