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Piston Power - V 4 piston engine test plane

10.2k MethaManAerospace  6.8 years ago
2,936 downloads

Tinkering around with Visify's piston engines, Ive worked out a simple way to make a "V" piston engine using fine tuner!

This is a test bed aircraft that I am using to test the engine and its support. The support has shock absorbers to reduce the torque effect the single engine has on the plane.

This plane flies weirdly and with a bit of skill you can even take off with it!

  • VTOL = prop pitch

To take off:
- Throttle up 30% put VTOL between the top 2 or bottom 2 notches depending on which direction the prop decides to turn
- Throttle up to 70%, counter the torque effect with rudder while the plane gains speed.
- Just before lift off, throttle 100%.
- Lift off, counter torque with roll and a bit of rudder, get as far away from the ground as possible.
- Fly!

Credits for the prop goes to Visify, the cylinder sections were heavily modified from one of his engines and the gears are from iwannabeelected.

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General Characteristics

  • Successors 4 airplane(s) +28 bonus
  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 68.6ft (20.9m)
  • Length 53.4ft (16.3m)
  • Height 25.9ft (7.9m)
  • Empty Weight 11,252lbs (5,104kg)
  • Loaded Weight 11,252lbs (5,104kg)

Performance

  • Wing Loading 10.7lbs/ft2 (52.2kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 1,052.5ft2 (97.8m2)
  • Drag Points 5022

Parts

  • Number of Parts 121
  • Control Surfaces 5
  • Performance Cost 679
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    "Get as far away from the ground as possible"

    Wilco!

    +2 2.2 years ago
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    @Himinambob tanks!

    3.5 years ago
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    iwannabeelected Dankz!

    5.1 years ago
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    5,285 CDRxavier

    oh no problem.

    6.7 years ago
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    @CDRxavier thx 4 ^vote

    6.7 years ago
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    @CDRxavier @iwannabeelected made a gear pack, these are from it. get the gear pack

    6.7 years ago
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    5,285 CDRxavier

    Thanks for the gears. MIGHT be useful but usually not.....

    6.7 years ago
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    5,285 CDRxavier

    I am happy that you know.

    6.7 years ago
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    @CDRxavier it was to test the gear reduction, there always seems to be some on aero engines. it didn't work... this engine is crap tho, if you want to test stuff use the other. this one was just proof of concept.

    6.7 years ago
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    5,285 CDRxavier

    @MethaManAircraft I am curious....why do you put a COG on top of it that seems to do absolutely NOTHING?

    6.7 years ago
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    9,344 Bori0

    @MethaManAircraft no pwpem

    6.8 years ago
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    @kerothehero zanks!

    6.8 years ago
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    @HakkeAirTech thanks!

    6.8 years ago
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    @Aviation thanks!

    6.8 years ago
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    @MethaManAircraft no problemo 🙂

    6.8 years ago
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    @grizzlitn @sexylips35 @saturn28 thanks!

    6.8 years ago
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    29.0k TigerEye35

    Wow 😃😃

    6.8 years ago
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    @Visify thanks! it's actually really simple to make it work! Harder to make it work well...

    6.8 years ago
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    @ACMECo1940 thanks

    6.8 years ago
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    @Ihatelava123isacommunist hmm... hard to do on a V shaped engine but Visify has done a few non V. I'll give it a shot!

    6.8 years ago
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    19.4k ACMECo1940

    Cool

    6.8 years ago
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    22.6k Visify

    @MethaManAircraft Just came back from vaca lol, cool build though.

    6.8 years ago
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    @Ihatelava123isacommunist thank you very much! ii am currently finalising the V4 engine proper.

    6.8 years ago
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    @helilover03 nice!

    6.8 years ago
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    @helilover03 good and you?

    6.8 years ago
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