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L-16 E-2 "Stingray"

4,144 Lake  2.0 years ago

I can't stop looking at it's pure simple design!

Advatage:

Can go almost at mach 2

Flaws:

  1. Quick fuel consumption due to afterburner.

  2. automatically pitches up even though you are not touching the controls

  3. Don't use autopilot it will go like "whigdzhfgiuhgusg" (that means crazy spinning).

Controls:

figure it out.

Cool facts:

Thanks to the afterburner's speed, It can travel to krakaloba in 1mins & 12 seconds when in wright airport, and 52 seconds when in the USS Beast 😲😲

Special thanks to:

@Walvis for the afterburner tutorial.

His Afterburner tutorial

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 40.7ft (12.4m)
  • Length 42.3ft (12.9m)
  • Height 14.8ft (4.5m)
  • Empty Weight 17,075lbs (7,745kg)
  • Loaded Weight 20,659lbs (9,371kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 15.772
  • Wing Loading 61.9lbs/ft2 (302.3kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 333.7ft2 (31.0m2)
  • Drag Points 2937

Parts

  • Number of Parts 63
  • Control Surfaces 7
  • Performance Cost 451
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    4,144 Lake

    quick reminder:

    Pls set the input of the VTOL engine to throttle>0.97.

    And set all the wings' airfoil to symmetrical.

    Pinned 1.9 years ago
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    4,144 Lake

    I need help on fixing the automatic pitch even though I'm not holding the controls.

    Pinned 2.0 years ago
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    @Lake try change the main Wing's airfoil to Symmetric, btw Nice Build bro

    +1 1.9 years ago
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    2,031 Impotato4045

    @U you don't have to but can you do me a favor and check if my most recent plane (NIGHT HAWK) is realistic in some way

    2.0 years ago
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    26.7k Dragoranos

    @Lake I didn't understand your question srry

    the plane looks like a trainer, and trainers don't reach mach 4

    +1 2.0 years ago
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    4,144 Lake

    @U That's way too fast. How did you do it?

    2.0 years ago
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    26.7k Dragoranos

    And by the way, your plane reaches speeds much higher than mach 2, it exceeds mach 4, so the design of this plane is wrong
    Sorry, this plane is one of the most unrealistic things I've ever seen, but I have to admit, it's a lot of fun.

    +1 2.0 years ago
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    26.7k Dragoranos

    @Stanmich

    it flew at a very high altitude, plus it was a stupidly thin wing
    he had wings just for gliding, and they weren't straight wings either, they were trapezoidal wings, which apparently can handle mach 1 at high altitude

    EDIT: Trapezoidal wings SUPPORT speeds even faster than Delta wings, BUT it needs to be tiny to reach mach 2, look at the F-104, it has trapezoidal wings, but they are tiny! Your plane can handle mach 1 at high altitude, but it would NEVER handle mach 2 considering the size

    And it's much more complex than that, it just scratches the surface, I recommend you research for yourself things like area rule or wing shape, supersonic flight is something much more difficult than it seems

    I am currently editing your plane so that Mach 2 is realistic

    2.0 years ago
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    4,336 Stanmich

    @Lake for finer control over the wing's lift, switch the wings to Symmetrical, and slowly move the angle of attack of the wings up by half degrees as you try them. when the lift of the wing is too great, and it pitches up, nudge the angle down. if the wing's lift is too low, and it pitches down, nudge the angle down.

    2.0 years ago
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    4,336 Stanmich

    the REAL issue is the high aspect ratio of the wings; with no structure, wing flutter would be a major problem in real life.

    2.0 years ago
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    4,336 Stanmich

    @U Have U SEEEEEEN the X-1?

    2.0 years ago
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    26.7k Dragoranos

    @Lake no, you don't understand, straight wings break anything faster than Mach 1.
    it is physically impossible to a straight wing go Mach 1, now imagine Mach 2
    They work best up to 900kph, if you want more speed use delta or swept wings

    +1 2.0 years ago
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    4,144 Lake

    @U The only thing that helped the Stingray go mach 2 is the after burner.

    2.0 years ago
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    5,255 TRD

    @U aerodynamicists shitting their pants rn 😩😩

    +1 2.0 years ago
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    26.7k Dragoranos

    i wish i had those straight wings that go mach 2

    +1 2.0 years ago