Well it’s taken considerable amounts of time and effort but here she is, (with great trepidation) I give you a full scale Vulcan Bomber. Being in anti-flash white she is appropriately armed with a Blue Steel stand-off ‘nuclear’ missile. This is a modification of the kingfisher missile from my TU-16 which is itself modified from one of mikoyanster’s weapons pack he was sporting enough to share with the community, thank you. Big thanks are also due to RamboJutter and GhostHTX for feedback and continued support as I bludgeon together another build!
Part count unfortunately was a limiting factor in this hence why stock air brakes have been used. The actual Vulcan has a rather interesting mechanism I wanted to replicate but my iPad was beginning to sweat being +500 parts so I made do with stock parts.
Controls
1 Ditches the nuke
2 Close/open landing gear doors
3 Landing Chute
8 Lights
Notes on handling (settings low on an old iPad anyway)
Roll tends to pitch the aircraft so be prepared to mix things up a little with the stick.
Stall speed. Lacking sadly and I don’t like the unrealistic nature of that - it is what it is alas. This is not an easy shape to get flying so I suspect stall point is related to the various wing sections I inserted to make flight possible.
Pitch is most effective just short of maxing out.
Takeoff. Laboured. Stick with it! Trim can be used to assist. I’ve noticed on higher settings (where it’s painfully slow on my iPad) takeoff appears to take longer to achieve.
Some screenshots below.
“BOMB GONE”
Someone missing don’t you think.....
Thanks for any interest and I wish you all the best for the new year!
Specifications
Spotlights
- RAF1 5.3 years ago
- Sgtk 5.3 years ago
- mikoyanster 5.3 years ago
- GhostHTX 5.3 years ago
- RamboJutter 5.3 years ago
- Hyattorama 5.3 years ago
General Characteristics
- Successors 4 airplane(s) +7 bonus
- Created On iOS
- Wingspan 99.7ft (30.4m)
- Length 99.2ft (30.2m)
- Height 26.5ft (8.1m)
- Empty Weight 57,638lbs (26,144kg)
- Loaded Weight 87,883lbs (39,863kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 0.767
- Wing Loading 5.7lbs/ft2 (28.0kg/m2)
- Wing Area 15,322.2ft2 (1,423.5m2)
- Drag Points 41089
Parts
- Number of Parts 522
- Control Surfaces 1
- Performance Cost 2,211
Cheers! Made this quite some time ago. @Iknowwhatomakemyusername
iOS wow
MAKE IT HOWL
@Tang0five Id say for any system its an excellent creation. For the mods I do not have any experience, I only use one which changes size of objects. I dont know why they haven't given us more options so the mods wouldn't be needed. Such as various inputs for rotators.
Oh there’s tons wrong with this build. This was before the xml mod was added for mobile users and I’d definitely do things differently nowadays, The Vulcans a tough wing profile to follow and (being on peasant iOS ipadair) was done by eyeballing. Thanks for you interest though! @m16a2wm203
It looks great and flying isn't bad at all, it is a bit slower than I expected though. The take-off is quite obvious, check for center of mass position and where main gear is. Also regarding center of mass (CG), I do not know where real vulcan has the CG, but somehow I'd suspect it to be in front of center of lift.
Great work!
Thank you, I think your Vulcan looks great too! @Derpster1341
Tang0five looks great https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/wwro36/Avro-Vulcan-B-2-w-Nuclear-Guideable-Payload
Thank you both! @nadvgia and @PlayingSimple
Thanks! @kungfuevan
Thanks @Texasfam04 for bring this into a nice round number!
@Tang0five Whoa, a Victor? That's a tough build. Also, very cool.
Sorry I’ll catch up on my SP admin - thanks for your support guys, rest assured the victor will follow. This may take a few months as I flew headlong into it and realised I had a few things unfinished that I feel need to be completed before proceeding! @ForeverPie @F104Deathtrap @BurkeEnterprise @BogdanX
It would be a long list to be fair! :) @BogdanX
@Tang0five No problemo!
Should be ok now thank you. @GhostHTX on the plus side of having loads of time to sit around and read out of date mags, I may have another build soon! Hope you had a good Hogmanay!
Nothing serious, I hope? @Tang0five
Np @Tang0five
@GhostHTX and @ProcessedPlAnEs many thanks for the spotlights, glad you felt her worthy!!
Wow, just came back from the hospital with no WiFi and saw the support for this! Thanks to you all!! :) @Blue0Bull @WNP78 @@getorge @JettStorm@243687034 @MrVaultech @DarkRainbow2 @JaySto @Akhtar04 @Fluffiboo @xXRaindropXx @DestinyAviation @vamad88
Thanks, I’m glad you think so! Thanks for the spotlight too! @Hyattorama
Yup the vic is indeed needed or at least an update of the previous builds! Thanks for your interest! @ACEPILOT109 @WIZARD2017
Thanks once more for your kind words! @Trainzo
My granddad was a vulcan engineer
Wow very cool!
Yeah, the victor is missing.