My entry for the challange, chose to go with a 1950's retrofuturistic look. This is the first time in 5 years I've attempted to build a flying wing.
At a time where the world was at the crossroads to decide wether conventional, seaplanes or flying wings were the way to go. Since I am in a seaplane mood, I thought of fusing the latter two but that would be to much, even for someone as crazy as me. This is what Jack Northrop would have wanted, a future where planes wouldn't be bothered by the inefficiencies non-lift-generating components. As an added bonus, passangers can now have a better view of the flight, just like the pilots.
Featuring
In-built Airstairs
Yaw Controlling Airbrakes
Ft. @asteroidbook345
INSTRUCTIONS
AG1 - Toggle Power
AG2 - Toggle Navigation Beacons
AG3 - Toggle Strobe and Landing Lights
AG4+Trim - Enable Pitch and Climb Rate Autopilot (-4000ft/min - 4000ft/min)
AG5+Roll - Enable Roll and Bank Angle Autopilot (30º Bank)
AG6 - Enable Autothrottle (0-300kts IAS)
VTOL Down - Airbrakes
Max Speed - 350kts IAS
START-UP PROCEDURE
Toggle power.
PRE-FLIGHT TAXI PROCEDURE
Navigation Lights on
Taxi to runway
RUNWAY TAKE-OFF PROCEDURE
Landing Lights on
VR at 100kts
Gear up
Strobe Lights optional above FL100
LANDING PROCEDURE
Landing Lights on
Minimum Approach Speed: 110kts (Autothrottle at 33%)
AFTER-FLIGHT TAXI PROCEDURE
Navigation Lights off
After parking, Landing Lights Power off.
For a giggle, this is what my last flying wing looked like:
Specifications
Spotlights
- ACEPILOT109 2.7 years ago
- AWESOMENESS360 2.7 years ago
- PyrrhaNikos 2.7 years ago
General Characteristics
- Predecessor Vintage Airliner Challenge [CLOSED]
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 167.6ft (51.1m)
- Length 58.6ft (17.8m)
- Height 20.6ft (6.3m)
- Empty Weight N/A
- Loaded Weight 179,318lbs (81,337kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 1.754
- Wing Loading 5.4lbs/ft2 (26.1kg/m2)
- Wing Area 33,499.2ft2 (3,112.2m2)
- Drag Points 17791
Parts
- Number of Parts 408
- Control Surfaces 0
- Performance Cost 1,473
@Thecatbaron Apparently upon further testing it seems the Vertical Speed Autopilot only works under very specific conditions. If the target VS is too far off from the current one, the plane will reverser Boeing 737 MAX itself
@EnzoDiazUnofficial I actually built this before I watched the movie and why do I keep doing convergent evolution on builds?
@ACEPILOT109 thank you my dude
@SemedianIndustries welcc
@Spenzerointernational THANCC
beautiful flying wing
@Liquidfox01 noice
Beautiful aircraft, reminds me of the Fallout 4 airliners
@AWESOMENESS360 thank you, awesome man
@LieutenantSOT I'm glad you like it I use wing parts because the other way people do panelling is not intuitive to me. The downside is that it takes 2 or 3x more parts to make a wing this way
This plane is awesome! I love the building you used on it, making it completely out of wing parts
The flight is great, and controls realistically, especially the split control surface. I'm definitely taking notes off of this plane for my upcoming massive flying wing build. This thing was just super cool! I also love the spool up delay you added
I had to look at the second picture for a second to figure out where it was pointed lol
Mmmmmm yes giant flying wings, my favorite
@Ergi thancc
@HelloHelloTheUnt I like your funny words, magic man.
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