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The Plain Plane

2,269 Mickk  5.0 years ago

This a plane.
It is a plain white plane.
It is a plain white fast plane.

It's just about as simple a plane as I have made recently.

It looks like it has two engines, but there are four of them and they all work, no tweaks and there are 2 different types, both of which when added together give it acceleration down low and high altitude performance up high.

The engines are a pair of BFE150 in the rear and a pair of BFE300's in front of those.
A little thirsty on fuel, so it has a tweaked fuel tank.

Controls as normal.

Easy to fly, no instructions needed.

General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 63.3ft (19.3m)
  • Length 67.7ft (20.6m)
  • Height 15.9ft (4.8m)
  • Empty Weight N/A
  • Loaded Weight 14,789lbs (6,708kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 13.675
  • Wing Loading 8.8lbs/ft2 (43.0kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 1,679.8ft2 (156.1m2)
  • Drag Points 6982

Parts

  • Number of Parts 29
  • Control Surfaces 10
  • Performance Cost 412
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    2,269 Mickk

    @SimonGlaser
    D'oh!
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    My bad, turns out I have uploaded it, 4 months ago, under the name name 'WAC-31C'.
    I'll dig that out and take it for a fly and see what can be done to make it better, I'm sure such an 'early' build from me has a few problems that need fixing.
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    WAC is short for 'Wintermob Air co.' a made up aircraft company I sometimes use for planes I make that I reckon are good enough to add to the 'company hanger'. lol

    5.0 years ago
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    5,184 SimonGlaser

    @Mickk ok

    5.0 years ago
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    2,269 Mickk

    @SimonGlaser
    A little I guess, I was not trying for that look though.
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    It did have the tilted tails at one point, but the autopilot hated them along with the oddly shaped wing surface, so I put them straight up and down instead and the autopilot is fine with that.
    Not that you need autopilot with this.
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    I have made a Firefox 'clone' and I think I uploaded it.
    It was ages ago though.
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    Edit: Nope, turns out I didn't upload it, maybe I'll revisit it and tweak it a bit with what I have learned since building it.

    5.0 years ago
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    5,184 SimonGlaser

    Reminds me on the blackbird

    5.0 years ago
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    2,269 Mickk

    Sometimes simple provides interesting results.
    I did not expect the sort of performance this has at all altitudes speed wise.

    5.0 years ago