This aircraft was made by the fusion of Fishminer's Paraplane chute assembly and AsteroidBook's Paraplane 2 fuselage cell; the chute is now controlled by winches only and i added elevators for better pitch control, plus i reworked the landing gear.
Use the yaw axis to better control roll and roll axis for adjustments, this plane was made for analog controls but you can tweak the tail rudder's deflection angle to make it more keyboard friendly
The front gear assembly turns on the ground, before takeoff press G to lock the front wheel steering, then press it again after you land and stop to be able to taxi when grounded
Hope you have fun with this :)
Credits to @Fishminer for bringing the Paraplane to SP and @AsteroidAsteroidTheBook for his experimentations with this new kind of build, i suggest that you check out those two builds i mentioned if you like them
Specifications
Spotlights
- asteroidbook345 3.5 years ago
- CrazyPenguin1306 3.5 years ago
General Characteristics
- Predecessor Paraplane 2
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 41.8ft (12.7m)
- Length 39.1ft (11.9m)
- Height 29.3ft (8.9m)
- Empty Weight N/A
- Loaded Weight 11,136lbs (5,051kg)
Performance
- Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.078
- Wing Loading 18.7lbs/ft2 (91.1kg/m2)
- Wing Area 596.8ft2 (55.4m2)
- Drag Points 4128
Parts
- Number of Parts 114
- Control Surfaces 3
- Performance Cost 669
@DeltaS4 Sorry I believe I missread the question the first time, basically the trims are just the trailing edge of a wing shaped parachute that have their own control cables so they can be used like a normal control surface. On traditional paramotors this is the only way to roll. Rolling is obviously more important on something the size of a Cessna than on a motorized flying lawn chair.
@DeltaS4 Yeah it's a bit more of a plane. My Paraplane 5 can also do a full loop. Putting jets on it was a good idea
@AsteroidAsteroidTheBook well this way it uses as much as the "plane" as the "para" part in a way :) do you guys like how it flies? i could do a full looping with that one without any damage consequences
I'm a little confused by the elevators but I guess I kind of did the same thing to Paraplane 5 so I guess it's ok
@DeltaS4 I don't know, probably anything that's kinda light but is able to hold the whole assembly together.
@FishMiner i wanted to make the sections look more like canvas pieces, and to test how it handled by controlling it only with cables
what are those made out of, on real paramotors?
not sure why you removed the ailerons, they exist on real paramotors as these things called "trims"
EE
Nice
EE