Mr. Irst, reporting for duty! 🤣

Mr. Irst, reporting for duty! 🤣

@HESA appreciate it mate, your works are great as well<3

A very creative aircraft, yet without dizzying complexities in construction. I loved it.Thanks for mentioning the credit.

I love the thought process behind the lift fans sm.
Creating fictional/hypothetical solutions to irl problems.. without restrictions by the FAA is what SimplePlanes was made for.
epique job @NapoleonPizza
well played

@ivansheppard853gmail i turned it off

@NapoleonPizza why don’t you add instructions in game??

how to make your maintainers want to kill themselves, a step-by-step guide

10/10 good

IN THE END, IT'S JUST ANOTHER STOVL....

@NapoleonPizza True. Might spend some time today conjuring up some ideas and see what sticks. I love these types of discussions, makes me actually think like an engineer for once, it's a nice break from the corporate hell that is using interesting equations to solve stupid problems like having pulleys with no friction.

Sorry, random rant... TL;DR : i'll draw up some ideas myself. i'm very interested in VTOL Aircraft!

@RestlessGalaxies yeah i can imagine that the price and Maintenance complexity of the engine wouldnt be that friendly, tbh my original design was add numerous grids inside the front nozzle to control the direction of air stream, and of course those thing might be a lot of unpredictable issues in reality

i think symmetrical 3BSD will be very cool, but the position of the two engines might be a bit awkward, you know the engine's exhaust must be around the mass center of the aircraft, so the aircraft wont flip forward or backward when doing VTOL. However, the exhaust is at the rear of the engine, which means the engine must be in the first half of the aircraft, and i think ts might cause a weight distribution issue or sth else...?

The engine would be heckin expensive. Developing and maintaining it would probably be the IRL reason why the body with the engines are twice as cheap as a full unit

Or in other words, Your engine alone would cost the same as the entire airframe-Avionics and all. You'd actually just be better off doing what the F-35 did, but this is an interesting concept nonetheless!

Perhaps what I think would make for a sweet deal would be some sort of symmetrical F-35 engine- Swivelling on Both the front and back. It's also increasingly complex but the fine tuning it allows will be pretty advantageous.

This is very nice.

very nice very cool

@ToeTips oh i get wat you saying, thats a pretty good idea, but I don’t think it could save the X32, its engine is positioned too far forward, and there seems to be no reasonable place for a second intake. I like X32 very much, it has numerous unique designs, but its engine layout is just absolutely bad. If really need to fix it, I think its the same idea as the Harrier, use a high bypass ratio engine and extend the section between the fan and the compressor to let the aircraft take off with cold air

@NapoleonPizza
Like how the Fulcrum can close off it's main intake and open vents above to keep out debris while taxing. Something like that but the vents on the VTOL would be a lot bigger.

@CaptainNoble thx man<3

@ToeTips im not sure what you mean intake on top, like the F35B?
And I don’t think the main intake designs of the Harrier and the F-35B can be combined, because the Harriers Pegasus engine is a "high-bypass-ratio" engine that needs to generate enough cold air for the front nozzles to take off vertically. ts requires a big intake, which isn’t ideal for stealth design I think

As for the intake, why not use a combination of both the harrier and F-35B to counter the issues the X-32 had? We could have two intakes like the F-35 or the Yak but have them close when VTOLing and have compartments ontop of the intakes open to let in air for the engine. It might be like 70-80% of the air but that should be more than enough to facilitate VTOLing. I could perhaps draw a mockup of what I mean, well I suck ass at drawing but still. Maybe even make this a collab.

That's pretty good

you build pretty good

Beans 🫘

Also I never thought of combining the VTOL layouts before.

You just read my mind, I was thinking of making a VTOL similar to this.