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Coanda-1910

41.4k MrVaultech  5.3 years ago
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"The Coanda-1910, designed by Romanian inventor Henri Coanda, was an unconventional sesquiplane aircraft powered by a ducted fan. Called the "turbo-propulseur" by Coanda, its experimental engine consisted of a conventional piston engine driving a multi-bladed centrifugal blower which exhausted into a duct. The unusual aircraft attracted attention at the Second International Aeronautical Exhibition in Paris in October 1910, being the only exhibit without a propeller, but the aircraft was not displayed afterwards and it fell from public awareness. Coanda used a similar turbo-propulseur to drive a snow sledge, but he did not develop it further for aircraft."

-Wikipedia


Well, hello everyone. Back at it again with some obscure plane!

I actually have no idea what else to say besides I had to rebuild this from the ground up a few times just to get the shape, and stuff about the challenge below, but it's a super interesting aircraft nonetheless and super fun to fly
Now the challenge! If, hypothetically speaking, of I somehow won the challenge, just give the Steam code to the runner up cause I don't have Steam, and as odd as it is for me to say, don't care much for some Steam codes.
So yea, fun fun.

I attempted to get the aircraft's appearance as close to the original 1910 version built by Henri Coanda, hence no insignia or numbers, but the issue with the pictires from 1910 is there's not any of the cockpit...
So I did my best with what I believed a plane cockpit of the 1910's would look like, and gave a pilots view from said cockpit.
With that, I attempted to get the weight as close as possible to the actual one (all the dimensions of the original aircraft apparently don't exist, so the one built in Romania had to do), but the added ~100 or so lbs can be blamed on the pilot dummy having a large lunch.

There aren no special controls to the aircraft, just throttle up and you should takeoff automatically.
The plane, through the constant testing (that wasen't me just screwing around), stalls at around 30-35mph, so landing can be a bit interesting.

There's also a gyro I installed jear the CoM just for the sakes of convenience on the ground because I didn't install any yaw abilities.

General Characteristics

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 19.91
  • Wing Loading 4.0lbs/ft2 (19.6kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 253.0ft2 (23.5m2)
  • Drag Points 8153

Parts

  • Number of Parts 248
  • Control Surfaces 6
  • Performance Cost 835