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Tiny little guy.
One of my first projects I actually put effort into. Also my first attempt at a cockpit. Pretty bare bones, but it works and you should be able to do everything you need if you -for some reason- decided to use VR with this plane. Please ignore the awful paint job lmao
Specifications
Spotlights
- Graingy 2 months ago
General Characteristics
- Created On iOS
- Wingspan 25.6ft (7.8m)
- Length 32.8ft (10.0m)
- Height 13.4ft (4.1m)
- Empty Weight 12,751lbs (5,783kg)
- Loaded Weight 15,173lbs (6,882kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 2.221
- Wing Loading 76.7lbs/ft2 (374.6kg/m2)
- Wing Area 197.8ft2 (18.4m2)
- Drag Points 2589
Parts
- Number of Parts 69
- Control Surfaces 8
- Performance Cost 613
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@Graingy who’s there?
KNOCK KNOCK
I made mine of a whim.
Fear me.
In other news, I figured out that you can increase engine power AND fuel consumption by increasing the maximum input value .
Idk if I should have known that a long time ago.
it also makes the exhaust trail larger automatically, speeds up the engine's sound, and I believe takes longer for the engine to actually reach full power.
Could be handy, as opposed to just multiplying engine power.
Granted, I do believe that SP engines are already very thirsty to begin with, so maybe not entirely necessary.
Cool tho.
@Graingy damn it
I made mine in the course of probably something like ten minutes, maybe more, barely tried, and it wasn't even meant to be the party tube until I realized it fit the role well enough to upload.
And as of now it has the same number of upvotes. And more (listed) downloads.
:)
@Graingy HA! MY CRAFT IS HIGHER THAN YOURS ON THE 2nd PAGE OF HIGHEST RATED TODAY! IM BETTER CONFIRMED
... So anyways I think we could use a more secure channel to discuss this stuff, yeah?
@OrangeConnor2 Oh hey cool info
Looks good.
A few nitpicks, however:
-Paint goof: Shiny tires.
-Wish there was a way to turn off gyros.
-Curious where the HUD came from.
-You forgot to invert the flaps after mirroring. All they do is roll in one direction. Remember, fully-body mirroring is your enemy. It WILL mess things up.
-Some stability issues, but in complete honesty I have zero clue what you could do about that.
-Concerned by the small size of the engine intakes. Possibly flame-out risk?
-Air brake looks awkward not being flush with the body.
-Leg room is taken up by wheels, very uncomfortable.
-Need telepathy to retract landing gear, open canopy.
-Balance is rather heavily impacted by firing missiles. Perhaps consider flaps set to trim to counteract this? Never seen it done myself, so it'd be a new system as far as I've seen.
Other than that, shows promise. First Silver craft, no?
I'm wondering what the unit cost is. Some poking around with component prices leads me to suspect something in the ballpark of $7 million CAD per unit.
Going off some math I conveniently found, I reckon this thing would cost about $20k CAD per day. A fuel load will probably run us something under a grand.
That gun. Minigun? 7.62? How many rounds?
I've seen varying prices on those cheap Interceptor missiles, but a general trends seems to be about $300k a unit. Issue is, I hear the Eel Protectorate's getting a special deal from Graingy for about half that, so we'd best be stingy with the rockets.
Reminds me, what currency are we using?
Regardless of all that, I think this has a lot of promise still. Could definitely help us keep the skies clear while more numerous and cheaper aircraft can do their work. One benefit is the single crew member, which is only one salary as opposed to the dozens that a squadron of cheap fighters would need.
I am, however, concerned greatly by the potential to provoke a greater response from a certain Soian-owned enterprise. A few only will probably go ignored, though.
I'll be in contact.