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Weisbrich A11 'Jester'

1,206 Weisbrich  one year ago

This is a plane I made and abandoned a few months ago. It's kinda weird.


I basically just thought it would be funny if there was a plane that was tall instead of wide with two engines stacked on top of each other in the fuselage, so this is the (unrefined) product.

Feel free to do with it whatever you please, I will be making better aircraft soon.

It has a custom startup procedure, but it's nothing complex. Just a couple of switches. The instructions are written in the cockpit.

Action Groups:

AG1: Supercharger
AG2: Arm weapons (also deploys a bomb, but I'm too lazy to fix that)
AG3: Opens bomb bay
AG7: Landing lights

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General Characteristics

  • Successors 1 airplane(s) +21 bonus
  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 34.6ft (10.6m)
  • Length 23.7ft (7.2m)
  • Height 12.8ft (3.9m)
  • Empty Weight 6,842lbs (3,103kg)
  • Loaded Weight 10,254lbs (4,651kg)

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.658
  • Wing Loading 27.5lbs/ft2 (134.4kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 372.4ft2 (34.6m2)
  • Drag Points 4953

Parts

  • Number of Parts 443
  • Control Surfaces 8
  • Performance Cost 1,904
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    Bonus point for the original sketch resembles another product of Servesky/Republic's, the Servesky SEV-3

    5 months ago
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    Bro's Speedrunning SP

    6 months ago
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    7,506 TTL

    my guy left as soon as he dropped this banger

    +2 6 months ago
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    @Weisbrich
    A prototype of the "shortened P-47" as promised a few months back: https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/689T1H

    +1 8 months ago
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    2,530 Hermanj

    This is a vary interesting design

    11 months ago
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    2,530 Hermanj

    I am going to re build it

    11 months ago
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    this aint 1950s this is 195 BBY

    +2 11 months ago
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    Congrats for silver my friend!

    +1 11 months ago
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    4,803 FartResidue

    “VECTOR!
    Committing crimes with both direction And magnitude.
    OH-Yeah!”

    +1 one year ago
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    33.3k tsampoy

    I thought this was star wars for a second

    +5 one year ago
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    165 Potatu

    @Weisbrich Nice

    one year ago
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    1,206 Weisbrich

    @Potatu Sure

    one year ago
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    165 Potatu

    I fixed the bomb thing.Can i post it?
    @Weisbrich

    one year ago
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    3,419 stevemc01

    This actually looks pretty good as a microfighter...

    +2 one year ago
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    @TheTomatoLover needs to be gold

    +2 one year ago
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    7,506 TTL

    Bro is extremely underrated. You need to get to silver bro.

    +5 one year ago
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    @Weisbrich
    Napier Sabre engines? Those things are MASSIVE! And you used two of them?! No wonder why the airframe starts to look like the good ol' jug!
    Yeah, I'm a P-47 fan, and when I see the rear cockpit my first instinct was literally "wait that jug be lookin' sus"...
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    ... and the P-47 only used a 2000hp engine. Your monsters managed to reach the 6750hp benchmark.
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    ... and why the "scissor lift" gun pod? And what happened to just loading the bombs under the wings (or the fuselage) like civilized people?
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    ... and bonus nitpicking time™: the pitch authority feels a bit lacking for a plane of its size, and there are no gun sights. Still, the overall build quality is remarkable - it wouldn't look out of place among the portfolio of a plat, so for a first timer? It's simply marvelous.
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    ... I'm now considering building a plane inspired by this and based on my existing prototype, a mangled P-47 with contra-rotating props and a Russian(?)/German(?) style canopy. I will credit you if I finally overcame my procrastination and started building it.
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    ... and sorry for rambling.

    +2 one year ago
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    2,790 Liquidfox01

    Very Crimson Skies, what a beautiful aircraft

    +3 one year ago
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    1,206 Weisbrich

    @ThomasRoderick I guess it's worth mentioning that this thing was envisioned to use two 24 cylinder sleeve-valve engines (I came up with the idea for the entire plane after reading about the Napier Sabre, and thought it would be ridiculous to stack them vertically). I have zero clue what the maintenence for one would be, let alone two of them plus all the shafts and everything. I really appreciate your insight

    +1 one year ago
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    @Weisbrich Not really talking about how the design would affect people, more like the general serviceability of the plane and how reliable the design would be - the gearbox and fairing arrangement on this plane probably made it that lil' bit harder to service, while having two engines mated to the same driveshaft instead of, ya know, having an actual flat-12 engine (or whatever the actual number of cylinders the plane ended up with) there just meant more camshafts and oil pumps and whatnot to deal with. Most planes with contra-rotating props don't have different engines powering the different props, afterall: if one engine fails the dead prop instantaneously becomes dead weight - and it's harder to synchronize two engines to run at exactly the same RPM than just using a gearbox to make sure the two props turn at the same rate.
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    ... and sorry for over-analyzing things - especially on someone else's very first plane. Just take it as the autistic rambling of the resident aspie, pay no heed.

    +1 one year ago
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    253k WinsWings

    @Weisbrich same here

    +1 one year ago
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    1,206 Weisbrich

    @ThomasRoderick LOL. Never thought about how the configuration would effect people.

    +1 one year ago
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    1,206 Weisbrich

    @WinsWings Thanks! Drawing out my ideas is my favorite way to make planes

    +1 one year ago
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    253k WinsWings

    I love when people created their own concepts. Starting to think and drawing the concept is a great thing for me. This definitely needs a Spotlight.

    +6 one year ago
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    ZOGGIN' BOOTIFUL, BOSS!
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    ... The engine arrangement would have the crew chief ranting and raving about not being paid enough, but everything else? Perfection.

    +2 one year ago
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