18.8k F104Deathtrap Comments

  • What Makes A Plane Successful? 4.8 years ago

    @QuitePossiblyMangled The Zero is a great example of a plane with stellar performance becoming a gigantic liability. Sacrificing safety features for performance was a worthwhile trade so long as the edge in performance kept the pilot safe. But once that lead evaporated, so did Japan's supply of capable pilots, leading to a vicious cycle of failure that doomed the IJN.

  • What Makes A Plane Successful? 4.8 years ago

    @PapaKernels I am not ready to relinquish control over to Skynet just yet.

  • What Makes A Plane Successful? 4.8 years ago

    @rexrexThezion At my speed? Probably 3 more months, lol.

  • What Makes A Plane Successful? 4.8 years ago

    @PointlessWhyshouldi The Juggernaut is my favorite.

  • What Makes A Plane Successful? 4.8 years ago

    @AndrewHarrison The top picture is from the movie The Right Stuff it depicts Chuck Yeager walking away from a crashed F-104 Starfighter during one of his altitude record attempts. The photo isn't real, but the stuff in the photo really happened.

  • POST APOCALIPTIC VEHICLES !!! 4.8 years ago

    @ZHUAREVONI hahaha I look forward to seeing some of these up here.

  • Anyone here play on an Oculus? 4.8 years ago

    I've got a Samsung Odyssey. The only games I use it for are Elite: Dangerous and DCS: MIG-21 bis

  • I need help 4.8 years ago

    Probably both. Different standards, variants, etc. often have extra armor applied, sometimes the entire turret is redesigned in later models. In the case of the Leopard, it's probably extra armor attached to the exterior of the original turret.

  • Ugly and slow plane 4.8 years ago

    @AlmostMobileFriendly
    Oh yes!

  • Ugly and slow plane 4.8 years ago

    @KnightOfRen Love finds a way

  • A few questions 4.8 years ago

    @Nerfaddict Nice.

  • cockpit help wanted 4.8 years ago

    @NexusGaming Bogdan might respond. Raptor was banned (I think?) and Mikoyanster almost never does cockpits. So yeah, good luck with that.

  • Good Bye, SimplePlanes 4.8 years ago

    @RedWasNotTheImposter Understandable. I'm going to delete it. But please understand we go through a lot of these posts around here.

  • People Come And Go 4.8 years ago

    @PointlessWhyshouldi Earth is flat. I used a magnifying glass to measure the pixels from the top of Mt Krakabloa, horizon is perfectly flat.

  • People Come And Go 4.8 years ago

    @PointlessWhyshouldi Or is it? Are we thespians?!

  • People Come And Go 4.8 years ago

    @QuitePossiblyMangled I think somebody actually posted tacos on here. Was it Savage? I cant remember.

  • Good Bye, SimplePlanes 4.8 years ago

    @Chancey21 We get these "BYEBYE" posts every day. Every. Single. Day. And they are almost always the kind of thing that could be pasted at the top of somebody's bio. This isn't some urgent event that needs to be noticed by everyone TODAY and quickly forgotten.

  • What should I build? 4.8 years ago

    PZL M15 "BELPHEGOR"

  • Blueprints How-To: Building the F-104 | Part 1: Fuselage 4.8 years ago

    @BagelPlane ?!?!?!?! When did they add that? I've been using the clunky BP mod all this time for nothing?

  • Blueprints How-To: Building the F-104 | Part 1: Fuselage 4.8 years ago

    THIS IS GREAT! You should include a link to the Blueprint mod, or pin it in a comment.

  • Making a reposted build eligible 4.8 years ago

    You should delete this.

    Some people on here spend months building things. You spent one hour repainting someone else's work. Take a wild guess how much anyone cares a out your lost hour.

    Also, most places ban users who whine about the mods.

  • INPORTANT: HAMBURGERS AREN'T REALLY HAM 4.8 years ago

    You're under 13, aren't you?

  • What is Funky Trees? 4.8 years ago

    Here's the guidebook

    It will answer all of your questions. Be sure to bookmark it and send it to anyone who asks.

  • [Teaser] 40 Knots of Fury 4.8 years ago

    @WarshipDude Sorry, I was on a roll. Of the 5 or so teasers that were up this morning, only you and one other person had done them properly. I'm trying to show newer players how to effectively advertise their creations and yours is a great example of how to do it right.

  • [Teaser] 40 Knots of Fury 4.8 years ago

    Congratulations on making a good teaser

  • (Teaser) BOMBS AWAY 4.8 years ago

    This is a proper teaser

    Thank you for sharing
    but please don't tag me

  • what should I add to my Ultralight aircraft 4.8 years ago

    @JamesPlanesII is the tiny-plane expert. Perhaps he has some suggestions?

  • Ultralight Aircraft [TEASER] 4.8 years ago

    THIS IS A GOOD TEASER

    Thank you for sharing this

  • Le new looking bomber 4.8 years ago

    @MikoyanGorevich21

    LEARN!

    Anything ending in .jpg or .gif or .png will usually work. DO NOT USE IMGUR.

    ![](the image URL goes here)

    Now you don't have an excuse.

  • My Airplane List 4.8 years ago

    ONLY YOU CAN STOP AWFUL TEASERS.

    Don't bore your fans to death with pathetic blocks of text. Post thrilling images to tantalize your viewers! When was the last time you got excited about some list got posted on here?

  • Le new looking bomber 4.8 years ago

    ONLY YOU CAN STOP CRAPPY TEASERS

    Don't bore your fans to death with pathetic blocks of text. Post exciting images.

  • McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II 4.8 years ago

    Bro, what's the point of plagiarizing a wikipedia article when you can just post the think? At least the wiki has photos, tables, links to relevant info. We can do better than this.

  • Yup 4.9 years ago

    @SyntheticL Sorry dude, but hey, you gave it a shot.

  • How to keep the helicopter from spinning? 4.9 years ago

    Download a helicopter that works. Save it, then tear it apart over and over again to see how it works.

  • SPBC 4.9 years ago

    @BoganBoganTheMan That's my plan, yes. They keep stretching it out! lmao

  • Medieval Catapult 4.9 years ago

    @Kaqiusha321 It's an old joke on Reddit. There's a subreddit devoted to trebuchet jokes and they always make fun of catapults.

  • MY NEW GRAVATAR 4.9 years ago

    @superTT Despite the Indian origins of the Kolovrat (and the swastika) I am sure you are aware that many neo-nazi skinhead groups in Eastern Europe use the kolovrat as a symbol of racial purity, ethnic cleansing and antisemitism.

  • Fuselage wing thing 4.9 years ago

    Bookmark these three links
    This is the fuselage wing tutorial
    This is a guide to XML
    This is the guide to Funkytrees

  • Tank Almost Ready 4.9 years ago

    @DoomDoomTheGirl You dont need mods to make tracks, just smoosh a few wheels and set them next to each other.

  • Tank Almost Ready 4.9 years ago

    You gonna add tank treads to this beast?

  • I need help with my vtol 4.9 years ago

    You got 2 options:
    1) Learn how to carefully balance VTOL aircraft so that it takes off, lands and transitions to horizontal flight properly through a lengthy mix of studying real life aeronautical principles and in-game experimentation.
    Or:
    2) Use a gyro.
    It's up to you.

  • [TEASER] - BANZAI! 4.9 years ago

    @PolyIsGone You keep up the good work, we'll keep upvoting.

  • An idea to make custom wings easier to do. 4.9 years ago

    And since the wings are now getting a bit of attention I would like to just get this out of my mind.

    Attention from whom? In what way?

  • Ask me something 4.9 years ago

    A train leaves the station in Wichita, KS at 8 AM Monday morning. It accelerates at 2 meters per second squared until reaching a cruising speed of 75 miles per hour. Two hours later, a train passes through Toledo, OH at a steady speed of 80mph. The trains are on straight, parallel tracks headed towards one another and will not stop. Where and when will they pass one another?

  • Biplane challenge 4.9 years ago

    Sorry, no can do

  • OH NO NO NO 4.9 years ago

    @KnightOfRen Hellcat

  • OH NO NO NO 4.9 years ago

    @RogueFighter Good eye

  • Tu-22M3 "Backfire" 4.9 years ago

    @PointlessWhyshouldi That's ok, it took me like 18 months to post it. Thanks

  • Rafale VS J20 4.9 years ago

    @CharlesDeGaulle

    One-to-ten

    RADAR was the entire point. You misunderstand. The Germans had more planes, but they didn't send more planes. Over the course of the battle, England had 1,963 aircraft to the Luftwaffe's 2550. In fact, Germany even scored more aerial victories than the UK but it didn't matter because bailing out over England meant that an RAF pilot would be issued a new plane later that week and a German pilot would spend the next 5 years in prison.

    During any one raid, the Third Reich would usually send 65 bombers escorted by 35 fighters and they'd be detected at long range by CHAIN-HOME radar network. Central RAF command would estimate the size and direction of the force and order an appropriate number of Spitfire and Hurricane squadrons to respond. An appropriate number. None of this "1 to 10" foolishness you see in the movies. If there were 40 ME-109's then the RAF would send over 40 Hurricanes and 20 Spitfires. Radar allowed England to use only the number of planes they needed, and keep the rest ready for the next attack. On the other hand, Germany had no idea what to expect and often sent formations across the Channel unprepared and outnumbered.

    The quality of German pilots did not fade until after the Battle of Britain, mostly as a result of the battle itself but also because of the unbelievably high losses on the Eastern Front.

  • CAC CA-20 Wombat (fictional) 4.9 years ago

    My apologies for blocking you. I have no idea how that happened.