@Type2volkswagen XD To my shame, the green one flies a bit better, but thank you. Anyway, this plane is so cool. Do you know anything about the artist who drew it?
@Mustang51 Absolutely. N247, the race winner, crashed and killed its pilot. That's why I made 248 instead. The Italian team lost another pilot and those were just the teams that could get their planes to leave the water. The cockpits were windy, full of gas fumes and hot evaporated castor oil (which causes diarrhea). The pilot of this plane was disqualified because his goggles were so caked in slime he couldn't see the pylon and turned too early, but he still set a course speed record on a later lap.
The British High Speed team was literally the best of the best the RAF had to offer. Same with the Americans, Jimmy Dolittle was their top pilot.
@Treadmill103 Yeah. It's the wind drag that always gets me, by the time I get the motor strong enough to overcome the drag to get a proper top speed, the acceleration is crazy fast, then I gotta increase the mass 5x, then the wings to lift the mass, then the controls to fix the wings. I'm getting used to it, though.
@Treadmill103 Thank you for noticing the handling. It took me longer to get it flying properly than it did to get it looking right. Seaplanes are tricky.
@marcox43 Actually, I was hoping people would see this one and be inspired to build more Schneider planes. My next plane will be a land plane, either American or British, I haven't decided yet.
@CRJ900Pilot This plane was built to win the 1929 Schneider Cup seaplane race. I have links in the description to the wiki about the race but I also put link to a pinterest page full of photos of other planes from the various Schneider races. Here
@Testin123 @jamesPLANESii Aw come on, that disclaimer is amazing. Like you're at the dealership about to sign the papers and the guy is like "Oh, and NEVER, EVER try to turn or you will immediately DIE."
@QingyuZhou Ok, but the math. I mean, you have to figure out how many faces to make, what angle to use, how much overlap, how much to offset each new piece. Do you just use a big solid fuselage as a guide or what?
The bad handling is due to your center of lift being too far forward. You can shrink your wings using overload and hide them inside the fuselage further back.
@Lahoski107 Well, when it slows down there are tools within windows that will show what resources are running thin. Hitting CTRL ALT DELETE should bring up the task manager, and from there you can look for a tab called PERFORMANCE. The performance tab should be full of graphs that show how much memory, storage, processor power etc. is being used, if one of them is REALLY high up, then either something is using too much, or you need to somehow get more.
@Lahoski107 OK, I don't know anything about your computer, but that took a LOT longer than it should have. That wouldn't bother me so much, but you mentioned that it was new. New computers shouldn't be quite that slow. Was there a lot of downloading patches or something? I could see how updates might slow things down.
@Lahoski107 Assuming your hardware is working properly, less than 2 hours. Possibly much faster. But if you've got hardware issues, it might take much longer, or not finish.
@ThePilotDude No problem! There are tons of really awesome Schneider Trophy racers. Personally, I think the Italians made the prettiest ones, particularly the Piaggio PC7 and the Macchi MC72
It's kind of strange to me that over 500 people downloaded this. I could see 150 or even 200. But this means that over 440 people either started an entry and never finished or just downloaded your sign for some other strange reason.
@Cinnabar Thank you very much! I'm finishing the next one right now. I almost had it done when I discovered EternalDarkness' challenge, and the Jenny seemed like the perfect plane to introduce the 1920's and 30's so I dropped everything and got to work.
@Type2volkswagen XD To my shame, the green one flies a bit better, but thank you. Anyway, this plane is so cool. Do you know anything about the artist who drew it?
I like the concept
@Mustang51 Absolutely. N247, the race winner, crashed and killed its pilot. That's why I made 248 instead. The Italian team lost another pilot and those were just the teams that could get their planes to leave the water. The cockpits were windy, full of gas fumes and hot evaporated castor oil (which causes diarrhea). The pilot of this plane was disqualified because his goggles were so caked in slime he couldn't see the pylon and turned too early, but he still set a course speed record on a later lap.
The British High Speed team was literally the best of the best the RAF had to offer. Same with the Americans, Jimmy Dolittle was their top pilot.
This thing looks awesome. I love all the little details like the homemade radial engine and pilot goggles. You can't do steampunk without goggles LOL
Daaaang!
@Treadmill103 Yeah. It's the wind drag that always gets me, by the time I get the motor strong enough to overcome the drag to get a proper top speed, the acceleration is crazy fast, then I gotta increase the mass 5x, then the wings to lift the mass, then the controls to fix the wings. I'm getting used to it, though.
@Getorge @Tang0Five @Blue0Bull I appreciate the support. Thank you!
Thank for the spotlight @RailfanEthan @Tradmill103 @ProcessedPlAnEs
@Treadmill103 Thank you for noticing the handling. It took me longer to get it flying properly than it did to get it looking right. Seaplanes are tricky.
@marcox43 Actually, I was hoping people would see this one and be inspired to build more Schneider planes. My next plane will be a land plane, either American or British, I haven't decided yet.
@CRJ900Pilot This plane was built to win the 1929 Schneider Cup seaplane race. I have links in the description to the wiki about the race but I also put link to a pinterest page full of photos of other planes from the various Schneider races. Here
@SomeFox I'll try to trim it down. I'll send you a link at some point over the next week.
@Marcox43 Thanks for the spot
@SomeFox Hmmmm. Whats your limit?
@Mumpsy Hey man, thanks for the support
@corsair013 Thanks, I'm glad you like it!
@QingyuZhou Yeah, same. Anyway, impressive job, as always.
@QingyuZhou I have, that's why I'm so puzzled/impressed
@Testin123 @jamesPLANESii Aw come on, that disclaimer is amazing. Like you're at the dealership about to sign the papers and the guy is like "Oh, and NEVER, EVER try to turn or you will immediately DIE."
@QingyuZhou Ok, but the math. I mean, you have to figure out how many faces to make, what angle to use, how much overlap, how much to offset each new piece. Do you just use a big solid fuselage as a guide or what?
How do you get the longitudinal pieces so evenly positioned? Some kind of modeling program, or a graphing calculator or what?
@ScreamingApe Do you have overload? Load up an old plane, click on the wings and set the scale to .1,.1,.1 and youll see what I mean
The bad handling is due to your center of lift being too far forward. You can shrink your wings using overload and hide them inside the fuselage further back.
A 1974 Dodge Monaco Police Special
@Lahoski107 Well, when it slows down there are tools within windows that will show what resources are running thin. Hitting CTRL ALT DELETE should bring up the task manager, and from there you can look for a tab called PERFORMANCE. The performance tab should be full of graphs that show how much memory, storage, processor power etc. is being used, if one of them is REALLY high up, then either something is using too much, or you need to somehow get more.
@Lahoski107 OK, I don't know anything about your computer, but that took a LOT longer than it should have. That wouldn't bother me so much, but you mentioned that it was new. New computers shouldn't be quite that slow. Was there a lot of downloading patches or something? I could see how updates might slow things down.
@Lahoski107 That's pretty slow
How far is it now?
@Lahoski107 Assuming your hardware is working properly, less than 2 hours. Possibly much faster. But if you've got hardware issues, it might take much longer, or not finish.
@Awsomur Good times
Kinda looks like an A-6 that went a little crazy at the buffet table, doesn't it?
Animals usually don't like fire anyway, but please post again when you see your cat.
Nuke that joint, full reinstall. Also, it sounds like your RAM might be bad.
×Title says USAF×
×Has no USAF markings, only writing in Japanese×
Seems legit.
Nice roundels
You should paint this, it's good.
The Scourge is back, baby! AWESOME!
@CRJ900Pilot LOL! Thanks for the tip, I can see how that could get abused.
@CRJ900Pilot @RaZoRgAmInGxD @SomeFox @BaconRoll @Daekstor Thank you, she should be out pretty soon
@Cinnabar I've got a teaser up click here to check it out.
@ThePilotDude No problem! There are tons of really awesome Schneider Trophy racers. Personally, I think the Italians made the prettiest ones, particularly the Piaggio PC7 and the Macchi MC72
@ACMECo1940 Thanks! I got two new images up.
Hey, this is really good. But f I'm being honest, the BF109 that I deserve is really a PZL M15 Belphegor.
It's kind of strange to me that over 500 people downloaded this. I could see 150 or even 200. But this means that over 440 people either started an entry and never finished or just downloaded your sign for some other strange reason.
@TakicraftCorporation Long ago, I heard this song and fell in love with warm synths and ice cold drum machines.
@TakicraftCorporation Right on, I haven't heard of Kane or FM Attack, it'll be nice to dig into some new material!
@TakicraftCorporation I've been listening to a lot of Carpenter Brut and M83 lately. You?
@TakicraftCorporation Yessssss!
@Cinnabar Thank you very much! I'm finishing the next one right now. I almost had it done when I discovered EternalDarkness' challenge, and the Jenny seemed like the perfect plane to introduce the 1920's and 30's so I dropped everything and got to work.
@Strikefighter04 Eh, you gonna have to look that one up.