@WIZARD2017
Well yea because the XF-85 was a pretty unstable design and hard to fly. My idea is more along the lines of a C-130, B-52, C-17, or 747-sized aircraft carrying a bunch of recoverable drones on board.
@CptJacobson
Well it is essentially a Phalanx CIWS/C-RAM on wheels plus AIM-120C's, AIM-9X's, and impossible-to-evade hyper-velocity micro-missiles (which are a real thing BTW) so yea this thing is quite powerful. Future "options" for the Jaeger will include a laser turret instead of the M61 Gatling Gun, more HVMM's (micro-missiles), and an EMP/EW-pulse pod similar to whats found on the F-36 Broadsword; that destroys in-coming missiles.
@HarryBen47
Sure Rainier Aerospace can do a collab. Although no collab work can start at least until June 13th (when I'm fully out of school). Do you have any concepts, designs, or ideas for this fighter?
@EternalDarkness
The boxes can fit an AIM-9X and AIM-120C, and are well-more than enough in length to fit them and possibly a booster. If your talking about the tons of launch tubes at the rear of the truck, those hold the hyper-velocity micro missiles which use kinetic energy to kill incoming missiles and aircraft (well, only aircraft in SP). Of course those won't be holding the AIM-9X's or AIM-120's.
Thanks for all the great builds you've provided to the SP community! Although if its not a problem, PLEASE don't delete your account; so we can still enjoy your aircraft builds. Anyways stay safe out there and happy flying!
@Hedero
I think FSX, particularly steam edition still holds up today with the performance improvements DTG gave it, and the fact they bundled all the FSX versions into one easy-to-install pack for only $24. But there is a tool called "Blender2FSX" that allows you to create airplanes for FSX using blender. Well, if I can create my planes in SP and then export them as an .obj file & import them into Blender, that should greatly cut down on development.
Pontiac IMO made some of the best & most creative concept cars. The Banshee IV is drop-dead gorgeous! Too bad GM axed them; I think Pontiac could have stayed around as a performance brand.
My plan is to create the model (or use a model/plane) from SimplePlanes, then export & import it into Blender, and from there use the Blender2FSX tool to convert it as an FSX aircraft. Although its not that simple, and I still have to learn the B2FSX tool and watch the lengthily tutorial on YT on creating FSX aircraft from Blender. And I wont be starting any of this until I'm out of school in 2-3 weeks.
Now don't get too excited about this, but is it alright if I can use your Wilga 2000 Draco and WIP Freedom Fox and try to convert them to FSX? I want to try my hand at converting SP planes to FSX, and I'm starting with my Greenhorn plane I made not too long ago. My main project is to create a Sonex Onex, but I also want to try converting your Draco to FSX.
I think I got a little too carried away with this build. It was supposed to be a low-part count/mobile friendly truck that would be outfitted with the air defense system I'm making for EternalDarkness's challenge, but now it's blown up to a +200 part build, and will probably be around 300-400 once the air defense systems are installed. But that's not totally a bad thing, as I'm VERY pleased with how this truck came out and how much detail I put into it, making it my first ACTUALLY GOOD, original vehicle in SP. And with the amount of detail it has, it will hopefully earn me a ton of upvotes & downloads.
@Carbonfox1
Oh nice. I live across the mountains from you in Arlington, WA. I chose Moses Lake/Grant Co Intl. Airport as my fictional company's HQ/home airport because of how open it is out in Eastern WA and the LOOONG runway Moses Lake has. Its perfect for Rainier's future SSTO shutte service. I originally wanted to build the new facility outside of the airport on the NW side, but it looks like there are farm fields there, so I just decided to build it in-field.
@cedblox332
Curtiss made this experimental variant of the P-40 to see what they could squeeze out of the P-40 design, and this was the result. It's probably my favorite P-40 variant.
I'd say I check out for all 6 tips. My biggest problem as a builder currently is how I make a plane or project, and right as its 80%-90% done, I go start another project. Now I have a literal backlog of at least 8 or 10 projects I haven't finished.
Neato! I'm actually working on 2 kinds of drones that can be launched and directed to different targets without crashing or exploding, although those projects are on hold for now as I focus on other SP priorities.
@TheFantasticTyphoon
+1Sure go ahead, just credit me.
@TheFantasticTyphoon
Sure I can help, but only after June 13th (when I got out of school).
@WIZARD2017
+1Well yea because the XF-85 was a pretty unstable design and hard to fly. My idea is more along the lines of a C-130, B-52, C-17, or 747-sized aircraft carrying a bunch of recoverable drones on board.
@TheFantasticTyphoon
+1Awesome, keep me posted/tagged on the updates of this project!
Cool flying wing design!
Awesome! I gotta try my hand at "mothership" aircraft again now that magnets are a thing in SP.
@CptJacobson
Well it is essentially a Phalanx CIWS/C-RAM on wheels plus AIM-120C's, AIM-9X's, and impossible-to-evade hyper-velocity micro-missiles (which are a real thing BTW) so yea this thing is quite powerful. Future "options" for the Jaeger will include a laser turret instead of the M61 Gatling Gun, more HVMM's (micro-missiles), and an EMP/EW-pulse pod similar to whats found on the F-36 Broadsword; that destroys in-coming missiles.
Noice
+1If you have steam its $13 for PC
@ACEPILOT109
Cool, thanks!
Sweet!
@randomusername
+1K thanks, I just removed a ton of planes from my library and it works again.
@Adityo0502
+1The Grizzly truck is already finished, but the Jaeger Air Defense System is not, and I want to upload Jaeger first.
Awesome!
@ThomasRoderick
Thanks!
@HarryBen47
Sure Rainier Aerospace can do a collab. Although no collab work can start at least until June 13th (when I'm fully out of school). Do you have any concepts, designs, or ideas for this fighter?
@EternalDarkness
The boxes can fit an AIM-9X and AIM-120C, and are well-more than enough in length to fit them and possibly a booster. If your talking about the tons of launch tubes at the rear of the truck, those hold the hyper-velocity micro missiles which use kinetic energy to kill incoming missiles and aircraft (well, only aircraft in SP). Of course those won't be holding the AIM-9X's or AIM-120's.
@EternalDarkness
What do you think? Is this current set-up too OP?
Thanks for all the great builds you've provided to the SP community! Although if its not a problem, PLEASE don't delete your account; so we can still enjoy your aircraft builds. Anyways stay safe out there and happy flying!
+1wut
N2FST4U
+1ND8NK
G-DANK
NDANK
G-LMAO
Oh its totally on!
+1@Hedero
I think FSX, particularly steam edition still holds up today with the performance improvements DTG gave it, and the fact they bundled all the FSX versions into one easy-to-install pack for only $24. But there is a tool called "Blender2FSX" that allows you to create airplanes for FSX using blender. Well, if I can create my planes in SP and then export them as an .obj file & import them into Blender, that should greatly cut down on development.
Pontiac IMO made some of the best & most creative concept cars. The Banshee IV is drop-dead gorgeous! Too bad GM axed them; I think Pontiac could have stayed around as a performance brand.
I demand you give me some of that freedom & democracy!
+1Oh damn that's perfection.
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+1My plan is to create the model (or use a model/plane) from SimplePlanes, then export & import it into Blender, and from there use the Blender2FSX tool to convert it as an FSX aircraft. Although its not that simple, and I still have to learn the B2FSX tool and watch the lengthily tutorial on YT on creating FSX aircraft from Blender. And I wont be starting any of this until I'm out of school in 2-3 weeks.
Now don't get too excited about this, but is it alright if I can use your Wilga 2000 Draco and WIP Freedom Fox and try to convert them to FSX? I want to try my hand at converting SP planes to FSX, and I'm starting with my Greenhorn plane I made not too long ago. My main project is to create a Sonex Onex, but I also want to try converting your Draco to FSX.
I had a hunch it was Trent Palmer and his Freedom Fox, and I then the photo of your build of it later down the list confirmed it! Nice job so far!
+1@Hedero
I made this plane dirt-simple so it will hopefully be easy for me to convert to FSX.
@Hedero
Thank you! It was actually inspired by the smaller RV-3, RV-4, and RV-8 models, although its more of the size of an RV-10 or Extra 300.
@ACEPILOT109
thx!
I think I got a little too carried away with this build. It was supposed to be a low-part count/mobile friendly truck that would be outfitted with the air defense system I'm making for EternalDarkness's challenge, but now it's blown up to a +200 part build, and will probably be around 300-400 once the air defense systems are installed. But that's not totally a bad thing, as I'm VERY pleased with how this truck came out and how much detail I put into it, making it my first ACTUALLY GOOD, original vehicle in SP. And with the amount of detail it has, it will hopefully earn me a ton of upvotes & downloads.
@FENRIRpapapa
+1Np I love the Shorts 330/360/C-23 Sherpa design!
@Kimcotupan15
Np nice plane!
@Carbonfox1
Oh nice. I live across the mountains from you in Arlington, WA. I chose Moses Lake/Grant Co Intl. Airport as my fictional company's HQ/home airport because of how open it is out in Eastern WA and the LOOONG runway Moses Lake has. Its perfect for Rainier's future SSTO shutte service. I originally wanted to build the new facility outside of the airport on the NW side, but it looks like there are farm fields there, so I just decided to build it in-field.
@Carbonfox1
Wait you live in Moses Lake, WA?
Oh, that's hot! That is hot!
A swiveling tail-rotor? Interesting. Tag me please!
Can I throw a brick into it while its on?
@cedblox332
+1Curtiss made this experimental variant of the P-40 to see what they could squeeze out of the P-40 design, and this was the result. It's probably my favorite P-40 variant.
Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
I'd say I check out for all 6 tips. My biggest problem as a builder currently is how I make a plane or project, and right as its 80%-90% done, I go start another project. Now I have a literal backlog of at least 8 or 10 projects I haven't finished.
+1Whatever it is I'll take your entire stock!
T
Oh nice!
@jermaineevans
Thanks!
@jamesPLANESii
Lol
@jamesPLANESii
Thanks lol. The Vans RV design was definitely a major inspiration for this.
Lol SimplePlanes drama
+3Neato! I'm actually working on 2 kinds of drones that can be launched and directed to different targets without crashing or exploding, although those projects are on hold for now as I focus on other SP priorities.