Damn, you did a wonderful job on the Pond Racer! It would be cool of someone would resurrect the design or something like it IRL. Reno needs more modern air racers in unlimited class. Its a real shame the original crashed and Burt Rutan never pursued the design after that.
@LancasterAce
Grant County International Airport is a public airport, so yes NKR can land their any time. But Rainier's 2 flight centers are private property, so no taxing over to those. ;) Rainier actually has plans to develop 1 or 2 private airports/bases in the deserts of Oregon, Utah, or Nevada for more private development of our defense projects.
@EternalDarkness THANK YOU for clarifying that! That's what I believed the tag meant as well, and intention is the basis for determining what tags go on your build.
@randomusername
Well everyone has their own unique style of doing things. And this was a mere concept of mine; not a fully fledged-out model like my latest QLX-125, BAE Broadsword, or BNRV-36A Broadsword where those models took around 2 months each to develop (time constraints). Like I said if you want to be die-hard focused on definitions and specifics, fine, you do you, but don't force it on others.
@randomusername
A gaming journal or buzzfeed isn't going to make a hit-piece against SP because someone "misrepresented electric vehicles and their propulsion". I came to SP to freely create whatever original airplane designs and concepts I wanted to make, not walk on egg shells in fear of offending one specific person in SP worried over nothing, or offend a group of people or game journalists outside the aviation community who probably have no clue how airplanes even fly.
@randomusername
By that logic, that must mean everyone who's made a non-mod laser system in SP is being deceitful or "misrepresenting lasers" because their lasers aren't true lasers as they used a gun and extended it's bullet xml values to shoot out like a straight laser.
@randomusername
For the love of God no one is being targeted and I'm not targeting anyone. It was just a neat unique airplane concept drawing that I thought would make a great simple build, and then I threw in a bit of uniqueness with the idea of a hybrid electric propulsion system. The last I checked creativity, imagination, and a bit of roleplaying were all major aspects of SP and determining tags and definitions for planes, even if their in-game systems/performance aren't actually like the real thing.
@randomusername GOODNESS GRACIOUS ITS A CONCEPT! OF COURSE SP DOESN'T HAVE ELECTRIC ENGINES OR PROPULSION SO I USED THE VTOL ENGINE + NOZZLES AS A SUBSTITUTE! Will you just drop this nonsense already? Your acting like I just committed a major sin in SP building! Again, I included the electric tag because the idea behind it utilizes some form of electric propulsion. Don't you know what role-playing or using your imagination is?
@Kerbango
Oh wow that sounds neat. That would be great if you could link me that mod. I just finished a rough basic prototype of an SSTO shuttle. Yea Randomusername is the only user I've seen complaining about this tag nonsense.
@randomusername
This design incorporates a plasma ramjet that uses electricity to super-heat the incoming airstream passing through the ramjet for extra thrust/propulsion, and gets that electricity via an electric generator that is driven by a gas-burning turbofan engine. It may not involve legit electric-propulsion in-game, but the concept, intention, and design sure does, and therefore I'm not removing it from the electric tag.
@randomusername
The closest thing SP EVER got to "hate" was the Jelly invasion and all the Jelly fans who hated on SP because we told them to stop spamming Jelly-planes. Your making an absolute huge deal over a simple tag and it's definition.
@randomusername
The electric and spaceship tag exists because those are the things/attributes the creators intend their designs to be. The user PlayingSimple intended his STOL 'n Thunder design to be an all-electric aircraft, so he put the electric tag in it because his design involves electric propulsion, even if it's not 100% accurate or realistic.
@randomusername
You LEGIT think people outside of SP are going to get offended by some tagging system that isn't exactly 100% accurate to real life in a game that isn't even that maintstream or significant to the gaming community as a whole and cause an uproar over it? You. Have. Got. To. Be. JOKING.
@randomusername
I think your waaay over-thinking this and making a big deal out of nothing. STOL N' Thunder and the flying iPhone drone use fuel-consuming prop engines and are under the electric tag because the author/creater intends those engines to be electric, but they used the default piston engines since there are no true electric engines in SP other than rotators. And again, electricity IS NOT unlimited! A Tesla Model 3 or a an quadcopter drone are fully electric but don't have an unlimited supply of electricity. You have to charge the batteries back up before they run out. And the electric tag in SP never specifies whether that means unlimited rotator-spinning-wing powered planes or planes that use the standard SP engines but the design is intended to be electric. I know damn well what electric energy and power is and I know for a fact its not unlimited. The only person I see getting offended over nothing is you.
@randomusername
Fuel for electric vehicles is electricity. Electric vehicles don't run forever unless that are nuclear powered or have solar panels/cells. Every electric vehicle will run out of "fuel" (electricity) if they aren't recharged. And I'm not pretending. This is a hybrid gas/electric hybrid concept and hybrid aircraft concepts have been looked at by both Boeing and Airbus recently (except the electricity drives electric fans/propellers, not plasma jets). I added the electric tag because it incorporates electric propulsion.
@randomusername
Unfortunately no, because the plasma ramjet's electricity is solely dependent on the gas-burning turbine running. Without it, no electricity gets generated and that means no power for the plasma ramjet. So when the gas turbojet runs out of fuel, the plasma ramjet also stops operating.
@randomusername
Its a hybrid, with the fuel-burning jet engine turning a generator that powers a plasma ramjet on the lower second body. Yes I know the original FA-1 Fand and FA-2 Fand II don't incorporate any form of electric propulsion but this isn't a full-on exact replica of the Fand. I just used the unused production drawing/concept for the Fand and incorporated a little bit of my own originality with some design tweaking. And then I gave it the Fand name since it has ties to the original design.
@Brields95
DTG unfortunately no longer supports their flight sims. After their FSW debacle, they've completely moved out of the flight sim business, with the only exception being minor steam-related updates to FSX:SE, and the occasional new payware that joins the steam store for FSX. The Jeppesen databases for MS weather are no longer supported or updated by DTG, so the real-world weather feature no longer works with FSX (I use FSrealWX to substitute default weather engine). Your only shot at VR flight simming is Aerofly FS2, P3D V4, XP11, or the upcoming Deadstick bush flight simulator (it will support VR by default).
@Brields95
FSX Steam Edition still is. There are still around 15-20 online servers still active. With the improvements DTG made to the sim, included SP1, SP2, Deluxe, and Acceleration in this one version of FSX, and drastically lowered its price to $24, I think they made it relevant again. IMHO I think its the best entry-level flight sim for beginners right now as of 2019, and its the biggest bang for the buck.
If I ever move past FSX:SE, I'll probably go with P3D V3 or V4 (depends on what PC I have in the future). I may get XP11 as well, but it won't be my mainline flight sim, and I can't play XP11 on my current PC because my PC can't even launch it (I've tried the demo).
That's all the freeware I'll list. If you want more I can give you links to more planes, especially warbirds n' such. FlyAwaySimulations, Rikoooo, Avsim, Flightsim.com, and Simviation all have excellent freeware gems in their libraries!
@TheMutePaper
The vast majority of the other addons I have are freeware, but I do have some payware, mainly from the FSX Steam Store. My payware addons include:
A2A Accu-feel (Highly Recommend)
Carenado Cessna 172N Skyhawk II
Carenado Cessna A185F Skywagon (Highly Recommend)
Carenado Piper PA-28-181 Archer II
Alabeo CSA SportCruiser
Just Flight Beechcraft Duchess 76
Virtavia Rutan Long-EZ
Lionhart Creations Piper Pacer 150/180 Super Pack (Highly Recommend)
Milviz Northrop/McDonnel Douglas YF-23 Black Widow II (Milviz took all there products off of steam so you can't buy this one anymore, which is kind of a good thing as all of Milviz's products on steam were HEAVILY watered-down compared to buying their products directly from them).
Lionhart Creations is probably my favorite addon developer. LHC's products are very high quality but not super-duper expensive.
@45678
This was like my best plane 1.9 years ago but my standards & build style has greatly improved since then.
@Mobius1Cyka
@45678
@otayahiromo8211
Thx
@Strikefighter04
@JamesBoA
@Notaleopard
Thanks I guess
@Aeromen
yee
@Notaleopard
OOF
Yea sure go ahead I mean I'm not using it or anything
don't even bother landing this thing you'll just end up doing a couple of front flips n' cartwheels
me likey
Cool plane bro but please give the original author credit for the QFA-44's fuselage, otherwise this would be stealing.
Damn, you did a wonderful job on the Pond Racer! It would be cool of someone would resurrect the design or something like it IRL. Reno needs more modern air racers in unlimited class. Its a real shame the original crashed and Burt Rutan never pursued the design after that.
+2@panzerisawsome
Thanks! :)
@panzerisawsome
Why thank you, I'm glad you enjoy my designs!
Cool. I think I'll join in on this one.
@Sgtk
+1Thx!
@EngineerOtaku
Thanks!
@LancasterAce
Grant County International Airport is a public airport, so yes NKR can land their any time. But Rainier's 2 flight centers are private property, so no taxing over to those. ;) Rainier actually has plans to develop 1 or 2 private airports/bases in the deserts of Oregon, Utah, or Nevada for more private development of our defense projects.
@Kerbango
Awesome, thanks!
@panzerisawsome
Strange...
Boy oh boy I can't wait till I get SR2!
@EternalDarkness
THANK YOU for clarifying that! That's what I believed the tag meant as well, and intention is the basis for determining what tags go on your build.
@Stormfur
Don't bring politics into this.
@randomusername
+2Well everyone has their own unique style of doing things. And this was a mere concept of mine; not a fully fledged-out model like my latest QLX-125, BAE Broadsword, or BNRV-36A Broadsword where those models took around 2 months each to develop (time constraints). Like I said if you want to be die-hard focused on definitions and specifics, fine, you do you, but don't force it on others.
@randomusername
A gaming journal or buzzfeed isn't going to make a hit-piece against SP because someone "misrepresented electric vehicles and their propulsion". I came to SP to freely create whatever original airplane designs and concepts I wanted to make, not walk on egg shells in fear of offending one specific person in SP worried over nothing, or offend a group of people or game journalists outside the aviation community who probably have no clue how airplanes even fly.
@randomusername
By that logic, that must mean everyone who's made a non-mod laser system in SP is being deceitful or "misrepresenting lasers" because their lasers aren't true lasers as they used a gun and extended it's bullet xml values to shoot out like a straight laser.
@randomusername
For the love of God no one is being targeted and I'm not targeting anyone. It was just a neat unique airplane concept drawing that I thought would make a great simple build, and then I threw in a bit of uniqueness with the idea of a hybrid electric propulsion system. The last I checked creativity, imagination, and a bit of roleplaying were all major aspects of SP and determining tags and definitions for planes, even if their in-game systems/performance aren't actually like the real thing.
@randomusername
+3GOODNESS GRACIOUS ITS A CONCEPT! OF COURSE SP DOESN'T HAVE ELECTRIC ENGINES OR PROPULSION SO I USED THE VTOL ENGINE + NOZZLES AS A SUBSTITUTE! Will you just drop this nonsense already? Your acting like I just committed a major sin in SP building! Again, I included the electric tag because the idea behind it utilizes some form of electric propulsion. Don't you know what role-playing or using your imagination is?
cool story bro
its adorable
@randomusername
Maybe later.
747-8 or 737 MAX would be great. :)
neato
@randomusername
Not likely.
I agree, I miss the tournaments. :(
@randomusername
Wth does that have to do with SP?
@Kerbango
Oh wow that sounds neat. That would be great if you could link me that mod. I just finished a rough basic prototype of an SSTO shuttle. Yea Randomusername is the only user I've seen complaining about this tag nonsense.
@randomusername
+1Bro, stop worrying about definitions and a simple tagging system so much and just enjoy the game.
Notice how they are mostly all soviet-cold war-era vehicles?
R U S S I A N B I A S C O N F I R M E D
@randomusername
This design incorporates a plasma ramjet that uses electricity to super-heat the incoming airstream passing through the ramjet for extra thrust/propulsion, and gets that electricity via an electric generator that is driven by a gas-burning turbofan engine. It may not involve legit electric-propulsion in-game, but the concept, intention, and design sure does, and therefore I'm not removing it from the electric tag.
@randomusername
The closest thing SP EVER got to "hate" was the Jelly invasion and all the Jelly fans who hated on SP because we told them to stop spamming Jelly-planes. Your making an absolute huge deal over a simple tag and it's definition.
@randomusername
The electric and spaceship tag exists because those are the things/attributes the creators intend their designs to be. The user PlayingSimple intended his STOL 'n Thunder design to be an all-electric aircraft, so he put the electric tag in it because his design involves electric propulsion, even if it's not 100% accurate or realistic.
@randomusername
You LEGIT think people outside of SP are going to get offended by some tagging system that isn't exactly 100% accurate to real life in a game that isn't even that maintstream or significant to the gaming community as a whole and cause an uproar over it? You. Have. Got. To. Be. JOKING.
@randomusername
I think your waaay over-thinking this and making a big deal out of nothing. STOL N' Thunder and the flying iPhone drone use fuel-consuming prop engines and are under the electric tag because the author/creater intends those engines to be electric, but they used the default piston engines since there are no true electric engines in SP other than rotators. And again, electricity IS NOT unlimited! A Tesla Model 3 or a an quadcopter drone are fully electric but don't have an unlimited supply of electricity. You have to charge the batteries back up before they run out. And the electric tag in SP never specifies whether that means unlimited rotator-spinning-wing powered planes or planes that use the standard SP engines but the design is intended to be electric. I know damn well what electric energy and power is and I know for a fact its not unlimited. The only person I see getting offended over nothing is you.
@randomusername
And who made you the moderator?
@randomusername
Fuel for electric vehicles is electricity. Electric vehicles don't run forever unless that are nuclear powered or have solar panels/cells. Every electric vehicle will run out of "fuel" (electricity) if they aren't recharged. And I'm not pretending. This is a hybrid gas/electric hybrid concept and hybrid aircraft concepts have been looked at by both Boeing and Airbus recently (except the electricity drives electric fans/propellers, not plasma jets). I added the electric tag because it incorporates electric propulsion.
@randomusername
Unfortunately no, because the plasma ramjet's electricity is solely dependent on the gas-burning turbine running. Without it, no electricity gets generated and that means no power for the plasma ramjet. So when the gas turbojet runs out of fuel, the plasma ramjet also stops operating.
@randomusername
Its a hybrid, with the fuel-burning jet engine turning a generator that powers a plasma ramjet on the lower second body. Yes I know the original FA-1 Fand and FA-2 Fand II don't incorporate any form of electric propulsion but this isn't a full-on exact replica of the Fand. I just used the unused production drawing/concept for the Fand and incorporated a little bit of my own originality with some design tweaking. And then I gave it the Fand name since it has ties to the original design.
@Brields95
DTG unfortunately no longer supports their flight sims. After their FSW debacle, they've completely moved out of the flight sim business, with the only exception being minor steam-related updates to FSX:SE, and the occasional new payware that joins the steam store for FSX. The Jeppesen databases for MS weather are no longer supported or updated by DTG, so the real-world weather feature no longer works with FSX (I use FSrealWX to substitute default weather engine). Your only shot at VR flight simming is Aerofly FS2, P3D V4, XP11, or the upcoming Deadstick bush flight simulator (it will support VR by default).
@Brields95
FSX Steam Edition still is. There are still around 15-20 online servers still active. With the improvements DTG made to the sim, included SP1, SP2, Deluxe, and Acceleration in this one version of FSX, and drastically lowered its price to $24, I think they made it relevant again. IMHO I think its the best entry-level flight sim for beginners right now as of 2019, and its the biggest bang for the buck.
If I ever move past FSX:SE, I'll probably go with P3D V3 or V4 (depends on what PC I have in the future). I may get XP11 as well, but it won't be my mainline flight sim, and I can't play XP11 on my current PC because my PC can't even launch it (I've tried the demo).
@TheMutePaper
Thorp T-18 (Comparable to the Vans design)
Cessna T206H/U206G Soloy Turbine Mark I & Mark II (Another incredible payware-quality addon like the French-VFR Cessna 150)
Basler BT-67 (Another high-quality payware-level addon that's freeware)
Aero Commander Package by Milton Shupe (An awesome Aero Commander package made by the legendary Milton Shupe!)
LIC Aeronca Champ 7AC Package (A great little freeware gem that gives you the lovely Aeronca Champ!)
Bellanca Super Decathlon Package
Bellanca Scout Package
VirtualCol ATR Series Package (Recently released as freeware)
FSND Aircraft (My favorite is the Beech Bonanza P35 V-tail and the Cessna 177RG Cardinal)
Bell-Boeing MV-22 Osprey by Maryadi (Another fantastic payware-quality-but-freeware aircraft!)
Eagle Rotocraft Simulations Bell 206, Bell 222, Enstrom, EMB-120, & P.180 Avanti (Another fantastic freeware developer that specializes mainly in helicopters)
That's all the freeware I'll list. If you want more I can give you links to more planes, especially warbirds n' such. FlyAwaySimulations, Rikoooo, Avsim, Flightsim.com, and Simviation all have excellent freeware gems in their libraries!
@TheMutePaper
As far as freeware, I won't list all of my freeware planes because I practically have an air force of freeware planes in my FSX, but some of the best freeware planes I have, and other freeware addons that improved my FSX include:
FSUIPC
FSrealWX (EXCELLENT replacement for the default weather engine since the MS weather/Jeppesen database is no longer supported by Microsoft or DTG
FSX GA-Traffic Generator (Generates general aviation traffic files based on perimeters you set such as which aircraft are used and what continents the traffic appear on
French-VFR Cessna 150L Aerobat (Superb freeware addon that I believe won an award or something, but its truly a gem and one of the finest 150/152's for FSX. Great entry-level trainer
Ant's De Havilland Tigermoth, Tecnam Eaglet on Floats, Drifter Ultralight on Floats, and his North American T-28A Trojan (Excellent aircraft, ESPECIALLY the Tigermoth!!!
Aeroworks Technologies Scenery & Aircraft (They make repaints, scenery, custom aircraft, and have high-quality freeware-variant planes such as an F-15E from IRIS, a B-52G and a B-1B from Virtavia available to download (they aren't cracked, they are old "outdated" versions of those payware planes those developers no longer support
FSrecorder 1.3 (Superb addon for making FSX videos, airshows, or formations on all your own. It's basically a flight-data recorder and you can play it back as yourself or as AI traffic. FSX:SE only takes 1.3 but the boxed version of FSX can take the latest 2.1 version
Airport Design Editor (Superb tool if you want to edit airports and create scenery like I did here)
Rob Richardson's Aircraft (This guy makes incredible jet & prop freeware aircraft! My fav is his Cessna 310B and Cessna 310Q. Those planes have some insane performance!
Wolf-Gang Piper's Gliders (Another amazing freeware developer who specializes in gliders!
Vans RV-7 Package
@TheMutePaper
The vast majority of the other addons I have are freeware, but I do have some payware, mainly from the FSX Steam Store. My payware addons include:
A2A Accu-feel (Highly Recommend)
Carenado Cessna 172N Skyhawk II
Carenado Cessna A185F Skywagon (Highly Recommend)
Carenado Piper PA-28-181 Archer II
Alabeo CSA SportCruiser
Just Flight Beechcraft Duchess 76
Virtavia Rutan Long-EZ
Lionhart Creations Piper Pacer 150/180 Super Pack (Highly Recommend)
Milviz Northrop/McDonnel Douglas YF-23 Black Widow II (Milviz took all there products off of steam so you can't buy this one anymore, which is kind of a good thing as all of Milviz's products on steam were HEAVILY watered-down compared to buying their products directly from them).
Lionhart Creations is probably my favorite addon developer. LHC's products are very high quality but not super-duper expensive.