Probably won't have my entry done 100% by the deadline so I'll just release it as is when the deadline comes and hope my detailed cockpit will be its saving grace. XD
@TDevil36
I'm genuinely surprised and impressed you've taken this build this far. Nice job! I don't really do military designs anymore and largely focusing on general aviation, but I think you'll have an easier time building with hollow fuselage slicing than paneling. The amount of time panelling took is largely why I quit SP over a year ago and the new fuselage and cockpit updates pretty much brought me back because its far more easier now and less time consuming for me to make a high-quality low-part count build.
2!!! Everts Air Cargo please! :D (or 6)
If you don't make an Everts Air Cargo livery I'm gonna launch a V2 at New Zealand. Flying C-46's for Everts Air Cargo in Alaska is one of my dream flying jobs I hope I can fulfill in the near future before they are gone.
@Sm10684
:D
Thank Jundroo for that! The new cockpit update brought me out of retirement. lol
For the first time in a little over a year I'm building something totally new again, although with my "comeback" I'll likely focus more on general aviation designs than military like I did before.
@TheHaggisBasher
Sorry for the incredibly long wait, I basically retired from SP a little over a year ago, and only recently really came back and started building something with the new cockpit update. I'm not doing anything with this plane anymore so sure I'll upload it.
Thanks Jundroo, this update has brought me back to building and flying in SP after an almost year-long hiatus. Now, all we need are aerodynamic-looking wings, customizable engines & landing gear (akin to SR2), and a more adventure-like map that we can explore. I would love to fly in SP more especially since we now can make even more realistic planes but the default map is incredibly plain and boring to explore.
DUDE congratulations! Let me know how it goes flying the Tri-Pacer. They seem like a great budget buy and are very underrated IMO. I'd love to get a Pacer someday and trick it out for STOL. 180HP, VG's, supercub gear, modernized panel, Alaska bushwheels, drooped tips, climb prop, and dual seaplane doors. I've seen a couple of Pacers at my local airport (AWO) that were tricked out for STOL and they are absolutely SICK!
The fuselage/cabin windows give me stronk Maule vibes. This plane is absolutely genius. I quickly made a rough twin-engine STOL concept kind of along the lines of this except its a pure canard aircraft and has the most basic fuselage shape you could ever imagine (to make construction cheaper and easier) and looks incredibly fugly compared to this. 😂
@YamaYamatheMountain
No unfortunately, and I'm currently semi-inactive with SP. What time I can usually spend with SP nowadays, I'm tinkering more with general aviation designs instead of defense-related builds such as fighters, weapons, or bombers. My PC has also taken a turn for the worse lately and isn't as fast as it used to be. So now its an uber cabbage where I can barely run FSX and SP at their lowest settings. Thus, I can no longer run high-part-count builds and because of that I've pretty much dropped any complicated builds I was doing before that were high in parts.
4 Things:
-I must know what map mod that is
-The updated Kea looks sick
-Please make a cabbage version that isn't totally stripped like the MP version
-How the heck did you get ray tracing in SP?
@soundwave
Wow thank you so much, that means a lot to me! Ngl I gave up on the prospects of winning this challenge since its been so long since I did it, and it was the one challenge where I dumped the most effort into and was positive I was going to win but the judging never happened so I was mega disappointed until now. I was a bit confused by your new name at first until I double-checked the challenge and saw it is indeed you. Thanks for the feedback, remarks, upvotes, and spotlight offer. I've since moved on from this design and my current focus (at least whenever I have time to even barely touch it since I'm so heckin busy IRL right now) is a kit plane designed around formula 1 air racing rules that is both a racer and a fast personal airplane with 1 and 2-tandem seat options. When that gets released I'd love it if you could spotlight it since its my most realistic build to date. However I plan on redesigning this F-36 fighter design in the future to be more realistic, less part-count intensive, and to use new build techniques that I've learned and XML/FunkyTrees coding that has become available since this was first built. The redesign will use x2 GE F414 engines instead of the cancelled (and very expensive) GE F136-derivative to make it more export-friendly and lower cost than the F-35, and to also give it canards. It might also feature DSI intakes although that might make it look too much like a bootleg F-35. But its basically going to be a new clean-sheet plane when I get around to that someday. Again thanks for finally getting back to this!
Fun Fact: Piper did actually make a "Piper Swift" - well kind of, and two variants. The Piper "Fury" and "Swiftfire" were essentially Globe Swifts that were heavily redesigned by the Piper-LoPresti Engineering team. The Fury came with a 200HP Lycoming IO-360 while the Swiftfire had a 420HP Allison 250 turbine. Sadly they never entered production since they were developed right before Piper itself went bankrupt in 1991. Another quick fun fact with other resurrection attempts with the Globe Swift design itself: Aviat Aircraft bought the rights to the aircraft in 1999 but a lawsuit dispute occurred between Aviat and LoPresti over the aircraft's use that prevented Aviat from reviving the design for production. The type-certificate & original production tooling were also obtained by Univair who made spare parts for the Swift until 1979 when the Swift Museum Foundation bought the tooling & type-certificate from Univair.
I can't wait to see them crazy wings get built for Scrappy. I also can't wait to see what Ballistic will look like and how it will turn out. Mike mentioned it will have 1,200 shp, be pressurized, and will have tandem seating. The tandem seating hint is giving me heavy vibes Ballistic will be based off the Turbine Legend.
Well well well would you look at that. XD
Probably won't have my entry done 100% by the deadline so I'll just release it as is when the deadline comes and hope my detailed cockpit will be its saving grace. XD
@BellKitsu
Awesome! That's the goal!
@PSsyalperdna
Should work now
@PSsyalperdna
Ah, just noticed that when I look at it from a different browser. Gonna try a different link.
@TDevil36
I'm genuinely surprised and impressed you've taken this build this far. Nice job! I don't really do military designs anymore and largely focusing on general aviation, but I think you'll have an easier time building with hollow fuselage slicing than paneling. The amount of time panelling took is largely why I quit SP over a year ago and the new fuselage and cockpit updates pretty much brought me back because its far more easier now and less time consuming for me to make a high-quality low-part count build.
And I thought my drawings were good. Impressive!
+1Also you should do 1 Buffalo Airways. Them and Everts Air Cargo/Fuel I believe are the last scheduled operators of the C-46.
2!!! Everts Air Cargo please! :D (or 6)
If you don't make an Everts Air Cargo livery I'm gonna launch a V2 at New Zealand.
Flying C-46's for Everts Air Cargo in Alaska is one of my dream flying jobs I hope I can fulfill in the near future before they are gone.
AHHHH YOUR MAKING A C-46 COMMANDO!!!!! AHHHHHHH
JohnnyBoythePilot.exe has stopped working
Ayy nice to see your still active!
Upvote for effort :P
Funny you make a Vision Jet, since I'm making a VLJ (Very Light Jet) 6-seat killer turboprop
I'll take your entire stock.
+3Master of STOL has gifted us yet again. Here, have an upvote dopamine hit.
Ah I see I'm not the only one who's back from retirement
Impressive. I legit thought the 4th pic was a real formation of Mustangs. XD
+2@Sm10684
:D
Thank Jundroo for that! The new cockpit update brought me out of retirement. lol
For the first time in a little over a year I'm building something totally new again, although with my "comeback" I'll likely focus more on general aviation designs than military like I did before.
@TheHaggisBasher
+1Sorry for the incredibly long wait, I basically retired from SP a little over a year ago, and only recently really came back and started building something with the new cockpit update. I'm not doing anything with this plane anymore so sure I'll upload it.
@Sm10684
radio check 5/5
Thanks Jundroo, this update has brought me back to building and flying in SP after an almost year-long hiatus. Now, all we need are aerodynamic-looking wings, customizable engines & landing gear (akin to SR2), and a more adventure-like map that we can explore. I would love to fly in SP more especially since we now can make even more realistic planes but the default map is incredibly plain and boring to explore.
noice
DUDE congratulations! Let me know how it goes flying the Tri-Pacer. They seem like a great budget buy and are very underrated IMO. I'd love to get a Pacer someday and trick it out for STOL. 180HP, VG's, supercub gear, modernized panel, Alaska bushwheels, drooped tips, climb prop, and dual seaplane doors. I've seen a couple of Pacers at my local airport (AWO) that were tricked out for STOL and they are absolutely SICK!
+1anything original and creative, or even an improvement or mashup of other designs
+2The fuselage/cabin windows give me stronk Maule vibes. This plane is absolutely genius. I quickly made a rough twin-engine STOL concept kind of along the lines of this except its a pure canard aircraft and has the most basic fuselage shape you could ever imagine (to make construction cheaper and easier) and looks incredibly fugly compared to this. 😂
+1@YamaYamatheMountain
+1No unfortunately, and I'm currently semi-inactive with SP. What time I can usually spend with SP nowadays, I'm tinkering more with general aviation designs instead of defense-related builds such as fighters, weapons, or bombers. My PC has also taken a turn for the worse lately and isn't as fast as it used to be. So now its an uber cabbage where I can barely run FSX and SP at their lowest settings. Thus, I can no longer run high-part-count builds and because of that I've pretty much dropped any complicated builds I was doing before that were high in parts.
@tsampoy
Thx!
Ayy ya joined the Tic Tac gang! This looks a helluva lot better than mine (and actually accurate in size).
+1SAircraft
Thx!
@soundwave
@Default4
Thanks for the upvotes!
@soundwave
Thx!
@soundwave
Thanks!
4 Things:
-I must know what map mod that is
-The updated Kea looks sick
-Please make a cabbage version that isn't totally stripped like the MP version
-How the heck did you get ray tracing in SP?
@soundwave
+1Wow thank you so much, that means a lot to me! Ngl I gave up on the prospects of winning this challenge since its been so long since I did it, and it was the one challenge where I dumped the most effort into and was positive I was going to win but the judging never happened so I was mega disappointed until now. I was a bit confused by your new name at first until I double-checked the challenge and saw it is indeed you. Thanks for the feedback, remarks, upvotes, and spotlight offer. I've since moved on from this design and my current focus (at least whenever I have time to even barely touch it since I'm so heckin busy IRL right now) is a kit plane designed around formula 1 air racing rules that is both a racer and a fast personal airplane with 1 and 2-tandem seat options. When that gets released I'd love it if you could spotlight it since its my most realistic build to date. However I plan on redesigning this F-36 fighter design in the future to be more realistic, less part-count intensive, and to use new build techniques that I've learned and XML/FunkyTrees coding that has become available since this was first built. The redesign will use x2 GE F414 engines instead of the cancelled (and very expensive) GE F136-derivative to make it more export-friendly and lower cost than the F-35, and to also give it canards. It might also feature DSI intakes although that might make it look too much like a bootleg F-35. But its basically going to be a new clean-sheet plane when I get around to that someday. Again thanks for finally getting back to this!
@Default4
Thx!
@tsampoy
Thx!
This is WAAAY too accurate! 😂😂😂
+4@Bearclaw189 Thx!
Me: Oh boy I can't wait to fly @Dad 's latest build which is probably one of the most realistic looking builds/replicas in SP!
+1My PC: [softly] don't
T me please, and I'd love both schemes!
@AWESOMENESS360
+1Thanks for the tag, this thing is beyond epic! Certainly kicks the pants off my TR-3B ASTRA.
Fun Fact: Piper did actually make a "Piper Swift" - well kind of, and two variants. The Piper "Fury" and "Swiftfire" were essentially Globe Swifts that were heavily redesigned by the Piper-LoPresti Engineering team. The Fury came with a 200HP Lycoming IO-360 while the Swiftfire had a 420HP Allison 250 turbine. Sadly they never entered production since they were developed right before Piper itself went bankrupt in 1991. Another quick fun fact with other resurrection attempts with the Globe Swift design itself: Aviat Aircraft bought the rights to the aircraft in 1999 but a lawsuit dispute occurred between Aviat and LoPresti over the aircraft's use that prevented Aviat from reviving the design for production. The type-certificate & original production tooling were also obtained by Univair who made spare parts for the Swift until 1979 when the Swift Museum Foundation bought the tooling & type-certificate from Univair.
I'd love to know Andrew's initial reaction to this.
+2I can't wait to see them crazy wings get built for Scrappy. I also can't wait to see what Ballistic will look like and how it will turn out. Mike mentioned it will have 1,200 shp, be pressurized, and will have tandem seating. The tandem seating hint is giving me heavy vibes Ballistic will be based off the Turbine Legend.
+2All of them! :D
Although Streaky, Classic Cub Yellow, Stock, and Curvy are my favorites.
Congrats buddy!
Finally a version for us potato plebs. Thx!
@jamesPLANESii
epic
oh no
@Ultra0
yes please
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