I don't know what this has to do with single engine planes, but it looks like me like a typical case of the center of gravity being too far back. Try adding some weight to the nose, or moving the wings back a little.
Congratulations on a nice little flyer. I would give it a sincere up vote if you had spent five more minutes coloring the plane. Just painting all the struts silver and the wings red or blue makes a nice upgrade.
@V likewise. It took me two days of trial and error just to get my first plane not to crash on every landing. And after all the mods, it just looked atrocious.
I don't know what system you use to extend your air brake, but if you use a piston or a rotator block, both have 'speed' settings in XML and I believe also in the regular settings tab. I have used speed settings in addition to activation groups for many of my 'gizmos' that are propelled by pistons or rotators such as sliding canopies or folding wings. I don't want to fish for downloads, but I can invite you to look at my latest seaplane and see how I did the folding wings or landing gear
Nice plane and flies.well - after some modifications: I hate to tell you this, but somehow thetailplane's commands are set to 'roll' I stead of 'yaw'. And you should also select 'invert' as 'yes'. Same with the float's fin. Invert it for the plane not move into the opposite direction when skimming over the water. Otherwise, I love it.
@dabestsock because you wouldn't want to have to push it onto the runway if it hadn't. It's not so much for landing as for moving it around when on the ground.
Not so much a SimplePlanes II, but I am really pining for a SimplePlanes spinoff optimized for gliders and sailplanes: wind, termic bubbles and slopes for slope soaring, plus the option for winch launch or tugplane towing. I think the current game would already do if it had a large landmass instead of all the islands and a mountain or two.
My second choice would be a game optimized for flying model aircraft. Again, the main change would be to build the appropriate scenery. Extras would include extremely limited fuel (electric cells, even rubber power) and a RC-transmitter type HUD.
Bonus points for an RC simulator spinoff optimized for RC glider slope soaring
Nice aircraft with pleasant flying characteristics. Still, 433 parts is and neither landing gear doors nor instruments in the cockpit.... And no flaps. For all the part count, a bit of a disappointment.
@Whatdoiput I since rewrote the instructions. Up to then, you can fly the plane as a conventional jet with just using the VTOL slider for flaps and occasionally use Button 2 to enter slow flying mode. Then try a power STOL takeoff by just enabling button 3 , taking off normally and pushing the VTOL slider to the third marker. As soon as you gain speed
Just posted my fictional anime airplane unaware that the deadline had been extended. It only took me an extra week to try out left and right until I got the flying characteristics right.
Looks like a million, flies like a dream. What's not to like. Okay, you can't do much but flying around with it, but the overall care for the details make it worth it.
Tip: try landing on water and then 'beaching' the craft on one of the shores opposite Yeager or Wright Field.
@WinsWings @ZerkkZxe The updated version is posted as an official entry to the Seaplane contest.
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/P771wv/Fictional-Vought-OS3U-2-Kingfisher-II
@WinsWings yea, I don't know why the plane isn't listed as a successor to your game, I used your original flight controller (you can still see it between the two pilot seats). I will experiment with it when I post the next update later tonight.
@WinsWings let's try this out....
![https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/634523674946568225/1206595159790452816/IMG20240211220126.jpg?ex=65dc944f&is=65ca1f4f&hm=ba3176abf404b3db73541b180d31fcb71b6d52f699f43b15f86383fffe40b15b&]
Nope, not yet....
Okay, until I figure out how to reach you in instant messaging, this will have to do. I like the new plane, but again you have managed to get the tailplane and float rudder move in the way wrong direction: the part of the tailplane that sticks up has to be set to yaw- inverted. The part that points down like the bottom of the tail and the float rudder to jaw- not inverted.
Also, when 'sitting' on the water, the central float is much deeper at the back then at the front. Can you add an extra yard to the back part of the float to make it rest more evenly? I did so on my download and while I was at it, also made a little 'step' in it and the result is much more pleasing. I can post my upgrade, but I don't want to steal your thunder on a plane that's so thoroughly you.
Real neat for only 20 parts. Unfortunately, it has the same error your seaplane has: somehow the controls for the tailplane got set to 'roll' where they should be switched to 'jaw' and the option 'invert' switched to 'true'. Just park the plane on the runway and move the left control stick, you see what I mean.
@Tanner0501 Curtiss offered a simplified version of their export Hawk 75 that had a fixed landing gear. I can't upload a picture but You can Google the Curtiss Hawk 75 M, 75 N and 75 O for China, Siam and Argentina respectingly.
I used to build the Curtiss 75 M as a wooden toy plane, first of all because the fixed landing gear looked way cooler in wood than anything resembling the retractable one. Second because they looked way better when build in pair with an equally fixed gear Ki-27 for dogfighting
Top of my head: there are a couple of types of builds of which there are way too few, at least as far as I am concerned:
1) some simple but still reasonably detailed sports cars or regular passenger cars: you know: not the Porsches and Maseratis but the Fords, Toyotas, Peugeots and Volkswagens.
2) some nice scale models of actual civil helicopters
Depends upon what you are interested in: regular planes, helicopters, airships? Or cars, boats, ships, sailing boats etc.
For historical/ scale planes, honestly whatever I try to build, as soon as I started building, I found.ojt there are at least half a dozen instances of this plane for download already, most of them with far more detail than I can ever make.
However in my personal opinion, general sportsplanes, are vastly underrepresented, other than the ubiquitous Piper Cup. I could do with some more Piper, Beech and Cessna planes with a few Socata and Grob mixed in for good measure.
On battleships and tanks I don't really know because I don't really care, but on cars, there seems to be a lack of 'average' street cars like a Toyota or Volkswagen or even sportscars like a Ford Mustang.
@32 thanks. I didn't even thing about just grafting the new plane onto the old.one's cockpit. I was however prepared to rebuild the new plane from scratch and record myself doing it as part of a beginners instruction video. Thanks. I'll try it out right away
In Simple planes? That's not even a question. All the planes you build or download you have to fly yourself. No co pilot, no weapons officer and no tail gunner. Even if you were to fly a 10-person B.29. the only difference between a Simple planes one-seat early F.15 and a two-person F.15E is a longer custom-made canopy.
I don't know what this has to do with single engine planes, but it looks like me like a typical case of the center of gravity being too far back. Try adding some weight to the nose, or moving the wings back a little.
+4You know... If you change the form of the wings I to a delta and make the tailplane a little slimmer, you could have a quite passable F4 Phantom...
+3Did you aim for it to have exactly 666 parts or is this just a lucky coincidence.
+2Congratulations on a nice little flyer. I would give it a sincere up vote if you had spent five more minutes coloring the plane. Just painting all the struts silver and the wings red or blue makes a nice upgrade.
+2@V likewise. It took me two days of trial and error just to get my first plane not to crash on every landing. And after all the mods, it just looked atrocious.
+2The cup of tea at the radio operator's station did it for me. Congratulations on a truely remarkable built
+2I don't know what system you use to extend your air brake, but if you use a piston or a rotator block, both have 'speed' settings in XML and I believe also in the regular settings tab. I have used speed settings in addition to activation groups for many of my 'gizmos' that are propelled by pistons or rotators such as sliding canopies or folding wings. I don't want to fish for downloads, but I can invite you to look at my latest seaplane and see how I did the folding wings or landing gear
+1@WinsWings Great. I have a plane here, but I never got around having it carry a bunch of liferafts to drop.... I'll add those in a week then
+1@WinsWings sorry, I'm already designing.my own jet seaplane plus an option for a Dornier 335 with retractable central float.
+1Nice plane and flies.well - after some modifications: I hate to tell you this, but somehow thetailplane's commands are set to 'roll' I stead of 'yaw'. And you should also select 'invert' as 'yes'. Same with the float's fin. Invert it for the plane not move into the opposite direction when skimming over the water. Otherwise, I love it.
+1@dabestsock because you wouldn't want to have to push it onto the runway if it hadn't. It's not so much for landing as for moving it around when on the ground.
+1No...
+1@WisconsinStatePolice Good. Feel free to just borrow Otto and build him an original Lilienthal glider, or a Hargreaves box kite
+1@WisconsinStatePolice just have to find a good way to launch the glider, preferably from a mountain top and into the wind...
+1Love the paint job. Brings back memories to plastic model kits from the 1970's, when the one was still a demonstration prototype.
+1Not so much a SimplePlanes II, but I am really pining for a SimplePlanes spinoff optimized for gliders and sailplanes: wind, termic bubbles and slopes for slope soaring, plus the option for winch launch or tugplane towing. I think the current game would already do if it had a large landmass instead of all the islands and a mountain or two.
My second choice would be a game optimized for flying model aircraft. Again, the main change would be to build the appropriate scenery. Extras would include extremely limited fuel (electric cells, even rubber power) and a RC-transmitter type HUD.
Bonus points for an RC simulator spinoff optimized for RC glider slope soaring
+1Actually 'Fliegenkiste' translates as 'crate of flies'. You want 'Fliegende Kiste' for flying crate or 'Fliegerkiste', a pilot's vrate
+1Nice aircraft with pleasant flying characteristics. Still, 433 parts is and neither landing gear doors nor instruments in the cockpit.... And no flaps. For all the part count, a bit of a disappointment.
@Whatdoiput I since rewrote the instructions. Up to then, you can fly the plane as a conventional jet with just using the VTOL slider for flaps and occasionally use Button 2 to enter slow flying mode. Then try a power STOL takeoff by just enabling button 3 , taking off normally and pushing the VTOL slider to the third marker. As soon as you gain speed
Just posted my fictional anime airplane unaware that the deadline had been extended. It only took me an extra week to try out left and right until I got the flying characteristics right.
Looks like a million, flies like a dream. What's not to like. Okay, you can't do much but flying around with it, but the overall care for the details make it worth it.
Tip: try landing on water and then 'beaching' the craft on one of the shores opposite Yeager or Wright Field.
@WinsWings @ZerkkZxe The updated version is posted as an official entry to the Seaplane contest.
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/P771wv/Fictional-Vought-OS3U-2-Kingfisher-II
@WinsWings yea, I don't know why the plane isn't listed as a successor to your game, I used your original flight controller (you can still see it between the two pilot seats). I will experiment with it when I post the next update later tonight.
Got to love French design... Congratulations
@WinsWings let's try this out....
![https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/634523674946568225/1206595159790452816/IMG20240211220126.jpg?ex=65dc944f&is=65ca1f4f&hm=ba3176abf404b3db73541b180d31fcb71b6d52f699f43b15f86383fffe40b15b&]
Nope, not yet....
@WinsWings I'm post my concept sketches here, but first I have to learn how to embed images in my forum posts
@WinsWings I love it. Looks like a million. Flies better still.
Okay, until I figure out how to reach you in instant messaging, this will have to do. I like the new plane, but again you have managed to get the tailplane and float rudder move in the way wrong direction: the part of the tailplane that sticks up has to be set to yaw- inverted. The part that points down like the bottom of the tail and the float rudder to jaw- not inverted.
Also, when 'sitting' on the water, the central float is much deeper at the back then at the front. Can you add an extra yard to the back part of the float to make it rest more evenly? I did so on my download and while I was at it, also made a little 'step' in it and the result is much more pleasing. I can post my upgrade, but I don't want to steal your thunder on a plane that's so thoroughly you.
Real neat for only 20 parts. Unfortunately, it has the same error your seaplane has: somehow the controls for the tailplane got set to 'roll' where they should be switched to 'jaw' and the option 'invert' switched to 'true'. Just park the plane on the runway and move the left control stick, you see what I mean.
Nice little airplane
Truly an image of the original:
"As majestic as the sphinx... And almost just as fast"
Just make that fuselage a bit higher and you have a Hawker Hurricane expy
@Tanner0501 so you did it....
@Tanner0501 Curtiss offered a simplified version of their export Hawk 75 that had a fixed landing gear. I can't upload a picture but You can Google the Curtiss Hawk 75 M, 75 N and 75 O for China, Siam and Argentina respectingly.
I used to build the Curtiss 75 M as a wooden toy plane, first of all because the fixed landing gear looked way cooler in wood than anything resembling the retractable one. Second because they looked way better when build in pair with an equally fixed gear Ki-27 for dogfighting
Top of my head: there are a couple of types of builds of which there are way too few, at least as far as I am concerned:
1) some simple but still reasonably detailed sports cars or regular passenger cars: you know: not the Porsches and Maseratis but the Fords, Toyotas, Peugeots and Volkswagens.
2) some nice scale models of actual civil helicopters
3) some good scale sailplanes or motor gliders
Okay. If nothing to see here, I won't bother to look. Got any interesting planes to show off at least?
@ToeTips do you know of any tutorials on how to learn it?
Depends upon what you are interested in: regular planes, helicopters, airships? Or cars, boats, ships, sailing boats etc.
For historical/ scale planes, honestly whatever I try to build, as soon as I started building, I found.ojt there are at least half a dozen instances of this plane for download already, most of them with far more detail than I can ever make.
However in my personal opinion, general sportsplanes, are vastly underrepresented, other than the ubiquitous Piper Cup. I could do with some more Piper, Beech and Cessna planes with a few Socata and Grob mixed in for good measure.
On battleships and tanks I don't really know because I don't really care, but on cars, there seems to be a lack of 'average' street cars like a Toyota or Volkswagen or even sportscars like a Ford Mustang.
And yes, there can always be more helicopters.
The Chinese version with the fixed landing gear please
@32 thanks. I didn't even thing about just grafting the new plane onto the old.one's cockpit. I was however prepared to rebuild the new plane from scratch and record myself doing it as part of a beginners instruction video. Thanks. I'll try it out right away
@32 Amy way to do this manually? Like if I build a plane based on a plane I started from scratch and never downloaded?
@F15EInbound I haven't flown any warplanes in real life so I can't judge here.
In Simple planes? That's not even a question. All the planes you build or download you have to fly yourself. No co pilot, no weapons officer and no tail gunner. Even if you were to fly a 10-person B.29. the only difference between a Simple planes one-seat early F.15 and a two-person F.15E is a longer custom-made canopy.