Think of it this way: if this has happened 60 years ago, it would be another mayor UFO scare: Lots of people looking up at that sky and yelling 'Conspiracy' every time the they see something they can't explain.... Regardless if they have seen real drones, regular passenger planes, birds, or nothing at all. And off course of enough people start yelling, it gets news coverage and make even more people.look up at the sky and start yelling 'conspiracy'.....
Conventional take off and landing take a bit of getting used to (I would have wished for flaps and air brakes) but otherwise quit a nice plane with lots of details. I love it
Nice idea, nice plane. It has some problems with taking off due to its center of gravity being so far forward, but unce in the air it flies pretty pleasantly.
Sorry. Couldn't resist and added flaps and a steerable nose wheel. Then posted that plane as your successor. Still all credit goes to you for doing the bulk of the work.
Just downloaded your plane to see what one could do with it. My first impression: it's huge. For reference, an average human figure is about the height of a 3.5 units fuselage block. Your fuselage is 3.55 units high and 19.5 units long, meaning a grown human could walk upright through the cockpit and the overall length is more than 30 foot. I don't think you have to be afraid the plane will look too much like a kitfox. Rather than that it will look too much like a one-engined Junkers 52.
@WinsWings ps, in my version of the helicopter, I switched the rotor power/speed input from Throttle straight to Activate1. The throttle governor makes the idea of adjustable throttle useless anyhow. Then I switched the rotor pitch from VTOL to throttle so I could have all 4 commands on my two joysticks, like on a model toy helicopter. Then I landed on the edge of the Krakabloa volcano, just because.....
Looks quite spiffy for less than 100 parts and looks pretty detailed. Also I love how you get a STOL plane that takes off at 36 mph without even thinking of flaps, just using the lift of the wing.
The forum and aircraft library support the 'markdown' format. So the best way to learn about adding hyperlinks and other simple formatting is by googling 'Markdown formatting' to get to a site like this where they explain the whole process better than I can here.
The forum and aircraft library support the 'markdown' format. So the best way to learn about adding hyperlinks and other simple formatting is by googling 'Markdown formatting' to get to a site like this where they explain the whole process better than I can here.
@WinsWings then check out @SimplPleyns original, both the Gold Special as well as the original it was based on. I didn't do so much but just adding some details and tweaking the takeoff and landing characteristics
@SchadeAircaftCompany If you want some help getting your plane to fly better, I did a few tweaks on my downloaded copy of the cormorant like deleting the second pair of wings to move the center of lift a bit back and tilt the engines 5° upward. I could get into detail here, but may be it be better you DM me on the Discord Simpleplanes builder chat ( https://discord.gg/afRjsf6T43 ) my username there is the.same as here : Sockdragger.
Excellent build with lots of details. Unfortunately it tends to flip over every time you attempt a water takeoff and otherwise the center of gravity and center of lift are so close together it stalls way too easily. It took me one hour of tweaking to get the flight characteristics somewhere near what I like. (Hit me up on one of the discord servers to discuss the details of what I did. I go under either Sockdragger or Daddy Sockdragger.)
Ps, there is a newer version of this plane available with some esthetic tweaks and slightly better landing characteristics. Also the top speed of the 'racing plane' in the handicap class comes.closer to the original performance of... 180 mph!
Has potential, but sad to say, as brilliant as it is esthetically, the plane is impossible to take off. Redesign the floats and incorporate some fins for it to at least not spin out of control when firing up the engine. You still have one week before tht challenge closes. If you get the plane to take off I will give you the upvote and a highlight it already deserves.... And yea, swap the flaps and ailerons. At present the flaps are the outer parts of the wing, the ailerons the inner parts. It should be the other way round!
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.
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
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.
@ThomasRoderick coming up
+2Think of it this way: if this has happened 60 years ago, it would be another mayor UFO scare: Lots of people looking up at that sky and yelling 'Conspiracy' every time the they see something they can't explain.... Regardless if they have seen real drones, regular passenger planes, birds, or nothing at all. And off course of enough people start yelling, it gets news coverage and make even more people.look up at the sky and start yelling 'conspiracy'.....
Of course, you can also 'evacuate' them with a magnet on a winch on a helicopter
Looks spiffy and flies like a breeze, even without air breaks and other gizmos. I love it.
+1Still looking for a decent post WWII craft to build, though.
WHAAT? Does this plane actually pitch up when you push the pitch lever and elevators DOWN?
Conventional take off and landing take a bit of getting used to (I would have wished for flaps and air brakes) but otherwise quit a nice plane with lots of details. I love it
+1Yeack. Looks like he has a hole in his wings
+1Nice idea, nice plane. It has some problems with taking off due to its center of gravity being so far forward, but unce in the air it flies pretty pleasantly.
I would have deleted the guns in favor of a landing gear, but a nice little flyer nevertheless.
I love the SG-38 hiding in there
Nice little plane. Especially when you add a braking parachute to the back
Nice little plane with some interesting details
Pretty neat plane for a first build.
+1@USAMustang naa.... Just some cleaning up in the corners. You did the most of the work
+1Sorry. Couldn't resist and added flaps and a steerable nose wheel. Then posted that plane as your successor. Still all credit goes to you for doing the bulk of the work.
+1The kind of plane you wish you had in every flight sim. Thanks
@AviadorArgentino 'Just started building an interesting 1930's design. Details to follow
+1Gathering ideas already. Problem is most of today's light aircraft all look the same. Might settle for a classic Klemm 25
+1What? No automatic flaps?
+1Two gyroscopes? WTF do you use two gyroscopes for
I am am airplane guy, so I vote for the airplane. However there are already a couple of very good Me-262 uploaded, so you got to make yours stand out.
She looks pretty small, must have been pretty young still.
My condolences.
+1What??? No one mentioned Alberto Santos-Dumont? Time to build myself some airships
+1Just downloaded your plane to see what one could do with it. My first impression: it's huge. For reference, an average human figure is about the height of a 3.5 units fuselage block. Your fuselage is 3.55 units high and 19.5 units long, meaning a grown human could walk upright through the cockpit and the overall length is more than 30 foot. I don't think you have to be afraid the plane will look too much like a kitfox. Rather than that it will look too much like a one-engined Junkers 52.
@RealMicroZackSP yea, it's named after the town and the town is named after the monarch. So there's a person's name in there somewhere
I never could figure.oit how the landing gear on tht original worked...
+1@WinsWings ps, in my version of the helicopter, I switched the rotor power/speed input from Throttle straight to Activate1. The throttle governor makes the idea of adjustable throttle useless anyhow. Then I switched the rotor pitch from VTOL to throttle so I could have all 4 commands on my two joysticks, like on a model toy helicopter. Then I landed on the edge of the Krakabloa volcano, just because.....
+1Actually a helicopter I can fly.... Even one I enjoy to fly. Thanks
+1Prone to stalling. Needs a little dead weight in the nose, but otherwise a pretty nice aircraft
+1Looks quite spiffy for less than 100 parts and looks pretty detailed. Also I love how you get a STOL plane that takes off at 36 mph without even thinking of flaps, just using the lift of the wing.
+2The forum and aircraft library support the 'markdown' format. So the best way to learn about adding hyperlinks and other simple formatting is by googling 'Markdown formatting' to get to a site like this where they explain the whole process better than I can here.
The forum and aircraft library support the 'markdown' format. So the best way to learn about adding hyperlinks and other simple formatting is by googling 'Markdown formatting' to get to a site like this where they explain the whole process better than I can here.
@WinsWings then check out @SimplPleyns original, both the Gold Special as well as the original it was based on. I didn't do so much but just adding some details and tweaking the takeoff and landing characteristics
+1Custom seat and historically accurate engine instruments in the engine nacelles (IRL, the cockpit was too cramped for more instruments). Love it!
+2Lands almost like the real thing. I love it.
Nice little plane with lots of nice details. And on top of that, it flies really well too.
Ps, where did you hide the wings? You didn't just custom-made them out of fuselage parts?
+1Nice little details and a really good color scheme.lovr it.
The vertical stabilizers turn the wrong way. They should be inverted. Otherwise a real nice plane, and it flies really good too
+1Flies like a dream... Great work
@SchadeAircaftCompany If you want some help getting your plane to fly better, I did a few tweaks on my downloaded copy of the cormorant like deleting the second pair of wings to move the center of lift a bit back and tilt the engines 5° upward. I could get into detail here, but may be it be better you DM me on the Discord Simpleplanes builder chat ( https://discord.gg/afRjsf6T43 ) my username there is the.same as here : Sockdragger.
Excellent build with lots of details. Unfortunately it tends to flip over every time you attempt a water takeoff and otherwise the center of gravity and center of lift are so close together it stalls way too easily. It took me one hour of tweaking to get the flight characteristics somewhere near what I like. (Hit me up on one of the discord servers to discuss the details of what I did. I go under either Sockdragger or Daddy Sockdragger.)
Ps, there is a newer version of this plane available with some esthetic tweaks and slightly better landing characteristics. Also the top speed of the 'racing plane' in the handicap class comes.closer to the original performance of... 180 mph!
Has potential, but sad to say, as brilliant as it is esthetically, the plane is impossible to take off. Redesign the floats and incorporate some fins for it to at least not spin out of control when firing up the engine. You still have one week before tht challenge closes. If you get the plane to take off I will give you the upvote and a highlight it already deserves.... And yea, swap the flaps and ailerons. At present the flaps are the outer parts of the wing, the ailerons the inner parts. It should be the other way round!
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.
Did you aim for it to have exactly 666 parts or is this just a lucky coincidence.
+2@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.
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
+1Congratulations 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