Also, if you get tired of the current livery, just open the paint tool and circle through the color schemes. The plane looks marvelous in every color, even if in 'green slime' it looks a bit like a Matchbox toy.
@MrSternMC9MM I didn't touch the intakes. They were as Dots made them on the original De Havilland Venom As far as I can see he made a hollow fuselage and used 'left fill' and ,'right fill' to get the angles. For more details , you have to ask him.
Interesting plane, but a little hard to land. I would like to make a version of it with the original Seahawk's split flap/air brakes. But I wouldn't want to do anything to your plane without your permission.
Got 10 pieces to spare for labels? The Swiss used this aircraft all into the It's and theit paint scheme is pretty simple: silver all over with some red accent and a white + on a red dot for insignia. Should be able to do this in half an hour.
Flies quite well. The fuselage and tail section definitely looks the part. The wing, halfway..the engines.... Unfortunately not so much. Can you make a version with a flat six engine like the Cessna 310?
@WinsWings I don't think a turboprop would be necessary, may be later for a modernized kitbashed bushplane, but for now the radial engine has up to 2000 HP power. You rated yours at 1200. So you still have some spare. Also a floatplane has the whole ocean for a runway, so it can pack some extra weight.
Ps, if you want to talk things through, hit me up on the Discord server. My handle is the same as here: sockdragger
@WinsWings I.remember seeing an airplane like this, -I believe it was a DHC Otter in a.museum in Brussels ages ago. This was a plane the 1957 expedition took to Antarctica to do some flying around, mostly picking up and dropping off scientists. I thought your plane looked the part, so I gave it a paint job that looked like the one I had in my memory. Glad you like it.
I really don't see a problem with adding a refueling probe. You find the probe under the 'Gizmos' tag. It's the last item on the list. In theory, you can just put it on the nose of your plane. In reality, the probe is rather short. So you will have to put it on an extension tube made out of a standard fuselage piece. Once you got this covered, you can add a rotator or piston to retract the probe into the fuselage when not in use. That's all.
Just try it for yourself. I bet you're able to put a probe on your plane in less time than I needed to write this post.
Couple of suggestions:
1: in the XML editor, look at the tab input center for the rotators and hinge rotators. Replace the entry -1 on min with 0. That will keep the wings from folding down when you pull the VTOL slider into the lower half.
2) alternatively you can replace VTOL in the input field with "clamp(VTOL,0,1)". That will let the slider disregard all values below zero
3) replace VTOL with * 'Activate1'* to have the wings fold when you press button 1 (There's a button Activate2, Activate3... All the way to Activate8 as well)
Couple of comments:
1) the trouble you are having in Chase View is because you put the flight computer vertically against the pilot seat. SimplePlanes does not mention this, but a flight computer must be installed flat /horizontally I moved the computer to the cockpit floor and immediately had a chase view that actually followed the plane.
2) your two landing gear legs are at different distances from the plane center. This is why the plane keeps veering off to the right when starting
3) you can delete the gyroscope. The plane will fly just as well without it just by virtue of its aerodynamic stability.
Other than that a pretty nice plane for someone 'just starting to learn'. Keep the good work going
It actually looks like a real life 1930's bomber from the UK or Germany. Unfortunately it also flies like the worst of that period. Way too heavy for its power. You have to delete all the fuel in the wings just to be able to take off
Sorry, I love the idea, but I can't give an upvote before you post a new version that can actually take off under own power
Note: I found that with full flaps, the aircraft is prone to stalling. I had to add several weights in the first 4 fuselage segments to be able to take off and land under flaps. Consider adding an extra fuselage segment in front of the wings on your next version
Looks the part, flies like a 600mph dream. Love it.
Ps, for more comfort landing, in XML modder replace 'Roll*0.5' in outer wing panels/ailerons with 'Roll*0.5+clamp(VTOL,0,1)' left and 'Roll*0.5-clamp(VTOL,0,1)' right. Then you can use the VTOL slider up as speed brake.
@LonelySea22 I actually tried 'full' wing warping by giving every segment of the wing its own rotator and move it 2 degrees up or down. Unfortunately I ran into too many problems with stability and ended up with wing flapping instead. This was the best doable solution.
But yea, I tried to incorporate as many historically accurate details as possible. So the wings move as a whole and the steering column is a prewar French 'Cloche' type
Eagerly awaiting an amphibian and a 2/3 person version. I mean it61950's and it's Italian. Why would you buy such a plane if not to take your special someone to a picknick on a remote island?
Waauw, I love it. The details in the cockpit, the overall 1950's look.... Plus, it flies surprisingly well. The only thing I would have wished for would be some flight instructions or a little manual in the description above. It took me several attempts to find out how to operate the flaps and the pontons, and I only found out about the air brakes on my fourth or fifth landing.
Update: I found that it is really easy for the parachutes of the frogmen to be caught on the fuselage. I also found it helps when you go into the settings for the parachutes and set the Trim value on the parachutes 0.09 point higher (so (Trim>0.5) for Dirk Pritt becomes (Trim > 0.59),.(Trim >0.9) For the 3 frogmen becomes (Trim>0.99) etc, Also, the cameras on the divers work better when you place them upright. Sorry for not noticing this earlier. Guess nothing beats real thorough testing
Also, if you get tired of the current livery, just open the paint tool and circle through the color schemes. The plane looks marvelous in every color, even if in 'green slime' it looks a bit like a Matchbox toy.
I love the details on the interior. Too bad I never figured out how to open the doors.
@MrSternMC9MM I didn't touch the intakes. They were as Dots made them on the original De Havilland Venom As far as I can see he made a hollow fuselage and used 'left fill' and ,'right fill' to get the angles. For more details , you have to ask him.
@winswings. Oh, sh't. I won bronze.
+1@WinsWings I just try to see what's possible and learn. And do a lot of flight testing... You're still ahead of me in points a 100 times
+1Not five hours, but you could make 10 videos about your next build where you cover section by section with lots of room for comments
Swift air? Does it sing?
Neat little plane. I wouldn't have given it infinite fuel though. It's a rubber band plane. It's supposed to run for one minute and then glide home
Interesting plane, but a little hard to land. I would like to make a version of it with the original Seahawk's split flap/air brakes. But I wouldn't want to do anything to your plane without your permission.
Got 10 pieces to spare for labels? The Swiss used this aircraft all into the It's and theit paint scheme is pretty simple: silver all over with some red accent and a white + on a red dot for insignia. Should be able to do this in half an hour.
https://images.app.goo.gl/hisBnVji8spySGNx5
Uea, one tries. And sometimes one gets it right. Too bad I couldn't get the typical Junkers corrugated metal look.
+1Not bad for 105 parts. I love it. Especially the paint scheme
+1Flies quite well. The fuselage and tail section definitely looks the part. The wing, halfway..the engines.... Unfortunately not so much. Can you make a version with a flat six engine like the Cessna 310?
+1Good try. Some issues with the wing and the flaps but otherwise a solid build, and most importantly a real nice looking graft.
+1By Jove, you did it
+1Waauw. A true acrobatic plane
I see you already got a classic Porsche 911, what about a classic Porsche 356? Up to you whether you do the hardtop or cabrio version.
@WinsWings I don't think a turboprop would be necessary, may be later for a modernized kitbashed bushplane, but for now the radial engine has up to 2000 HP power. You rated yours at 1200. So you still have some spare. Also a floatplane has the whole ocean for a runway, so it can pack some extra weight.
Ps, if you want to talk things through, hit me up on the Discord server. My handle is the same as here: sockdragger
+2Love the way the automatic flaps work.
+1Next up? floatplane version for all Canadian bush pilots who want to fly in the summer as well?
@WinsWings I.remember seeing an airplane like this, -I believe it was a DHC Otter in a.museum in Brussels ages ago. This was a plane the 1957 expedition took to Antarctica to do some flying around, mostly picking up and dropping off scientists. I thought your plane looked the part, so I gave it a paint job that looked like the one I had in my memory. Glad you like it.
+3Waauw. It looks the part and flies like a dream.
+2@WinsWings it is posted. Look at the 'successor' tab.
+1@WinsWings ok. Coming this evening
+1Not bad for 1/2 hour, although it took me 1 1/2 hours to add flaps and calibrate the optimal angle for landing approach... Yes, I fly a YE-36B
+2Ok. Now I can't wait for the plane to come out so I can take it for a spin.
Just hope it's mobile-friendly.
I really don't see a problem with adding a refueling probe. You find the probe under the 'Gizmos' tag. It's the last item on the list. In theory, you can just put it on the nose of your plane. In reality, the probe is rather short. So you will have to put it on an extension tube made out of a standard fuselage piece. Once you got this covered, you can add a rotator or piston to retract the probe into the fuselage when not in use. That's all.
Just try it for yourself. I bet you're able to put a probe on your plane in less time than I needed to write this post.
Nice job with the ejection seat. I've just spent the last 1/2 hour learning how you did it
Couple of suggestions:
1: in the XML editor, look at the tab input center for the rotators and hinge rotators. Replace the entry -1 on min with 0. That will keep the wings from folding down when you pull the VTOL slider into the lower half.
2) alternatively you can replace VTOL in the input field with "clamp(VTOL,0,1)". That will let the slider disregard all values below zero
3) replace VTOL with * 'Activate1'* to have the wings fold when you press button 1 (There's a button Activate2, Activate3... All the way to Activate8 as well)
Waauw, this plane should be entered in the easy to fly competition. It takes off by itself and floats so good it is almost impossible to land.
Some ideas to work on:
Rohrbach Ro.v
Loire et Olivier LeO 242
(4 engines should be allowed, no?)
Not bad for 113 parts. And it almost flies as majestic as the real thing
+1Can't wait to see the version with working guns and bomb bay covers
Dude, did you just put the air intake backwards?
Couple of comments:
1) the trouble you are having in Chase View is because you put the flight computer vertically against the pilot seat. SimplePlanes does not mention this, but a flight computer must be installed flat /horizontally I moved the computer to the cockpit floor and immediately had a chase view that actually followed the plane.
2) your two landing gear legs are at different distances from the plane center. This is why the plane keeps veering off to the right when starting
3) you can delete the gyroscope. The plane will fly just as well without it just by virtue of its aerodynamic stability.
Other than that a pretty nice plane for someone 'just starting to learn'. Keep the good work going
Otherwise, I love the looks and I was completely blown away by the details when I retracted the landing gear
Try deleting tht fuel in the wings to make the plane a little lighter. And then change the wing profile to 'Flat bottom'. That helped for me.
@StopbreathingMyAir This is my version of your A-11 in an English paint scheme and with some changes to the fuselage and the wings.
Why you 'think'? You're building something and you're not sure it's a plane? Or you thought you were building a car and it started growing wings?
@StopBreathingMyAir Marvelous
It actually looks like a real life 1930's bomber from the UK or Germany. Unfortunately it also flies like the worst of that period. Way too heavy for its power. You have to delete all the fuel in the wings just to be able to take off
Sorry, I love the idea, but I can't give an upvote before you post a new version that can actually take off under own power
Note: I found that with full flaps, the aircraft is prone to stalling. I had to add several weights in the first 4 fuselage segments to be able to take off and land under flaps. Consider adding an extra fuselage segment in front of the wings on your next version
Nice extra. I'm already trying to drop a couple of paratroopers on it.
+1Nice well-thought-out concept with lots of flair. Consider reworking it with everything you learned in the last 6 months. Would be quite a flyer
Really a blast to realize how far we have come since then....
And really a blast to try to lane an aircraft with neither flaps nor air brakes.
Looks the part, flies like a 600mph dream. Love it.
Ps, for more comfort landing, in XML modder replace 'Roll*0.5' in outer wing panels/ailerons with 'Roll*0.5+clamp(VTOL,0,1)' left and 'Roll*0.5-clamp(VTOL,0,1)' right. Then you can use the VTOL slider up as speed brake.
@LonelySea22 I actually tried 'full' wing warping by giving every segment of the wing its own rotator and move it 2 degrees up or down. Unfortunately I ran into too many problems with stability and ended up with wing flapping instead. This was the best doable solution.
But yea, I tried to incorporate as many historically accurate details as possible. So the wings move as a whole and the steering column is a prewar French 'Cloche' type
+3Eagerly awaiting an amphibian and a 2/3 person version. I mean it61950's and it's Italian. Why would you buy such a plane if not to take your special someone to a picknick on a remote island?
+1Waauw, I love it. The details in the cockpit, the overall 1950's look.... Plus, it flies surprisingly well. The only thing I would have wished for would be some flight instructions or a little manual in the description above. It took me several attempts to find out how to operate the flaps and the pontons, and I only found out about the air brakes on my fourth or fifth landing.
+1Update: I found that it is really easy for the parachutes of the frogmen to be caught on the fuselage. I also found it helps when you go into the settings for the parachutes and set the Trim value on the parachutes 0.09 point higher (so (Trim>0.5) for Dirk Pritt becomes (Trim > 0.59),.(Trim >0.9) For the 3 frogmen becomes (Trim>0.99) etc, Also, the cameras on the divers work better when you place them upright. Sorry for not noticing this earlier. Guess nothing beats real thorough testing
Still have to find out how you get the right hand to operate the joystick without it swayong back and forth. I never got that to work on my projects