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.
A bit old got a 1970's aircraft. Looks more like a late 1930's experiment to me, may be something Argentina or Paraguay could have tried to market in the early 1950's
@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.
@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
Took a little getting used to flaps and trim being on the wrong hand, but in the end, the movable wing nose did it for me. This aircraft is a showcase of what Simpleplanes really can do
@Moonhead2131 I'm halfway building the fuselage. My main problem is that I translated 'simple' as 96 parts or less so it can be used as AI background traffic
I have to bow out on this one. My 5th Gen High Manoeuverability Technology Demonstrator ran into some problems.... Like .... Not flying and mistaking high Manoeuverability for chronic spinning out of control. May be one day I can get it fixed. Not on this challenge though.
It took me 1/2 an hour to rearrange the input and rotor settings to my liking. But then, the helicopter flew like a dream, even without the gyro. Congratulations
@WinsWings yea, he's a charmer. That's why I can't deny him to have his own plane, or car I stead of just looking over my shoulder when I am flying SimplePlanes
Did I see this right? Your engine is a rotator block with four wings attached to it? Kudos ... I claim the 50th upvote for this thing. Though to be sure, you deserved that upvote alone for using shock absorbers in your landing gear already.
@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
@AircraftLover754 I haven't flown around with your helicopter enough to find anything I would fix immediately. But from the top of my head: the thing has trouble gaining altitude, so increase tht power of the wingtip jets, use XML editor to kill the drag of the rotor blades, both the actual wings and the fuselage sleeves and finally, consider adding a wing control surface to add as a rotor blade tilt mechanism. May be set it to the VTOL slider...
@WinsWings I know it closed like two years ago, but you got another entry just last week, and I bet you will still get more. So I decided: Well, why not.
Update: the F8F was indeed posted 2 years ago, but it showed up in my jet stream just last week.
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.
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 wouldn't upvote an aircraft that has neither flaps nor air brakes, but this thing has so many other cool features I don't mind having to land at 399 mph, even if I still crash half of the time. Upvote sent.
Important: for the chase and flyby cameras to work right, the flight controller has to be pointing upwards. So as soon as you download this aircraft, look to the back of the canopy. The flight controller is glued against the back of the canopy wall, the vertical canopy wall. Rotate it along the x-axis so all 4 of its tabs are pointing downwards. Only then try to take it for a test flight.
@StockPlanesRemastered I still have the original 1980's role playing game where you move your airplanes on a hex grid and scratch off boxes of 'armor' by rolling a dice. Loved tht airplanes (the video game took their designs) and always wanted to build some in SimplePlanes, just to see if their harebrained designs actually could fly. Unfortunately too busy dreaming up my own harebrained designs
@Zerkk I was about to remake the craft with some custom XML but then I discovered everything was already in place just as long as you remember not to land with the missiles still attached. Right now the only thing I would do is to set the detacher at "IAS>50" (will detach automatically when speed exceeds 100 mph) and then move the missiles to the top of the wings
Love the details, especially the engines.. unfortunately I play on an Android phone so calculating all the parts.slows the plane to about 2 frames per second.
So can I request a slimmed down version with simpler engines? Just deleting the ribs in favor of a tube for cylinder would free up 240 pieces.
Love this one. Nice illustration of what one can do with just the basics and also a nice practical example of a working helicopter.
Ps, if you want to be able to turn your helicopter in hover Mode, click the top rotor and in XML replace the power input 'throttle' with 'Throttle +0.1'Yaw'. For the bottom rotor replace Throttle with 'Throttle -0.1 Yaw'
@Kenzar go ahead, please. This is the beauty of SimplePlanes that you can build off of each other. So yes, Anti-submarine versions, radar-disk versions, paratrooper-dropping versions with opening release ramp.... Or just copying the wing folding or landing gear mechanism. Feel free to take what you need.
(Ps, and if you just switch the paint palette from 'cusrom' to 'default' you get something like an US American paint scheme to work with)
Interesting concept. You might want to get rid of the tail rotor though. A self-powered rotor would make them redundant. Just a big tail plane with some control nozzles for low speeds would do.
Thinking of nozzles. Ever thought of replacing the jets with one VTOL engine and fixed VTOL nozzles on the rotor? Because if you don't, I'm going to build one.
The left tail plane sticks out more than the right. I t does so by default when you mirror your plane because the flight computer/cockpit is offset 0.0391 clicks and so the program moves through whole plane 0.0391 clicks to the right but mirrors the wings and tail planes in reference to the flight computer.
By the way, check the tail plane 's rotators. I think they are turning that wrong way: tail plane down when you pitch forwards while it should be when you pitch back. Just a simple oversight
Ps, In case you want a closer look at the code, I have since uploaded the finished plane HERE (the color has been changed from deep blue to sea gray though)
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.
+4A bit old got a 1970's aircraft. Looks more like a late 1930's experiment to me, may be something Argentina or Paraguay could have tried to market in the early 1950's
+3@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.
+3@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
+3Took a little getting used to flaps and trim being on the wrong hand, but in the end, the movable wing nose did it for me. This aircraft is a showcase of what Simpleplanes really can do
+3You 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...
+390% done. Just some windows and I'll post my 1930's flying boat airliner tomorrow
.... Done
+2@Moonhead2131 I'm halfway building the fuselage. My main problem is that I translated 'simple' as 96 parts or less so it can be used as AI background traffic
+2I have to bow out on this one. My 5th Gen High Manoeuverability Technology Demonstrator ran into some problems.... Like .... Not flying and mistaking high Manoeuverability for chronic spinning out of control. May be one day I can get it fixed. Not on this challenge though.
+2It took me 1/2 an hour to rearrange the input and rotor settings to my liking. But then, the helicopter flew like a dream, even without the gyro. Congratulations
+2@WinsWings yea, he's a charmer. That's why I can't deny him to have his own plane, or car I stead of just looking over my shoulder when I am flying SimplePlanes
+2Did I see this right? Your engine is a rotator block with four wings attached to it? Kudos ... I claim the 50th upvote for this thing. Though to be sure, you deserved that upvote alone for using shock absorbers in your landing gear already.
+2Marvelous visuals, marvelous flying characteristics. I call on @Jundroo to make this the standard demonstrator helicopter in their new game.
One gripe though: 2500 hp.on tht rotor is overkill. The helicopter flies perfectly, even better, with only 250
+2Too much parts for me to fly on my little cell phone, but every builder that spends 300 points on a historically correct engine deserves my upvote
+2Ailerons too big for my taste. The plane rolls like crazy. Otherwise quite a nice design.
+2@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
+2Waauw. It looks the part and flies like a dream.
+2Not 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
+2@AircraftLover754 I haven't flown around with your helicopter enough to find anything I would fix immediately. But from the top of my head: the thing has trouble gaining altitude, so increase tht power of the wingtip jets, use XML editor to kill the drag of the rotor blades, both the actual wings and the fuselage sleeves and finally, consider adding a wing control surface to add as a rotor blade tilt mechanism. May be set it to the VTOL slider...
+2Thanks for reinventing the wheel, or in this case the rotor
+2Love the plane: it looks the part and flies like a dream. Immediately downloaded your 70 part Mig and spawning it left and right for dogfighting
+2@WinsWings I know it closed like two years ago, but you got another entry just last week, and I bet you will still get more. So I decided: Well, why not.
Update: the F8F was indeed posted 2 years ago, but it showed up in my jet stream just last week.
+2@ThomasRoderick coming up
+2Looks 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.
+2Custom seat and historically accurate engine instruments in the engine nacelles (IRL, the cockpit was too cramped for more instruments). Love it!
+2Did 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 wouldn't upvote an aircraft that has neither flaps nor air brakes, but this thing has so many other cool features I don't mind having to land at 399 mph, even if I still crash half of the time. Upvote sent.
+1Important: for the chase and flyby cameras to work right, the flight controller has to be pointing upwards. So as soon as you download this aircraft, look to the back of the canopy. The flight controller is glued against the back of the canopy wall, the vertical canopy wall. Rotate it along the x-axis so all 4 of its tabs are pointing downwards. Only then try to take it for a test flight.
+1Actually flies pretty well.
+1I'd give it a 10 for looks. Also with some RCN nozzles to the front and the back, you can fly it without gyroscope.
+1Love the details... And on top of that, she flies like a dream. It's definitely a trainer because I just can't seem to crash it
+1What? So stable it flies without a gyroscope?
+1@StockPlanesRemastered I still have the original 1980's role playing game where you move your airplanes on a hex grid and scratch off boxes of 'armor' by rolling a dice. Loved tht airplanes (the video game took their designs) and always wanted to build some in SimplePlanes, just to see if their harebrained designs actually could fly. Unfortunately too busy dreaming up my own harebrained designs
+1@Zerkk I was about to remake the craft with some custom XML but then I discovered everything was already in place just as long as you remember not to land with the missiles still attached. Right now the only thing I would do is to set the detacher at "IAS>50" (will detach automatically when speed exceeds 100 mph) and then move the missiles to the top of the wings
+1Love the details, especially the engines.. unfortunately I play on an Android phone so calculating all the parts.slows the plane to about 2 frames per second.
So can I request a slimmed down version with simpler engines? Just deleting the ribs in favor of a tube for cylinder would free up 240 pieces.
+1Love this one. Nice illustration of what one can do with just the basics and also a nice practical example of a working helicopter.
Ps, if you want to be able to turn your helicopter in hover Mode, click the top rotor and in XML replace the power input 'throttle' with 'Throttle +0.1'Yaw'. For the bottom rotor replace Throttle with 'Throttle -0.1 Yaw'
+1Here's my version
+1Looks quite spiffy and definitely has the look of something the British would have built in the 50's.
+1Trying to nfit an automatic hover function for working with the winch
+1@WinsWings I'm taking the thing apart to see how exactly you did this. Thanks
+1@Kenzar go ahead, please. This is the beauty of SimplePlanes that you can build off of each other. So yes, Anti-submarine versions, radar-disk versions, paratrooper-dropping versions with opening release ramp.... Or just copying the wing folding or landing gear mechanism. Feel free to take what you need.
(Ps, and if you just switch the paint palette from 'cusrom' to 'default' you get something like an US American paint scheme to work with)
+1@C47skytrain just did. Just got too busy writing the text.
+1@canadianavgeek853 you're welcome
+1Interesting concept. You might want to get rid of the tail rotor though. A self-powered rotor would make them redundant. Just a big tail plane with some control nozzles for low speeds would do.
Thinking of nozzles. Ever thought of replacing the jets with one VTOL engine and fixed VTOL nozzles on the rotor? Because if you don't, I'm going to build one.
+1@NewWorldAerospace too bad, I'd love to use my knowledge of custom gears and variable propellers to give this babe a completely new engine
+1The left tail plane sticks out more than the right. I t does so by default when you mirror your plane because the flight computer/cockpit is offset 0.0391 clicks and so the program moves through whole plane 0.0391 clicks to the right but mirrors the wings and tail planes in reference to the flight computer.
By the way, check the tail plane 's rotators. I think they are turning that wrong way: tail plane down when you pitch forwards while it should be when you pitch back. Just a simple oversight
+1Ps, In case you want a closer look at the code, I have since uploaded the finished plane HERE (the color has been changed from deep blue to sea gray though)
+1