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.
Warning: In case you missed it. This plane has the Trim and VTOL sliders switched. You operate the flaps by sliding the left 'Trim' slider down, you trim the plane with the right side VTOL slider.
Once you got used to that, or once you (like me) switched the controls back, the plane flies like a breeze.
Love this car. Love the details
.My only complaint would be that I have trouble with the start switch and the gear switch hidden behind the steering wheel.
@StraitAircraft you can always go with the French Salmson 5-cylinder radial engine or use the covered 4-cylinder inline engine of the first German versions. I can post the plans on Discord, but you can just as easy get them from Richard Ferriere's plan repository http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/3vues.html
@EagleMan010 hey, just try opening the doors in plain light and pushing the trim slider forward. Preferably set the view to 'Dirk Pritt' or 'Al Giordano' beforehand
1910's: Hanriot monoplane (although I'm calling dibs on that one. Please wait making any plans until the end of the month. I might have made that one by then myself)
Early 1929's:.
Blackburn Kangaroo
De Havilland DH.16 (aka a DH.10 with a passenger cabin)
AEG biplane with passenger cabin)
Hansa Brandenburg HB.29/34 floatplane post-war SAR version
Mid-late 1920's
Douglas mailplane or Boeing 40A
Lockheed Air Express (aka a Lockheed Vega with open cockpit behind the wing
Every Fokker passenger plane of that period
It is twice as big as the original and the fuselage is a bit more rounded than the pictures show, but apart of that it's a nice flyer and worth downloading.
The seaplane. We definitely need more seaplanes in here.
Ok. I am by nature biased in favor of civilian planes since I prefer sticking a tricky landing over shooting down a spawn anytime. But other than that.... Definitely do the seaplane
@Boeing727200F Still, even if the game is not fair , or stacked against you... don't let this keep you from making a real fabulous heli and posting it here. I know I will. So what if we are better at building stuff then at promoting and playing the upvotes game... as long as we have a good time building the best stuff we can come up with, just a nod is all the acknowledgement we need.
Of course, I WILL post the best livery known to mankind. Already working on it.
Looks like the real thing and flies almost all the basic training scenarios just as real as the old Microsoft Flight Sim. Congratulations. Eagerly awaiting the version with instruments, doors and luggage locker in the back
@WinsWings you want to see something really parawing? Then delete the two inner piston/pull ropes. The plane will still fly but with a sloppy wing that curves down when standing and curves up when flying... And wobbles every time you make a turn. But it's a site to see...
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
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.
@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.....
@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
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
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 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 upgrade from the previous plane. However still no limiter on the engine travel, meaning you can crash it k to your own fuselage if you're not carefully and pull Trim too far down. Also for my taste it relies too much on the gyro with for instance roll and yaw not even possible by areodynamical means (ailerons and rudders are for show only). Still visually a feast to behold
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?
+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.
+1Warning: In case you missed it. This plane has the Trim and VTOL sliders switched. You operate the flaps by sliding the left 'Trim' slider down, you trim the plane with the right side VTOL slider.
Once you got used to that, or once you (like me) switched the controls back, the plane flies like a breeze.
+1Love this car. Love the details
+1.My only complaint would be that I have trouble with the start switch and the gear switch hidden behind the steering wheel.
@StraitAircraft you can always go with the French Salmson 5-cylinder radial engine or use the covered 4-cylinder inline engine of the first German versions. I can post the plans on Discord, but you can just as easy get them from Richard Ferriere's plan repository http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/3vues.html
+1@EagleMan010 hey, just try opening the doors in plain light and pushing the trim slider forward. Preferably set the view to 'Dirk Pritt' or 'Al Giordano' beforehand
+1@StraitAircraft can you hold off on the Hanriot? I was originally planning to make one for the Early Aviation Challenge.
+11910's: Hanriot monoplane (although I'm calling dibs on that one. Please wait making any plans until the end of the month. I might have made that one by then myself)
+1Early 1929's:.
Blackburn Kangaroo
De Havilland DH.16 (aka a DH.10 with a passenger cabin)
AEG biplane with passenger cabin)
Hansa Brandenburg HB.29/34 floatplane post-war SAR version
Mid-late 1920's
Douglas mailplane or Boeing 40A
Lockheed Air Express (aka a Lockheed Vega with open cockpit behind the wing
Every Fokker passenger plane of that period
It is twice as big as the original and the fuselage is a bit more rounded than the pictures show, but apart of that it's a nice flyer and worth downloading.
Also.... Congratulations on your first 1000.
+1The seaplane. We definitely need more seaplanes in here.
Ok. I am by nature biased in favor of civilian planes since I prefer sticking a tricky landing over shooting down a spawn anytime. But other than that.... Definitely do the seaplane
+1Just a couple of extra colored parts and just a couple of labels and directly such a cool.effect. I would vote this 10/10 as well.
+1@Boeing727200F Still, even if the game is not fair , or stacked against you... don't let this keep you from making a real fabulous heli and posting it here. I know I will. So what if we are better at building stuff then at promoting and playing the upvotes game... as long as we have a good time building the best stuff we can come up with, just a nod is all the acknowledgement we need.
Of course, I WILL post the best livery known to mankind. Already working on it.
+1Always one of my favorites.
+1Got to keep on trying then. Half of the time I can't even get her to take off
+1Looks like the real thing and flies almost all the basic training scenarios just as real as the old Microsoft Flight Sim. Congratulations. Eagerly awaiting the version with instruments, doors and luggage locker in the back
+1@WinsWings you want to see something really parawing? Then delete the two inner piston/pull ropes. The plane will still fly but with a sloppy wing that curves down when standing and curves up when flying... And wobbles every time you make a turn. But it's a site to see...
+1Waaa??? No Belgium?
+1Looks spiffy and flies like a breeze, even without air breaks and other gizmos. I love it.
+1Conventional 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
+1Pretty 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.
+1@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?
+1She looks pretty small, must have been pretty young still.
My condolences.
+1What??? No one mentioned Alberto Santos-Dumont? Time to build myself some airships
+1@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
+1I 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
+1@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
+1Nice 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?
+1The vertical stabilizers turn the wrong way. They should be inverted. Otherwise a real nice plane, and it flies really good too
+1I 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.
+1Real 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.
+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...
+1Just make that fuselage a bit higher and you have a Hawker Hurricane expy
+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 upgrade from the previous plane. However still no limiter on the engine travel, meaning you can crash it k to your own fuselage if you're not carefully and pull Trim too far down. Also for my taste it relies too much on the gyro with for instance roll and yaw not even possible by areodynamical means (ailerons and rudders are for show only). Still visually a feast to behold