Ok. I'll repost it later with a screenshot thumbnail and post the original picture in the body. I'll also repost all other Junkers A50 's as I have been using real life photos and contents from a model company's website in their thumbnails.
@DeezDucks I don't know how active you are as a moderator still, but I have a problem. THis aircraft is a successor to my earlier Junkers A50 from Finland but on the page for that plane it doesn't show up as a successor. Did I do something wrong or do I have to specify it there? How does this work when you want to start a challenge and you need a custom successor/entries page?
@HuskyDynamics01 so far it work on one side: the new plane is listed as a successor to the old one but on the old plane's page it doesn't show up that the old plane has a successor now.
I hate to contact the moderator for every plane that I make a successor. But for now it is the only option. Do we have a handle for which to ping the moderator with?
I made it flat and fat because the original idea was to have a ramp in the back for boarding the space ninjas or their rocket motorcycles. May be a future version.....
Looks Quite cool, flies like a breeze. My only regret is that for a jet liner, even an experimental one, it should have a top speed bigger than 270 mph.
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.
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.
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
@Convex Blame it on the books. All I had to go by was the description that 'all NUMA vehicles were painted white and turquoise' The orange just came to be after I used it on 'warning' panels.and decided it looked good enough to use some more.
Ps, you up for a challenge? You have ten days to make a version at half the size (13m/42 ft span) and enter it in https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/n10802/Early-Aviation-Challenge
If it flies as good as this one, you're a serious contender
Can you make a civil version? This plane just looks like a Lockheed Constellation on steroids. Something people in the late 1940's would dream the future would hold
@Tiberius57 I could explain how I add flaps, but this would just blow up the comments area here. So hit me up on the 'simpleplanes' Discord channel. My user name there is the same as here.
Ok. I'll repost it later with a screenshot thumbnail and post the original picture in the body. I'll also repost all other Junkers A50 's as I have been using real life photos and contents from a model company's website in their thumbnails.
Love the cockpit interior
Congratulations
@DeezDucks I don't know how active you are as a moderator still, but I have a problem. THis aircraft is a successor to my earlier Junkers A50 from Finland but on the page for that plane it doesn't show up as a successor. Did I do something wrong or do I have to specify it there? How does this work when you want to start a challenge and you need a custom successor/entries page?
@HuskyDynamics01 so far it work on one side: the new plane is listed as a successor to the old one but on the old plane's page it doesn't show up that the old plane has a successor now.
I hate to contact the moderator for every plane that I make a successor. But for now it is the only option. Do we have a handle for which to ping the moderator with?
Whaa, Geocities still exists?
Hurray, it flies. It even flies pretty good
@xXLouisPlayzXx ok. I'll be watching your progress with interest.
First order of things: add some ailerons
@Rob119 @DeeganWithABazooka : New version with improved handling in hover mode.
I made it flat and fat because the original idea was to have a ramp in the back for boarding the space ninjas or their rocket motorcycles. May be a future version.....
Hey, guess what. I just landed your plane on USS Beast
Looks Quite cool, flies like a breeze. My only regret is that for a jet liner, even an experimental one, it should have a top speed bigger than 270 mph.
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.
Not 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
Waauw. 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.
Ok. 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?)
Can'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 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.
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
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
@Convex Blame it on the books. All I had to go by was the description that 'all NUMA vehicles were painted white and turquoise' The orange just came to be after I used it on 'warning' panels.and decided it looked good enough to use some more.
Ps, you up for a challenge? You have ten days to make a version at half the size (13m/42 ft span) and enter it in https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/n10802/Early-Aviation-Challenge
If it flies as good as this one, you're a serious contender
A great plane to just fly around in. Congratulations
Sh't, you did it
Can you make a civil version? This plane just looks like a Lockheed Constellation on steroids. Something people in the late 1940's would dream the future would hold
@XProAerospaceAircrafts Interesting.
@Tiberius57 I could explain how I add flaps, but this would just blow up the comments area here. So hit me up on the 'simpleplanes' Discord channel. My user name there is the same as here.