6,242 Sockdragger Comments

  • V945 Archelon 6 months ago

    Nice details, although I would have wished for some flaps or landing aids.

    My suggestion for a follow-up: An AWACS variant with a rotating disc on top, arrester hook and folding wings

  • [PEA]Mitsubishi A6M2 6 months ago

    Next version, add an arrester hook for carrier landings

  • Refurbished second-hand B-20 (ok, it crashed but it flies again) 6 months ago

    @USAMustang nope, there isn't, other than a few fixes on the flaps and landing gear. I hope I did give you credit enough.

  • i mean i think i fixed it it flys good? 6 months ago

    The wheels need to be turned around for the plane to rest in its nose wheel instead of its tail. Otherwise it's a nice repair job

  • SC-3 UPDATE 7 months ago

    Next version, add an arrester hook, please

  • Tecnam P92 Echo JS Ofogh Taban Aviation Training Center 7 months ago

    Looks pretty good, flies pretty well. Not bad for a first airplane.

  • SHUT-2 7 months ago

    IMPORTANT: plane is extremely tail heavy. Before flying, add 600 pounds of dead weight to the two front most fuselage segments, otherwise the plane will not even float but flip over backwards as soon as you put it on the water.

  • Maybach HL 120 TRM 7 months ago

    Maybach? Want to build a Zeppelin around it?

  • Yardbollenko YB-4 (remake) 7 months ago

    Hope you don't mind me being honest, but here's my assessment:
    Plus side: Great looks, fantastic paint job, flies really well.
    Minus side: It's supposed to be a bomber, but no bomb bay, no bombs. Three turrets, but all of them fixed and no turret views. Also 329 parts, but no cockpit? And still the simple blocky wing? I am not asking for vision-guided turrets like I used for my monitor plane, or trust-reversal on the engines, but just do the same thing to the wings and horizontal stabilizers like you did to the vertical ones.

  • WORK IN PROGRESS(ZCM-228 Stratosphere-2) 7 months ago

    @StopBreathingMyAir codos for using cubes them. I'm curious to see what it looks like finished

  • WORK IN PROGRESS(ZCM-228 Stratosphere-2) 7 months ago

    That's 1381 cubes stacked together?

  • Ummm... 8 months ago

    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'.....

  • [TGT-G] Squad I 8 months ago

    Of course, you can also 'evacuate' them with a magnet on a winch on a helicopter

  • 2024 Year End Challenge [CLOSED] 8 months ago

    Still looking for a decent post WWII craft to build, though.

  • Grumman X-4 8 months ago

    WHAAT? Does this plane actually pitch up when you push the pitch lever and elevators DOWN?

  • Yanuyanu 8 months ago

    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.

  • 9 part F4F 8 months ago

    I would have deleted the guns in favor of a landing gear, but a nice little flyer nevertheless.

  • first plane 9 months ago

    I love the SG-38 hiding in there

  • Hummilte H-1F-4 9 months ago

    Nice little plane. Especially when you add a braking parachute to the back

  • DCA-2 9 months ago

    Nice little plane with some interesting details

  • Ryan Navion 260 10 months ago

    The kind of plane you wish you had in every flight sim. Thanks

  • [PEA] Nakajima A6M2-N 10 months ago

    Two gyroscopes? WTF do you use two gyroscopes for

  • What should I make next? 11 months ago

    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.

  • My IRL plane project. 11 months ago

    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.

  • Text Formatting one year ago

    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.

  • How to do hyperlinks on SP site? one year ago

    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.

  • Piper J-3 Cub (100 Parts) 1.1 years ago

    Lands almost like the real thing. I love it.

  • Stepan F.2(VR 100 Challenge) 1.1 years ago

    Nice little details and a really good color scheme.lovr it.

  • OB1D-2 Killdeer 1.1 years ago

    Flies like a dream... Great work

  • Wright Island XNR-2F Cormorant 1.1 years ago

    @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.

  • Wright Island XNR-2F Cormorant 1.1 years ago

    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.)

  • 20 part Halfmiles Hawk Six 1.1 years ago

    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!

  • OB1D Killdeer 1.1 years ago

    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!

  • Bertie's Darkblue Doodlebug from the TV series "Anime Air Police Bigglesworth" 1.3 years ago

    @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

  • CHALLENGE ENDED! 1.3 years ago

    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.

  • Grumman G-21 Goose "Hog Wild" 1.5 years ago

    Looks like a million, flies like a dream. What's not to like. Okay, you can't do much but flying around with it, but the overall care for the details make it worth it.

    Tip: try landing on water and then 'beaching' the craft on one of the shores opposite Yeager or Wright Field.

  • (Fictional) Vought OS3U Kingfisher II 1.5 years ago

    @WinsWings @ZerkkZxe The updated version is posted as an official entry to the Seaplane contest.
    https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/P771wv/Fictional-Vought-OS3U-2-Kingfisher-II

  • (Fictional) Vought OS3U Kingfisher II 1.5 years ago

    @WinsWings yea, I don't know why the plane isn't listed as a successor to your game, I used your original flight controller (you can still see it between the two pilot seats). I will experiment with it when I post the next update later tonight.

  • Lorie HG-10 [Wins Seaplane Challenge] 1.5 years ago

    Got to love French design... Congratulations

  • My concept art : The Jet Seaplane Fighter 1.5 years ago

    @WinsWings let's try this out....
    ![https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/634523674946568225/1206595159790452816/IMG20240211220126.jpg?ex=65dc944f&is=65ca1f4f&hm=ba3176abf404b3db73541b180d31fcb71b6d52f699f43b15f86383fffe40b15b&]
    Nope, not yet....

  • My concept art : The Jet Seaplane Fighter 1.5 years ago

    @WinsWings I'm post my concept sketches here, but first I have to learn how to embed images in my forum posts

  • Robin-Mark 3 1.5 years ago

    @WinsWings I love it. Looks like a million. Flies better still.

  • Robin-ii 1.5 years ago

    Okay, until I figure out how to reach you in instant messaging, this will have to do. I like the new plane, but again you have managed to get the tailplane and float rudder move in the way wrong direction: the part of the tailplane that sticks up has to be set to yaw- inverted. The part that points down like the bottom of the tail and the float rudder to jaw- not inverted.

    Also, when 'sitting' on the water, the central float is much deeper at the back then at the front. Can you add an extra yard to the back part of the float to make it rest more evenly? I did so on my download and while I was at it, also made a little 'step' in it and the result is much more pleasing. I can post my upgrade, but I don't want to steal your thunder on a plane that's so thoroughly you.

  • huaxiangji 1.5 years ago

    Nice little airplane

  • The 100-Part Handley Page H.P.42 1.7 years ago

    Truly an image of the original:
    "As majestic as the sphinx... And almost just as fast"

  • Hawk 75M 1.8 years ago

    @Tanner0501 so you did it....

  • Curtiss P-36A Hawk 2.0 years ago

    @Tanner0501 Curtiss offered a simplified version of their export Hawk 75 that had a fixed landing gear. I can't upload a picture but You can Google the Curtiss Hawk 75 M, 75 N and 75 O for China, Siam and Argentina respectingly.

    I used to build the Curtiss 75 M as a wooden toy plane, first of all because the fixed landing gear looked way cooler in wood than anything resembling the retractable one. Second because they looked way better when build in pair with an equally fixed gear Ki-27 for dogfighting

  • out of idea 2.0 years ago

    Top of my head: there are a couple of types of builds of which there are way too few, at least as far as I am concerned:
    1) some simple but still reasonably detailed sports cars or regular passenger cars: you know: not the Porsches and Maseratis but the Fords, Toyotas, Peugeots and Volkswagens.

    2) some nice scale models of actual civil helicopters

    3) some good scale sailplanes or motor gliders

  • I from Brazil 2.0 years ago

    Okay. If nothing to see here, I won't bother to look. Got any interesting planes to show off at least?

  • What is funky trees 2.1 years ago

    @ToeTips do you know of any tutorials on how to learn it?