The pusher has slightly less drag (and it could be reduced even more by using nose cone), but the tractor (pulling propeller) is probably a little bit more efficient. (Hence it taking the lead at first, but then falling behind due to the higher drag)
Well it's basically a very simplified way of controlling an airplane. Yaw and roll are controlled with roll input and throttle and pitch is controlled with the throttle. You increase the throttle to pitch up decrease the throttle to pitch down. (trimmed to pitch up at full throttle) For turning the plane it uses yaw. (dihedral wings make the plane roll when yawing) Either this is setup with a propeller and a rudder, or it is setup with two motors with yaw mixing. (=no control surfaces) I made a plane called "simple plane". (https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/jPLwjb/Simple-plane-challenge) This plane uses three motors because you can't mix controls in simpleplanes. But I'm going to make a new one because in the beta you could kind of mix controls by having one input for throttle and another one for propeller pitch. (This method was used in my octocopter)
So this plane looks great and has the potential to fly great too. Firstly, the plane wants to yaw uncontrollably. To fix this I just mirrored the plane to make sure everything were the same on both sides. Secondly this plane, like many other of your planes, has a really awkward landing gear position. Either change the rear landing gear to a short one (proper taildragger configuration) or make a tricycle gear instead. For gear position I suggest sticking to those two basic configurations; taildragger and tricycle. The main landing gear (front gear on a taildragger configuration and rear gear on a tricycle configuration) should not be too far away from the CoM. The main gear works as the pivot for the rotation at takeoff. A taildragger should always have a positive attitude when resting on all the wheels. And don't use any more than three gears and don't space them too far apart.
What's the purpose of the rotating wings? VTOL rcn thrusters would help maneuvering the plane when landing and taking off vertically. And once again: don't upload planes with inverted pitch. There is an option in the settings to invert the pitch if you prefer to fly with inverted pitch.
@ImFauxReal Sometimes it catches on the detached and sometimes later down the track. I guess my roller coaster was simpler to make then, because the wheels had suspension when I built it I'm pretty sure ...
@ImFauxReal Well, I retried like 3 times, but because of the long loading time when retrying I didn't bother to test it more than that. To avoid it to catching onto the detached that connects the rail to the car you could move it out of the way with a rotator block. (or more detachers) Also I think that a car redesign might help.
Okay, this 5 star is because of the effort put in to this. In the Beta this sadly doesn't work, but some of your requests are in the beta which is positive. (some things like pistons are indirect, there are no pistons, but all wheels have suspension)
@Delphinus This is the URL: 7EgtMe
Have you tried flying my Yak since the beta is over?
Sneaky prop hacking ;)
Amazing!!!
@Superdude The update will be out on amazon app store in less than 20 hours!!
This aircraft both looks amazing (especially the wing nacelles) and flies very good. I still don't like your landing gear placement though.
@LjSpike The short landing gear's got suspension too. And it's the takeoff that is the problem.
I thought it was impossible to make anything cooler than walrusaircraft's mad max truck!
Not really hard to fly compared to some of my designs
Wooo you also made a Yak 38 ^^
Unbelievable!!!
That's kind words, man
@RAF1 Oh, you thought I was him and vice versa.
@RAF1 Kamikaze hasn't made a beta plane, has he?
@kamikaze The update might come out tomorrow, so I'm sure @RAF1 would let you make another entry with the new parts.
The pusher has slightly less drag (and it could be reduced even more by using nose cone), but the tractor (pulling propeller) is probably a little bit more efficient. (Hence it taking the lead at first, but then falling behind due to the higher drag)
@LjSpike Yeah, but it's a motor method without any vectoring
Old one worked great for me. This one is even better!
Well it's basically a very simplified way of controlling an airplane. Yaw and roll are controlled with roll input and throttle and pitch is controlled with the throttle. You increase the throttle to pitch up decrease the throttle to pitch down. (trimmed to pitch up at full throttle) For turning the plane it uses yaw. (dihedral wings make the plane roll when yawing) Either this is setup with a propeller and a rudder, or it is setup with two motors with yaw mixing. (=no control surfaces) I made a plane called "simple plane". (https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/jPLwjb/Simple-plane-challenge) This plane uses three motors because you can't mix controls in simpleplanes. But I'm going to make a new one because in the beta you could kind of mix controls by having one input for throttle and another one for propeller pitch. (This method was used in my octocopter)
@LjSpike Have you ever heard of 2 channel RC planes?
So this plane looks great and has the potential to fly great too. Firstly, the plane wants to yaw uncontrollably. To fix this I just mirrored the plane to make sure everything were the same on both sides. Secondly this plane, like many other of your planes, has a really awkward landing gear position. Either change the rear landing gear to a short one (proper taildragger configuration) or make a tricycle gear instead. For gear position I suggest sticking to those two basic configurations; taildragger and tricycle. The main landing gear (front gear on a taildragger configuration and rear gear on a tricycle configuration) should not be too far away from the CoM. The main gear works as the pivot for the rotation at takeoff. A taildragger should always have a positive attitude when resting on all the wheels. And don't use any more than three gears and don't space them too far apart.
Actually there is one more method that wasn't used.
@RAF1 Have you watched the video?
What Allstarship said
-2 stars for the extreme lack of fuel +99999999 stars for the looks
@RAF1 The video might help you judging the plane
@RAF1 @nickasaurusrex @JShay @SeriousFlipper4 @JacobHardy64 @Rohan Flying demonstration can be seen here: https://youtu.be/ygxRdw1hSRU
What's the purpose of the rotating wings? VTOL rcn thrusters would help maneuvering the plane when landing and taking off vertically. And once again: don't upload planes with inverted pitch. There is an option in the settings to invert the pitch if you prefer to fly with inverted pitch.
You shouldn't upload planes with the pitch inverted, that makes the planes really hard to fly.
This is really good, but the pitch is inverted.
@Superdude Yeah, I'm pretty sure
I made a video showcasing the problems I had: https://youtu.be/m3sRCurT8DU
Great! Notify me when and where I can download it!
The main airline company in Sweden is SAS.
NP! Of course I want to help a fellow roller coaster builder ;)
@ImFauxReal Sometimes it catches on the detached and sometimes later down the track. I guess my roller coaster was simpler to make then, because the wheels had suspension when I built it I'm pretty sure ...
@ImFauxReal Well, I retried like 3 times, but because of the long loading time when retrying I didn't bother to test it more than that. To avoid it to catching onto the detached that connects the rail to the car you could move it out of the way with a rotator block. (or more detachers) Also I think that a car redesign might help.
@Nick7777 SAS stands for scandinavian airlines system. (That's why I thought you were scandinavian. I myself am swedish)
@ImFauxReal Yeah, it's like 15 % fuel onboard or so, but the real problem is that it doesn't have sufficient power and it catches on to the track.
I made a roller coaster design once, you could check that out for inspiration. (If you want)
@ImFauxReal Well, it gets stuck and doesn't seem to have enough power. Also all fuel have to be on board. (the detaching fuel bug had been fixes)
Brilliant!
But you missed the SAS text on the tail fin ;) BTW, do you know what SAS stands for?
Okay, this 5 star is because of the effort put in to this. In the Beta this sadly doesn't work, but some of your requests are in the beta which is positive. (some things like pistons are indirect, there are no pistons, but all wheels have suspension)
I like all the details!
How come you made it with the SAS livery?
Really nice! Are you from Scandinavia?
Have you figured out what time of the day it's best to post planes? ;)
@nickasaurusrex But thanks for the ratings anyways!
@nickasaurusrex Did you mistake this as an entry for the challenge? ;)