I had to laugh when I looked up the speed of sound when my new nightfighter strayed up to 60,000 feet while I was testing her Jazz and in level flight, well, with a bit flap to keep it that way, I managed to tag 750 mph. Check this page out here. This gives what the speed of sound is at differing altitudes. I didn't realize I was doing that quite frequently even at 25 and 30 thousand feet; Without modded engines! XD
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/pDtxR1/F-84H-thunderscreech
@DragonAerotech
Actually level flight I measure is 300 feet or so. It's a t2000 with 10,000 horsepower at 3,000rpm and it spins at a peak of 8,000rpm @DragonAerotech
@Solarisaeroworks Dang! If that level flight speed is at 5,000 feet that's the highest performing prop job I've heard of. Mine typically don't hit the 700 range until about 15,000 feet to 20,000 feet. XD
@OtterOfToast Gotta love the SPs community~
And 730 in a climb and 756 in level flight @DragonAerotech
@DragonAerotech Thanks :D I might could give it a shot. Y'see- that's what I love about this community. We're like scientists, sharing ideas and findings with eachother~
@OtterOfToast That's not necessarily true. Before I learned more about how to work with the system, modding and all of that I kept TONS of subassemblies, I still do in all reality. One of them though was salvaged from a build by a friend who had contra-rotating propellers buried in the rear fuselage of one of the fighters he'd made. It was wicked fast so I knew I wanted that assembly. I was able to take off the tail and rear-most fuselage pieces and then detach the assembly by grabbing the fuselage piece they were anchored to in front. I used that subassembly as a basis for a lot of my first contra-rotating prop jobs. Now I don't need them and can actually get the propellers closer together through a little advantage Windows users have called "nudging." Feel free to yank parts off of my planes anytime you'd like. I think to get you started the VL Salamointi would be a good place to start. You can get wings there that have VTOL controlled Flaps/Spoilers, a nose assembly with a historically accurate Hispano-Suiza 20 mm cannon (aside from the real things' propensity for jamming) and those all important contra-rotating T1000s. Although paired they have the same Horsepower as the T2000s their fuel efficiency is far better together than with a single T2000. Don't even get me started on the T3000.. lol
@Solarisaeroworks Oh yes, and with only 4,000 HP. ;-)
@Solarisaeroworks lol My engines are unmodded though and I'm talking level flight here! lol
This thread = yet another thing I will never be able to do XD
I have a 10,000 horsepower t2000 that allows me to put my f-84-h thunderscreech to go 1100 mph in a dive
@migman2 Yep, its pretty tough if you're not on a PC though. The "supersonic prop jobs" I was talking about have contra-rotating engines snuggled up nice and close.
Because that would probably make my aircraft faster
Does anyone know how to make 2 props toghether