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Building Planes

1,988 LowDeadDiper  7.5 years ago

I'm always having problem on building planes it always tilting forward while flying. And what is CoM CoL CoT?

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    1,988 LowDeadDiper

    @F104Deathtrap @Supercraft888 I uploaded it please fix it

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    @JayAr See if you can post the plane on here and I'll take a look. Most likely you need bigger wings.

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    It also helps to experiment with different wing types, flat bottom have the most lift, but don't have good manoeuvreability, semi symmetric is a balance of lift and agility, and symmetric have horrible lift, but great maneuverability

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    Com=Center of mass
    Col=center of lift
    Cot=center of thrust
    The center of mass should be in front of the center of lift, the closer the COM is to the front, the more the plane will dip usually, it also depends if the aircraft is very front heavy, center of lift depends on size of wings, the bigger the wing, the more lift, that sometimes counteract the "tiliting" (it's called diving btw)

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    1,988 LowDeadDiper

    @F104Deathtrap I can't still build a plane

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    1,988 LowDeadDiper

    @F104Deathtrap tnx dude

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    Yellow will only affect anything if it's too high, too low or too far to one side (don't worry about front or back with it). Red always has to be ahead of blue, or the plane will do very unpleasant backflips and summersaults.

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    1,988 LowDeadDiper

    @F104Deathtrap so basically red ball is coming first before the blue the last is yellow?

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    Nosing down? Your COM might be too far forward. Keep the red ball a few feet ahead of the blue one, but not too far. You can also try making your main wings larger or changing their airfoils from semi-symmetric to flat-bottom.

    7.5 years ago