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Flying my Scout Eagle at a 25* angle of attack

234k jamesPLANESii  5.2 years ago
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    1,223 Lukemiester

    Next year. There won’t be too many more.

    5.2 years ago
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    Maaan I wish I was at Reno. :( @Tacocat16

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    1,223 Lukemiester

    And then Draco in the pattern later that evening

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    1,223 Lukemiester

    Yessssssssssss I saw that airplane at Reno in that spot like a day after that was taken

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    Yeah it’s at Reno and I totally stole it from Trent’s Instagram lol @Tacocat16

    5.2 years ago
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    1,223 Lukemiester

    I was just at Reno and that looks exactly like where trent’s kitfox is parked

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    1,223 Lukemiester

    Hey... that profile pic... where was it taken?

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    69.4k Chancey21

    Recommendations for turning rate on a cub type? (How many seconds for a 360
    Turn) @jamesPLANESii @BogdanX

    5.2 years ago
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    l loads of stuff into the backcountry.
    Yeah, hopefully you know how a GA plane should fly. Lol.

    Also my comment was just a tad too long lol. That’s literally all that was on the end of that comment XD @QingyuZhou

    5.2 years ago
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    Basically a bush plane is that plane that:

    • Is cheap to maintain
    • Cheap to fly
    • Can easily be repaired
    • Has room for another passenger and storage space
    • Is as light weight as possible while still being practical (ie still has skin and can carry a fair amount of storage and another person in comfort)
    • Can take a beating on landings
    • Can take off and land in ares that are completely unprepared (where 35 inch Bush Wheels come in handy)
    • Can fly very slow, and take off and land in short distances
    • Manoeuvres good at low speed

    Performance recommendations:

    Purely made for pure STOL like Lil’ Cub:

    • Stall speed: 0-20 mph (Not recommended because these planes have stuff like slats and ridiculous flaps and VGs that help them fly extremely slowly and the only way to get this slow in SP is to make the plane have a ridiculously low win load and that makes it fly really terribly, like it’s on rails, which is not good.)
    • Max speed: 50-70 mph
    • Weight: 550-750 lbs
    • Takeoff/landing distance: 5 to 50 feet
    • Wing load: plz don’t make one of these. They don’t work. You will have to make it sub 1lb/ft2 to get it to go slow enough

    If you didn’t get it, just don’t make these in SP. There are no slats or triple slotted flaps or VGs in SP. Yours won’t fly right. It will feel crap. Believe me.


    Cub sized plane (bush class)

    • Stall speed: between 0 and 40 mph (aim for around 35mph. This seems to be the sweet spot for bush planes)
    • Max speed: between 90 and 150 mph (more radical and draggy landing gear and engine power effects speed)
    • Weight: 750-1300 lbs
    • Take off/landing p distance: around 120 feet you should be aiming for. If you have a tail dragger, when you’re slowing down, the brakes should be about as powerful as it takes for the plane to balance on the main gear.
    • Wing load: 3-7 lbs/ft2. Just make your wings a realistic size and shape (usually the span is a little less than 1.5x the length of the aircraft)
    • Climb rate: 1000-2500 ft/min

    If you wanna make a traditional STOL aircraft, just build one of these. They’re pretty fun. Also there’s quite a lot of variation in performance in these planes because a lot of people modify them in their own way.

    Tourer (Like the Cessna 185)

    Long story short, make it perform a regular GA plane, but give it the ability to fly a little slower (stall speed around 50mph). Also storage space is important with these planes because they’re made to hau

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    Interesting. I might build my very first bush plane some time... any suggestions?

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    Seeing that you were going only 37 mph, I can only imagine how fun it would be to use this thing for extremely difficult landings, what exactly is the takeoff and landing distance? (The distance it takes to takeoff and land)

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    No one will probably get this but...He must be drinking Lord Vertice Lemonade.

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    Yeah. A plane like this should be able to do more than this using slats and vortex generators. Doing this with traditional nothing-special wings in SP is quite a feat @QingyuZhou

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    69.4k Chancey21

    Yes, it’s very easy in a well balanced Bush plane. High Critical AoA = low stall speed @QingyuZhou

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    Flying a bush plane with high angle of attack @jamesPLANESii

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    Saturday 10am NZST which is Friday afternoon / evening in the US @Viper3000ad

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    14.7k Viper3000ad

    Cool, when are you going to upload it?

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    What work irl? @QingyuZhou

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    Does it work irl?

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    XD @AerialFighterSnakes @KerlonceauxIndustries

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    It’s a conspiracy!!!

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    Manoeuvrability is actually pretty realistic :) @Thelegitpilot13

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    T

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    Noice!

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