Auto Credit Based on Sockdragger's Stork STOL testbed
My old 'Stork' VTOL research plane fitted with two pairs of foldable wings.
When deployed they triple the total wing area and lower the takeoff speed from 95 to 50 mph. However it took me a whole day of tinkering to get the position of the wing joints right and deploying the STOL wings in flight is still pretty tricky. So all in all, it seems that deployable extra wings are possible but not an ideal solution unless you are prepared to do some serious fine tuning.
Feel free to download the plane and experiment yourself though
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Predecessor Stork STOL testbed
- Created On Android
- Wingspan 32.5ft (9.9m)
- Length 21.4ft (6.5m)
- Height 8.5ft (2.6m)
- Empty Weight N/A
- Loaded Weight 4,078lbs (1,850kg)
Performance
- Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.072
- Wing Loading 7.6lbs/ft2 (37.1kg/m2)
- Wing Area 536.2ft2 (49.8m2)
- Drag Points 1233
Parts
- Number of Parts 45
- Control Surfaces 10
- Performance Cost 317
