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I really love this design, but no matter what tweaks i make I cant get it to fly properly. Ive manipulated the COM, COT, and COL as much as i could and it will not fly properly regardless of what I do, please help!
Specifications
Spotlights
- Tookan 3.4 years ago
General Characteristics
- Created On iOS
- Wingspan 53.5ft (16.3m)
- Length 50.8ft (15.5m)
- Height 8.7ft (2.6m)
- Empty Weight N/A
- Loaded Weight 32,521lbs (14,751kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 7.946
- Wing Loading 214.9lbs/ft2 (1,049.0kg/m2)
- Wing Area 151.4ft2 (14.1m2)
- Drag Points 7470
Parts
- Number of Parts 61
- Control Surfaces 4
- Performance Cost 572
@Kerrak I did everything I could, short of adding servos to give it thrust vectoring, or changing wing/engine angles. :\
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It at least flies now in a kinda-sorta stable way, so long as you don't look at it too funny... But hoo-boy does it have considerable nose-down (in part due to having a couple dead sumo wrestlers packed into the nose-cone...). which I just couldn't rectumfry unfortunately :(
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/1V5rD0/Kerraks-Ship-Mk-ICXVII-f
What I'm finding is that it mainly has too low of a lifting area.
I've added internal (mostly hidden completely from view) wings and it flies now, but it is oh-so-horribly sluggish to respond, and under just the turbo-fans, barely wants to go anywhere.
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It also seems to have quite a high stall speed, which makes any serious attempts at climbing rather difficult...
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I'm just trying to work out the responsiveness at the moment though.
I DO have a really nifty visual glitch happening with my designer view, which sadly doesn't get captured in a screenshot. It's basically like X-Ray Mode except everything is colored (so it looks really cool) paired with a "Clipping" effect (which ruins the coolness of the x-ray heh).
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EDIT: Oh... derp. The turbofans aren't the ones that are enabled by default... hahah GG me :} That sure does explain why changing their power scalar isn't impacting speed at all!
@Formula350 thanks! I built another similar plane ground up and found that hiding a jet in the front helped stability tremendously
TWO HUNDRED
and SIXTY EIGHT
BILLION
Gallons of fuel?!?!? lmao
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That's some impressive Quantum Storage fuel tanks you've got goin on, given it only ends up weighing 35,500lbs!
Anyways I'm no expert but having just gone through all that with what I uploaded last night, I'll see if I can figure something out heh If not through normal UI accessible stuff, then with using Overload mod... fingers crossed
@iniMiiW thank you my man, I’ve gotten it flying a few times, but it starts spinning in circles… like a car doing a donut in midair. The engines are in AG 12&4 btw, but the main one should be totally sufficient for its weight. Also AG4 +vtol =surprise
I can't fix this, but quite possibly others so I've spotlighted it :)