Auto Credit Based on Apollo018362's Early Aviation Challenge
The Hawker Horsley
There is an inaccuracy in the torpedo*
The Hawker Horsley was a British naval torpedo bonber serving from 1926 to 1935 and served with navies such as greece and Denmark.
It was the last wooden aircraft made by the Hawker company.
some fun things
• designed by Thomas sopwith
(Yes that sopwith)
• two seat bi-plane
• 124 made in total
(For a widely used aircraft, this is the only one on the platform)
• speed is quite accurate (201 km/h)
hope you have fun with it :)
Specifications
Spotlights
- C47skytrain one month ago
General Characteristics
- Predecessor Early Aviation Challenge
- Created On Android
- Wingspan 58.3ft (17.8m)
- Length 37.3ft (11.4m)
- Height 14.0ft (4.3m)
- Empty Weight 7,928lbs (3,596kg)
- Loaded Weight 11,534lbs (5,231kg)
Performance
- Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.173
- Wing Loading 22.1lbs/ft2 (108.1kg/m2)
- Wing Area 520.9ft2 (48.4m2)
- Drag Points 11925
Parts
- Number of Parts 228
- Control Surfaces 15
- Performance Cost 767
@StraitAircraft Nah, let's just chalk it up to SP not knowing a thing about real-life weapon dimensions and call it a day. Still, let's see..... the Hawker Horsley was in service between 1927 and 1935, and the most likely air-dropped torpedo of that era would be an 18" Mark VIII, which had an explosive charge of about 320lb and a total weight of about 3,280lb.
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An in-game torp is about 250lb heavy, so the
massScaleneed to be set to 3280/250=13.12..
Through the use of a fuselage block with both width and height set to 0.9 (remember that one "block unit" in game equals to 0.5m so the fuselage would now have the same diameter as an 18" or 450mm torpedo), we can determine the first two values of its
scaleequals to 1.8 (which also meant that one vanilla in-game torpedo is about 10" or 250mm in diameter, good to know and I'll take note of that for my own future designs)..
And though the use of a reference image of a Blackburn Ripon, we can estimate the length of the torpedo using the in-game "blueprint" function; note that some foreshortening exist in the photo, so it needs to compensated for through some trigonometry (aka match the length of the torpedo in the picture then divide by the cosine of the foreshortening angle which is somewhere around 15 degrees), but the last value of its
scaleshould be somewhere around 2.75..
Now, for explosive scales.... @ReinMcDeer had an awesome chart for
explosionScaleof aerial bombs, and taking into the account that an average aerial bomb have about half its weight in the explosive filler, the 320lb TNT filler of our torpedo would have an equivalent explosive mass somewhere slightly larger than that of a 500lb bomb, so for simplicity's sake let's just put it somewhere about 1.06: the chart used a 500lb bomb as the "1" number which is about right given an IRL 500lb bomb have a lethal radius of about 80m, and by linear extrapolation between 500lb bombs and 1000lb bombs we get something like 1.056 for theexplosionScalarvalue..
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So ultimately this is what I've got, and preemptive apologies for the word vomit.
This is a V.2 of my pervious Hawker Horsley
@StraitAircraft 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@ThomasRoderick done!
@StraitAircraft ... yet somehow you still managed to mess up the image.
Remember, for simple images,
, and for images with embedded links,[](embedded link).@StraitAircraft @ThomasRoderick
YOOOOOOOOOOO
!This
Anyway the photo was to show you the torpedos work but instead I spent 1h learning image hosting on Simpleplanes.
It's something :)
@ThomasRoderick Though, it would be more convenient for Simpleplanes to have their own image hosting (it would be easier...)
@ThomasRoderick ahh ok
@ThomasRoderick am trying buy not working sia
@StraitAircraft For postimage use the "direct link", which for the particular picture is
https://i.postimg.cc/MT8TMC6H/Screenshot-20250204-161837-Simple-Planes.jpg
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... or just copy the "markdown" option in whole and call it a day, no extra formatting required.
@ThomasRoderick can you click on the image icon on the top of this post?
Maybye it works now?
!image
@ThomasRoderick
All good, wasn't meant to be so serious.
I just take care of the little things due to lack of time.
@StraitAircraft
Eh... wait, what? I'm not saying you're at fault - everyone have to begin somewhere, nay? And I can promise back when I first had my account I was much worse.
@ThomasRoderick Though, the Blackburn Ripon seems like an interesting plane, i will check that out!
@ThomasRoderick I'm so sorry :(
I was like 2 days old on this platform
@Seeras Sorry for the wording then.... turns out I'm still bad at NOT committing faux pas left and right, I see.... (So should I refer to you as a former mod then? And are curators mods?)
... and how much deeper did I just dig my own grave?
@StraitAircraft
Done 👌
@ThomasRoderick
Ex Mod Sounds sad..
Also, the proper name of the ex-mod was @Seeras, and for the number of active mods check this page. For added efficiency check the most recent comment from all of them then decide on whom to ping.
@StraitAircraft
Start with shit replicas and improve upon yourself, then one day you'll make good replicas, nay? Also, it's not called "determination", but rather somewhere between "autistic hyperfocus", "blatant insanity", and "uncontrollable urge to tutor someone else".
@ThomasRoderick I've read through that.
Man I'm just here to make shit replicas of planes that don't exist on this platform...
Though you determination is honestly concerning...
@ThomasRoderick Mb man
Good plane; tiny torp.
@Seers could you make this a successor post to
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/n10802/Early-Aviation-Challenge
Please
Sorry to disturb
@LonelySea22 Thank you! :)