Well, here it is. The Howard H.P.W. 3400 (Howard’s hanky-pank wagon). I wasn’t able to complete the interior and some exterior details, like more complex wing structure, because I ran out of processing capacity. My poor phone :(
But she’s great fun to fly! Easy to fly, easy takeoff and landing, fun landings. She tends to nose-dive in the water though, so make sure you use full flaps, full throttle, and full pitch up to take off. To land in water is the same, except little to no throttle. There’s a gyro you can use to keep the nose up and steer in the water, but you don’t need it. Use one engine to turn! I really love this plane and worked hard on it (the hull was a real Duzie, to use the parlance of the time haha). I hope you guys love it too!
Edit: oops! I forgot! Thanks to @BogdanX, whose pontoons I used(Fairey w/floaters). My plan was to use them as placeholders/mock-up, then the part count got too high and I got too frustrated to design my own pontoons :/ maybe I’ll come back to it later...
All flight controls are standard.
Ag1- engine 1
Ag2- engine2
Ag3- gyro
Ag3+trim down- keeps the nose up in the water.
VTOL- flaps
Trim- trim
Landing gear- retract landing gear (no-duh I know, but they do retract!)
Enjoy!
(I’m sorry if anyone is offended by the term “hanky-pank”. If so, I can change the name.)
Specifications
Spotlights
- XjayIndustrys 6.3 years ago
- Synthex4060 6.3 years ago
- JettStorm 6.3 years ago
- getorge 6.3 years ago
- Chancey21 6.3 years ago
- RodWan 6.3 years ago
- FastDan 6.3 years ago
General Characteristics
- Predecessor Howard H.P.W. 3400
- Created On iOS
- Wingspan 135.3ft (41.2m)
- Length 85.0ft (25.9m)
- Height 43.2ft (13.2m)
- Empty Weight 26,317lbs (11,937kg)
- Loaded Weight 31,522lbs (14,298kg)
Performance
- Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.107
- Wing Loading 9.3lbs/ft2 (45.2kg/m2)
- Wing Area 3,406.1ft2 (316.4m2)
- Drag Points 29937
Parts
- Number of Parts 579
- Control Surfaces 12
- Performance Cost 1,994
I don’t mean to be a pushy self-promoter, but you might like my builds “Blurry Eyes” and “Le Grand Mort” for early aircraft builds (I’m sorry I don’t know how to add links in comments). @ThePrototype
:) thanks man!! @ThePrototype
I love it :)
Sweet, thank you! I’ll definitely keep that in mind :) @XjayIndustrys
Woah thats a big comment lol, yeah I fully get where you are coming from, I sometimes use an IPad 2. If you ever need someone to review anything let me know. @Hyattorama
Wow thanks man! What a great review! I’m pretty happy with how she turned out too haha. Yeah, the landing gear is funky, but that’s how they fold up on the real plane (Sikorsky s-38). Except on the real plane there’s a strut that attaches on the outside of the wheels, which I couldn’t figure out how to do. And yeah, I was a little disappointed about the interior... I had a lot of plans for it but my phone couldn’t take the part count and it was just constantly crashing. So I had to leave the cockpit and cabin sorta half-finished. Maybe if I get a better machine down the line I’ll come back to it... I also had some sweet radial engines to put on there but the part count again was just wayyy too high :( but I am using that radial engine on my next build ;)
Thank you again for the kind and thoughtful words, I really enjoyed reading that :) @XjayIndustrys
Wow, I took her for a quick fly just then, I found the aesthetics to be amazing in game (iOS) unfortunately I had to use low physics but no problem
The takeoff was excellent, I was in love with the LG struts and stuff but confused as to where the main gear retract (I have no idea about planes it’s based on) the flaps worked well and realistically and landing on all surfaces was a breeze.
110/100 for detail and realistic performance.
Well done
The only thing I would have changed is the colour on the sticks for throttle as I was pushing 4 engines¿ (minor detail)
It was great
I’m rewriting this in the comments so the user gets notified:
Thanks to @BogdanX, whose pontoons I used (Fairy Seaplane). I love that plane, btw, great work!
It won’t @Hyattorama
@Hyattorama I dont know. @Tully2001
@RodWan Will that affect my points/upvotes? (I know that’s kind of shallow of me, but still...)
Just copy the description over and delete the old one
I hadn’t considered that. Mostly I was embarrassed I had left such a glaring mistake. Is that how I’m coming off? Maybe I should take this down...(?) but thank you for the upvoe haha :/ @randomusername