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Vision ECON

10.3k VisionAviation  3.9 years ago

The Vision ECON is supposed to be the world's first commercial electric airliner. It's not the fastest, but very polar bear friendly! The name ECON stands for Electric CONstellation, with a nod to the Lockheed Constellation, which the ECON reminded me of.

Yes, I'm aware that this aircraft isn't actually electric.. It brings tears to my eyes but I just couldn't make an electric engine using the in-game parts, which would act and respond like a conventional engine. I did make a "functioning" electric engine at some point using the rotators, but this engine was either at 0% or 100% throttle and I couldn't figure out how to change this. Hence, why I made custom "electric" engines using the turboprops. In this case I chose a good handling aircraft rather than a crap flying aircraft with actual electric engines. So please use your imagination :)

Activation 7: Landing lights
Activation 8: All other lights

SLATS and FLAPS aren't in this version yet because I can't figure out how to do it yet. Unfortunately tomorrow it's Monday and work will begin again, but when I have some time free, FLAPS and SLATS will be my next focus. However, I really wanted to share my work so far so take this as a work in progress!

Any help on making rotator/electric engines and making flaps and slats would be more than welcome!

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 140.4ft (42.8m)
  • Length 141.5ft (43.1m)
  • Height 27.1ft (8.3m)
  • Empty Weight 98,902lbs (44,861kg)
  • Loaded Weight 137,511lbs (62,374kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 0.245
  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.349
  • Wing Loading 54.8lbs/ft2 (267.5kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 2,509.7ft2 (233.2m2)
  • Drag Points 22856

Parts

  • Number of Parts 478
  • Control Surfaces 6
  • Performance Cost 2,231
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    2,091 BadmanSalam

    That’s beautiful, really flowing and graceful.

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    371 Skullboi

    I like the support for these types of carbon reduction planes, thank you for building this, very cool plane

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    @Trainzo Thanks Trainzo, appriciate it!

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    42.7k Trainzo

    Very nice build . Great plane .

    +1 3.9 years ago
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    @BagelPlane Yeah, I looked into using rotators but unfortunately it seems to be impossible to have the throttle function gradually on rotators. It's either on or off. But I'll ask around if anyone knows if this is even possible.

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    24.1k BagelPlane

    Using rotator and/or air brakes you can make electric engines. You’ll have to ask around, because I don’t know the specifics in designing one.

    3.9 years ago