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LARP-01 "Birdy"

2,055 Subsere  25 days ago

A light reconnaissance aircraft built by Subsere, capable of carrying a pilot and a single passenger. Designed for low cost, it's hardly a speed demon. Still, it has good visibility and is quite reliable.

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General Characteristics

  • Successors 1 airplane(s) +7 bonus
  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 38.7ft (11.8m)
  • Length 23.9ft (7.3m)
  • Height 11.2ft (3.4m)
  • Empty Weight 1,845lbs (836kg)
  • Loaded Weight 2,105lbs (955kg)

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.213
  • Wing Loading 12.4lbs/ft2 (60.8kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 169.2ft2 (15.7m2)
  • Drag Points 2142

Parts

  • Number of Parts 66
  • Control Surfaces 7
  • Performance Cost 458
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    5,328 Trainz448

    @Subsere Oh. Ok, good to know

    yesterday
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    2,055 Subsere
    yesterday
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    5,328 Trainz448

    Hope you don't mind, but I modified this to be a twin engine floatplane. Same basic fuselage, but there's a nose cone where the original engine is, and I put the engines in pods under the wings.
    Here is the plane in question:
    https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/TC0DIy/LARP-02-Sea-Birdy

    yesterday
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    @Subsere good… good

    12 days ago
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    2,055 Subsere

    @GuyWhoBuildStuff That hurts to look at.

    12 days ago
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    @Subsere Bloom?

    17 days ago
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    2,055 Subsere

    @YarisHatchback I may have overdone it a bit.
    All in the name of being eye-catching.

    18 days ago
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    damn that bloom effect is crazy

    18 days ago
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    2,055 Subsere

    @JBPAviation You can't see it, but it's reinforced.

    +1 18 days ago
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    6,702 JBPAviation

    @Subsere Oh my bad sorry. How did I not think of that? It makes so much more sense and the physics will definitely work with hard plastic, duh!

    18 days ago
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    2,055 Subsere

    @JBPAviation It's hard plastic.

    18 days ago
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    6,702 JBPAviation

    Attaching wings to glass is a new one🤔

    18 days ago
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    41.8k Graingy

    Hm.

    18 days ago
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    2,055 Subsere

    @Graingy Yes.
    That reminds me, @GuyWhoBuildStuff

    18 days ago
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    41.8k Graingy

    Is this Eel War?

    23 days ago
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    41.8k Graingy

    @Subsere Aight dawg

    24 days ago
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    2,055 Subsere

    @Graingy This is much more affordable.

    24 days ago
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    41.8k Graingy

    @Subsere Hm. Good luck with that. Kinda reminds me of Graingy's Sky Gondola. At least the glass canopy does.

    24 days ago
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    2,055 Subsere

    @Graingy Yes, keeping cost low was a priority. It's a highly affordable aircraft, and should be competitive in the civilian sector as well.

    24 days ago
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    41.8k Graingy

    So cheap it uses a fixed pitch propeller, eh?

    24 days ago