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The Egg Beater v6.0 FINAL

328k SpiritusRaptor  8.8 years ago
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Final submission for the Shark Tooth Prop Race.

I'm sure this will crash on the first round (I've tweaked it to around 9 times out of 10 it wont crash or hit the water... But!)

Anyways, its been fun making this one and it has a special propulsion unit attached to the rear.

The race is on in 8 hours, good luck everone!
SR

General Characteristics

  • Predecessor The Egg Beater v6.0
  • Created On Mac
  • Wingspan 22.7ft (6.9m)
  • Length 30.1ft (9.2m)
  • Height 6.4ft (1.9m)
  • Empty Weight 5,357lbs (2,430kg)
  • Loaded Weight 6,381lbs (2,894kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 2.817
  • Wing Loading 17.7lbs/ft2 (86.3kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 360.9ft2 (33.5m2)
  • Drag Points 227

Parts

  • Number of Parts 52
  • Control Surfaces 16
  • Performance Cost 232
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    150 thespyeye

    This thing won? No offense but it looks kinda strange...

    8.7 years ago
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    26.3k BRuthless

    @SpiritusRaptor They probably won't even do one full rotation, so they should be quite accurate. They come into that box where I already placed two gears, which don't work. :D Just two gears at the moment for testing purposes. It needs another one on the other side for the other wing.

    8.8 years ago
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    @BRuthless Just read this again... so where to do the gears come into it? purpose? they sping or just move for small adjustments?

    8.8 years ago
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    26.3k BRuthless

    @SpiritusRaptor Did you take a look at it yet? :)

    8.8 years ago
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    28.3k JShay

    Congrats on the win! 👍

    8.8 years ago
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    26.3k BRuthless

    @SpiritusRaptor Here is the ISCS prototype. Hope you can do something to the gear system and make it work. It also needs a gear on the other side though, I only have one on one side now for testing. I also figured that I need a gear system to change the rotation around. At the moment it would roll to the left when the aircraft is banked to the left already. :D

    8.8 years ago
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    26.3k BRuthless

    It's upside down now. @goboygo1 Thanks, though I don't know how that changed your life yet. :D

    8.8 years ago
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    28.3k goboygo1

    uh, what happened to the comment system?

    8.8 years ago
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    28.3k goboygo1

    @BRuthless i wish i could upvote your comment. i think you changed my life permanently.

    8.8 years ago
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    @BRuthless I'm with you... hmm.... maybe doable in a simple way... thinking now...

    8.8 years ago
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    Wow

    8.8 years ago
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    26.3k BRuthless

    @SpiritusRaptor It's a part of the Inertial Stability Control System I have mentioned somewhere in the comments under my MiG-21Bis, which is basically a mechanical flight computer and autopilot. It will help making huge cargo and passenger planes, bombers and even airborne aircraft carriers easier to fly, especially when they're unbalanced or you want to have your pitch, roll and yaw controls exclusive for something else (like flying another plane, controlling a cruise missile or guided bomb) without the other plane crashing through steering inputs that weren't meant for it. But I don't think I could make it small enough to fit it into normal sized aircrafts. But something of the size of my Amphibious Stratosphere Cargo Transporter would be possible. The gear system I need is actually for the roll, the pitch is very easy to make and I only have to attach elevators and of course some rotators and steering rods to it. There are two free swinging weights on rotators - one swinging forwards and backwards for the pitch and one swinging sideways for the roll. The gravity pulls the weights straight downwards, with a deviation from beeing level automatically resulting in counteracting pitch and roll controls to level the plane out. Pretty much like a gyroscope, but way bigger and simpler. Building an actual gyroscope would be very difficult, atleast taking the steering inputs from it would be. :D I think this is something that would make atleast some builds in SimplePlanes way more advanced.

    8.8 years ago
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    8,104 LofiTurtle

    Man. I'm proud of mine's time but it uses the new props... This here pulling off 1:07's and stuff isn't going to be beaten by much

    8.8 years ago
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    @BRuthless Ok, let me know when you have uploaded it... sounds interesting!

    8.8 years ago
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    26.3k BRuthless

    I'd upload my project unlisted, but I don't have uploads left and need one of them for my new racer. There are three axes coming together into one "gearbox", which is 3 x 3 x 3, all axes are attached to rotators on the outside (through nudging). The axis in the middle of the other two has a torque it shall transfer to the other two axes. Basically I only need three working gears, so they are all connected and the two outgoing axes have a different rotation from each other (left axis rotates right, right axis rotates left, while middle axis rotates right and provides power). It's hard to explain. Maybe I can make a screenshot. :)

    8.8 years ago
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    @BRuthless Gears are a serious pain... Let me think about it, but why not attach a rotator at 90 degrees to another rotator, then nudge it into the rotator to get the right axis/angle, test and then attach the main part to it... move both rotators out of the way and see if that works... actually, can you explain a bit more what you are wanting to do? maybe I dont picture it right...

    8.8 years ago
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    26.3k BRuthless

    @SpiritusRaptor You mean using the attachment points of rotators so transfer the spin 90° to the side? I don't think that's possible. I mean, I've got everything else figured out, just the actual gears are missing. :D I just can't get them to touch each other without beeing attached to each other. That's my only problem.

    8.8 years ago
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    @BRuthless I reckon this is a rotator nudging exersize... the main points of axis (if that makes sense) are not the rotators, but the first part that is attached to them. So one can set up the configuration focussing on these parts, the rotators will be where they will be and you'll move them our of the way anyway... Hope this makes sense.. @Authros is a master at this!

    8.8 years ago
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    26.3k BRuthless

    @SpiritusRaptor And actually...What's the smallest gear system you could think of in SP? I need sprockets that transfer torque from one axis to two axes which are at a 90° angle to the first axis inside a 3 x 3 x 3 box, kind of like this -|- . Of course the two axes would spin in different directions, that's exactly what I need. :D I can't get my gears working. They are either attaching to each other or move through each other without collision. Do gears even work properly in newer versions? Thanks in advance! :)

    8.8 years ago
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    @BRuthless Thanks. And not sure, I'm just watching the mph :)

    8.8 years ago
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    26.3k BRuthless

    Nice airbrake in the back there! Do the propellers actually create thrust? They don't seem to be getting any air. :D

    8.8 years ago