This very rough looking aircraft turned out to be a test bed for what might be (or not) a new way of putting big wings on an aircraft and then adding control surfaces, without using a mod. Read the post below for more info.
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 162.1ft (49.4m)
- Length 139.4ft (42.5m)
- Height 43.4ft (13.2m)
- Empty Weight 69,428lbs (31,492kg)
- Loaded Weight 162,044lbs (73,502kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 1.664
- Wing Loading 26.9lbs/ft2 (131.3kg/m2)
- Wing Area 6,025.1ft2 (559.8m2)
- Drag Points 38347
Parts
- Number of Parts 83
- Control Surfaces 13
- Performance Cost 548
Cool man, looking forward to seeing it :) do you mean ‘Overload’? @Mickk
Well. It seems I must have been so eager to have this work that I was seeing things that were not actually happening or maybe they were, but then 'broke' for some unknown reason.
Long story short, there is a version in the works that uses the 'Overpower' XML editor to add controls surfaces to structual wings.
The only other way is to use groups of short normal wings in a similar manner in order to stop them 'flapping', which would probably be even more tedious than trying to get this way to work, which as I have said previously is very fiddly.
On that note, I do have a sort of complete version of the aircraft, bomb doors and so on, no bomb sight..... yet and waiting on an answer to a forum post about Turrets and the game AI before I put those on.
@Hyattorama Not yet, I'm only just getting my wings on as it were. :p
Haha wow that was a lot of information. Have you started using XML modding yet?
@Hyattorama No idea if this is how you tag someone. I hope it is.
Anyway, some advances. I have a version which now has clean wings.
Unfortunatley doing that also 'broke' some of the control surface installations. The wings look much better than the 'Frankenstein' version though.
Once I get further along, such as putting doors on the bomb bay, which will happen after figure out just exactly how I'm going to set it up so it is all nice and neat, then I may post that version.
I also have an idea on how to make a 'bomb sight', for better bombing, but we will see how that goes. :F
There will be an update of this soonish, time permitting.
Did I mention this was a work in progress?
Just in case, this.
It's big and not very pretty, but it flies pretty well.
The usual controls for flight, trim does what it normally does and controls the flaps on the main wings.
I realized the other day that you can put a fuselage/fuel tank on pretty much any other part and have it stick.
So, I made a very small fuselage part, stuck one on either end of a wing and managed to get it to stick to structual wing.
Instant control surface. Not really.
It is fiddly way to do it, one end will stick, while the other flaps, then the other way around, but if you stick to it, you can make it happen.
The tail assembly took me a good 1/2 hour to get right.
All of the control surfaces are main wings, as that is what I got to work the first time, so every control surface is 'hand tuned' to do a job.
As a side note, H.A.B means "High Altitude Bomber", that is why there is big hole in the middle of the plane.
My next job is to figure out how to put doors there that don't make the plane explode on generating. lol
Anyway, have a look, tell me what you think.
I love big aircraft other people have built, but the rotator noise can be annoying after a while. This way might be a quieter way to do it and with some cosmetic work this won't look like something cobbled together by a crazy man..... Oh wait it was!
Muahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!
@Hyattorama