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alpha

30.0k 32  2.0 years ago

One of the most maneuverable and difficult to fly planes on the site

alpha is a PSM variant of a plane I've been working on for a long time. It's a stunt plane, and it doesn't come with any weapons or anything. It can do post-stall maneuvers without thrust vectoring; as you can see in this GIF:


Which means it can do some insane stunts:


since it doesn't have thrust vectoring, it uses a gyroscope (Activation Group 2). You'll want to keep it on most of the time. Some people consider this cheating, but I wanted to make a plane truly unique to SimplePlanes. It's probably my favorite plane to fly around at the moment, and it utilizes a flight model I've stumbled across that is in my opinion one of the smoothest flying planes on the site. link here
It is mobile friendly, and I can run it on high graphics on my $400 potato laptop without getting frame drops. Those GIFs do have low frame rates; that's just because they are GIFs. My actual framerate was ~30 FPS

It may look terrible but try it out. You won't be dissapointed.

unless you're IalsoBuildPlane:

(all apologies to him for this screenshot)
Anyway, thanks for reading and have fun!

General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 32.0ft (9.8m)
  • Length 33.7ft (10.3m)
  • Height 13.0ft (4.0m)
  • Empty Weight 9,489lbs (4,304kg)
  • Loaded Weight 11,062lbs (5,017kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 15.236
  • Wing Loading 58.3lbs/ft2 (284.7kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 189.7ft2 (17.6m2)
  • Drag Points 5248

Parts

  • Number of Parts 41
  • Control Surfaces 3
  • Performance Cost 376