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Swashplate concept

566 Yuvalk  9.7 years ago
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I wanted to see if it is possible to make relistic cyclic controls instead of the moving rotor people use.
The inner plate has a friction problem so spin the rotor only when there is no cyclic input given.

Controls:
Collective-VTOL slider
Cyclic-pitch and roll
Rotor spin-throttle

Please rate and comment if you have any suggestions, fixes or if you just want to say hi, and you can use that for your own builds as long as you give credit. Enjoy :)

General Characteristics

  • Created On iOS
  • Wingspan 34.4ft (10.5m)
  • Length 32.8ft (10.0m)
  • Height 23.0ft (7.0m)
  • Empty Weight 15,800lbs (7,167kg)
  • Loaded Weight 18,522lbs (8,401kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 1.455
  • Wing Loading 3,441.7lbs/ft2 (16,803.8kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 5.4ft2 (0.5m2)
  • Drag Points 24182

Parts

  • Number of Parts 326
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 737
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    14.0k ElijtheGeat
    pretty interesting
    9.7 years ago
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    152 helix
    Amazing piece!!
    9.7 years ago
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    5,521 Verdnan
    @Yuvalk Yeah I'm sill working out different methods of getting input to the rotor from the lower plate. I'm maybe bearings made of wheels. I'll try playing with yours some more and seeing what happens. Anyway heres a screenshot of mine. http://imgur.com/An6Rztd
    9.7 years ago
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    566 Yuvalk
    @Verdnan I guess you're talking about something you haven't published? Anyway, I tried wings at the start but they are very complicated and it's hard to make them connect symmetrically and keep their place. About friction, the only fix I can think of is making this thing much bigger and using wheels.
    9.7 years ago
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    5,521 Verdnan
    @Yuvalk
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    5,521 Verdnan
    Very nice. On mine I used wings which reduced the size greatly. Yours does seem to work a deal better though. I got mine flying at least but it makes some much friction the rotor don't spin consistently and I crash.
    9.7 years ago
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    566 Yuvalk
    Thanks everyone! Sorry for the weird explosions and stuff, I'm trying to figure out how to fix the inner plate so it will work as it should.
    9.7 years ago
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    18.6k Teus
    A beautiful peace of advanced enginering! A little glitchy but still really awesome! Keep the cool stuff coming, I'm subscibing you. :)
    9.7 years ago
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    25.2k JacobHardy64
    DANG! thats awesome, great job
    9.7 years ago
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    11.3k ahappyape
    Pretty piece of engineering. Consider yourself followed!
    9.7 years ago