• Chantiers de la Loire 130 on the water, note the stern of the Seaplane Tender MN Commandant Teste on the background
  

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Part-Efficient Aircrafts~!!

weekeeeeendd chiipostinn per uusuuual!!
anyway, the now tangent I wanna ramble is.. in the past all the years the community has passed, and the fact that this is THE WWII standard-issue French ship-launched Seaplane, how have no one made a Loire 130? like yes I know the "hon hon french bad" thing might be a factor but like HOW

well that was my thought like before I started this Loire 130, I'ma be honest, it's a tedious aircraft to build, and to some, probably extremely difficult and especially so if you're trying to save part, but hey, I did it.. admittedly in a very large amount of part count for a standard PEA(and especially me who usually hovers between 60-70 parts nowsays) but yeah..

it's a pretty tedious one, matching this, seaming this smoothly, struts here, wings angled a bit there, it's kinda somewhat a decently tough woodbeam to crack(what), but I'm pretty proud of it, I mean it did to be fair probably won the award for the most tedious PEA I did so far but yeah, hell, I got a new part-saving trick invented for tail elevators so I'd say a very good tradeoff hell yea.

anyway, enjoy my rendition of the Loire 130, someone could probably use this as their seaplane if hon hon french ship and I would be glad if they do cause I wanna see the hognose-faced seaplane take flight from where she's supposed to launch from, and aaanyyywaaay, as usual, toos!!

|[ Controls ]|

• Standard Aircraft Controls
• AG1 : Pylon Turn mode
• AG2 : Manual Flaps & Trim Control
• VTOL : Flaps
  

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|[ Guidelines ]|

|[ Taxiing ]|

• hon hon driftou baybeeee

|[ Takeoff ]|

• Throttle full and Pitch HARD up, it'll takeoff. (if manual, set flaps to half-down and trim to full-down)

|[ Flight ]|

• Standard Aircraft Controls, AG1 to do the pylon turnips; 60-70% power cruise-arounds is fun with how slow it is in the air, and it's pretty nimble w. the turns too, courtesy of the slow speed of course.

|[ Landing ]|

• approach water slowly and adjust throttle accordingly, it retains energy quite well, so estimate on how long of a slow-down distance you need w. your engine power; usually you don't need Flaps, but in the case where you do, you're running a tad bit too slow, speed up a bit.
  

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|[ Armaments ]|

• 2x G2 75kg Bombs(from what I've gathered, it's basically an aerodynamicized 152/155mm naval shell, which is hella hilarious)
  

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|[ Notes ]|

• w e ball a g a i n
• honestly, could've done more? I don't know, it's just not possible to do a manually-controlled defensive machine gun, let alone two in span of four parts, nA
  

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|[ Credits ]|

• @TheCatBaron for the G-limiter
  

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if ya want to make an airbase, or maybe make an airwing for a carrier, or maybe to help battleships lead their shells, you can add and use any of my planes (unless you claim them as your own creation, i will damp your pillows if you do.)

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P.S. I'm somewhat closing Community PEA submissions(for now), and I've read some of some feedbacks, i take notice of in particular of course, the lack of quality, especially people mislabelling low-part as "PEA"(yes, miss lunar, i do regret it), and i suppose the lot of it is because they dont know HOW to save part, i don't blame them, but when i get the time, i hope to create a tutorial on how to save part, since I have quite some that i want to share, anyway, toos, and see you later when i get around again, chii-se ( = w = )