A plane powered by literal landing gear, I don't know anymore.
The upstroke of the wings is done by the flat bottom airfoil. Which means you have to keep moving forward to flap. The downstroke of the wings is done by the landing gear pushing the wings down. It needs so many wings so that the strain on each individual landing gear is less. It needs floppy rotators at the base of each wing to keep it in place, you can select the rotators so you know they are floppy.
How to use
Spawn at a final approach and keep toggling landing gear to flap. Controls like a normal airplane. Pitching up can make the upstroke happen faster, Pitching down can slow down or even stop the upstroke
Gifs
flying
Specifications
Spotlights
- XjayIndustrys 3.3 years ago
- MAINE 3.3 years ago
- MAHADI 3.3 years ago
- Sm10684 3.2 years ago
- FishMiner 3.3 years ago
- mikomiko 3.3 years ago
- MonikaAkiyama 3.3 years ago
- Wibbley 3.3 years ago
General Characteristics
- Successors 2 airplane(s) +70 bonus
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 76.0ft (23.2m)
- Length 146.7ft (44.7m)
- Height 20.9ft (6.4m)
- Empty Weight 24,677lbs (11,193kg)
- Loaded Weight 24,677lbs (11,193kg)
Performance
- Wing Loading 3.4lbs/ft2 (16.4kg/m2)
- Wing Area 7,359.8ft2 (683.7m2)
- Drag Points 12299
Parts
- Number of Parts 289
- Control Surfaces 28
- Performance Cost 2,375
Hint: Spam "G" Quicker To Flap faster
Its nice but creations like this make me wonder why SP doesn't have a Ornithopter tag
ornithopter
press f10 mid-flight
Sounds like a vaccum
@AWESOMENESS360 Better late than never...
I was, myself, wondering if one could simply replace them with Pistons on a Cycle instead of Gear, entirely...?
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Though, with FT, maybe one could take it a step further by limiting the Piston's "Speed", depending on which AG is toggled. And if it still needed more speed granularity, for anyone REALLY good at it (ie, not me lol), one could make it where multiple AG's turned on could act as higher settings.
IOW: 1-8 for the first 8 speed settings, then 1+2-8 for speeds 9-16, then 1+2+3-8 for speeds 17-26, etc etc.
(Although, by that point I'm sure the SP physics engine would decide to pack it in, blowing everything up lol)
Should I upvote or leave it where it is?
Brilliant!
@PPLLAANNEE ah I see now. cool brain!
@MAHADI each wing has a floppy hinge at the base and also a flat bottom airfoil, which means the wings will want to generate lift and angle upwards, when the landing gear fold up they allow the wings to go up, when the landing gear go down they push the wings back down.
how does it work..........
Accidently had it going backwards, it worked well! (until I crashed it)
it means oof
@PPLLAANNEE oof
@210100 what does that mean
@PPLLAANNEE uf
@210100 I already have a dragonfly and these wings flap too slowly to be agile
@SuperLJY maybe you are using a low physics setting or going too fast
@SuperLJY you can only spotlight builds of users that have less points than you.
hey guys i don't know where is spotlight button on phone.... anybody can help me plz ?
all wings destoryed when flap ... ?
hmm could be used if you build a dragonfly
I wonder if it’s possible to give those landing gear an FT Code, thereby automating the entire thing!