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Rotary Flight control surface Aircraft

15 Yunkeru  6.6 years ago
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The rotors:
-Largest one = This will act as the wings.
-2 small rotors (Front) = This will act as forward elevators + ailerons
-2 small rotors (Back) = This will act as a rudder

Gyros are added to make flying a lot more stable and fun. You can disable it by pressing AC8, but it becomes wobbly. However, the concept works, without the gyros the aircraft only flies and maneuver like an "aircraft" if all rotors spin.

AC Functions:
No AC buttons is required to fly this
-AC1 and 2 DO NOT TOUCH, I lazily binded some items to it so they do not move, turning AC1 on will mess your flight up.
-AC8 controls Gyro
-AC7 controls a lame door (operate door only when stationary by sliding TRIM down)

How to fly:
1) Throttle 100% (Makes Rotors spin, and keep it at 100%)
2) VTOL Up (Throttle for engine)
3) Take off speed is 210-250mph
4) fly as any normal aircraft would with the pitch, roll and yaw function.

How to land:
1) Land as any normal aircraft would
2) Retard engines around 150feet (VTOL middle)
3) Spoilers on (VTOL down)
4) Main rotor becomes a spoiler (Trim down)
5) slow to 60-50mph (Throttle 0%)
6) Trim middle, VTOL middle
7) Taxi out of runway.

FINAL WARNINGS:
-DO NOT TOUCH AC1 and 2
-Never touch Trim for any flight purpose, ONLY Landing as a spoiler
-Do not push Trim up (it is optimized for down)
-This is not a helicopter, it is incapable of vertical or hover flight

EXTRA NOTES:
-it floats on water
-it can take off from water and land
-it turns really slow, expect a 6-9miles radius from base to final.

-Have Fun!!-

I am having too much fun with the free-spin feature I just discovered. So I thought about how the primary rotor on a helicopter replaces the need for wings and simply decided on making an entire aircraft with flight control surfaces that mimics a gyrocopter, since the rotor on the gyrocopter does not actually spin on it's own power, please pardon my methods of making it spin falsely.

If you like the concept, it would make me happy. I spent hours trying to figure out a concept that works and I am pretty happy with the results. Although I think it still needs to be optimized. Not the most efficient way of air transport but making things fly with the basic concept of flight is pretty exciting.

I am also not as skillful as most of you on here so I cannot really create aesthetically pleasing designs, I am more of a concept person.

General Characteristics

  • Created On iOS
  • Wingspan 87.7ft (26.7m)
  • Length 109.8ft (33.5m)
  • Height 20.8ft (6.3m)
  • Empty Weight 25,908lbs (11,751kg)
  • Loaded Weight 37,459lbs (16,991kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 1.559
  • Wing Loading 41.7lbs/ft2 (203.4kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 899.0ft2 (83.5m2)
  • Drag Points 10017

Parts

  • Number of Parts 243
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 1,010