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He-29A Tornaden (For MrVaultech's Alternate WWII)

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A new ultra light torpedo carrier for the Kreigsmarine!

General Characteristics

  • Created On iOS
  • Wingspan 26.0ft (7.9m)
  • Length 20.6ft (6.3m)
  • Height 8.7ft (2.6m)
  • Empty Weight 4,161lbs (1,887kg)
  • Loaded Weight 5,169lbs (2,344kg)

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.193
  • Wing Loading 34.5lbs/ft2 (168.2kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 150.0ft2 (13.9m2)
  • Drag Points 1294

Parts

  • Number of Parts 72
  • Control Surfaces 5
  • Performance Cost 316
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    @ErnstHeinkel16 I recommend using fuselage blocks for future designs as this permits greater versatility. Did you try flying her after dropping the Boom-50? That 600 Lb of dead weight in the tail sent me into a flat spin when I pulled out of the dive. Torpedos used to be hard to use on SPs as you had to make them, well, you still do and it's complicated to boot. You have to put these bombs in fuselage blocks, give it some way of propelling itself in the water still make it float right and go in the direction you want it to. Anyway, since you used a Boom-50 I thought I'd try dive bombing, then the spin. Before my second flight I removed the balast in the tail and saw why you had it there, it would pitch forward on it's nose. Simple solution to that would be to change the wing layout just a tish and move the landing gear. I didn't change the wings I just made it very narrow track landing gear so that most of it still went under the wing while being moved forward. This balanced her out enough so that my next bombing run was perfect and she was surprisingly spritely in flight. After some aerobatic maneuvers I went back to bandit field. She has fair glide characteristics but the make shift modification I made with moving the wing gear in more made it a real challenge to land. It threatened to tip towards a wingtip a couple of times but a tap on the ailerons one way or the other prevented it from happening. lol Oh, on another note, the larger the propeller the more performance you can get out of her. I boosted the prop size and widenened them to the max and she practically leapt off of the ground.

    I am curious, why did you opt to use the unlimited fuel tank? I have one in my subassemblies with over 500 million gallons in it but still opt against using those on these Alternate WW2 builds. I think it's a matter of wanting to test myself, see what I can really produce with the approximate technology of the period. Even without that modded fuel tank a fuselage block could have carried fuel if you felt it needed it though to be honest I think what the wings carried was enough for her to have a fair range for a single T1000 prop engine. ^_^ BTW, the best torpedo design I've seen was mounted on a Swordfish Torpedo bomber made by tachibana. If you go under Airplanes to Search, you can search for "tachibana" and find that Swordfish to snag the torpedo for future builds. I suggest removing it by the pylon and dragging it to your' subassemblies like that. Once mounted on the aircraft use activation group 1 to launch it as that also starts up the propeller at the rear. Do not touch the modded propeller though as for some reason it reverts to normal size if you do. Just make sure you provide credit to tachibana for creating the torpedo.

    8.5 years ago
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    @MrVaultech

    8.5 years ago