This has taken me a VERY long time to make, mostly due to how fiddly the landing gear is! Anyway... it folds away as nicely as I can get it to go using the same sort of mechanical movement as the real thing.
Takeoff is reasonably challenging. You're going to want to use flaps and plenty of rudder control and nose up firmly and she lifts right off.
Also the arrestor hook can be deployed using the trim, which also trims elevators for landing. Combine that with flaps (VTOL) and come in at about 115 mph and it practically lands itself!!
If you find it to be a bit slidy in the air at low speed, just remove the fin stripes.
Enjoy and please upvote and leave comments. Credit to interdimensionalmeatpie who made the predecessor design which gave me the inspiration to do this. Had to re-upload because I forgot to fix the centre of gravity
Specifications
Spotlights
- BigCat 8.3 years ago
- Squageheimer 8.3 years ago
- TAplanes 8.3 years ago
General Characteristics
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 33.6ft (10.3m)
- Length 25.3ft (7.7m)
- Height 11.6ft (3.5m)
- Empty Weight 6,997lbs (3,174kg)
- Loaded Weight 7,727lbs (3,505kg)
Performance
- Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.258
- Wing Loading 28.0lbs/ft2 (136.5kg/m2)
- Wing Area 276.5ft2 (25.7m2)
- Drag Points 5035
Parts
- Number of Parts 142
- Control Surfaces 7
- Performance Cost 688
@coolhand83 https://www.simpleplanes.com/Forums/View/252462/Beta-Fine-Tuner-Mod-Fine-tune-position-and-rotation-without-leaving-the-edito?showAllComments=true
@coolhand83 is a mod that enables you to scale whatever you want and move it freely through your building to nudge things as desired
@marcox43 Also what is finetuner? Have I been making everything hard for myself by editing xml's ?!
@marcox43 Can you share ? I'd love to see it!
nice aircraft, i managed to get the front wheels a bit more to the inside using finetuner so now seems pretty well, very good sistem with the langing gear ;)