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These are two nearly idential airplanes to test out the effects of scaled wings. Both aircraft are the same except for the wings. The modded wings have ble trim. Both also use a pair of Akhtar04's mini fuel tanks to help factor out the weight of fuel in performance.
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 18.2ft (5.5m)
- Length 16.5ft (5.0m)
- Height 4.1ft (1.3m)
- Empty Weight N/A
- Loaded Weight 1,566lbs (710kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 2.152
- Wing Loading 2.4lbs/ft2 (11.8kg/m2)
- Wing Area 648.5ft2 (60.3m2)
- Drag Points 0
Parts
- Number of Parts 21
- Control Surfaces 5
- Performance Cost 171
Update 2- After testing this out a bit more, I'm convinced that the game still uses the original wingspan in show way. When rolling an airplane has a bit of of delay, and continues to roll for a bit after you return the stick to neutral, just like a big wing airplane. You can increase the control surface to account for this.
Update- The controls are a bit strange. Yaw and Roll act a big sluggish, as if you had bigger wings. Pitch is steady, but is hard to make minute corrections with. If you pull the nose up you can pull straight up with no problem, very quickly. You can loop in about 4 seconds or so. Even at high altitudes, where the wings don't do much, you'll still get some response here.
The autopilot seems to handle it all fine though. In some ways better that before. I think the scaling gives is more granularity in it's adjustments.
Well, I had to stop out for pizza, but so far:
lift and drag are based on the original, unscaled wing. The nodded airplane has a much shorter take off run, and overreacts to any flight adjustment by a human pilot. It also maxes out at 515 mph at 2000 feet, while the original plane could go over 2200 mph at that altitude.
But so far it looks like you could use this to put really tiny wings on a plane, even hide them entirely inside the fuselage and it will fly.
The results?