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Simple Gee Bee r2 Improved

1,971 moonbat  4.5 years ago
Auto Credit Based on moonbat's Simple Gee Bee r1

I made some changes to make it look more realistic. It still flys like a GEE BEE.

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General Characteristics

  • Predecessor Simple Gee Bee r1
  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 32.5ft (9.9m)
  • Length 25.0ft (7.6m)
  • Height 12.8ft (3.9m)
  • Empty Weight 6,298lbs (2,856kg)
  • Loaded Weight 8,074lbs (3,662kg)

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.247
  • Wing Loading 27.7lbs/ft2 (135.2kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 291.6ft2 (27.1m2)
  • Drag Points 4741

Parts

  • Number of Parts 96
  • Control Surfaces 10
  • Performance Cost 367
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    30.3k ChiChiWerx

    Simple and nicely done Gee Bee. It kind of flies like a Gee Bee in that it’s very touchy and prone to stall and wing drop from the fact you’re using the symmetric airfoil with really large ailerons. The RL plane was very touchy due to being extremely short coupled with the short fuse and tiny vertical stab and rudder. But longitudinal stability isn’t done the same way in SP as IRL, so I appreciate your approach. Cockpit view is accurate with that long schnoz that’s really hard to see over and it’s fairly tough (but not impossible) to land correctly. I would suggest you reduce the forward traction on the brakes to .125 or lower as default SP brake effectiveness is way, way too high and the RL plane didn’t have the tendency to catapult onto its back if you simply brushed the brake pedals. The LG is a bit more widely spaced than the original, perhaps a concession to SP, or maybe use the Ortho feature next time you build a Gee Bee, which I encourage you to do as you’re just starting out, care about the flight modeling and a really nice, detailed build of this airplane is what we need on the site.

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    1,971 moonbat

    @F4f879 Thanks!

    4.5 years ago
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    11.9k senalPelpmiS

    It’s tariffing that someone actually flew this thing!

    4.5 years ago
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    21.8k F4f879

    i love how you did this!

    4.5 years ago
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    1,971 moonbat

    @ChiChiWerx I uploaded an improved model.

    4.5 years ago
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    30.1k Rondine

    Wow

    4.5 years ago