Here is the Odyssey, a jet seaplane that thinks it's a helicopter. Designed to use as a guide plane or for divers, it can take off vertically and land nearly so. It's kinda of experiment to see if I could do a full things, but it's still kinda fun to fly.
Controls:
Landing Gear raises the landing gear jets and transitions the craft from vertical to forward flight.
AG1 turns the running lights on/off.
AG6 opens the door panels
AG7 opens up the windows
Flight Notes:
Taking off is easy, just apply throttle and it will take off at 44% or higher,then press G to transition to normal flight mode.
Water Take Off: Pitch up to pull the forward jets are out of the water and power up, then pitch down just enough to pull the rear jets out of the water. When that happens and all four jets are going, you're flying.
Piloting is a bit tricky- it handles like a cross between a light prop plane and a helicopter. Pull it too hard, too quickly, in any one direction and it will take a bit of time to stabilize again. General to make a sharp turn gradually increase the angle of bank, and add yaw too.
To land, well your guess is probably as good as mine, but just to give you a start, my guess is to cut throttle down to around 40-45%, and transition the landing gear to vertical flight. Pull up on the nose as needed to reduce speed. At 40-45% with the shocks, you have some leeway on landing and can slide a little or take a hard drop without going boom.
Range and mileage on this thing is lousy. It can fly about 45 miles on 210 gallons, for a whopping 4.8 gallons per mile. For those who rather have fun that have a realistic fuel capacity I've included on of Akhtar04's (https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/3uDHGF/mini-fuel-tank15-695gal-14lbs) mini 15,000 gallon fuel tanks, which you can hide in the fuselage somewhere.
Specifications
Spotlights
- Zyvx 5.8 years ago
General Characteristics
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 18.5ft (5.6m)
- Length 29.4ft (9.0m)
- Height 11.9ft (3.6m)
- Empty Weight 5,316lbs (2,411kg)
- Loaded Weight 6,731lbs (3,053kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 2.003
- Wing Loading 78.2lbs/ft2 (381.6kg/m2)
- Wing Area 86.1ft2 (8.0m2)
- Drag Points 3304
Parts
- Number of Parts 127
- Control Surfaces 5
- Performance Cost 586
@Zyvx Do you think you could land this? https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/uFvWzQ/Folding-VTOL-miniplane
@Zyvx Glad you like it. I did have a couple of variants, trying to expand on the passenger compartment. I was thinking that it could work as a sort of futuristic Sky Ambulance/Life-flight or, with a redesign, as a modular plan that could swap out passenger and cargo sections.
Pretty neat, feels like a hover car. I noticed if I pull the nose up and land at 30 mph or less it's a easy landing. Handles good. Fun concept. Nice job.
@emigdio2000 LOL! Who is? What's it doing? I've crashed it more than anyone else, so I might have a clue as to whatever problem it's giving you.
Cool but I'm not good at piloting it.