This is awesome! Drives like a champ, super durable, love the pontoon design. One suggestion- add a parking break perhaps? Something simple simple such as a piston that extends into the ground when activated, preventing the SnoCat from rolling away on you. Otherwise, great build!
@YarisSedan Pardon the late response; I currently do not have an estimate on when I'll finish the rover up. I am eager to finish it, but there's a few hurdles to overcome still. Primarily I don't know how to allow control of the main arm. There are four rotating joints, which each need independent articulation. The current plan is a deployable board of sliders/joysticks/switches that in a specific camera view users can interact with to move the arm around. Will it work? Maybe? Thankfully my semester is wrapping up and perhaps I can sink some more hours into this project over winter break. I appreciate the inquiry- its good to see I haven't been forgotten about in my hiatus 😂.
I quite frankly don't know. This is a really interesting topic to think about; what does happen when you accidently bump into someone that you've talked to over a airplane site in real life?
The results from your survey make sense, I believe it would be rather uncomfortable to be approached by a stranger claiming to know you from a relatively small game community on the internet. Luckily for us the chances are marginal, SimplePlanes is a smaller community and it's a big world.
Man, I'm glad to see this plane still being flown and updated. You've taken the part count down by almost a 100 pieces, and reduced the performance cost! I love how the cockpit was able to be simply switched out for the new instrument parts. When I've got some downtime I ought to start a 100% from-scratch updated version; new instruments, fuselage smoothing, and glass all to be included.
@GrFrog It would appear you cannot. In XML Overload you can change the Cowl Flaps option for hide to 'true', but that makes the entire engine base disappear, leaving you with just the prop hub head.
This reminds me of my early days playing SP, building many air-superiority jet fighters in the quest to make the best. I'll have to give this a fly tomorrow, looks very cool. I am a big fan of the internal weapons bay!
This is amazing! I was going to try this using the AngleOfSlip command and breaking the direction into x and y components to achieve the same effect, but why bother now!
Just spend a good while flying this thing and it is a blast!
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Took off from Wright Airport and headed towards Maywar. I was a tad bit shaky at first, but once above 15,000 feet the Draken handled amazingly. Great flight model, I don't know if this was an intended feature, but I like how the camera shakes a bit in the cockpit, especially when then parts are moving on the aircraft. I feel it captures that early jet age feeling. Coming in for a landing at Yeager wasn't too difficult, but I think I came in too fast, leading to the jet bouncing up a few times before finally settling into a roll down the runway. The landing gear is nice!
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Currently my only gripes are fuel consumption and the rear landing gear lights. For fuel, I may have just been running the jet at too high a power setting. With the landing gear lights, they look like they're just floating in front of the gear.
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In terms of aesthetics this plane is beautiful. The mixing of silver on the fuselage to look like different panels, roundels, and numbers all look so clean and crisp. The cockpit is amazing, and I really like how the canopy can be opened and features an ejection seat.
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TL:DR Great plane, deserves every upvote. Go fly!
@LIQUIDconsumer I believe you'd be better off using the rockets rather than cleavers for your JATO. Take a look at BogdanX's Tu-14, it has JATO rockets that you can disassemble to learn how they work.
@ACEPILOT109 is actually not as complicated as it seems. Modeling takes some time to learn, but free programs such as TinkerCAD and Blender work really well. As for printers, Creality and Prusa are some of the best.
Ah yes, another magnificent F-101 Voodoo has come to join the SP planes! Make sure to differentiate between A, B, C or RF version.
+2@F104Deathtrap Is this a coming project of yours?
+2WHAT. IS. THIS?
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Japanese German Corsair...
@WolfSpark we need to start a list. This is out of control.
+2Where do I find these missions in-game?
+2@BroAeronautics
+2@Eventkraken
@AWESOMNESS360
This makes me wish I had a PC even more.
+2Its so small!
+2How to you make it so that all three bombers are connected, so that they don't turn gray and disconnect when you take off the cockpit?
+2This is awesome! Drives like a champ, super durable, love the pontoon design. One suggestion- add a parking break perhaps? Something simple simple such as a piston that extends into the ground when activated, preventing the SnoCat from rolling away on you. Otherwise, great build!
+1I bet the longest part was waiting for it to update lol. Every time I've turned on the PS3 at my residence- surprise! -something needs an update.
This reply was made on a Framework Laptop 13.
+1Whooooo! And here's to SP2!
+1@YarisSedan Pardon the late response; I currently do not have an estimate on when I'll finish the rover up. I am eager to finish it, but there's a few hurdles to overcome still. Primarily I don't know how to allow control of the main arm. There are four rotating joints, which each need independent articulation. The current plan is a deployable board of sliders/joysticks/switches that in a specific camera view users can interact with to move the arm around. Will it work? Maybe? Thankfully my semester is wrapping up and perhaps I can sink some more hours into this project over winter break. I appreciate the inquiry- its good to see I haven't been forgotten about in my hiatus 😂.
+1I quite frankly don't know. This is a really interesting topic to think about; what does happen when you accidently bump into someone that you've talked to over a airplane site in real life?
+1The results from your survey make sense, I believe it would be rather uncomfortable to be approached by a stranger claiming to know you from a relatively small game community on the internet. Luckily for us the chances are marginal, SimplePlanes is a smaller community and it's a big world.
Man, I'm glad to see this plane still being flown and updated. You've taken the part count down by almost a 100 pieces, and reduced the performance cost! I love how the cockpit was able to be simply switched out for the new instrument parts. When I've got some downtime I ought to start a 100% from-scratch updated version; new instruments, fuselage smoothing, and glass all to be included.
+1@Thorne Thanks!
+1@OkaNieba yeah, it kind of does look like that
+1@GrFrog It would appear you cannot. In XML Overload you can change the Cowl Flaps option for hide to 'true', but that makes the entire engine base disappear, leaving you with just the prop hub head.
+1This reminds me of my early days playing SP, building many air-superiority jet fighters in the quest to make the best. I'll have to give this a fly tomorrow, looks very cool. I am a big fan of the internal weapons bay!
+1This is amazing! I was going to try this using the AngleOfSlip command and breaking the direction into x and y components to achieve the same effect, but why bother now!
+1Just spend a good while flying this thing and it is a blast!
+1>
Took off from Wright Airport and headed towards Maywar. I was a tad bit shaky at first, but once above 15,000 feet the Draken handled amazingly. Great flight model, I don't know if this was an intended feature, but I like how the camera shakes a bit in the cockpit, especially when then parts are moving on the aircraft. I feel it captures that early jet age feeling. Coming in for a landing at Yeager wasn't too difficult, but I think I came in too fast, leading to the jet bouncing up a few times before finally settling into a roll down the runway. The landing gear is nice!
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Currently my only gripes are fuel consumption and the rear landing gear lights. For fuel, I may have just been running the jet at too high a power setting. With the landing gear lights, they look like they're just floating in front of the gear.
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In terms of aesthetics this plane is beautiful. The mixing of silver on the fuselage to look like different panels, roundels, and numbers all look so clean and crisp. The cockpit is amazing, and I really like how the canopy can be opened and features an ejection seat.
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TL:DR Great plane, deserves every upvote. Go fly!
Good times!
+1@LIQUIDconsumer I believe you'd be better off using the rockets rather than cleavers for your JATO. Take a look at BogdanX's Tu-14, it has JATO rockets that you can disassemble to learn how they work.
+1Impressive, very well done!
+1Quick question: does the enemy tanks shoot?
+1I'll try to get ya a 4x4 armored vehicle for this.
+1This made my laugh. Nice work!
+1@RussianAce Ah, cool!
+1You’re an aircraft conisour, why wouldn’t you have 150 followers!
+1Someone better feature this.
+1Man, you’re wasting a perfectly good excuse to get out of some math work! Jk, stay safe.
+1Neat! What video editing software do you use?
+1Ah yes, the classic collison
+1Man, give this thing some better custom wings and it’ll be looking real sharp! The transition from cockpit to the tail is really smooth.
+1@FlyingPatriot Uh what’s with the random tag?
+1@Readmelt it turns out the new tank was a fake, just a clickbait forums post someone made
+1You better post that fugly X-32!
+1I'm tempted to give this old PC a heart attack
+1Big 1960’s era jet bomber
+1Panel lines, decals, rivets, vents, all the small stuff you see on a plane's fuselage.
+1@LieutenantSOT Np, often I see posts that are cool and forget to drop an upvote
+1This is a fantastic plane! The only thing that bugs me is the orange exhaust of the engines. There shouldn't be any afterburner.
+1Neat
+1Looks cool!
+1Awesome!
+1@ACEPILOT109 is actually not as complicated as it seems. Modeling takes some time to learn, but free programs such as TinkerCAD and Blender work really well. As for printers, Creality and Prusa are some of the best.
+1Yes. This would be a great mod/feature.
+1Bon anniversaire! 🎉
+1Smooth is right!
+1How are we supposed to shoot down other planes w/o missiles? Guns, cannons, rockets and everything else except for bombs don’t work in MP.
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