@TheOwlAce OMG! I think I figured out how to find your' XML files man!! Type in: C:\users(computer name)\AppData\LocalLow\Jundroo\SimplePlanes The very first folder should be AircraftDesigns, and that has all of your' xml files in it. You can open them with Notepad and just save when you're done. Do not change any of the ai planes though! You might have to access this as administrator but I don't think so.
Edit there should be a slash between users and the computer name part. By computer name, I mean whatever you called your' machine when you first set it up. I think you can see that in your' system properties.
@TheOwlAce Beat you to what?? O.o A new night fighter? I'd planned all along to make a night fighter version of the Lumimyrsky once I saw how radical her performance was. Heck, I've been considering a third version as a long range escort fighter. XD
@MikuKat There's an age regulation? O.O;; -scurries over to the rules to look- Oh, suppose I should let @MrVaultech know to take him off of Finland for the RP. Darn it, he designed the Ringed Seal-Class of submarine, practically a submersible cruiser. >.<
@MrVaultech You just have to know what to look for. A commonly accepted myth was that the US was the first nation to break the sound barrier. Numerous accounts from Luftwaffe pilots of controls becoming sluggish or even frozen at a certain point in their velocity, followed by a shudder in the airframe, and suddenly being able to use the controls of their Me-262s again have been made. Although these accounts are identical in description to the effects of approach and breach of the sound barrier, because they did not have air speed indicators that went that high on the Me-262, it is conveniently left out of history. There's actually quite a lot of history you will not find by merely looking up the topic, you need to look for specific events, places and so on. There are a couple of chapters in the Holocaust itself you will not find in the history books outside of Israel but if you look up the specific events you can find the details. It's like hiding facts in plain sight. Working on my next Finnish product I was looking at a 1941 map of Canada showing population density/distribution. Then I looked into specific air bases on both the East and West coast, history of RCAF squadrons, locations of major industries in Canada and the Northeastern US, etc. You find all sorts of off the wall details. As for Germany's post war plans its something that wasn't widely distributed in the West but every schoolchild in Eastern Europe would know, at least, parts of it. Look up Siege of Leningrad, for info there. Look up History of Estonia, World War II, for details there. Any demographic of Estonia will tell you of the indigenous peoples' relation to the Finns. For Karelia, look up German post-war plans for the Ukraine and Russia specifically. Karelia, or Karjala in Finnish, has been cut up and divided many times - including at the end of the real WW2. The territory Finland was forced to cede to the Soviets was added to another part of Karelia that had been a part of Russia since the days of Imperial Russia. Yet today another part of Karelia still belongs to Finland. lol (Confusing, isn't it?) As far as the policy regarding Switzerland, this page gives a step by step of how Switzerland nearly got roped into the war one way or the other and defends their neutral stance. Wiki is not a strong source, though they cite ample sources but a lot of info about the German's feelings towards Switzerland on this page. If you want more sources for that, they're ample. On that same page at the bottom there is a link to The Greater Germanic Reich which erroniously shows all of Ingria, Karjala and Northern Sweden as being in German hands as where other sources clearly indicate that Hitler felt that Karjala was of no value for German colonization. This site also talks about the plan to incorporate Sweden and the plan for what to do with Northern Sweden; Sources cited.
@MrVaultech I apologize if the long articles on bits of history are annoying. As one who is sincerely interested in history and how things may have played out if one event or another had gone differently my instincts as a writer go crazy. Anytime I'm working with historical matters I dig deep into every source of history I can find to understand as many facets of it I possibly can to get a more clear picture of the scenario. This has no bearing on your' story, how its written, what has or what hasn't happened though. I just thought I would share.
lol You found yourself a bug. Just because the wheels are mounted on short pylons it shouldn't shake like that!! lmao @AndrewGarrison Is this normal or is this, in fact, a bug?
@LouisEP I felt sorry for the poor polar bear, forcing him to drop his delicate parts on the runway over and over, so I hit F10 and put him out of his misery. lol
@LouisEP Good job! Its long span horizontal stabilizers actually really help with this aircraft's stability and maneuverability. I destroyed a bridge with the rockets and left a crater in Bandit Airport with the bomb. :-D
This is a fun airplane to fly. For some reason the gun fell out of the nose though, after I took off. I'm thinking, "Wow, this is handling well," and zoom - there goes my gun flying over the back of the plane. lol Its a great start as your' first build if I'd say anything to help it would be to test, test and test, because some fool is going to try it sometime. lol The other is being careful with control surface sizes. Keep up the good work! ^_^
Favorited, I've loved the F-14 since as far back as I can remember and remember the first one I saw when I was merely 5 years of age at a Point Mugu or Port Hueneme air show. (I don't remember which.) I was a sad sad day when the last of the F-14s were retired. The hope that we would still see them in airshows was further dashed when the DoD decided to shred them to prevent parts from winding up in Iranian hands via the black market. To know that there was a program to upgrade the Tomcat for the 21st century that never went forward upsets me a bit. Heck, raise sales tax by 0.05% for a month and you'd have the funds. -cry-
I don't know how you do it but this is so adorable I expected if I pressed F10 confetti and candy might come flying out of it. XD Great job, planning to do anymore Hasegawa inspired egg planes?
@ErnstHeinkel16 I recommend using fuselage blocks for future designs as this permits greater versatility. Did you try flying her after dropping the Boom-50? That 600 Lb of dead weight in the tail sent me into a flat spin when I pulled out of the dive. Torpedos used to be hard to use on SPs as you had to make them, well, you still do and it's complicated to boot. You have to put these bombs in fuselage blocks, give it some way of propelling itself in the water still make it float right and go in the direction you want it to. Anyway, since you used a Boom-50 I thought I'd try dive bombing, then the spin. Before my second flight I removed the balast in the tail and saw why you had it there, it would pitch forward on it's nose. Simple solution to that would be to change the wing layout just a tish and move the landing gear. I didn't change the wings I just made it very narrow track landing gear so that most of it still went under the wing while being moved forward. This balanced her out enough so that my next bombing run was perfect and she was surprisingly spritely in flight. After some aerobatic maneuvers I went back to bandit field. She has fair glide characteristics but the make shift modification I made with moving the wing gear in more made it a real challenge to land. It threatened to tip towards a wingtip a couple of times but a tap on the ailerons one way or the other prevented it from happening. lol Oh, on another note, the larger the propeller the more performance you can get out of her. I boosted the prop size and widenened them to the max and she practically leapt off of the ground.
I am curious, why did you opt to use the unlimited fuel tank? I have one in my subassemblies with over 500 million gallons in it but still opt against using those on these Alternate WW2 builds. I think it's a matter of wanting to test myself, see what I can really produce with the approximate technology of the period. Even without that modded fuel tank a fuselage block could have carried fuel if you felt it needed it though to be honest I think what the wings carried was enough for her to have a fair range for a single T1000 prop engine. ^_^ BTW, the best torpedo design I've seen was mounted on a Swordfish Torpedo bomber made by tachibana. If you go under Airplanes to Search, you can search for "tachibana" and find that Swordfish to snag the torpedo for future builds. I suggest removing it by the pylon and dragging it to your' subassemblies like that. Once mounted on the aircraft use activation group 1 to launch it as that also starts up the propeller at the rear. Do not touch the modded propeller though as for some reason it reverts to normal size if you do. Just make sure you provide credit to tachibana for creating the torpedo.
@Solarisaeroworks Dang! If that level flight speed is at 5,000 feet that's the highest performing prop job I've heard of. Mine typically don't hit the 700 range until about 15,000 feet to 20,000 feet. XD
She does carries a fair warload at 750 Lb. but that's pretty light compared to the Dauntless's 2,250 Lb. and the Avenger's 2,000 Lb. of Bombs or a 2,000 Lb Torpedo. Also the aircraft is smaller than either and so would likely carry less fuel while she carries two very thirsty jet engines. Armament wise she's better off than the Dauntless as you can turn that turret fully 45 degrees to the right or left. The Avenger's turret only had a single gun mount so its better than that BUT it also had a ventral rear firing machine-gun that killed many Japanese pilots though who would exploit this typical carrier based bomber's weak spot. Even Saburō Sakai, the leading Japanese Ace of WW2, made that critical mistake and went nearly completely blind from that gun blowing apart his windscreen and instrument panel sending glass shards into his eyes.
She'd be a great forward marine air base close air support aircraft though. If the arrestor wires could sustain 6 1/4 tons of aircraft hurtling in for a landing at 200~240 mph-ish landing I'd even say she's well suited to navy escort carrier duty where her short range would not be an issue as she'd go up, strike whatever ship/submarine was threatening the convoy of merchantmen and return to the carrier. Thus I don't think you quite have an aircraft able to yet replace either the Dauntless or Avenger yet. As SPs doesn't have arrestor wires or hooks yet we can't simulate that matter either, unfortunately, and her speed/landing roll would prevent a landing on Tiny which is basically an Escort Carrier. Despite all I've said I will say you did an excellent job of creating a well balanced aircraft where sustaining a singular altitude is not terribly difficult, take-offs are quite simple and landings are smooth as silk. She could have benefitted from the wing folding being linked to an action group and the Trim in the horizontal stabilizers left on. You might also have considered putting the turret on an AG and the wing guns on another, since the pilot wouldn't be pulling his trigger just because his gunner is shooting at something 30 degrees off to the port side of the tail. ^_~ Just a few ideas for future builds. Personally, as a representative of Finland in the same RP, I HOPE some get sent to the Norwegian theatre. We'd gobble these down faster than you could say, "Olet kuollut." (Tr: "You are dead," in Finnish. XD)
@MrVaultech I was doing more research this evening on the post-war Nazi plans, what territories they intended to appropriate for their own use, what territories they were planning to grant to this axis power or that and their plans for the neutral countries. After Norway fell, Germany was seriously considering invading Sweden and even discussed the matter with Finland - offering them the Northern half. As Sweden was officially neutral, but a clandestine ally to Finland, Finland declined an interest in the hopes of discouraging an invasion of Sweden - and it worked thankfully. The reason Finland was offered that parcel though is due to the high occurrence of Ethnic Finns in Northern Sweden. Other lands slated for hand-over to Finland was the Northern part of Ingria down to the river that more or less divides St. Petersburg in two (at the time, Leningrad.) During the siege of that city over a million people died of starvation, exposure and illness. Once the city fell, Hitler planned to level the entire city with explosives so that nothing higher than one's boot top would remain. They also planned to hand over Karelia and other Northern territories that the Nazi party felt were not a suitable climate for the "Aryan" colonies. I thought Estonia might be part of the package but I was wrong, although they are a related people to the Finns, they planned to use the locals first and then eventually do away with them in favor of Aryan colonists. There were nearly a half million jews in Estonia. First they were gathered up and stuffed into two cities (Ghettos) where the population density offered ten square feet per person in the ghetto. From there, they were vendored off to camps or sent to Danzig and one other location. If they were fit to work, they were used as slave labor, if they were not - they were simply killed.
The Estonians collaborated with Nazi Germany though, one major thing mentioned was that they used their workshops to maintain Germany's fleet of captured T-34s and KV-1s.
Meanwhile the Nazi party saw the slavic population of the Ukraine and Russia as a whole, including the Rus, as a slave labor force they intended to exploit to the point of death. Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia and Bulgaria all have a fairly high occurrence of Slavic peoples if memory serves correctly. If that's the case, and judging by their post war map of what would be "Germany proper," they had no intention of leaving those nations alone from the outset.
Meanwhile, Switzerland was not beyond Nazi plans either. Himmler was quoted as saying that Switzerland was a pimple on the face of Europe and by attempting to remain neutral and profiting off of the sacrifices being made by both the allies and axis - they too will pay their toll. Hitler's view of them is that they were an "offshoot" of the German stock but not worthy of being involved in the colonial resettlements. I forget the name of the operation, but they did have plans for the invasion of Switzerland.
When Finland turned on them in '44, oh were they ever P.O.'d. There were a lot of retrospective comments that they should have taken all of Scandinavia and installed a nationalist goverment to preside over all of it after the invasion of Norway in 1940.
I agree with @General360, she really does resemble a catapult launched scout plane. XD Either way, she's a great performer and I LOVE the rescaled T2000 you used on her, maneuverability is great and landings are fairly smooth. (I had one where she rolled to the side but that was pilot error, I didn't have it at a perfect level horizon, the left wing had sunken a bit.) Great job on this lil birdy!
@MrVaultech I've got an idea, put the political prisoners, POWs and so on out on the field like a chain gang to build rail lines so the allies won't wanna gun them down!! :-D
@TheOwlAce This looks very promising but for some reason, when DLing her, she doesn't have enough air intake because the engine exhaust looks like spheres of black at the back of the nozzles. The highest speed I achieved with a full runway was 170 mph and after that she sailed over the cliff at Yeager Field. However in that one run I achieved a new record, for me anyway, skipping a landplane off of the water 12 times before she finally sank to the depths. lmao I like the Natter like nose with the 7.5 cm anti-aircraft rockets though. How did she perform with you and did you make any changes right before posting?
@TheOwlAce Wow, what a change from the last incarnation!! Beautiful work on this one, I love the reconfigured cockpit and especially the added detail. I'd better step up my game a bit, eh?? XD She's got a real sensitive elevator to someone playing on a KB and likes to pitch forward at her own pace or she'll get cranky. However take-off and landing are REALLY smooth powered down or with a dead stick. I frog hopped all around Krakablowa learning her quirks, what she liked and didn't like. The entire time I think I might have burned 4% of my fuel but had tons of fun. lol Great job!!
@fnaf1987 My friend wanted to know my thoughts on this recent build so I tested it out and gave him a full review of my experiences with this plane. I love floatplanes and seaplanes because they provide a unique challenge both to build and fly and this one was crazy fun! :-D
@OtterOfToast That's not necessarily true. Before I learned more about how to work with the system, modding and all of that I kept TONS of subassemblies, I still do in all reality. One of them though was salvaged from a build by a friend who had contra-rotating propellers buried in the rear fuselage of one of the fighters he'd made. It was wicked fast so I knew I wanted that assembly. I was able to take off the tail and rear-most fuselage pieces and then detach the assembly by grabbing the fuselage piece they were anchored to in front. I used that subassembly as a basis for a lot of my first contra-rotating prop jobs. Now I don't need them and can actually get the propellers closer together through a little advantage Windows users have called "nudging." Feel free to yank parts off of my planes anytime you'd like. I think to get you started the VL Salamointi would be a good place to start. You can get wings there that have VTOL controlled Flaps/Spoilers, a nose assembly with a historically accurate Hispano-Suiza 20 mm cannon (aside from the real things' propensity for jamming) and those all important contra-rotating T1000s. Although paired they have the same Horsepower as the T2000s their fuel efficiency is far better together than with a single T2000. Don't even get me started on the T3000.. lol
@TheOwlAce You know me and seaplanes or floatplanes. XD Of course I tested her out to see how this one works out. I was surprised at it's appearance. The real Dornier Do-22 was quite different after all but that wasn't what really startled me it was that it is nearly identical to an idea I had to refurbish old planes as small seaplanes by adding just the sort of gondola and outriggers you did here. XD I was pleasantly surprised at how spritely she lept out of the water at 119-120 mph but once I released the elevator she immediately began to pitch forward. I couldn't stay in cockpit view for long, I don't normally anyway unless I'm gunning for a kill, but if I had I most assuredly would have become sea sick. With the bottom stabilizer having pitch controls of that size in addition to those on the tail the slightest application of upward pitch would cause her nose to shoot up to a 30 degree angle and bleed off quite a lot of speed, which with this aircraft especially, can be quite dangerous as I soon learned.
I began quickly jabbing at the key to flutter the elevators and that helped some and allowed me to gain some speed and altitude. I decided that I wanted to test her in landing and intentionally pitched down; Only to then begin tumbling end over end. On that flight I tried my control surfaces to recover but it was useless. On the second flight I put her through her paces again and this time got a good bit more altitude as I felt I was going to need it and once again pitched downward - it immediately began tumbling again. This time I throttled down and the tumble gradually stopped with a nose down attitude that allowed me to pick up speed and again turn on the engine. After that I landed her in my typical fashion, on a dead stick and she skimmed into the water perfectly. The bouyancy balance is great but I wonder if the lower hull could be reconfigured so you can omit the 600 Lbs of balast in the front? Anyway on my third flight I tested the tumble effect a couple more times but on the last she actually stalled out in a nose up position, backslid and slowly did a perfect (though uncontrolled) hammerhead down to the drink about 1200 feet below. Since the pitch is so powerful another idea is to create elevators that are only used when landing or taking off with some bodyless rotators and structural wings nudged in? AG 8 would be perfect for that since it starts out as active. Although it seems like I've done nothing but criticize this build I actually found this aircraft to be very fun to fly, it maneuvers and behaves like a civil aircraft, it's not built for aerobatics, it's a small civil seaplane - something you don't often see. I also like that she's a little quirky, once you're aware of it, you can avoid it or recover from it. Good fun for the adrenaline junkies! XD I also cannot stress how impressed I was with the bouyancy balance. I know the balast is there to counter the weight of the rear fuselage but I just wanted to suggest that there might be another way to balance her out with a "gondola" redesign. However its not an absolute necessity, she's fun the way she is. Good work on this bird, just add a lil note in the description to avoid sharp in flight forward pitches and if it begins to tumble, shut down the engine and she will recover, allow it to accelerate to 150 mph or higher, throttle up and voila - recovery.
@Warmelon lol Good question. When the allies attacked Iceland, a neutral country, I proposed the idea of using that as propaganda to get neutral nations to side with the axis powers or risk having the same done to them for the convenience of the allies. I think Panama responded positively but Switzerland did not. By getting Panema to side with the Axis we've made it very difficult for allied fleets in the West Pacific to make way into the South Atlantic. Unless they go around the horn and risk Brazilian detection, it prevents them from making a bold move to make another landing in Africa. Nvm that Iraq just did the same to Arabia~ <.<; lol
Nicely done! She looks rather like the real deal, love the detail for the open cockpit and that landing gear you put together is awesome! I took her up for a spin around Krakablowa, taking off from bandit and put her through her paces. I think she's a bit faster than the real thing but hey, if you can improve on it, why not? lol She tends to pitch down a bit in the midst of rolling, which I think might be a little on the slow side, but a bit of elevator and a lil negative G for the pilot straightens that out. Your' main wings were absolutely flawless but I noticed quite a bit of clattering coming from the tail. After a nice and smooth landing back at Bandit I took a closer look and noticed that the top and bottom horizontal stabilizers are a bit out of alignment and the elevators don't quite match up. Still I didn't have any structural failure as a result so it didn't seem to effect the build after all, though her rolling was slow her looping ability was stellar! Overall another excellent build!! Great work!! ^_^
@migman2 Yep, its pretty tough if you're not on a PC though. The "supersonic prop jobs" I was talking about have contra-rotating engines snuggled up nice and close.
@MrVaultech Yep, apparently he was under 13. I guess the "allies" sank all of 'em. D:
@TheOwlAce OMG! I think I figured out how to find your' XML files man!! Type in: C:\users(computer name)\AppData\LocalLow\Jundroo\SimplePlanes The very first folder should be AircraftDesigns, and that has all of your' xml files in it. You can open them with Notepad and just save when you're done. Do not change any of the ai planes though! You might have to access this as administrator but I don't think so.
Edit there should be a slash between users and the computer name part. By computer name, I mean whatever you called your' machine when you first set it up. I think you can see that in your' system properties.
@TheOwlAce Beat you to what?? O.o A new night fighter? I'd planned all along to make a night fighter version of the Lumimyrsky once I saw how radical her performance was. Heck, I've been considering a third version as a long range escort fighter. XD
@MikuKat There's an age regulation? O.O;; -scurries over to the rules to look- Oh, suppose I should let @MrVaultech know to take him off of Finland for the RP. Darn it, he designed the Ringed Seal-Class of submarine, practically a submersible cruiser. >.<
@MrVaultech You just have to know what to look for. A commonly accepted myth was that the US was the first nation to break the sound barrier. Numerous accounts from Luftwaffe pilots of controls becoming sluggish or even frozen at a certain point in their velocity, followed by a shudder in the airframe, and suddenly being able to use the controls of their Me-262s again have been made. Although these accounts are identical in description to the effects of approach and breach of the sound barrier, because they did not have air speed indicators that went that high on the Me-262, it is conveniently left out of history. There's actually quite a lot of history you will not find by merely looking up the topic, you need to look for specific events, places and so on. There are a couple of chapters in the Holocaust itself you will not find in the history books outside of Israel but if you look up the specific events you can find the details. It's like hiding facts in plain sight. Working on my next Finnish product I was looking at a 1941 map of Canada showing population density/distribution. Then I looked into specific air bases on both the East and West coast, history of RCAF squadrons, locations of major industries in Canada and the Northeastern US, etc. You find all sorts of off the wall details. As for Germany's post war plans its something that wasn't widely distributed in the West but every schoolchild in Eastern Europe would know, at least, parts of it. Look up Siege of Leningrad, for info there. Look up History of Estonia, World War II, for details there. Any demographic of Estonia will tell you of the indigenous peoples' relation to the Finns. For Karelia, look up German post-war plans for the Ukraine and Russia specifically. Karelia, or Karjala in Finnish, has been cut up and divided many times - including at the end of the real WW2. The territory Finland was forced to cede to the Soviets was added to another part of Karelia that had been a part of Russia since the days of Imperial Russia. Yet today another part of Karelia still belongs to Finland. lol (Confusing, isn't it?) As far as the policy regarding Switzerland, this page gives a step by step of how Switzerland nearly got roped into the war one way or the other and defends their neutral stance. Wiki is not a strong source, though they cite ample sources but a lot of info about the German's feelings towards Switzerland on this page. If you want more sources for that, they're ample. On that same page at the bottom there is a link to The Greater Germanic Reich which erroniously shows all of Ingria, Karjala and Northern Sweden as being in German hands as where other sources clearly indicate that Hitler felt that Karjala was of no value for German colonization. This site also talks about the plan to incorporate Sweden and the plan for what to do with Northern Sweden; Sources cited.
@MrVaultech I apologize if the long articles on bits of history are annoying. As one who is sincerely interested in history and how things may have played out if one event or another had gone differently my instincts as a writer go crazy. Anytime I'm working with historical matters I dig deep into every source of history I can find to understand as many facets of it I possibly can to get a more clear picture of the scenario. This has no bearing on your' story, how its written, what has or what hasn't happened though. I just thought I would share.
Thanks for the support, @Liquidfox~ ^_^
Heheh ... thanks @MrMecha and got it @MrVaultech
Axis Participants; Feel free to check out Finland's new Night Fighter here.
Allied Participants: The night raids on axis positions in Norway have just gotten a bit more dangerous~ -cheshire cat grin-
Thank you! @LouisEP
@MrVaultech
lol You found yourself a bug. Just because the wheels are mounted on short pylons it shouldn't shake like that!! lmao @AndrewGarrison Is this normal or is this, in fact, a bug?
@LouisEP I felt sorry for the poor polar bear, forcing him to drop his delicate parts on the runway over and over, so I hit F10 and put him out of his misery. lol
@LouisEP You should try this one, she is fun to fly! ^_^ Thanks for the upvote!
@LouisEP Thanks for the support! ^_^
@LouisEP Good job! Its long span horizontal stabilizers actually really help with this aircraft's stability and maneuverability. I destroyed a bridge with the rockets and left a crater in Bandit Airport with the bomb. :-D
@LouisEP Thank you for the upvote!! :-D
This is a fun airplane to fly. For some reason the gun fell out of the nose though, after I took off. I'm thinking, "Wow, this is handling well," and zoom - there goes my gun flying over the back of the plane. lol Its a great start as your' first build if I'd say anything to help it would be to test, test and test, because some fool is going to try it sometime. lol The other is being careful with control surface sizes. Keep up the good work! ^_^
@SpiritusRaptor So THAT'S how you make transparencies! :-D Man you are ALWAYS cutting edge on your' designs...
Favorited, I've loved the F-14 since as far back as I can remember and remember the first one I saw when I was merely 5 years of age at a Point Mugu or Port Hueneme air show. (I don't remember which.) I was a sad sad day when the last of the F-14s were retired. The hope that we would still see them in airshows was further dashed when the DoD decided to shred them to prevent parts from winding up in Iranian hands via the black market. To know that there was a program to upgrade the Tomcat for the 21st century that never went forward upsets me a bit. Heck, raise sales tax by 0.05% for a month and you'd have the funds. -cry-
I don't know how you do it but this is so adorable I expected if I pressed F10 confetti and candy might come flying out of it. XD Great job, planning to do anymore Hasegawa inspired egg planes?
This is one adorable creation!! XD
@ErnstHeinkel16 I recommend using fuselage blocks for future designs as this permits greater versatility. Did you try flying her after dropping the Boom-50? That 600 Lb of dead weight in the tail sent me into a flat spin when I pulled out of the dive. Torpedos used to be hard to use on SPs as you had to make them, well, you still do and it's complicated to boot. You have to put these bombs in fuselage blocks, give it some way of propelling itself in the water still make it float right and go in the direction you want it to. Anyway, since you used a Boom-50 I thought I'd try dive bombing, then the spin. Before my second flight I removed the balast in the tail and saw why you had it there, it would pitch forward on it's nose. Simple solution to that would be to change the wing layout just a tish and move the landing gear. I didn't change the wings I just made it very narrow track landing gear so that most of it still went under the wing while being moved forward. This balanced her out enough so that my next bombing run was perfect and she was surprisingly spritely in flight. After some aerobatic maneuvers I went back to bandit field. She has fair glide characteristics but the make shift modification I made with moving the wing gear in more made it a real challenge to land. It threatened to tip towards a wingtip a couple of times but a tap on the ailerons one way or the other prevented it from happening. lol Oh, on another note, the larger the propeller the more performance you can get out of her. I boosted the prop size and widenened them to the max and she practically leapt off of the ground.
I am curious, why did you opt to use the unlimited fuel tank? I have one in my subassemblies with over 500 million gallons in it but still opt against using those on these Alternate WW2 builds. I think it's a matter of wanting to test myself, see what I can really produce with the approximate technology of the period. Even without that modded fuel tank a fuselage block could have carried fuel if you felt it needed it though to be honest I think what the wings carried was enough for her to have a fair range for a single T1000 prop engine. ^_^ BTW, the best torpedo design I've seen was mounted on a Swordfish Torpedo bomber made by tachibana. If you go under Airplanes to Search, you can search for "tachibana" and find that Swordfish to snag the torpedo for future builds. I suggest removing it by the pylon and dragging it to your' subassemblies like that. Once mounted on the aircraft use activation group 1 to launch it as that also starts up the propeller at the rear. Do not touch the modded propeller though as for some reason it reverts to normal size if you do. Just make sure you provide credit to tachibana for creating the torpedo.
@Pilotmario I did read the intro, I stand by my statement though. ^_^
@MrVaultech
Gorgeous!!
As they say, there's no kill like OVER KILL! XD
That looks ... ALL kinds of sinister!
@TheOwlAce EXCELLENT new version, love it!
@Solarisaeroworks Dang! If that level flight speed is at 5,000 feet that's the highest performing prop job I've heard of. Mine typically don't hit the 700 range until about 15,000 feet to 20,000 feet. XD
@OtterOfToast Gotta love the SPs community~
She does carries a fair warload at 750 Lb. but that's pretty light compared to the Dauntless's 2,250 Lb. and the Avenger's 2,000 Lb. of Bombs or a 2,000 Lb Torpedo. Also the aircraft is smaller than either and so would likely carry less fuel while she carries two very thirsty jet engines. Armament wise she's better off than the Dauntless as you can turn that turret fully 45 degrees to the right or left. The Avenger's turret only had a single gun mount so its better than that BUT it also had a ventral rear firing machine-gun that killed many Japanese pilots though who would exploit this typical carrier based bomber's weak spot. Even Saburō Sakai, the leading Japanese Ace of WW2, made that critical mistake and went nearly completely blind from that gun blowing apart his windscreen and instrument panel sending glass shards into his eyes.
She'd be a great forward marine air base close air support aircraft though. If the arrestor wires could sustain 6 1/4 tons of aircraft hurtling in for a landing at 200~240 mph-ish landing I'd even say she's well suited to navy escort carrier duty where her short range would not be an issue as she'd go up, strike whatever ship/submarine was threatening the convoy of merchantmen and return to the carrier. Thus I don't think you quite have an aircraft able to yet replace either the Dauntless or Avenger yet. As SPs doesn't have arrestor wires or hooks yet we can't simulate that matter either, unfortunately, and her speed/landing roll would prevent a landing on Tiny which is basically an Escort Carrier. Despite all I've said I will say you did an excellent job of creating a well balanced aircraft where sustaining a singular altitude is not terribly difficult, take-offs are quite simple and landings are smooth as silk. She could have benefitted from the wing folding being linked to an action group and the Trim in the horizontal stabilizers left on. You might also have considered putting the turret on an AG and the wing guns on another, since the pilot wouldn't be pulling his trigger just because his gunner is shooting at something 30 degrees off to the port side of the tail. ^_~ Just a few ideas for future builds. Personally, as a representative of Finland in the same RP, I HOPE some get sent to the Norwegian theatre. We'd gobble these down faster than you could say, "Olet kuollut." (Tr: "You are dead," in Finnish. XD)
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@MrVaultech I was doing more research this evening on the post-war Nazi plans, what territories they intended to appropriate for their own use, what territories they were planning to grant to this axis power or that and their plans for the neutral countries. After Norway fell, Germany was seriously considering invading Sweden and even discussed the matter with Finland - offering them the Northern half. As Sweden was officially neutral, but a clandestine ally to Finland, Finland declined an interest in the hopes of discouraging an invasion of Sweden - and it worked thankfully. The reason Finland was offered that parcel though is due to the high occurrence of Ethnic Finns in Northern Sweden. Other lands slated for hand-over to Finland was the Northern part of Ingria down to the river that more or less divides St. Petersburg in two (at the time, Leningrad.) During the siege of that city over a million people died of starvation, exposure and illness. Once the city fell, Hitler planned to level the entire city with explosives so that nothing higher than one's boot top would remain. They also planned to hand over Karelia and other Northern territories that the Nazi party felt were not a suitable climate for the "Aryan" colonies. I thought Estonia might be part of the package but I was wrong, although they are a related people to the Finns, they planned to use the locals first and then eventually do away with them in favor of Aryan colonists. There were nearly a half million jews in Estonia. First they were gathered up and stuffed into two cities (Ghettos) where the population density offered ten square feet per person in the ghetto. From there, they were vendored off to camps or sent to Danzig and one other location. If they were fit to work, they were used as slave labor, if they were not - they were simply killed.
The Estonians collaborated with Nazi Germany though, one major thing mentioned was that they used their workshops to maintain Germany's fleet of captured T-34s and KV-1s.
Meanwhile the Nazi party saw the slavic population of the Ukraine and Russia as a whole, including the Rus, as a slave labor force they intended to exploit to the point of death. Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia and Bulgaria all have a fairly high occurrence of Slavic peoples if memory serves correctly. If that's the case, and judging by their post war map of what would be "Germany proper," they had no intention of leaving those nations alone from the outset.
Meanwhile, Switzerland was not beyond Nazi plans either. Himmler was quoted as saying that Switzerland was a pimple on the face of Europe and by attempting to remain neutral and profiting off of the sacrifices being made by both the allies and axis - they too will pay their toll. Hitler's view of them is that they were an "offshoot" of the German stock but not worthy of being involved in the colonial resettlements. I forget the name of the operation, but they did have plans for the invasion of Switzerland.
When Finland turned on them in '44, oh were they ever P.O.'d. There were a lot of retrospective comments that they should have taken all of Scandinavia and installed a nationalist goverment to preside over all of it after the invasion of Norway in 1940.
I love the new looks, personally. Have you started modding per chance??? :-D
I agree with @General360, she really does resemble a catapult launched scout plane. XD Either way, she's a great performer and I LOVE the rescaled T2000 you used on her, maneuverability is great and landings are fairly smooth. (I had one where she rolled to the side but that was pilot error, I didn't have it at a perfect level horizon, the left wing had sunken a bit.) Great job on this lil birdy!
@MrVaultech I've got an idea, put the political prisoners, POWs and so on out on the field like a chain gang to build rail lines so the allies won't wanna gun them down!! :-D
@TheOwlAce This looks very promising but for some reason, when DLing her, she doesn't have enough air intake because the engine exhaust looks like spheres of black at the back of the nozzles. The highest speed I achieved with a full runway was 170 mph and after that she sailed over the cliff at Yeager Field. However in that one run I achieved a new record, for me anyway, skipping a landplane off of the water 12 times before she finally sank to the depths. lmao I like the Natter like nose with the 7.5 cm anti-aircraft rockets though. How did she perform with you and did you make any changes right before posting?
I dunno how she's a successor to one of my builds, especially that one, but thanks for taking a look at it up close anyway! :-D
@TheOwlAce Wow, what a change from the last incarnation!! Beautiful work on this one, I love the reconfigured cockpit and especially the added detail. I'd better step up my game a bit, eh?? XD She's got a real sensitive elevator to someone playing on a KB and likes to pitch forward at her own pace or she'll get cranky. However take-off and landing are REALLY smooth powered down or with a dead stick. I frog hopped all around Krakablowa learning her quirks, what she liked and didn't like. The entire time I think I might have burned 4% of my fuel but had tons of fun. lol Great job!!
@MrVaultech These turrets look great!
@fnaf1987 My friend wanted to know my thoughts on this recent build so I tested it out and gave him a full review of my experiences with this plane. I love floatplanes and seaplanes because they provide a unique challenge both to build and fly and this one was crazy fun! :-D
@OtterOfToast That's not necessarily true. Before I learned more about how to work with the system, modding and all of that I kept TONS of subassemblies, I still do in all reality. One of them though was salvaged from a build by a friend who had contra-rotating propellers buried in the rear fuselage of one of the fighters he'd made. It was wicked fast so I knew I wanted that assembly. I was able to take off the tail and rear-most fuselage pieces and then detach the assembly by grabbing the fuselage piece they were anchored to in front. I used that subassembly as a basis for a lot of my first contra-rotating prop jobs. Now I don't need them and can actually get the propellers closer together through a little advantage Windows users have called "nudging." Feel free to yank parts off of my planes anytime you'd like. I think to get you started the VL Salamointi would be a good place to start. You can get wings there that have VTOL controlled Flaps/Spoilers, a nose assembly with a historically accurate Hispano-Suiza 20 mm cannon (aside from the real things' propensity for jamming) and those all important contra-rotating T1000s. Although paired they have the same Horsepower as the T2000s their fuel efficiency is far better together than with a single T2000. Don't even get me started on the T3000.. lol
@Solarisaeroworks Oh yes, and with only 4,000 HP. ;-)
@Solarisaeroworks lol My engines are unmodded though and I'm talking level flight here! lol
@TheOwlAce You know me and seaplanes or floatplanes. XD Of course I tested her out to see how this one works out. I was surprised at it's appearance. The real Dornier Do-22 was quite different after all but that wasn't what really startled me it was that it is nearly identical to an idea I had to refurbish old planes as small seaplanes by adding just the sort of gondola and outriggers you did here. XD I was pleasantly surprised at how spritely she lept out of the water at 119-120 mph but once I released the elevator she immediately began to pitch forward. I couldn't stay in cockpit view for long, I don't normally anyway unless I'm gunning for a kill, but if I had I most assuredly would have become sea sick. With the bottom stabilizer having pitch controls of that size in addition to those on the tail the slightest application of upward pitch would cause her nose to shoot up to a 30 degree angle and bleed off quite a lot of speed, which with this aircraft especially, can be quite dangerous as I soon learned.
I began quickly jabbing at the key to flutter the elevators and that helped some and allowed me to gain some speed and altitude. I decided that I wanted to test her in landing and intentionally pitched down; Only to then begin tumbling end over end. On that flight I tried my control surfaces to recover but it was useless. On the second flight I put her through her paces again and this time got a good bit more altitude as I felt I was going to need it and once again pitched downward - it immediately began tumbling again. This time I throttled down and the tumble gradually stopped with a nose down attitude that allowed me to pick up speed and again turn on the engine. After that I landed her in my typical fashion, on a dead stick and she skimmed into the water perfectly. The bouyancy balance is great but I wonder if the lower hull could be reconfigured so you can omit the 600 Lbs of balast in the front? Anyway on my third flight I tested the tumble effect a couple more times but on the last she actually stalled out in a nose up position, backslid and slowly did a perfect (though uncontrolled) hammerhead down to the drink about 1200 feet below. Since the pitch is so powerful another idea is to create elevators that are only used when landing or taking off with some bodyless rotators and structural wings nudged in? AG 8 would be perfect for that since it starts out as active. Although it seems like I've done nothing but criticize this build I actually found this aircraft to be very fun to fly, it maneuvers and behaves like a civil aircraft, it's not built for aerobatics, it's a small civil seaplane - something you don't often see. I also like that she's a little quirky, once you're aware of it, you can avoid it or recover from it. Good fun for the adrenaline junkies! XD I also cannot stress how impressed I was with the bouyancy balance. I know the balast is there to counter the weight of the rear fuselage but I just wanted to suggest that there might be another way to balance her out with a "gondola" redesign. However its not an absolute necessity, she's fun the way she is. Good work on this bird, just add a lil note in the description to avoid sharp in flight forward pitches and if it begins to tumble, shut down the engine and she will recover, allow it to accelerate to 150 mph or higher, throttle up and voila - recovery.
@Warmelon lol Good question. When the allies attacked Iceland, a neutral country, I proposed the idea of using that as propaganda to get neutral nations to side with the axis powers or risk having the same done to them for the convenience of the allies. I think Panama responded positively but Switzerland did not. By getting Panema to side with the Axis we've made it very difficult for allied fleets in the West Pacific to make way into the South Atlantic. Unless they go around the horn and risk Brazilian detection, it prevents them from making a bold move to make another landing in Africa. Nvm that Iraq just did the same to Arabia~ <.<; lol
Nicely done! She looks rather like the real deal, love the detail for the open cockpit and that landing gear you put together is awesome! I took her up for a spin around Krakablowa, taking off from bandit and put her through her paces. I think she's a bit faster than the real thing but hey, if you can improve on it, why not? lol She tends to pitch down a bit in the midst of rolling, which I think might be a little on the slow side, but a bit of elevator and a lil negative G for the pilot straightens that out. Your' main wings were absolutely flawless but I noticed quite a bit of clattering coming from the tail. After a nice and smooth landing back at Bandit I took a closer look and noticed that the top and bottom horizontal stabilizers are a bit out of alignment and the elevators don't quite match up. Still I didn't have any structural failure as a result so it didn't seem to effect the build after all, though her rolling was slow her looping ability was stellar! Overall another excellent build!! Great work!! ^_^
Thanks, @SarcasticCommander for the upvote! ^_^
@migman2 Yep, its pretty tough if you're not on a PC though. The "supersonic prop jobs" I was talking about have contra-rotating engines snuggled up nice and close.