I don't know what this has to do with single engine planes, but it looks like me like a typical case of the center of gravity being too far back. Try adding some weight to the nose, or moving the wings back a little.
@WinsWings I.remember seeing an airplane like this, -I believe it was a DHC Otter in a.museum in Brussels ages ago. This was a plane the 1957 expedition took to Antarctica to do some flying around, mostly picking up and dropping off scientists. I thought your plane looked the part, so I gave it a paint job that looked like the one I had in my memory. Glad you like it.
Took a little getting used to flaps and trim being on the wrong hand, but in the end, the movable wing nose did it for me. This aircraft is a showcase of what Simpleplanes really can do
@WinsWings yea, he's a charmer. That's why I can't deny him to have his own plane, or car I stead of just looking over my shoulder when I am flying SimplePlanes
@WinsWings I don't think a turboprop would be necessary, may be later for a modernized kitbashed bushplane, but for now the radial engine has up to 2000 HP power. You rated yours at 1200. So you still have some spare. Also a floatplane has the whole ocean for a runway, so it can pack some extra weight.
Ps, if you want to talk things through, hit me up on the Discord server. My handle is the same as here: sockdragger
@LonelySea22 I actually tried 'full' wing warping by giving every segment of the wing its own rotator and move it 2 degrees up or down. Unfortunately I ran into too many problems with stability and ended up with wing flapping instead. This was the best doable solution.
But yea, I tried to incorporate as many historically accurate details as possible. So the wings move as a whole and the steering column is a prewar French 'Cloche' type
@AircraftLover754 I haven't flown around with your helicopter enough to find anything I would fix immediately. But from the top of my head: the thing has trouble gaining altitude, so increase tht power of the wingtip jets, use XML editor to kill the drag of the rotor blades, both the actual wings and the fuselage sleeves and finally, consider adding a wing control surface to add as a rotor blade tilt mechanism. May be set it to the VTOL slider...
@WinsWings I know it closed like two years ago, but you got another entry just last week, and I bet you will still get more. So I decided: Well, why not.
Update: the F8F was indeed posted 2 years ago, but it showed up in my jet stream just last week.
Looks quite spiffy for less than 100 parts and looks pretty detailed. Also I love how you get a STOL plane that takes off at 36 mph without even thinking of flaps, just using the lift of the wing.
Congratulations on a nice little flyer. I would give it a sincere up vote if you had spent five more minutes coloring the plane. Just painting all the struts silver and the wings red or blue makes a nice upgrade.
@V likewise. It took me two days of trial and error just to get my first plane not to crash on every landing. And after all the mods, it just looked atrocious.
@WinsWings works pretty good. In fact I got most of my starting knowledge from this tutorial . My only gripe is that the RCN nozzles could be explained better. (From what I know now) They are SimplePlanes' solution to moving the plane in hover mode
Did I see this right? Your engine is a rotator block with four wings attached to it? Kudos ... I claim the 50th upvote for this thing. Though to be sure, you deserved that upvote alone for using shock absorbers in your landing gear already.
Love this plane. It's well thought-out with many details other builders, especially with less than one year of experience, either overlook or don't care about. Also, again like many other planes of builders with more experience, the flying characteristics are pleasant and generally free of vices. And the incide view from the cockpit adds a nice layer of complexity. Congratulations.
@WinsWings then you might consider changing the input for the rear engine from ' 'Throttle' to 'Throttle+a*Trim+b*Pitch' with a around 0.5 and b about 0.2. the exact numbers will depend on tht aircraft and will have to be tweaked by lots of flight testing.
Look how I did with my Golden Rocketship. The front bottom 2 engines do the trim, the Pitch is added to the rear bottom 2 engines. (The clamp(rate(Altitude)-0.5, -1,0) factor is the automatic descent control. It kicks in when the rate of descent is bigger than 0.5....)
@Ninja451 if you need some ideas on how to make a wing brake, a year ago, I uploaded a demonstrator aircraft that uses a dummy wing bureied inside the main wing to 'pull out' air brakes. May be you can take a look.
@Ninja451 couple pf quick things:
1) The vertical control surfaces on the twin fins move the wrong way Change the value for 'control.surface-invert' from False to true
2) set the value for auto-center for tht cockpit camera from 'true' to 'false' so you can look around in tht cockpit
3) the joystick in the cockpit has a value 'length' play with it until you can just see the top of the joystick.while looking straight ahead
Also:
+ The writings on the switches in the Cockpit are really hard to read. May be use a different color
+ Landing is really hard. You need to at least quadruple tht since of tht air brakes to have any effect: increase their 'drag' value, use a large dummy wing as air brake or five the plane a braking parachute.
Three inprovement suggestions:
1) when you put the throttle governor at 0% it always runs the rotor at optimal speed, regardless wether the power is on or off. Set it to 5% so it won't rotate until you push Activate1. (Do this for main and tail rotor)
2) if you use the flight controller instead of the standard cockpit, make sure the controller is installed with the flat past facing down otherwise your 'chase view' will be upside down. Rotate the one you installed from 180° back to 0
3) set the roll range of your gyroscope to something like 20° instead of 0 in order otherwise the gyro directly counteracts all the roll input from the right joystick.
Otherwise a pretty nice heli to fly around in. Especially for only 68 parts
Forget the crop duster. You should market this one as an ULM. With a top speed of 100 mph and a stall speed of 50, it comes pretty close to that ULM feeling.
Plus sides: beautifully historically accurate cockpit, even for only 200 parts. Minus: no flaps, still standard wings. Flying: pretty pleasant, although I would wish for a top speed more like the original's 500 mph.
Worth downloading: yes
Worth flying: yes
Worth upvoting: just did
Not bad for 72 parts. And a nice color scheme as well (I would have wished for some insignias though) . Also the first thing I had to do is put 200 lb of extra weight in the nose to keep it from constantly stalling
I don't know what this has to do with single engine planes, but it looks like me like a typical case of the center of gravity being too far back. Try adding some weight to the nose, or moving the wings back a little.
+4@WinsWings I.remember seeing an airplane like this, -I believe it was a DHC Otter in a.museum in Brussels ages ago. This was a plane the 1957 expedition took to Antarctica to do some flying around, mostly picking up and dropping off scientists. I thought your plane looked the part, so I gave it a paint job that looked like the one I had in my memory. Glad you like it.
+3Took a little getting used to flaps and trim being on the wrong hand, but in the end, the movable wing nose did it for me. This aircraft is a showcase of what Simpleplanes really can do
+3You know... If you change the form of the wings I to a delta and make the tailplane a little slimmer, you could have a quite passable F4 Phantom...
+3@WinsWings yea, he's a charmer. That's why I can't deny him to have his own plane, or car I stead of just looking over my shoulder when I am flying SimplePlanes
+2Marvelous visuals, marvelous flying characteristics. I call on @Jundroo to make this the standard demonstrator helicopter in their new game.
One gripe though: 2500 hp.on tht rotor is overkill. The helicopter flies perfectly, even better, with only 250
+2Ailerons too big for my taste. The plane rolls like crazy. Otherwise quite a nice design.
+2@WinsWings I don't think a turboprop would be necessary, may be later for a modernized kitbashed bushplane, but for now the radial engine has up to 2000 HP power. You rated yours at 1200. So you still have some spare. Also a floatplane has the whole ocean for a runway, so it can pack some extra weight.
Ps, if you want to talk things through, hit me up on the Discord server. My handle is the same as here: sockdragger
+2Not bad for 1/2 hour, although it took me 1 1/2 hours to add flaps and calibrate the optimal angle for landing approach... Yes, I fly a YE-36B
+2@LonelySea22 I actually tried 'full' wing warping by giving every segment of the wing its own rotator and move it 2 degrees up or down. Unfortunately I ran into too many problems with stability and ended up with wing flapping instead. This was the best doable solution.
But yea, I tried to incorporate as many historically accurate details as possible. So the wings move as a whole and the steering column is a prewar French 'Cloche' type
+2@AircraftLover754 I haven't flown around with your helicopter enough to find anything I would fix immediately. But from the top of my head: the thing has trouble gaining altitude, so increase tht power of the wingtip jets, use XML editor to kill the drag of the rotor blades, both the actual wings and the fuselage sleeves and finally, consider adding a wing control surface to add as a rotor blade tilt mechanism. May be set it to the VTOL slider...
+2Thanks for reinventing the wheel, or in this case the rotor
+2Love the plane: it looks the part and flies like a dream. Immediately downloaded your 70 part Mig and spawning it left and right for dogfighting
+2@WinsWings I know it closed like two years ago, but you got another entry just last week, and I bet you will still get more. So I decided: Well, why not.
Update: the F8F was indeed posted 2 years ago, but it showed up in my jet stream just last week.
+2@ThomasRoderick coming up
+2Looks quite spiffy for less than 100 parts and looks pretty detailed. Also I love how you get a STOL plane that takes off at 36 mph without even thinking of flaps, just using the lift of the wing.
+2Custom seat and historically accurate engine instruments in the engine nacelles (IRL, the cockpit was too cramped for more instruments). Love it!
+2Did you aim for it to have exactly 666 parts or is this just a lucky coincidence.
+2Congratulations on a nice little flyer. I would give it a sincere up vote if you had spent five more minutes coloring the plane. Just painting all the struts silver and the wings red or blue makes a nice upgrade.
+2@V likewise. It took me two days of trial and error just to get my first plane not to crash on every landing. And after all the mods, it just looked atrocious.
+2The cup of tea at the radio operator's station did it for me. Congratulations on a truely remarkable built
+2@WinsWings I sent a link on discord for the first draft of the tutorial
+1Nice plane, love the details, still, 500mph in forward flight? Me thinks you is a little overpowered
+1@WinsWings still writing my tutorial, but ll take it for a little spin after work tomorrow
+1@WinsWings works pretty good. In fact I got most of my starting knowledge from this tutorial . My only gripe is that the RCN nozzles could be explained better. (From what I know now) They are SimplePlanes' solution to moving the plane in hover mode
+1Did I see this right? Your engine is a rotator block with four wings attached to it? Kudos ... I claim the 50th upvote for this thing. Though to be sure, you deserved that upvote alone for using shock absorbers in your landing gear already.
+1Love this plane. It's well thought-out with many details other builders, especially with less than one year of experience, either overlook or don't care about. Also, again like many other planes of builders with more experience, the flying characteristics are pleasant and generally free of vices. And the incide view from the cockpit adds a nice layer of complexity. Congratulations.
+1@WinsWings yea, see me grow. Now I already got 1/70 of your points. At that rate I might overtake you by 2050
+1@WinsWings then you might consider changing the input for the rear engine from '
'Throttle' to 'Throttle+a*Trim+b*Pitch' with a around 0.5 and b about 0.2. the exact numbers will depend on tht aircraft and will have to be tweaked by lots of flight testing.
Look how I did with my Golden Rocketship. The front bottom 2 engines do the trim, the Pitch is added to the rear bottom 2 engines. (The clamp(rate(Altitude)-0.5, -1,0) factor is the automatic descent control. It kicks in when the rate of descent is bigger than 0.5....)
+1@Ninja451 if you need some ideas on how to make a wing brake, a year ago, I uploaded a demonstrator aircraft that uses a dummy wing bureied inside the main wing to 'pull out' air brakes. May be you can take a look.
Cigogne-STOL-testbed
The dummy wing is symmetrical.so it doesn't affect the main wing when flying. It's drag is set to 5 in xml
+1This is hands down the easiest plane to land on an aircraft carrier. Especially if you tweak the air brakes to deploy on (engine) brake as well.
+1@Ninja451 couple pf quick things:
1) The vertical control surfaces on the twin fins move the wrong way Change the value for 'control.surface-invert' from False to true
2) set the value for auto-center for tht cockpit camera from 'true' to 'false' so you can look around in tht cockpit
3) the joystick in the cockpit has a value 'length' play with it until you can just see the top of the joystick.while looking straight ahead
Also:
+1+ The writings on the switches in the Cockpit are really hard to read. May be use a different color
+ Landing is really hard. You need to at least quadruple tht since of tht air brakes to have any effect: increase their 'drag' value, use a large dummy wing as air brake or five the plane a braking parachute.
@Ninja451 ok, give me a couple of hours to fly around in it and if I find something, I will let you know
+1@Mitterbin I since uploaded a version with custom XML flaps. Check it out HERE
+1Too much parts for me to fly on my little cell phone, but every builder that spends 300 points on a historically correct engine deserves my upvote
+1Three inprovement suggestions:
1) when you put the throttle governor at 0% it always runs the rotor at optimal speed, regardless wether the power is on or off. Set it to 5% so it won't rotate until you push Activate1. (Do this for main and tail rotor)
2) if you use the flight controller instead of the standard cockpit, make sure the controller is installed with the flat past facing down otherwise your 'chase view' will be upside down. Rotate the one you installed from 180° back to 0
3) set the roll range of your gyroscope to something like 20° instead of 0 in order otherwise the gyro directly counteracts all the roll input from the right joystick.
Otherwise a pretty nice heli to fly around in. Especially for only 68 parts
+1@Destwoy01 naa, the trimming on the fuselage was the only 'custom' paint parts, the rest were all regular components,.just colored differently.
+1Forget the crop duster. You should market this one as an ULM. With a top speed of 100 mph and a stall speed of 50, it comes pretty close to that ULM feeling.
+1Still got that leftover engine? I got a leftover plane from the sixties that could use an upgrade.
+1Plus sides: beautifully historically accurate cockpit, even for only 200 parts. Minus: no flaps, still standard wings. Flying: pretty pleasant, although I would wish for a top speed more like the original's 500 mph.
+1Worth downloading: yes
Worth flying: yes
Worth upvoting: just did
Takes a little tweaking, but after that it flies remarkably well. Not bad for a first try...
+1Wasn't that the one that crashed because tht autopilot kept pushing its nose down?
+1Congratulations on hitting silver. And congratulations on a plane with more automated features than most of the cars I ever drove.
+1Eagerly awaiting the next version.
+1Not bad for 72 parts. And a nice color scheme as well (I would have wished for some insignias though) . Also the first thing I had to do is put 200 lb of extra weight in the nose to keep it from constantly stalling
+1I agree. This plane should have gotten a dozen upvotes 4 months ago.
+1Congratulations on making silver.
+1@winswings. Oh, sh't. I won bronze.
+1@WinsWings I just try to see what's possible and learn. And do a lot of flight testing... You're still ahead of me in points a 100 times
+1Uea, one tries. And sometimes one gets it right. Too bad I couldn't get the typical Junkers corrugated metal look.
+1