Very fast. Very responsive. The controls are actually a little too tight for its max speed. If you go at 100% throttle, let the speed build up, then push pitch down and roll to the max, the plane tears itself apart. You could probably fix that by modding the wings into structural wings, which do not bend, or toning down the power on the engines. Also the main landing gear should be closer to the center of mass, which will allow for easier rotation and sooner lift off.
@DynamicAviation Those also employ special paints and radar-absorbent material. And while they aren't as extremely engineered as the F-117, if you pay very close attention to the design, you'll see that they are indeed very angular compared to a non-stealth plane. Most evident in the F-22 with its diamond cross-section radome, the shape of the inlets, and the sawtooth patterns you see all over different parts of the plane. Also, the full stealth capabilities of the F-35 are still being tested, and full detailed results haven't been disclosed or published to the public. But from what I can gather, the F-22 is still a bit stealthier than the F-35.
This has too many rounded surfaces and external payloads to be a very effective stealth plane. For a low radar profile, you want sharp angular edges, mostly-flat surfaces to deflect waves away from their source instead of back at them, and as few wave-catching external gizmos as you can manage. You also want to carefully engineer your intakes and exhaust, because fans light up radars like the fourth of july, and a wide open nozzle has an obvious heat signature.
All that said, it's not a bad plane. The pitch is a pretty weak, the landing gear should be closer to the center of mass, and the center of mass and center of lift should be tighter, but I was able to fly it well enough, and landing was possible with clever use of the rudder.
I notice a significant loading lag when firing up planes with high drag points. My guess is, the more surface area you have facing the wind, and the more parts you have, the harder the computer has to think to run the drag point calculation. You may have very well hit a wall with your build if that's the case I'm afraid.
@ElGatoVolador Thanks.
@BogdanX I did try creeping the CoM back closer to the CoL to introduce a lifting tendency to counter the dip, but that made it lose stability when pushing to the stops, so I left it in the safe zone. All well.
Pretty nice detailing. The handling is not bad either. It's easy to fly around, but I wish landing wasn't such a nightmare. Would like to have yaw controls as well.
Yes. Control surfaces can be set to any input. Including the landing gear button.
Save the plane with a control surface set to yaw so you can find it. Then, open up the XML file and find that wing. Then change the string inputId="Yaw" to inputId="Trim". Then save the XML, and reload the plane.
I'll usually mention obvious design flaws, or outstanding features that I really liked. But most planes have so little wrong with them, that any criticism would be mostly subjective. If I ever upvote without saying something, you can translate it as "good plane, I have no complaints about it".
I share your feelings too to some extent. Something will have 1000 downloads, 50 upvotes, and maybe 10 comments. I'd like to hear more, but no news is good news I guess.
@AwesomeDesign717 Thanks. It was quite a job sorting everything.
@Deloreandude Maximum effort on that build. I probably should have been less harsh on planes made before fuselage blocks were added, but that one was very recent!
@QContinuum I figured out the problem. The links had underscores in them, and this site uses those to format text into italics, so they got eaten. I was able to figure out where they go by looking at where the tilting starts, and downloaded it just fine.
It's kind of experimental, but I have this 10 hour track of randomly generated computer noises. About 4 hours in, your brain starts thinking it's actual music. It's pretty emergent, and sounds different every time your listen to it.
That's what I've been listening to lately.
@Hockeygoalie21 Press AG1 to arm the Inferno missiles inside the bombs, make sure the inferno missiles are selected, then lock on and fire the missiles. The bombs are attached to the missiles you see, they are just along for the ride.
No doubt it will introduce some new part I wish I had earlier, forcing me to redo a bunch of my planes to incorporate it.
Kinda like how the car update obsoleted a bunch of old car-making techniques.
@AwesomeDesign717 Ah, OK. I'll grade it later. I would have done it earlier, but I wasn't entirely certain it was intended as a Lightning. I thought it was just a fancy generic twin-boom inspired by the P-38.
When I was test flying one of my older P-38 replicas, I clipped the wall flying through the big pyramid at Maywar. This shaved off the entire left boom, but left the middle tail, and inboard wings intact. Instead of crashing, I found that the plane could still be controlled in this state, so I flew around my half-Lightning for a little bit before attempting to land. I lost the last propeller during landing thanks to only having 1 main wheel, but it was mostly a safe landing.
I never liked the MD-11. Or even the DC-10 for that matter. Every heavy pilot I ever talked to said they'd never want to fly one. Not a lot of trust in it I'd guess. I saw a KC-10 doing touch-and-go training at my airbase once. That's the only time I've even seen the airframe up close.
The shape is spot on, but you should probably scale it up. The Scorpion is 33 ft long and 26 ft wide.
Very fast. Very responsive. The controls are actually a little too tight for its max speed. If you go at 100% throttle, let the speed build up, then push pitch down and roll to the max, the plane tears itself apart. You could probably fix that by modding the wings into structural wings, which do not bend, or toning down the power on the engines. Also the main landing gear should be closer to the center of mass, which will allow for easier rotation and sooner lift off.
@MadBomber no prob. It looks good.
@Sh0ckw4v I'm not that serious. I just like talking about that kind of stuff. I mean nothing by it.
@DynamicAviation Those also employ special paints and radar-absorbent material. And while they aren't as extremely engineered as the F-117, if you pay very close attention to the design, you'll see that they are indeed very angular compared to a non-stealth plane. Most evident in the F-22 with its diamond cross-section radome, the shape of the inlets, and the sawtooth patterns you see all over different parts of the plane. Also, the full stealth capabilities of the F-35 are still being tested, and full detailed results haven't been disclosed or published to the public. But from what I can gather, the F-22 is still a bit stealthier than the F-35.
@LotusEngineering The line break is three underscores (_) in a row with no spaces.
Well this is different!
This has too many rounded surfaces and external payloads to be a very effective stealth plane. For a low radar profile, you want sharp angular edges, mostly-flat surfaces to deflect waves away from their source instead of back at them, and as few wave-catching external gizmos as you can manage. You also want to carefully engineer your intakes and exhaust, because fans light up radars like the fourth of july, and a wide open nozzle has an obvious heat signature.
All that said, it's not a bad plane. The pitch is a pretty weak, the landing gear should be closer to the center of mass, and the center of mass and center of lift should be tighter, but I was able to fly it well enough, and landing was possible with clever use of the rudder.
I notice a significant loading lag when firing up planes with high drag points. My guess is, the more surface area you have facing the wind, and the more parts you have, the harder the computer has to think to run the drag point calculation. You may have very well hit a wall with your build if that's the case I'm afraid.
I was never really that fond of the 747 (my favorite Boeing airliner is the 777), but it's always sad when an iconic plane is retired.
You know you have bad avionics when your plane rolls more on autopilot than it would if you fell asleep at the stick.
@MechWARRIOR57 Right you are. I suppose I should revise and say MOST inputs work.
@MAHADI @Treadmill103 Thanks!
@ElGatoVolador Thanks.
@BogdanX I did try creeping the CoM back closer to the CoL to introduce a lifting tendency to counter the dip, but that made it lose stability when pushing to the stops, so I left it in the safe zone. All well.
Sweet and simple.
Pretty sweet work.
Pretty nice detailing. The handling is not bad either. It's easy to fly around, but I wish landing wasn't such a nightmare. Would like to have yaw controls as well.
@BogdanX That is true. The foundations of a quality builder are present.
@Yangcheng The site looks forward to your growth. Welcome.
@Supercraft888 It's not bad, but it's far from great. I give it 6/10 overall.
Yes. Control surfaces can be set to any input. Including the landing gear button.
Save the plane with a control surface set to yaw so you can find it. Then, open up the XML file and find that wing. Then change the string inputId="Yaw" to inputId="Trim". Then save the XML, and reload the plane.
Great Starfighter! Excellent job.
Pretty sweet! Looks amazing.
Pretty slick design.
Tricky to hover. But easy enough to figure out.
@FlipposMC You can hide unsightly gaps with clever nudging and a little math. I saw a very nice example of fowler flaps made this way once.
I'll usually mention obvious design flaws, or outstanding features that I really liked. But most planes have so little wrong with them, that any criticism would be mostly subjective. If I ever upvote without saying something, you can translate it as "good plane, I have no complaints about it".
I share your feelings too to some extent. Something will have 1000 downloads, 50 upvotes, and maybe 10 comments. I'd like to hear more, but no news is good news I guess.
@AwesomeDesign717 Thanks. It was quite a job sorting everything.
@Deloreandude Maximum effort on that build. I probably should have been less harsh on planes made before fuselage blocks were added, but that one was very recent!
@MAHADI Thank you.
@QContinuum I figured out the problem. The links had underscores in them, and this site uses those to format text into italics, so they got eaten. I was able to figure out where they go by looking at where the tilting starts, and downloaded it just fine.
Are you SURE this is a P-38? The twin fuselage and cockpit layout here reminds me more of an F-82.
@QContinuum The mega links you posted for the installation are telling me the decryption key is wrong.
@Treadmill103 Thanks.
@AudioDud3 Yeah boi! Thanks.
It's kind of experimental, but I have this 10 hour track of randomly generated computer noises. About 4 hours in, your brain starts thinking it's actual music. It's pretty emergent, and sounds different every time your listen to it.
That's what I've been listening to lately.
@SHCow Thanks. My originals often draw inspiration from many separate planes.
@Hockeygoalie21 Press AG1 to arm the Inferno missiles inside the bombs, make sure the inferno missiles are selected, then lock on and fire the missiles. The bombs are attached to the missiles you see, they are just along for the ride.
No doubt it will introduce some new part I wish I had earlier, forcing me to redo a bunch of my planes to incorporate it.
Kinda like how the car update obsoleted a bunch of old car-making techniques.
I ejected a cockpit with modded detacher, and reached relativistic speeds, escaping not only the atmosphere, but the entire solar system.
Added.
@Treadmill103 @MAHADI Thanks guys!
@AwesomeDesign717 Ah, OK. I'll grade it later. I would have done it earlier, but I wasn't entirely certain it was intended as a Lightning. I thought it was just a fancy generic twin-boom inspired by the P-38.
Hehe I like it.
I love pokemon.
@BaconEggs Hey cool! No problem.
When I was test flying one of my older P-38 replicas, I clipped the wall flying through the big pyramid at Maywar. This shaved off the entire left boom, but left the middle tail, and inboard wings intact. Instead of crashing, I found that the plane could still be controlled in this state, so I flew around my half-Lightning for a little bit before attempting to land. I lost the last propeller during landing thanks to only having 1 main wheel, but it was mostly a safe landing.
Yes. Yes! YES!
@FearlessFabEngineering @volt0 I found it.
Destroyer
I never liked the MD-11. Or even the DC-10 for that matter. Every heavy pilot I ever talked to said they'd never want to fly one. Not a lot of trust in it I'd guess. I saw a KC-10 doing touch-and-go training at my airbase once. That's the only time I've even seen the airframe up close.
This is not bad! Even if the size and shape aren't quite right, the handling is just about perfect.
@EnderWiggin This is the VTOL attack aircraft from Neon Genesis Evangelion. I recognized it immediately.
+1Oh, I like this!