@MrSilverWolf Tailstrikes were actually a very common problem for the P-38 on takeoff and landing. Pilots had to be careful how they rotated on takeoff, and angled their touchdown on landing. If you pay close attention to photographs, you'll see that the ventral stabilizer tips were fitted with skid shoes to help prevent damage to the rudders due to slight tailstrikes. IMAGE
Also, the center of gravity is very precisely balanced on the P-38. It only takes a few hundred pounds on the tail to lift up the nosewheel. But yeah, as far as THIS Lightning goes, the weight does actually need to be shifted slightly forward. But that's the least of its problems.
@Insertname Active duty guys always have a surplus of free time it seems. I'm a reservist, but I'm always busy with other things. Such unexpected contrast lol.
LOL
I did the math, and if you tried to fly between the Moon, and the Earth, you'd hit BOTH with your wings.
IT'S WIDER THAN THE SUN. LITERALLY.
You madman!
More wing gun variation, maybe editor options with different calibers and fire rates.
Autocannons and rotary cannons that work the same way.
Laser-guided bombs.
Cluster bombs.
Low-yield tactical nuclear bombs.
More missile variations (likenesses of AGM-88, Harpoon, etc.).
Individual unguided rockets.
An island with a small town on it would be nice.
Maybe an island that's a huge mountain with no good place to land with all sorts of caves to fly through.
An island that has lots of docks for boats.
A wide and flat island with gentle rolling grassy hills.
Rudders in SimplePlanes don't quite behave like they should in real life, so I rarely use them. Very rarely do I see planes with realistic yaw controls. I'd love to be able to execute accurate slow-rolls, hammerheads, and slips, but it just doesn't work right.
@DankDorito I wouldn't feel right about getting upvotes for it though. If you want, I have one of ccooper's planes that I could post unlisted and tag you on.
@RailfanEthan Can you cite even a single derailment or fire incident caused solely by a coin? It's never happened. What's more is, more often than not, the coin gets harmlessly stuck to the rail by being smashed into it. And when the wheels do manage to take the coin up (which rarely happens btw), it only takes a few revolutions for the hot metal to basically become welded to the wheel and ground into the metal to blend with the surface. A few seconds of sparking at most. Also, unless there is some defect in the fuel tank, it's not going to be detonated by a few stray sparks. They are engineered to resist spark detonation since the wheels and other parts themselves often produce sparks on the rails, especially when braking. Also, the traction motors are typically strong enough to snap and break apart something as small and soft as a coin and keep working. AC induction motors are pretty powerful. If they failed because of a little debris, I'd chalk that up to poor design. But yeah, if this was some bad action movie, and not real-life, all those highly unlikely scenarios would happen. Just because something can happen, doesn't mean it will (maybe).
It is entirely impossible to derail a train with a coin unless some ridiculous chain of events happens like something out of a Final Destination movie.
Trains and rails are overengineered to account for things like this. They are designed to safely roll over branches, rocks, small animals, and anything else that can naturally find its way onto the rails. They can handle hitting things much larger than a tiny coin. I should know. As a professional troublemaker in my youth, I smashed a lot of things on train rails, up to and including an old CRT television. Trains can take it.
It's illegal though, so don't do it.
There's always others on the ballot aside from the Republican and Democrat nominees. This year we have Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson, and Green Party's Jill Stein, as well as a few other nobodies. So few Americans realize they can vote for those other names. Third party candidates never actually win though. Last one to perform pretty well was Ross Perot in 1992 who pulled in 19% of the votes. And the last person to pull a significant number of electoral votes away from the two-party candidates was John C. Breckinridge in 1860 with 72 total. Of course, he was a vice-president prior, so he had more name recognition that most other third-party contenders.
It's pretty good overall, but as an expert on the P-38, I could list of dozens of gripes and tiny issues. Here's the important things:
The shape is pretty good. It's clear you tried to make it look right. However, the size is way off, and there are issues with part placement, wing angles and other things.
It also has a handful of functionality issues. Notably, very poorly implemented rudders, and incorrect propeller rotation direction.
Performance also suffers a bit. Though the top speed is very close to its real world counterpart, the pitch rate is incredibly low compared to the real deal. The roll rate is just about right, but there is an auto-roll (but the REAL Lightning had one too, so It's not really a big deal).
Overall, this P-38 scores 6/10.
For a one of a person's earliest works, it's pretty good work. I'm sure a redo would be fantastic.
@ChiChiWerx You guessed where I drew my inspiration from. I guess the frame could make for the base of a good B-52 replica with some tweaking. I would just need to make it a little bigger.
Good job trying to get the size right.
Other points need work, and some things make me scratch my head, but for a first design, it's a solid start.
Good work.
@SpeedmeisteranAircraft People always say that, but end up eating lots of sugar hidden inconspicuously in unlikely foods. Always read the labels. Other causes are particularly acidic foods and beverages. Only drinking water is a good way to avoid acids.
Cut back on sugars, friends. Even if you brush regularly, high-sugar diets will still lead to cavities. Your teeth will thank you for getting rid of sugar.
Not every airspeed indicator has the same units on its face.
Older American dials read in mph, and in other countries, dials reading in km/h are pretty common. There's also fancy dials with more than one unit on the face. I like those the most.
It should be a custom setting like @MechWARRIOR57 suggested.
I like the idea of the axis stabilization. As it is now, the autopilot is pretty finicky. Tries too hard to keep altitude and heading locked in, that it often induces oscillation (a lot of my planes are wobbly in autopilot). The autopilot should have modes (or options) like level wings, maintain altitude, and maintain heading. And maybe advanced options like maintain speed with throttle/pitch, and maintain rate of climb.
And more stylish wings would be a godsend. Making them fancy with fuselage pieces is a total chore, and it always adds needless weight and drag.
@Unreliablewaffle365 Good Idea with the camera, but the engines are mostly a non-issue since the tank doesn't need to be throttled up to work (engines are throttled with pitch). All you need to do is cut throttle before you deploy the cage.
@Kevinairlines I can't tell based simply on those angles. But it looks like you might need bigger wings with a more extreme sweep. Same with the horizontal stabilizers, which should also be mounted a little higher.
Here's a useful image: IMAGE
@MrSilverWolf Tailstrikes were actually a very common problem for the P-38 on takeoff and landing. Pilots had to be careful how they rotated on takeoff, and angled their touchdown on landing. If you pay close attention to photographs, you'll see that the ventral stabilizer tips were fitted with skid shoes to help prevent damage to the rudders due to slight tailstrikes. IMAGE
Also, the center of gravity is very precisely balanced on the P-38. It only takes a few hundred pounds on the tail to lift up the nosewheel. But yeah, as far as THIS Lightning goes, the weight does actually need to be shifted slightly forward. But that's the least of its problems.
@Insertname Active duty guys always have a surplus of free time it seems. I'm a reservist, but I'm always busy with other things. Such unexpected contrast lol.
You sure made the journey quick.
Well-deserved.
LOL
I did the math, and if you tried to fly between the Moon, and the Earth, you'd hit BOTH with your wings.
IT'S WIDER THAN THE SUN. LITERALLY.
You madman!
More wing gun variation, maybe editor options with different calibers and fire rates.
Autocannons and rotary cannons that work the same way.
Laser-guided bombs.
Cluster bombs.
Low-yield tactical nuclear bombs.
More missile variations (likenesses of AGM-88, Harpoon, etc.).
Individual unguided rockets.
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@JPritchard Thanks! Glad you like it.
Hmm. Not bad. Should be about twice as big though.
An island with a small town on it would be nice.
Maybe an island that's a huge mountain with no good place to land with all sorts of caves to fly through.
An island that has lots of docks for boats.
A wide and flat island with gentle rolling grassy hills.
Rudders in SimplePlanes don't quite behave like they should in real life, so I rarely use them. Very rarely do I see planes with realistic yaw controls. I'd love to be able to execute accurate slow-rolls, hammerheads, and slips, but it just doesn't work right.
@FireNut58 ??? They are all on the same group (AG2). I just listed the step for detaching them for the sake of comprehensiveness.
Add the string (disableAircraftCollisions="true") after the (materials=) string in the code for the wheel. It will clip through everything.
@DankDorito I wouldn't feel right about getting upvotes for it though. If you want, I have one of ccooper's planes that I could post unlisted and tag you on.
I don't know. It seems a little rude to repost someone else's work, even if they are gone.
@RailfanEthan Can you cite even a single derailment or fire incident caused solely by a coin? It's never happened. What's more is, more often than not, the coin gets harmlessly stuck to the rail by being smashed into it. And when the wheels do manage to take the coin up (which rarely happens btw), it only takes a few revolutions for the hot metal to basically become welded to the wheel and ground into the metal to blend with the surface. A few seconds of sparking at most. Also, unless there is some defect in the fuel tank, it's not going to be detonated by a few stray sparks. They are engineered to resist spark detonation since the wheels and other parts themselves often produce sparks on the rails, especially when braking. Also, the traction motors are typically strong enough to snap and break apart something as small and soft as a coin and keep working. AC induction motors are pretty powerful. If they failed because of a little debris, I'd chalk that up to poor design. But yeah, if this was some bad action movie, and not real-life, all those highly unlikely scenarios would happen. Just because something can happen, doesn't mean it will (maybe).
I want to legally marry this plane.
It is entirely impossible to derail a train with a coin unless some ridiculous chain of events happens like something out of a Final Destination movie.
Trains and rails are overengineered to account for things like this. They are designed to safely roll over branches, rocks, small animals, and anything else that can naturally find its way onto the rails. They can handle hitting things much larger than a tiny coin. I should know. As a professional troublemaker in my youth, I smashed a lot of things on train rails, up to and including an old CRT television. Trains can take it.
It's illegal though, so don't do it.
There's always others on the ballot aside from the Republican and Democrat nominees. This year we have Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson, and Green Party's Jill Stein, as well as a few other nobodies. So few Americans realize they can vote for those other names. Third party candidates never actually win though. Last one to perform pretty well was Ross Perot in 1992 who pulled in 19% of the votes. And the last person to pull a significant number of electoral votes away from the two-party candidates was John C. Breckinridge in 1860 with 72 total. Of course, he was a vice-president prior, so he had more name recognition that most other third-party contenders.
Everyone knows my favorite is the P-38 Lightning.
The F-15 Eagle is a close second.
@ChiChiWerx That's always an option.
It's pretty good overall, but as an expert on the P-38, I could list of dozens of gripes and tiny issues. Here's the important things:
The shape is pretty good. It's clear you tried to make it look right. However, the size is way off, and there are issues with part placement, wing angles and other things.
It also has a handful of functionality issues. Notably, very poorly implemented rudders, and incorrect propeller rotation direction.
Performance also suffers a bit. Though the top speed is very close to its real world counterpart, the pitch rate is incredibly low compared to the real deal. The roll rate is just about right, but there is an auto-roll (but the REAL Lightning had one too, so It's not really a big deal).
Overall, this P-38 scores 6/10.
For a one of a person's earliest works, it's pretty good work. I'm sure a redo would be fantastic.
The road of life has many forks.
Bring a map, and enjoy the sights.
Good luck with all your future endeavors.
@ChiChiWerx You guessed where I drew my inspiration from. I guess the frame could make for the base of a good B-52 replica with some tweaking. I would just need to make it a little bigger.
@Treadmill103 Thanks.
@Deloreandude Easy mistake to make.
@Deloreandude Thanks! I originally had more stuffed in there. Close to half a thousand rockets. But they caused problems so I reduced them.
@TemDesBur Oh, thank you!
Good job trying to get the size right.
Other points need work, and some things make me scratch my head, but for a first design, it's a solid start.
Good work.
@SpeedmeisteranAircraft People always say that, but end up eating lots of sugar hidden inconspicuously in unlikely foods. Always read the labels. Other causes are particularly acidic foods and beverages. Only drinking water is a good way to avoid acids.
Cut back on sugars, friends. Even if you brush regularly, high-sugar diets will still lead to cavities. Your teeth will thank you for getting rid of sugar.
@Avro683Lancaster That's right. Douglas Adams quotes are relevant and insightful to just about everything.
@oDDDynamics Best of luck to you.
@oDDDynamics I see. Everyone must be very eager to join a host right now.
Fantastic work. I love it.
@UnstableOrbit Good to know. Thanks.
Two questions:
1. Do high part counts hurt the server at all, and if so, what's the MP-friendly part limit?
2. Anyone hosting?
@MAHADI Pretty good. It's quick and reasonably stable.
@Supercraft888 Many thanks.
@Supercraft888 Thanks.
@SHCow Depends on how much detail I'd want. For a typical build, I'd exclude it. You know how I like to keep it simple.
@SHCow If it were me making it, I'd just get lazy and resize an airbrake gizmo to the correct dimensions. lol
I agree, but I think Maywar should host it. It doesn't have a proper airport of its own. It's a BIG island, so it should have a BIG airport.
I always love the look of your old-fashioned planes.
@Booster456 That's three underscores in a row. (_)
Not every airspeed indicator has the same units on its face.
Older American dials read in mph, and in other countries, dials reading in km/h are pretty common. There's also fancy dials with more than one unit on the face. I like those the most.
It should be a custom setting like @MechWARRIOR57 suggested.
I like the idea of the axis stabilization. As it is now, the autopilot is pretty finicky. Tries too hard to keep altitude and heading locked in, that it often induces oscillation (a lot of my planes are wobbly in autopilot). The autopilot should have modes (or options) like level wings, maintain altitude, and maintain heading. And maybe advanced options like maintain speed with throttle/pitch, and maintain rate of climb.
And more stylish wings would be a godsend. Making them fancy with fuselage pieces is a total chore, and it always adds needless weight and drag.
A propeller/jet hybrid.
@Unreliablewaffle365 Good Idea with the camera, but the engines are mostly a non-issue since the tank doesn't need to be throttled up to work (engines are throttled with pitch). All you need to do is cut throttle before you deploy the cage.
@SHCow @MAHADI @Treadmill103 Thanks.
@Kevinairlines I can't tell based simply on those angles. But it looks like you might need bigger wings with a more extreme sweep. Same with the horizontal stabilizers, which should also be mounted a little higher.
Here's a useful image: IMAGE