@shahram15 I'm not all that kind. Fixing problems with other peoples designs is a great way to learn and improve your own skills, because it gives you challenges that are different from the ones you might run into with your own designs. So it is a win-win situation.
@Othawne Unrealistic, yeah probably., but fun. Besides it's a fictional plane so so don't have to worry about it. It's not like you were making a 1:1 replica.
It's a nice design, but you need to invert the trim on the front left roll aileron. Otherwise if you use trim the plane will start to bank to one side instead of raising or lowering the nose. Inverting the trim setting will make it easier to level out the trim.
Some sort of picture overlap could be nice. We could load a semi-transparent background picture for the plane and then rotate out design to the same angel and compare the shape. It would certainly help a lot with wings.
@Viper3000ad
I'm not an expert either, that's why I couldn't fix my old plane. And I agree with you that SkyFly did a good job. That's why I gave it an upvote. I'm just cautioning that sometimes lower weight isn't better for a glider.
Franky the drag from the "open" cockpit probably hurts it the most, but until SP makes transparent glass available it's unavoidable if you want to show the insides.
@Viper3000ad
Not necessarily, The weight also helps to pull the plane forward and that can give it more lift. I drove myself crazy during the last glider challenge trying to duplicate the performance of my first design, which accidentally had fuel in the wings. It wasn't just the weight but the distribution.
Nice, I love Valkyries.
One suggestion: You might want to make some tranformations "one way" to help reduce the chances of someone blowing up their plane by accidentally moving the slider in the wrong direction. That or replace some of the VTOL controls with Activate controls.
I'm sorry but I don't recall the post. I checked the threads I started where I asked about trim:
https://www.simpleplanes.com/Forums/View/836101/Fine-Tune-Control-Surfaces
and
https://www.simpleplanes.com/Forums/View/826231/Variable-Trim-Problem
But I don't see a response from you on either of those threads.
I looked through and Google search posts where we overlapped and as far as I can tell the only time you posted something towards me where I didn't respond was when you commented was in this thread: https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/gftLUg/Scythe
where you posted
"@atgxtg Hmm, high speed + detacher = wobbliness + explosions. You could just use the insta-acceleration feature and pretend it's a catapult...?"
Which I took to be rhetorical.
About the only thing that I posted about you that might have upset you was when I posted that somebody plane couldn't have been based on on of your because it had landing gear, which I meant in jest. (https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/5vT698/Spectre-II)
I'm not saying what you claim didn't happen, only that I'm not aware of it, and can't find it.
I wasn't aware of any anti-SledDriver wagon, nor did intentionally snub you or mean any disrespect. I like you designs and think you made the best SR-71 build in SP.
Sorry If anything I did bothered you in any way, I did not do so deliberately, nor do I Bear you any ill will.
It;'s an interesting design. I like the engine glow. Maybe canards could help with the stability? Especially if they had a touch of dihedral to counterbalance the main wing. But it is a fun plane.
Shouldn't but it did. I am running under sream as the admin, and it was the firewall that caused the problem. I got a pop up from my Firewall/Antivirus that detected a change in simpleplanes.exe and then SP locked up.
I had to disconnect from the internet, disable the web monitoring part of the firewall, start SP offline, exist SP, then turn everything back on and restart SP. At that point the exe files matched and everything's okay.
@humangrenade I thought that too, for a time. I went to a site that checks to see if other sites were down, and at first it said SP was up, probably because the site was intermittent for awhile. A hour later, it said the site was indeed down, and I knew the problem wasn't on my end.
@mikethemark Good luck. Oh, you might want to try using fuselage blocks instead of the "Blocks" you used, as with Fuselage blocks you can not only customize the shape but add fuel and dead weight, which can help you to control where the center of balance ends up. The make sure the center of lift is slightly behind that.
@mikethemark Yeah that's a common problem with VTOL and vectored thrust aircraft, let alone something without wings. What you need to do is balance the craft out perfectly, and position the thrusters equidistantly from the center of mass. It's easier said than done. I've got a vehicle I'm trying to use thrusters just for vertical take off and it's tough because I have to move the thruster every time I change something.
@Lyra You might want to try the 2B. ttps://www.simpleplanes.com/a/w2e8N9/VTOL-Travel-Pod-Mk-2B
It;'s a modest improvement until I get the Mk 3 ready.
BTW, just how slow are you trying to go? I've probably flown this thing as much as anybody and know a few things about handling it at low speeds. A couple of them are counter intuitive, and contrary to what I intended when I designed it. For instance, it's easier to land horizontally than vertically, or that's it best to come in a little on the fast side and then pull up to bleed off speed and trust to the landing gear to absorb the shock.
@Seungseung22 tricky.
Does it have to be able to take off? Or can it start in air?
@shahram15 I'm not exactly a beast either. But overall helping other people has benefits.
@shahram15 I'm not all that kind. Fixing problems with other peoples designs is a great way to learn and improve your own skills, because it gives you challenges that are different from the ones you might run into with your own designs. So it is a win-win situation.
@Planeacceleration You're welcome.
I missed this little gem last month. Very nice.
The bodywork in amazing. All the surfaces are so rounded and smooth.
@shahram15 Thanks for the instructions. I'll give it a try. I figured there had to be a way to get it off the ground, but I couldn't figure it out.
Nice
Sorry if I sound like an idiot here, but just how does this take off and fly? All I can get it to do is hop a bit? What am I missing?
Fun!!
@Othawne Unrealistic, yeah probably., but fun. Besides it's a fictional plane so so don't have to worry about it. It's not like you were making a 1:1 replica.
@Othawne If was new to me when I found it last night. The stall speed is incredible, and it's take off distance is very short.
An oldie but a goodie
It's a nice design, but you need to invert the trim on the front left roll aileron. Otherwise if you use trim the plane will start to bank to one side instead of raising or lowering the nose. Inverting the trim setting will make it easier to level out the trim.
Fantastic! This really raises the bar for ornithophers in SP
Some sort of picture overlap could be nice. We could load a semi-transparent background picture for the plane and then rotate out design to the same angel and compare the shape. It would certainly help a lot with wings.
Yes there is definitely more to this design. I'd say "efficient" is a better description than simple.
@Viper3000ad You should enter this in the No Control Surface Challenge.
@Viper3000ad I'm working on it. I keep overdoing it in the turns and get my feet wet.
Even if it didn't fly, it would be worth an upvote just for the rider. It looks like a person.
Interesting.
@Destroyerz117 Thanks for the fun spaceship to fly. It not every day I get to laser something while telling it to "bite my shiny metal a$$".
It's worth an upvote for the unusual wing/engine arrangement. I don't know if such an arrangement is practical, but it's different.
Impressive detail. It's like Futurama in 3D
@Viper3000ad
I'm not an expert either, that's why I couldn't fix my old plane. And I agree with you that SkyFly did a good job. That's why I gave it an upvote. I'm just cautioning that sometimes lower weight isn't better for a glider.
Franky the drag from the "open" cockpit probably hurts it the most, but until SP makes transparent glass available it's unavoidable if you want to show the insides.
@Viper3000ad
Not necessarily, The weight also helps to pull the plane forward and that can give it more lift. I drove myself crazy during the last glider challenge trying to duplicate the performance of my first design, which accidentally had fuel in the wings. It wasn't just the weight but the distribution.
Nice glider
1
Nice, I love Valkyries.
One suggestion: You might want to make some tranformations "one way" to help reduce the chances of someone blowing up their plane by accidentally moving the slider in the wrong direction. That or replace some of the VTOL controls with Activate controls.
I'm sorry but I don't recall the post. I checked the threads I started where I asked about trim:
https://www.simpleplanes.com/Forums/View/836101/Fine-Tune-Control-Surfaces
and
https://www.simpleplanes.com/Forums/View/826231/Variable-Trim-Problem
But I don't see a response from you on either of those threads.
I looked through and Google search posts where we overlapped and as far as I can tell the only time you posted something towards me where I didn't respond was when you commented was in this thread: https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/gftLUg/Scythe
where you posted
"@atgxtg Hmm, high speed + detacher = wobbliness + explosions. You could just use the insta-acceleration feature and pretend it's a catapult...?"
Which I took to be rhetorical.
About the only thing that I posted about you that might have upset you was when I posted that somebody plane couldn't have been based on on of your because it had landing gear, which I meant in jest. (https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/5vT698/Spectre-II)
I'm not saying what you claim didn't happen, only that I'm not aware of it, and can't find it.
I wasn't aware of any anti-SledDriver wagon, nor did intentionally snub you or mean any disrespect. I like you designs and think you made the best SR-71 build in SP.
Sorry If anything I did bothered you in any way, I did not do so deliberately, nor do I Bear you any ill will.
Nice. I Like the pilot.
It's a fun plane but you got an extra piece of landing strut on the right side
It's pretty.
Gorgeous plane. I love the way the engines glow.
What is a wake-up engine?
It's a nice concept. Giveit a skirt and some bouncy bumpers that extent lower than the blades, and you'd have a good hovercraft.
Nice.
Very nice.
It's not bad, although I think it rolls a little too quickly .
It;'s an interesting design. I like the engine glow. Maybe canards could help with the stability? Especially if they had a touch of dihedral to counterbalance the main wing. But it is a fun plane.
Nice first upload. VTOL and props that transition from vertical to horizontal make for an ambitious start.
Shouldn't but it did. I am running under sream as the admin, and it was the firewall that caused the problem. I got a pop up from my Firewall/Antivirus that detected a change in simpleplanes.exe and then SP locked up.
I had to disconnect from the internet, disable the web monitoring part of the firewall, start SP offline, exist SP, then turn everything back on and restart SP. At that point the exe files matched and everything's okay.
@humangrenade I thought that too, for a time. I went to a site that checks to see if other sites were down, and at first it said SP was up, probably because the site was intermittent for awhile. A hour later, it said the site was indeed down, and I knew the problem wasn't on my end.
@mikethemark Good luck. Oh, you might want to try using fuselage blocks instead of the "Blocks" you used, as with Fuselage blocks you can not only customize the shape but add fuel and dead weight, which can help you to control where the center of balance ends up. The make sure the center of lift is slightly behind that.
@mikethemark Yeah that's a common problem with VTOL and vectored thrust aircraft, let alone something without wings. What you need to do is balance the craft out perfectly, and position the thrusters equidistantly from the center of mass. It's easier said than done. I've got a vehicle I'm trying to use thrusters just for vertical take off and it's tough because I have to move the thruster every time I change something.
@Lyra You might want to try the 2B. ttps://www.simpleplanes.com/a/w2e8N9/VTOL-Travel-Pod-Mk-2B
It;'s a modest improvement until I get the Mk 3 ready.
BTW, just how slow are you trying to go? I've probably flown this thing as much as anybody and know a few things about handling it at low speeds. A couple of them are counter intuitive, and contrary to what I intended when I designed it. For instance, it's easier to land horizontally than vertically, or that's it best to come in a little on the fast side and then pull up to bleed off speed and trust to the landing gear to absorb the shock.
Very nice.
Looks good so far.
@ian920911313 LOL! I throttled up expecting to wait while the pale got up to speed for takeoff, and I nearly choked on my coffee!
It's fun to fly.