Excellent, well done all who competed and especially those who got a time posted. Have to say a well done for getting my plane round the course so quickly I didn't think it would be near the top as its agility was secondary to out and out speed.
@XVIindustries Bruntingthorpe have two lightnings that do fast taxi runs, well worth a trip for one of the two cold war jet days they have every year. Another flying Vulcan would be great but CAA don't like fast heavies as obviously a ten ton plane doing 500knots has a lot more potential for disaster than a half ton biplane that does 70knots on a good day.
The project to restore the lightning will be a tough one, the campaign against aviation CAA won't let it fly in the UK as a civil operation as far as I can tell. There won't be another flying Vulcan that ship has past in the night, the Victor is a different matter, Bruntingthorpe have had there's in the air accidentally in the past few years and do regular high speed ground runs, so if they could sort the paper work it's not inconceivable that she could fly again, bear in mind some of the tankers only left service in the mid 90's
If you think the Vulcan was loud feel the sound of a flight of Lightnings ripping up the runway, those Avon engines make your heat flutter as they zip by. That said living close to the end of RAF finingley in the early 80's you always got a good air show in your own back garden.
So you want planes posts that need more looking at; this one may have slipped through many people's radar, pretty fair replica of a French naval strike aircraft.
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/4j8CjT/Dassault-Etendard-IV
http://www.vulcantothesky.org/appearances.html details of the farewell tour, I've seen her fly on a few occasions, will be missed from the air show circuit.
The lack of paint doesn't help that and the shape, I've built a CAS version in desert camouflage based on this, you should hopefully generate you some traffic.
@TheSwissOfAllCheeses landing gear on the Avenger folds out on the wing with the wheels heading towards the wing tips. I've been working on this for an hour or so and think I've improved it sufficiently for an upload, all your cockpit detailing has gone though so you may wish to add it back?
Centre of Mass, centre of thrust, centre of lift. I.e. the red blue and yellow circles you can add when building your plane, red in front of blue is the main basic rule.
This plane has been frustrating me for about two hours now, I've got the pace fixed, got one wing to fold and keep setting the other up and then neither fold. Darned you for making such detailed aircraft that I feel they need adjustments, every time I rotate parts into place something is catching. It is however a lovely looking aircraft.
If you want a decent schematic drawing
http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/gannet13v.jpg
And no I don't mind if you want to put my name in the updated description.
Tricky plane to build and for that I say well done, I'm trying to sort a working Blackburn Bucaneer at the moment as FAA aircraft fascinate me. I'm not sure if this is tall enough to be realistic as that's the one thing that stuck with me from standing next to one several years ago, it seemed so tall it would topple over on a moving deck.
Looks pretty, drives horribly.
Here's one I made earlier;
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/oT4d2G/Hoverfly
Great looking plane.
Excellent, well done all who competed and especially those who got a time posted. Have to say a well done for getting my plane round the course so quickly I didn't think it would be near the top as its agility was secondary to out and out speed.
@LjSpike nope I don't hate tail dragger gear at all, just it's a period thing, modern planes avoid tail gear as its harder for ground movements.
Prone to stall at 140's and with tail dragging gear not the easiest thing to land.
Fixed blade prop is problem one, she's at stall speed as you pull up, problem two you need to pull the tail back a bit to make it more stable.
Revised version just uploaded.
Sorry folks this seems to not be the complete version, it's about 60mph slower than it should be.
@gonny is this about javans dehaviland seavixen post a couple of weeks ago?
@XVIindustries Bruntingthorpe have two lightnings that do fast taxi runs, well worth a trip for one of the two cold war jet days they have every year. Another flying Vulcan would be great but CAA don't like fast heavies as obviously a ten ton plane doing 500knots has a lot more potential for disaster than a half ton biplane that does 70knots on a good day.
@gonny I don't normally feed trolls but here's a biscuit, what are you on about?
The project to restore the lightning will be a tough one, the campaign against aviation CAA won't let it fly in the UK as a civil operation as far as I can tell. There won't be another flying Vulcan that ship has past in the night, the Victor is a different matter, Bruntingthorpe have had there's in the air accidentally in the past few years and do regular high speed ground runs, so if they could sort the paper work it's not inconceivable that she could fly again, bear in mind some of the tankers only left service in the mid 90's
Use the new fuselage blocks you can build almost anything with them.
If you think the Vulcan was loud feel the sound of a flight of Lightnings ripping up the runway, those Avon engines make your heat flutter as they zip by. That said living close to the end of RAF finingley in the early 80's you always got a good air show in your own back garden.
So you want planes posts that need more looking at; this one may have slipped through many people's radar, pretty fair replica of a French naval strike aircraft.
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/4j8CjT/Dassault-Etendard-IV
You should have the email where you bought the game on stream. That should have a link I believe.
New style fuselage made like that allows wings to be attached anywhere though, plus you can add weight......
http://www.vulcantothesky.org/appearances.html details of the farewell tour, I've seen her fly on a few occasions, will be missed from the air show circuit.
Excellent, where's the infinite fuel block?
Don't think it will catch on, plane blows itself up as the bomb bay is opened up.
@Exumer it's a few small tweeks
The lack of paint doesn't help that and the shape, I've built a CAS version in desert camouflage based on this, you should hopefully generate you some traffic.
@TheSwissOfAllCheeses download the version I just uploaded and feel free to adjust.
@TheSwissOfAllCheeses landing gear on the Avenger folds out on the wing with the wheels heading towards the wing tips. I've been working on this for an hour or so and think I've improved it sufficiently for an upload, all your cockpit detailing has gone though so you may wish to add it back?
You are of course right it flys like a brick, needs more power, a larger tail and the landing gear sorting to begin with.
Use this one if you wish; https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/HleZoj/Nakajima-B5N
@UnknownVectors A further step to make this plane more manoeuvrable
Read the tutorial on building an aircraft?
@A5mod3us that's so doable already, https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/7SJmnB/AVRO-Tutor-Revisited
There are lights at Murphy Airport
Centre of Mass, centre of thrust, centre of lift. I.e. the red blue and yellow circles you can add when building your plane, red in front of blue is the main basic rule.
I dislike anything that's a simple repost, it displaces genuine stuff.
I like it.
Do you want replicas of existing planes or fictional aircraft?
This plane has been frustrating me for about two hours now, I've got the pace fixed, got one wing to fold and keep setting the other up and then neither fold. Darned you for making such detailed aircraft that I feel they need adjustments, every time I rotate parts into place something is catching. It is however a lovely looking aircraft.
@Cedy117 indeed jet propulsion is the devils work.
@Cedy117 power at 100% on take off and just a steady climb to 20k will see you go through 600mph in a climb, higher and level and she goes supersonic.
Whilst it's fantastic looking I can't help grimace at the jet flames coming out of the tail and the 700mph plus speed.
Interesting concept but could have been done far better. When the rear fins are up its still rather unstable.
Pretty and ever so small. However it could do with more grunt and the wings don't swing :(
Wings are a bit floppy that needs fixing and then it's great.
@LjSpike not today laptop is needed for job application, tomorrow after work possibly.
That's not the AEW version though.
If you want a decent schematic drawing
http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/gannet13v.jpg
And no I don't mind if you want to put my name in the updated description.
Tricky plane to build and for that I say well done, I'm trying to sort a working Blackburn Bucaneer at the moment as FAA aircraft fascinate me. I'm not sure if this is tall enough to be realistic as that's the one thing that stuck with me from standing next to one several years ago, it seemed so tall it would topple over on a moving deck.
@LjSpike I do have the ability to on PC but only tend to make parts on that as I hate flying on a laptop zero feel to the controls.
Do something original please.
What he said, post your own stuff or use others that you have improved.
I hit 723mph at 500ft in a shallow climb which for a prop plane is bloomin fast.