You can ram the thrusters into reverse on this you just have no roll control to keep it steady when you do, also thrusting disables your airbrakes so it's counter productive.
Read pages 13-15 of the tutorial 'ground school', your Centre of Mass is behind your Centre of Lift the which is seldom a good idea. Remember red in front of blue and you should normally be OK.
Takes off nicely in the vertical, flies competently but definitely isn't suitable to try vertical landing in. Also don't think the weapons load looks right for this aircraft but that's just an opinion.
It's not bad, a bit nose heavy and wallows on landing approaches leading you to clip the down turned wing tips it you are unlucky. Taller gear and a small move with the COM could make this very good plane indeed.
@JacobHardy64 - it's an advert that the UK and I believe Australia have been blighted with. http://rebelbadges.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=14&zenid=b0d2c194ee703b135d2aed818d928722
@Vikdesigns it didn't have them on the initial one so I didn't add them all I did was balance the thrusters so that it can VTOL. Had I actually built the plane I would have had rcn's, upgraded engine's, put at least twice the fuel on board, and had wings that wouldn't rip off but it was worthy of a few moments to set the balance back up.
In production the F111, in prototype Westland aircraft the Pterodactyl sp? Some thirty years earlier. Trouble comes that the weight / drag of the sweep wing mechanisms is significantly heavy so any gain was marginal until you got near the speed of sound.
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/1C6JE4/1930s-Naval-Biplane-Fighter-v1-0
Or
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/qFR7ru/Vintage-Naval-Strike-Aircraft-v1-1
Or
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/5LbbK4/Folded-Wing-Naval-Jet-Fighter-1-3
@Stickman if you liked that check out my folding naval biplane, vintage naval strike aircraft and folding wing jet. Click on my name and they should be all on the first page.
@AeroEngineering - Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery; For example the Mig29k that the Indian navy fly off there carrier. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOBAR
@AeroEngineering indeed the plane isn't the greatest but it was a quickly thrown together demonstration of a technique used in building, the fact the plane flys marginally off centre I apologise for, if you feel like altering it add some weight to the parts that will be at the back and perhaps straighten out the main gear it should be fairly easy to get right.
@AeroEngineering vtol slide upwards folds the landing gear. Or if you mean how is it connected? That's via a modified xml file where the attachment point has been moved.
@boss7789 so pick the outer bit of wing it should turn yellow? Click the wing icon at the right of the screen, add a control surface and you have roll. Click the inner section of wing make it yellow and then icon again and you should have a box at the bottom with pitch, one of the options is invert, thats what you need to do with the pitch control on the wings to make this work.
Highlight the section of wing then click the wing icon on the right hand side of the screen, should open a menu allowing you to alter surfaces, resize or add fuel to the wing. One of the options towards the bottom allows you to add or edit control
@JacobHardy64 no to be honest this was going to be a Torpedo Bomber until I built the scoop at the front, then I thought flip the prop to the top and it would look like a Tiff with a few modifications. TB with a radial engine coming some time soon.
Nice little plane.
I'm so jealous of you lot with beta it's not in the app store for my Kindle I may have to cry myself to sleep as a result.
@LjSpike have a play with the version I just added it's controllable forwards, backwards and just about still.
Put the airbrakes on to activate off the vtol and invert the action. Then if you slam the thrusters on backwards you get full brakes as well.
I did as you requested disastrous result though as you have a +10vtol engine inside already so the gatling gun flips the plane over.
Flies nicely enough but tipped on its nose after landing.
Basic is it goes into a wing stall at about 120mph and you loose directional control at that point.
You can ram the thrusters into reverse on this you just have no roll control to keep it steady when you do, also thrusting disables your airbrakes so it's counter productive.
LIFT silly auto text
@SeriousFlipper4 it's not the loft that's the problem.
Read pages 13-15 of the tutorial 'ground school', your Centre of Mass is behind your Centre of Lift the which is seldom a good idea. Remember red in front of blue and you should normally be OK.
Impressive, some minor modifications and its off the ground at 48mph and quite happy to land on a postage stamp.
Takes off nicely in the vertical, flies competently but definitely isn't suitable to try vertical landing in. Also don't think the weapons load looks right for this aircraft but that's just an opinion.
It's not bad, a bit nose heavy and wallows on landing approaches leading you to clip the down turned wing tips it you are unlucky. Taller gear and a small move with the COM could make this very good plane indeed.
I've just tried to download and unfortunately cant, looks cool though, developers get the version out to other users asap please.
@JacobHardy64 I don't have beta so not sure I can fly them :( poor man's Android here
I will have a look at it tomorrow right now bed is far too tempting.
@JacobHardy64 - it's an advert that the UK and I believe Australia have been blighted with. http://rebelbadges.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=14&zenid=b0d2c194ee703b135d2aed818d928722
It's not good but the bad language is unnecessary.
@Vikdesigns it didn't have them on the initial one so I didn't add them all I did was balance the thrusters so that it can VTOL. Had I actually built the plane I would have had rcn's, upgraded engine's, put at least twice the fuel on board, and had wings that wouldn't rip off but it was worthy of a few moments to set the balance back up.
Odd plane but it does fly (just about).
Your COT will also take into account your rear engine so it's not at all balanced.
Have no plans to build a pterodactyl so you will have to put up with a 111 at some point.
In production the F111, in prototype Westland aircraft the Pterodactyl sp? Some thirty years earlier. Trouble comes that the weight / drag of the sweep wing mechanisms is significantly heavy so any gain was marginal until you got near the speed of sound.
Welcome to simple planes.
Deserves some love.
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/1C6JE4/1930s-Naval-Biplane-Fighter-v1-0 Or https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/qFR7ru/Vintage-Naval-Strike-Aircraft-v1-1 Or https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/5LbbK4/Folded-Wing-Naval-Jet-Fighter-1-3
Vittery and not easy to fly due to the nose weight but welcome to simple planes.
@A5mod3us use the other one but this should still earn you a few more points.
Nice idea, just uploaded a candidate.
@Stickman if you liked that check out my folding naval biplane, vintage naval strike aircraft and folding wing jet. Click on my name and they should be all on the first page.
Nicely done little plane.
Simple rule red in front of blue no matter what you do. Your Centre of Mass is way behind your Centre of Lift that always ends badly.
@AeroEngineering - Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery; For example the Mig29k that the Indian navy fly off there carrier. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOBAR
@AeroEngineering indeed the plane isn't the greatest but it was a quickly thrown together demonstration of a technique used in building, the fact the plane flys marginally off centre I apologise for, if you feel like altering it add some weight to the parts that will be at the back and perhaps straighten out the main gear it should be fairly easy to get right.
@AeroEngineering vtol slide upwards folds the landing gear. Or if you mean how is it connected? That's via a modified xml file where the attachment point has been moved.
Takes about half an hour for points to update following rating.
@boss7789 so pick the outer bit of wing it should turn yellow? Click the wing icon at the right of the screen, add a control surface and you have roll. Click the inner section of wing make it yellow and then icon again and you should have a box at the bottom with pitch, one of the options is invert, thats what you need to do with the pitch control on the wings to make this work.
Highlight the section of wing then click the wing icon on the right hand side of the screen, should open a menu allowing you to alter surfaces, resize or add fuel to the wing. One of the options towards the bottom allows you to add or edit control
Invert the pitch controls on the wing and add control surfaces for roll to the outer wings and you should be fine.
@LjSpike catapult or launch trolley?
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/qFR7ru/Vintage-Naval-Strike-Aircraft-v1-1 here's one I made earlier.
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@JacobHardy64 no to be honest this was going to be a Torpedo Bomber until I built the scoop at the front, then I thought flip the prop to the top and it would look like a Tiff with a few modifications. TB with a radial engine coming some time soon.
@JacobHardy64 not 1946 but I do have il2 on the play station that I may on occasion spend two or three hours playing.
Thanks for the comments folks it was really just a working prototype but gives me some ideas for improvement.
Sub 500mph with heavy stick inputs and TV switched on the fuselage fails.
@nickasaurusrex workable example just uploaded.
Lacks vertical stability and rips itself apart when you thrust vector.
The polite thing to do before taking other people's designs and modifying them is too ask permission.