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Aug 1^st, 2005 at 12:42am

turbo_skylane Offline
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is there any way to have a cessna with a heli blade on the roof and a normal prop on th front so it can take off vertical and fly? without having to model the thing?

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Reply #1 - Aug 1^st, 2005 at 1:51am

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No. FS doesn't allow for mixed propulsion.

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Reply #2 - Aug 1^st, 2005 at 1:53am

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well can i have a rotor on the roof? Cry

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Reply #3 - Aug 1^st, 2005 at 6:02am

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turbo-skylane,

You can have what you like on the roof(!) but it won't affect the way that the plane flies. The shape of the model itself has no effect whatever on the flying characteristics - these are defined in the flight dynamics files that tell FS what the plane looks like rather than the model. So you could design a model of a large house brick, but if you used the default 737 dynamics, then it would fly like the default 737.

(Which some might say flies like a house brick anyway!)

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Reply #4 - Aug 1^st, 2005 at 8:20pm

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this bother me too, i wish FS had mixed propulsion...

i need it to make my highspeeder flying car design

plus, thrust vectoring would be neat too 8)

Moach

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Reply #5 - Aug 2^nd, 2005 at 11:45am

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You can simulate thrust vectoring with some careful manipulation of the flap specification in the FD ....

May the force be with you.

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Reply #6 - Aug 2^nd, 2005 at 11:50am

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THrust vectoring can be "easily" modelled by modifying the elevator and rudder effects in the flight dynamics.

A Cessna with a rotor on the roof - as in a gyroplane (note - there's an outfit in Utah that has actually taken a Cessna Skymaster and converted it to a gyroplane proof of concept) can also be modelled with the lift characteristics. The "problem" is modelling the slower rotation of the blades on top....

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Reply #7 - Aug 4^th, 2005 at 7:22pm

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That plane i..i...i think i heard about tha...tha...that rotor on...on... the roof. Thing...thing...thingy i..i....i SAW IT ON THE .... th....th...the NEWS YA I SAW IT ON THE NEWS or was...was...was it on Dis...Dis...Discovery channel.

Yours.... Yourssss.... Trulll.... Trully

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Reply #8 - Aug 4^th, 2005 at 7:24pm

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i aint too good with aircraft files.

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