Simviation Forum - It's a bird. It's a plane..

Oct 11^th, 2009 at 11:54am

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It's a... hell if I know!

Unreal Aviation "Dragon". Nice details, like the flapping wings, and as the wings go into the down stroke, the fusalage lifts up a bit, and drops a bit during the up-stroke. Very "realistic"

I found I had it when I was sifting through my FS9 aircraft for oddities to transfer to FSX. I got stuff in there that I forgot I had! Shocked

And I have no idea where I downloaded it from. Tongue

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Reply #1 - Oct 11^th, 2009 at 12:00pm

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I like it

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Reply #2 - Oct 11^th, 2009 at 12:10pm

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Looks pretty cool!

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Reply #3 - Oct 11^th, 2009 at 12:19pm

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Cool. Do the wigns just go up and down or do the rotate as they do it? That's probably too complex.

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Reply #4 - Oct 11^th, 2009 at 12:57pm

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B-Valvs wrote on Oct 11^th, 2009 at 12:19pm:

Cool. Do the wigns just go up and down or do the rotate as they do it? That's probably too complex.

Cool

Yup. Pretty much just up and down with a little flex at the mid-wing hinge line. It's pretty decent animation for something from FS9 plopped into FSX. It give hope to anyone contemplating doing some animater realistic dragon, a-la "Dragon Riders of Pern", for example.

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Reply #5 - Oct 11^th, 2009 at 10:22pm

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That thing is so ugly it's cute. Grin

Wish I could see it fly.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #6 - Oct 12^th, 2009 at 3:23am

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patchz wrote on Oct 11^th, 2009 at 10:22pm:

That thing is so ugly it's cute. Grin

Wish I could see it fly.

It's FS8/9, but also works in FSX, and almost at the bottom of the page:

http://www.fsplanet.com/20112005.htm

It's certainly a unique umm.. aircraft. Wink

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Reply #7 - Oct 12^th, 2009 at 6:06pm

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It give hope to anyone contemplating doing some animater realistic dragon, a-la "Dragon Riders of Pern", for example.

I can't do that, but I did do this. Kinda hard with just two frames. Grin

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #8 - Oct 12^th, 2009 at 7:00pm

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bet you couldn't find the flying pumpkin piloted by a skeleton.....

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Reply #9 - Oct 12^th, 2009 at 7:31pm

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Oh boy !

Please tell me it has a virtual cockpit ! Embarrassed

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Reply #10 - Oct 12^th, 2009 at 9:41pm

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Daube wrote on Oct 12^th, 2009 at 7:31pm:

Oh boy !

Please tell me it has a virtual cockpit ! Embarrassed

Yes it does. Nothing too fancy. No controls, but a good instrument panel and canopy frame.

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Reply #11 - Oct 12^th, 2009 at 9:45pm

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Neat animation Patchz!

Nope, no flying pumpkins flown by skeletons. Wink

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Reply #12 - Oct 13^th, 2009 at 4:43am

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Huhu, I have to try that Grin

Thanks for the vc shot, Boikat

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Reply #13 - Oct 13^th, 2009 at 11:09am

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Now that's different.

Question though: How does it get airborn ? Undecided

I'd imagine like a glider does. Roll Eyes

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Reply #14 - Oct 13^th, 2009 at 11:30am

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Boikat wrote on Oct 11^th, 2009 at 11:54am:

It's a... hell if I know!

Ornithopter. Wink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter

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