Simviation Forum - Super Tweet

Nov 10^th, 2009 at 11:37pm

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The Dragonfly. What little I flew the Cessna A-37 was a long time ago, with little or no experimentation. When I booted up FS9 to try out F1 for camera positions, I was strolling through the hangar and decided I would fire up Super Tweet again. One thing led to another and I found out it is extremely difficult to stall this thing. I put it into a vertical climb and when I got it balanced straight vertical, went hands off. When speed bled off it nosed over as expected, just not nearly as much. It flew exactly as shown, losing about 2500' per minute for about five minutes, completely hands off. At about 1500' I took the controls again and nosed over to level flight. Speed picked back up and you would never know anything had been wrong. I'm still amazed. I also looked it up on Wikipedia as I had little knowledge of it. You might find it an interesting read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-37_Dragonfly

Civilian version. Very shiny.

Oh yeah. I completely forgot about F1. Guess I'll have to do that next flight. Roll Eyes

Thanks for looking.

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

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Reply #1 - Nov 11^th, 2009 at 1:58am

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Looks like a very nice jet to play with?? I like the clouds in no 2!
ps - The red lettering - is it a Patchz trademark??

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Reply #2 - Nov 11^th, 2009 at 4:15am

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JakesF14 wrote on Nov 11^th, 2009 at 1:58am:

Looks like a very nice jet to play with?? I like the clouds in no 2!
ps - The red lettering - is it a Patchz trademark??

No, I did it to show the speed as well as the smoke to show the loss of altitude even though the attitude seemed to be climbing. And then there's the stall warning in the lower right corner.
patchz is not cool enough to have a trademark. 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 #3 - Nov 11^th, 2009 at 4:43am

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patchz wrote on Nov 11^th, 2009 at 4:15am:

JakesF14 wrote on Nov 11^th, 2009 at 1:58am:

Looks like a very nice jet to play with?? I like the clouds in no 2!
ps - The red lettering - is it a Patchz trademark??

No, I did it to show the speed as well as the smoke to show the loss of altitude even though the attitude seemed to be climbing. And then there's the stall warning in the lower right corner.
patchz is not cool enough to have a trademark. Grin

Ahh Patchz do everything with a reason! Now I see! :-D

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Reply #4 - Nov 11^th, 2009 at 5:04pm

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JakesF14 wrote on Nov 11^th, 2009 at 4:43am:

patchz wrote on Nov 11^th, 2009 at 4:15am:

JakesF14 wrote on Nov 11^th, 2009 at 1:58am:

Looks like a very nice jet to play with?? I like the clouds in no 2!
ps - The red lettering - is it a Patchz trademark??

No, I did it to show the speed as well as the smoke to show the loss of altitude even though the attitude seemed to be climbing. And then there's the stall warning in the lower right corner.
patchz is not cool enough to have a trademark. Grin

Ahh Patchz do everything with a reason! Now I see! :-D

Unfortunately, sometimes the reason is an error in judgement. Grin

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

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