Simviation Forum - The mini of the skies?

Nov 30^th, 2011 at 2:33pm

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http://th04.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/334/f/a/fab39d15d31194c3da815f42c8daf...

I actually laughed at this when I finished drawing it! Grin

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Reply #1 - Nov 30^th, 2011 at 3:18pm

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Surely the dream of any commuter!

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Reply #2 - Nov 30^th, 2011 at 3:35pm

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I reckon it would be possible to make. We would just need two highly rotative and lightweight electric motors on each side rotor and then just use the bernouli's principle to accelerate the air coming out even more. The horizontal engines would be two or three small fanjets like the ones on the wingsuit just for forward motion and pitch stability, using TVNs...

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Reply #3 - Nov 30^th, 2011 at 3:43pm

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hhhmmm,you need to make the back gear stronger,its a bit thin and how many wheels are there?
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Reply #4 - Nov 30^th, 2011 at 4:07pm

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There are two on the front and one on the back. This is a taildragger, most of the weight is above the two main wheels. The tail gear is fixed.

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Reply #5 - Nov 30^th, 2011 at 6:00pm

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are you gonna make this for fsx? looks fun to fly Grin

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Reply #6 - Nov 30^th, 2011 at 6:20pm

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Yes, it's a fast plane to make... I'm already making it's fuselage. I'm about half of the canopy from the nose tip...

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Reply #7 - Nov 30^th, 2011 at 6:55pm

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You'd need some pretty awesome Gyros in there for stabilization. And I'd say ducted fans would be better for engines. You don't want to give your wife 3rd degree burns when you leave for work! Grin

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Reply #8 - Nov 30^th, 2011 at 7:14pm

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Yeah, that's what I though. And jet engines won't fit there. I would either go with electric ducted fans or use the rotation of small jet engines like the ones that are in the wing suit. And try to push the bernouli principle to the limit with the duct.

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Reply #9 - Nov 30^th, 2011 at 9:10pm

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Made me think of this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin

Notoriously dangerous. It had 6 vertical fins for stability, and that wasn't enough

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Reply #10 - Dec 1^st, 2011 at 5:00am

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Jayhawk Jake wrote on Nov 30^th, 2011 at 9:10pm:

Made me think of this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin

Notoriously dangerous. It had 6 vertical fins for stability, and that wasn't enough

Now I know where the Beech 1900 came from Grin

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Reply #11 - Dec 1^st, 2011 at 6:48am

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Jayhawk Jake wrote on Nov 30^th, 2011 at 9:10pm:

Made me think of this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin

Notoriously dangerous. It had 6 vertical fins for stability, and that wasn't enough

Yep I know that one. But it only has one point of thrust thus making controling it kinda like holding a plate on the other tip of a really thin pole. Mine uses two vertical thrust souces mounted in alignment with the CG and 3 horizontal thrust sources with thrust vectoring nozzles to maintain pitch stability at 0 speed. Which, using an analogy like the previous, is like holding a plate with three fingers.

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Reply #12 - Dec 2^nd, 2011 at 6:44pm