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Topic: Reasons to love the Corsair
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BULLET
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posted 03-08- 12:58 AM
   
Flying v.3 of Jedi's Corsair I took out 4 Zero's off the coast near Tarhuna. After clearing the blast smoke of sending #4 to his watery grave I noticed my port wing was missing. Well shit, what do I do now? I'm not spinning out of control, no smoke trails, no engine fire. I guess I'll ride this one out. I dropped a notch of flaps and gunned her to maintain altitude, and flew her all the way back to Valetta field for a gear busting belly landing. So there she sat in one piece(minus wing of course) no explosions just a bent prop.Jedi be proud, you build a damn good plane. IP: Logged |
jedi
Pilot
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posted 03-08- 08:49 AM
Hehe I assume you still had the INNER wing attached (at least I hope you did)  Ver 3 has a bit too much inner wing area, and the rudder works a bit too well. Ver 4 has the wing areas corrected to the "real" numbers, and a "weaker" rudder, but I'm still not real smart on exactly what tweaks need to be made there. If you rip BOTH outer wings off, the thing will still fly  (too much fuselage cyl lift?) I'm tryin to get it so that one wing gone is at least too hard to control to attempt a landing with... Hard to get it to lose ONE wing for testing tho
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Whirlwind
Pilot
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posted 03-08- 10:18 AM
That's easy, jedi, I do it by accident all the time. Just adjust one of the wing DOF's by deleting the space between the first number and the first label in the DOF's properties. Save it, and start the plane in the air. The wing will instantly come off. Nothing like testing a plane's wing flex and having it fall off as soon as you start the mission.... IP: Logged |
Mk10 225th
Pilot
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posted 03-08- 11:05 AM
Just keeps getting better and better Jedi. Hey, one thing though. Is just a teeny bit over 400mph when the wings come off the real thing? I figured it had to do with the shape of the wing, that it would not put up with diving in real life. Thanks again for a wonderful plane, Mk10=225th= IP: Logged |
jedi
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posted 03-08- 09:05 PM
If you take her up to high altitude, you can get her up above 600 mph! When she gets into the thicker air, she breaks up at 430-450 or so. That seems a bit low. I think if I strengthen the spring and break values, that should fix it. I think 550 or so at low altitude should be pretty attainable in a Corsair in a dive without catastrophic failure.I did get a single wing to rip today a couple times. Plane was pretty uncontrollable  ------------------
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