posted 04-04- 11:20 PM               

I'm pretty sure I can tweak the performance numbers to within a few percent of the real data, but what is the standard for damage modeling? Should I dismantle an 5.3a FW-190 and just use the same sorts of damage properties, adjusted slightly for the difference in "sturdiness" and different location of critical components, or is a step-by-step method listed somewhere? And has anyone looked at Laika's damage model for the Rata or the model being used on the WWI planes to see if a NEW "standard" should be adopted?

And I see lots of folks using their own "custom" airfoils now. But how exactly do you make one? I can come up with all the numbers I suppose, but that "wing extractor" thing has got to be about the most user UN-friendly piece of software I've ever seen It looks like I could just make a .ppf file for an airfoil, but in my research, I haven't seen any formulae or programs that yield the values for "dCL" and "dCd" etc, only the raw CL and Cd and so forth.

Don't need a tutorial necessarily, just point me in the right direction to look...