posted 12-31- 01:52 PM            

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Anyone yet to try really modelling ducted fans in openplane? Heres a fokker with one in place of the prop, but the entire unit spins, not just the blades. Are hollow cylinders possible?

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posted 12-31- 03:46 PM               

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the only form of propulsion is a prop. Hidden or otherwise. So what it looks like from the out side is just eye candy. Just make a prop with many blades (change the shape of them to) then put a cylinder around it (yes it is possible) and you'll have yourself a ducted fan. (granted it will still act like a regular prop though).

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posted 12-31- 05:09 PM               

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Spanky here...

Yeah me and Farmer Joe were thinking of doing somthing like that with the 262. So you could see the turbine spinning
could loook pretty damn cool

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posted 12-31- 07:19 PM            

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Thx guys
I wanted to do this to see if building something like this --> www.solotrek.com
is possible.
Now that the contest is on ill proll just try to build a wwii aircraft.

Regarding the 262, i think that would be great. I took out the fast prop for the fan on that fokker and i think it looks really nice with the aliasing effect, just like a old wagon wheel seeming to spin one way then the other

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posted 12-31- 10:20 PM               

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Spanky, you'll never see the turbine spinning in the 262. It had a turbojet engine, not a turbofan.

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posted 12-31- 10:23 PM               

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Wow, isnt it amazing? I can travel through time. I am here at 2am in year 2000 and I am writing something that is being read back in 1999... cool

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posted 12-31- 10:44 PM            

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You'd still see the foremost compressor blades turning

All jets except ramjets and pulsejets use some sort of rotory system for compression.

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posted 01-02- 03:38 PM               

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It depends on how far back into the nacell the compressor is... If it's far back it would be too dark to see it.

pulse jets (Like on the V-1) use "shutters" to compress the expanding gasses.

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posted 01-03- 09:36 AM               

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You want to make a flying person?

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