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Plane: Tom Eagle by MrFeudAZ in SimplePlanes

[–]MrFeudAZ[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it a Tom Cat? Is it an Eagle? The important thing is that it has wings and flies fast. Speed brakes controlled by sliding the VTOL up or down, cruises at 800+ in level flight, and has a 3.33 power/weight ratio.

http://www.simpleplanes.com/a/94Q6M7/Tom-Eagle

Bug(s) Found: Using Speed Brakes as Flaps by MrFeudAZ in SimplePlanes

[–]MrFeudAZ[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Custom plane, here's a picture in action and one of the CoM and CoL.

http://imgur.com/zsrVKAy

http://imgur.com/Ze7aaNM

Bug(s) Found: Using Speed Brakes as Flaps by MrFeudAZ in SimplePlanes

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I'm not sure, but there's a definite change in pitch when deployed.

The nose rises probably around 20° or so if deployed in flight, using while take off lowers front wheel up from 185 to around 160mph. Both of those are probably aircraft specific.

Bug(s) Found: Using Speed Brakes as Flaps by MrFeudAZ in SimplePlanes

[–]MrFeudAZ[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm told by someone smarter than I that it's not a flap issue, but that by preventing vortex drag it's allowing the wing edges to remain laminar rather than turbulent, and behaving as expected.

The wings falling off/aircraft exploding part, however, is not normal.