Skyjay Personal Aircraft

[adinfinitum]

Ever get tired of the stress of managing a space program full of little green men who would rather eat snacks than do anything useful? Get yourself a Skyjay today for the low price of 12000 credits! There's no better aircraft for afternoon flying, with it's spacious one-man cockpit and whisper-quiet turbojet half a meter from your seat. And what good would a craft thread be without pictures?

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Flight notes:

Because of the new location of the turbojet's CoM in 1.0, I wasn't able to get the CoT to line up with the CoM exactly. The horizontal stabilizers are rotated a couple of degrees to compensate for this, but this also means at low power levels there is a stronger nose down tendency. It's still not much more than a few degrees of nose up trim, but do watch out for it when in low thrust situations.

Cruising speed is about 140m/s, using 1/3 thrust. I haven't tested it with higher thrust levels, but if you want to push it all the way up and see what it does, go right ahead.

At cruising speed, about a half a degree of nose up trim should be necessary to maintain straight and level flight.

Rotation speed is 35m/s, and takeoff occurs shortly after at about 38 or 39 m/s.

I've got the control surfaces set to standard configuration for an aircraft, and the torque from the cockpit is disabled. Only the outer ailerons actually control roll, the inner ones are just there to streamline the wing.

I think that's about it, if you have any tips and tweaks just let me know

Edited May 7, 2015 by adinfinitum
messed up a tag

[zekes]

Wow, it's a cessna!

[adinfinitum]

Well, at least as close as I could get to a Cessna and still find a place for that huge turbine haha