STOL Emporium

[MisterBennock]

Good day. Since there is an official VTOL thread, but no dedicated STOL thread (or at least not a more recent one, or me not looking hard enough), I thought it would be nice to discuss small, cute planes that can take off and land at low speeds.

Mainly because in the last days, I tinkered a bit with these kind of planes. Some of you might know the Fieseler "Storch", a plane used by the Luftwaffe in WW2 as recon machine and by many other organizations since then because it can take off at around 50 km/h (which is like 16-17 m/s) and land at zero with wind blowing against it.

I tried building a similar small and light plane and got this "glider" from it. It takes off by itself at almost exactly 30 m/s, has a range of around 270 km (triple that with drop tanks), a top speed of around 135 m/s if you go all out at a height of around 7 km (didn't try going higher) and has very calm and forgiving flight characteristics. It is basically 100% "stock", I just used the struts from Ven's Stock Part Revamp to lower part count (I once made a similar ultralight SSTO with around 40 of the cubic struts). Also, I realized how ugly the stock wings are and how lacking they are in every regard.

The second one is basically just a turbine with canards. It can take off at around 12 m/s, but flying it requires a steady hand.

https://imgur.com/a/R02qP9s

Feel free to post and discuss your creations.

Edited May 17, 2018 by MisterBennock
I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND HOW PICTURE POSTING WORKS

[Mark Kerbin]

What pictures are you trying to post. Copy image or link and just ctrl v

[MisterBennock]

I just want to post an imgur album. I used the album post function, but it doesn't seem to work.

[Mark Kerbin]

You sure you actually submitted it?

[MisterBennock]

On imgur? I already got a comment there.

And here I pasted the album code into the form.  Anyways, here's the link:

https://imgur.com/a/R02qP9s

[Mark Kerbin]

Oh well. Those crafts look cool anyways.

[Thor Wotansen]

I've enjoyed playing around with STOL stuff too, here's a few of my craft that resulted.

the Kub

  

the Super Kub

the Nomad

 

 

Edited May 19, 2018 by Thor Wotansen