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Is there anywhere I can find out the mass distribution of real aircraft in order to determine how much dry mass to give a modded part?


cosekantphi

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I'm trying to build replica aircraft for use in RSS, and to do so I've been using a combination of procedural wings, procedural structural fuselages, and a variety of cockpits from so many different mods. I'm trying to do it as realistically as possible, so I need to be able to find out how much the cockpit of an aircraft weighs by itself. The dimensions aren't a problem since it's straight forward enough to determine from 3-view line drawings, and I can easily rescale parts with MM patches. And in case of a fuselage that's not circular, I can rescale non-procedural fuselage parts along  a single axis to get the closest match possible. But in both cases I have no idea how much mass to give the scaled parts.

Say I'm building a Boeing 737 replica. Is there any database online where I can look up the weight of individual sections of the aircraft? For example, how much does a single meter of round 737 fuselage weigh? Or how much would the cockpit section weigh (say it's arbitrarily defined as the section between the tip of the nose and a few meters down the aircraft)? I've noticed a lot of RSS/RO command module part configs have a ton of detail in the mass of many individual components within the pod commented into the config. Where does one go to find the same information for aircraft?

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