[STOCK HELICOPTERS] KH-Skywhale and KH-Guppy

[Jon144]

I have found some limited success in my previous stock helicopter prototype builds. So I decided to build some real beasts from what I have learned from my engineering experiments with them.

After days of work I was able to build two great rotary winged aircraft.

The Skywhale and the Guppy. The Skywhale is a massive cargo helicopter while the Guppy is a much smaller naval utility helicopter. The Skywhale has giant strong landing gear for touching down with heavy payloads while the Guppy comes with two pontoons capable of both vertical land landings and water landings.

Both have a horizontal top speed of about 40 M/S The guppy however should be kept under 30 M/S as it has a much lighter and weaker rotor assembly for its small and compact size.

Since both use extremely efficient jet engines to spin their rotors they have very long ranges for stock rotor-crafts.

CRAFT FILE LINKS:

KH-GUPPY: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sx8r68ampn0vukq/KH-02%20Guppy.craft?dl=0

KH-SKYWHALE: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jaamfj9wxuchf3z/KH-03%20Skywhale.craft?dl=0

I have found kerbals have hard times getting on the handles of the Guppy to get inside. I recommend adding more steps if you plan on doing so. I will edit the helicopter in the future to fix this.

Edited January 5, 2015 by Jon144

[Rune]

I knew the age of the rotorcraft wasn't past. Will we ever get stock rotating parts, I wonder? Now that I think about it, does a Klaw allow rotation? I don't think so, or someone would have done it, but I can't remember for the life of me... In any case, a very good looking implementation of the technology sir! Bravo!

Rune. I know someone will try now. Report!

[gGATORr]

Simply outstanding. I'm blown away by the size and aesthetics of these helos! I love "real" cockpits and internals on crafts as opposed to the stock cockpit modules, and it looks like you did a really nice job with that.

How's the handling on each of these, and what are their part counts?

[Jon144]

Simply outstanding. I'm blown away by the size and aesthetics of these helos! I love "real" cockpits and internals on crafts as opposed to the stock cockpit modules, and it looks like you did a really nice job with that.

How's the handling on each of these, and what are their part counts?

Craft files are provided to find out for yourselves. The smaller one is only 300 while the gigantic one pushes 600.

Both handle fairly well but the gigantic one does feel very heavy and big. Just as one would expect.

The Skywhale is pretty durable and can withstand heavy inputs. However the Rotors generate more lift the faster the helicopter goes horizontally, making it less responsive.

The Guppy is just as responsive at just about any speed. It however has a rotor assembly built much lighter and as a result is also less reliable. Some heavy maneuvers with it can totally destroy the bearing and results in the rotors declaring independence. A phenomenon not unheard of in real helicopters.

If you treat it gently though it will reward you justly.

Edited January 6, 2015 by Jon144

[Munstation]

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Rune. I know someone will try now. Report!

Well Rune I've tried but it seems not, I think the claw can only yaw and pitch and it also seems very weak as it will break on every attempt to use it as just a connection point between the body and the main rotor assembly. Or maybe the weakness was just due to the method I used to decouple it to get put on the claw, not sure.

[Jon144]

Not to mention whenever using a claw you risk destroying the entire universe itself.