Aircraft Showcase

[Excalibur]

Searched the forums for this and was surprised no one appears to have tried this... though correct me if I\'m wrong. Was the first thing I thought of when I saw Damned\'s new robotics plugin.

Unfortunately due to the way the game calculates drag and lift (I assume) you don\'t get any drag reduction with sweep-back. However the mechanism is great for trimming the vertical speed of the vehicle.

EDIT: Also I tried rotational parts at the wing root to enable me to change angle of attack on the fly, like the Vought Cosair (I think), but the plugin would not let me synchronise the rotations.

As a result instead of the wings changing angle of attack together, one goes up and one down. Results in some rather Kerbal flight characteristics!

[RedDwarfIV]

JSF Competition Part 2 - Variable Geometry Wings

Make wings that can turn inwards or outwards.

Reach at least 210 m/s

Make it look badass

At least 2 Missiles

This one should be fun, and yes I\'ll keep posting new competitions for people to try since the VTOL one is pretty difficult

[Guest GroundHOG-2010]

Thats forwards swing wing for you.

[Excalibur]

I can see why I missed it, I should have been searching for \'variable geometry\' rather than \'swing wing!\'

Feel a bit of a berk now... :-[

Nice craft there Groundhog, I did try a forward sweeping wing and found it had some rather interesting flight characteristics.

I wonder if could you please tell me, is there a way with the Damned Robotics plugin to change the rotational direction of the rotators individually? The \'rotate\' button on the plugin panel only seems to rotate the model... though again correct me if I\'m wrong.

EDIT: Seems to be working now, strange!