VA Scorch heavy passenger carrier

[RedDwarfIV]

The engineers decided to build a plane that was \'full of sheer awesome\', fell happily into the lap of the Cool Plane TV tropism, and carries up to 72 passengers - which would make it the best VA passenger airliner to date.

The Scorch was the result. Cruising speed is 140 m/s.

Landing is made difficult by the sheer amount of Refined Explodium on board, which results in Stuff Blowing Up.

[Tim_Barrett]

Looks alot like the Sparrow, but it is the logical design type for heavy lifting.

Also, I think it was you who I suggested my multiple-branch design, where external fuselages, such as the ones that go from 1m to several mk2 hulls, and you should use it. It\'s where you split them into sections, each section having it\'s own radial stack decoupler/coupler so you don\'t have to use hundreds of struts trying to get the side fuselages not fall off in mid-flight.

As you can see, the red lines show where the stack starts and ends, creating a new 'branch.' The same works for fuselages directly slapped onto the sides of any part, because when you stack them and place them on the side, only one part is truly connected. Using several 'roots,' shown in green, going into the main hull of a long plane makes it very strong and requires less eyesore struts; most of the time 3 or less on each branch.

Nice plane, I hoped this helped!

[RedDwarfIV]

I decided not to use branches, to keep the weight further back.

[Tim_Barrett]

I decided not to use branches, to keep the weight further back.

It doesn\'t make them too much heavier; only adding the weight from the radial stack decoupler. The removal of all of those struts after doing so (since it is a strong design) will result in in looking much, much nicer. (Also, not as painful for your computer)

[RedDwarfIV]

This design has been touchy with weight/lift balance. I decided that if the brunt of the weight was held by the tail end of the aircraft, and the nose just helped hold them up, then it would probably fly better. I\'ll try it with branches as an experiment though. The main reason I used branches on the Wolfe X1 and other massive aircraft is because they are simply too large to hold together otherwise.

[Sabactus]

Another Veto creation. Do you design them to look ridiculous?

[RedDwarfIV]

Another Veto creation. Do you design them to look ridiculous?

No, I design them to look awesome. If by \'ridiculous\' you mean \'could not possibly fly in real life\', that\'s fine with me.

[Ninja possum32]

I like the plane. It\'s an epic looking jumble of parts.

[RedDwarfIV]

I like the plane. It\'s an epic looking jumble of parts.

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