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Pasped Skylark; WIP Screenshots 2
- Thread starter Lionheart
- Start date
A few more.....
As you can see, the panel is very sparse with avionics. No radios, not even a gyro. I was talking with Dwight and we've decided to drop the original Amp meter and put in a Gyroscope artificial horizon in place of it.
The actual plane has two unused blank gauge openings. I was holding off using them, but I might break down and use them anyways.
No Manifold pressure gauge! Fixed pitch prop though, so you just watch your revolutions and you are good.
Flap (one, dead center, in the belly, similar to a Douglas DC3) is more like a dive break, lol.. Works well at full down, which is like a giant board sticking down out of the belly area. No lift generated, just drag and a bit of pitch, down pitch, no less.
The bird handles a bit like a glider because of all the wing area, like a small B-17, so you can bring her in pretty slow. Under 50 and she starts losing her grip on the atmosphere, so you had better be low at that moment. Pam and Paul, the team that did the airfile did a great job on it. Splendid work... She is addictive to fly, lol... Sort of like a Bush plane in alot of respects. You can drop her in hot, drop the airbrake panel (flap) and land it on a very short field.
Speed is in MPH... She redlines at 140, but will overspeed to about 150, 155. Cruise is about 125 to 130 MPH with revolutions in the green.
Fun bird! Simple, classic, and tame...
Bill
EDIT: I did add something of my own on the plane. I designed a sort of 'Buck Rogers' style 'era' fuel cap, a pop-up sort of thing with a little fin on the back top, and a tear drop shape. I really didnt want a round, basic, $5.00 cap on it, so I decided on a casted, artistic thing with some fluid lines to it. I guess I did this again on the door hinges.. (arrgh... ) It needed some 'nice.....' hinges, so I made some lite weight tear drop hinges. All art deco objects in coated brushed aluminum...
As you can see, the panel is very sparse with avionics. No radios, not even a gyro. I was talking with Dwight and we've decided to drop the original Amp meter and put in a Gyroscope artificial horizon in place of it.
The actual plane has two unused blank gauge openings. I was holding off using them, but I might break down and use them anyways.
No Manifold pressure gauge! Fixed pitch prop though, so you just watch your revolutions and you are good.
Flap (one, dead center, in the belly, similar to a Douglas DC3) is more like a dive break, lol.. Works well at full down, which is like a giant board sticking down out of the belly area. No lift generated, just drag and a bit of pitch, down pitch, no less.
The bird handles a bit like a glider because of all the wing area, like a small B-17, so you can bring her in pretty slow. Under 50 and she starts losing her grip on the atmosphere, so you had better be low at that moment. Pam and Paul, the team that did the airfile did a great job on it. Splendid work... She is addictive to fly, lol... Sort of like a Bush plane in alot of respects. You can drop her in hot, drop the airbrake panel (flap) and land it on a very short field.
Speed is in MPH... She redlines at 140, but will overspeed to about 150, 155. Cruise is about 125 to 130 MPH with revolutions in the green.
Fun bird! Simple, classic, and tame...
Bill
EDIT: I did add something of my own on the plane. I designed a sort of 'Buck Rogers' style 'era' fuel cap, a pop-up sort of thing with a little fin on the back top, and a tear drop shape. I really didnt want a round, basic, $5.00 cap on it, so I decided on a casted, artistic thing with some fluid lines to it. I guess I did this again on the door hinges.. (arrgh... ) It needed some 'nice.....' hinges, so I made some lite weight tear drop hinges. All art deco objects in coated brushed aluminum...
Cleartheprop
Charter Member
Very nice airplane indeed! One of a kind!
Details are really great.
Should be close from release ?:ernae:
Details are really great.
Should be close from release ?:ernae:
sim-paticissimo
Charter Member
Well done Bill! I'm looking forward to fly her! I hope very soon...
K
Ken Stallings
Guest
It certainly had enough support wires hanging off it!
Remove those and I bet that plane could have gained 20 knots of airspeed immediately!
Beautiful work, Bill. It is very impressive looking!
Ken
Remove those and I bet that plane could have gained 20 knots of airspeed immediately!
Beautiful work, Bill. It is very impressive looking!
Ken
Thank you Sir. I am sure glad someone had posted info on this plane. When I saw it, I knew right then I had to make it.
Roger that Ken.
Oddly, there are airfoil covered wires on top, and open dual sets of wires on the bottom. I would think they would have made the airfoil fairings for top and bottom, but perhaps cost of the prototype was at its peak and they went with bare wires on the underside for the first model. I was tempted to just do airfoil covers on the bottom as well, going that one step further that the designers would have chosen, but held off for authenticity. (then later I made my own designer fuel cap for it.. arrgh).
I added wind noise to the soundfile to compensate the wires. I can tell you that it would surely make that baby a tank for rough landings. These types were made for grass strips. Even Tom, the rebuilder of it said it landed great on grass but on tarmac its a real bear. Thus I can see how they would over-reinforce everything from elevators to wings with big wires. Hitting chuck holes in a field with those big wings and thin elevators would be hard on their structures.
By the way, wooden ribs on the wings, classic of that era for planes like the Piper Cub and other famous classics. Steel frame for the fuselage. I am sure they didnt have a wooden wingspar, but.... who knows.
Bill
Bill,
I forgot to ask you. Did you actually meet this lady in her home to size her up to scale perspective to fit her dress here? Where my meaning goes is, that's the one, and only plane of that nature in existence, am I correct? I tried searching for info on the Pasped Skylark. Not real in depth, but I only found a few measly pictures that didn't actually show anything in close representation for true lines and amenities. You had to have a very good source. Not that it matters on my part, but the detail in that plane is truly classic.
Also, I have to ask this "slobbering grin",....are you going to incorporate that for us FS9'ers? Pretty Pleeeaassssseeee?
:mixedsmi:
I forgot to ask you. Did you actually meet this lady in her home to size her up to scale perspective to fit her dress here? Where my meaning goes is, that's the one, and only plane of that nature in existence, am I correct? I tried searching for info on the Pasped Skylark. Not real in depth, but I only found a few measly pictures that didn't actually show anything in close representation for true lines and amenities. You had to have a very good source. Not that it matters on my part, but the detail in that plane is truly classic.
Also, I have to ask this "slobbering grin",....are you going to incorporate that for us FS9'ers? Pretty Pleeeaassssseeee?
:mixedsmi:
Also, I have to ask this "slobbering grin",....are you going to incorporate that for us FS9'ers? Pretty Pleeeaassssseeee?
Hey Ole Boy,
I wish.
Supposedly a fellow developer named Luca has found a way around the FS9 limitations of Vertice Proximity, and mass limitation count of polygons. I am hoping he will create a tutorial on how its done. Several people are doing this at FFDS, but its sort of 'discovered' and people 'find their way' as to how it works. If this can be done by someone like me, then yes, it will be available for FS9. But.......... Until then, its FSX only. There are far too many polys on it to fit in a FS9 MDL, unfortunately.
Bill