Conspicuous by Their Absence

Hello, all!

Some time ago I built a WW2 Heinkel 162-2A "Spatz" - sparrow - Volksjäger, the "people´s fighter", a curious German throw-away aircraft made of wood! Its single dorsal 1800 flb BMW 003E-1 single-spool axial-flow turbojet engine gave it a top continuous speed of 453 knots, and 489 kt in short 2028 flb boost bursts. 116 units were built officially, but there were further, urgent, undocumented deliveries. The aircraft came too late to affect the outcome of the war.

I was wondering whether there was any interest for a possible upload for CFS here. The model will perhaps need some bleedthrough tweaking tu upgrade it conveniently, but I wanted to make sure iff there is any interest first.

Here´s a screenshot!
Cheers,
Aleatorylamp
 

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AF99 in a Virtual Machine on a 64-bit OS

Hello all,

I did some tests with AF99 and CFS on a Windows 64-bit system using a virtualization programme called "VMWare Workstation 12 Player", and posted the results on Hubbabbuba´s thread "I really need to know!", because it is rather off-topic here.
...Just in case anyone´s interested.

Cheers,
Aleatorylamp
 
Hoo noo, broon coo?

Happy new year to all!

"How now, brown cow?" is a friendly greeting often used by the Scots, as well as the Geordies in Northumbria I believe, and was pronounced like in the title. Shakespeare would use the similar "How say you now?", its short form being "How now?" - both quite archaic nowadays, of course, but nonetheless picturesque!

The Webster Dictionary actually has it as the equivalent of "What´s next?". So, the intention of this post is simply a query, looking for suggestions. After a moderate spell of inactivity, what shall be the next project... ? Maybe we can inject a bit of noise and activity!

As per a list last year by Smilo, Ivan, and myself, possible candidates after the three Martin A-30 Baltimores, Mk.II, IV and V, could be the Lockheed Ventura/Harpoon, the Grumman Tigercat, ...and possibly not the Tupolev Tu-95 Bear.

Cheers,
Aleatorylamp
 
...and a happy new year to you as well.

i tend to lean toward active WWII era aircraft,
so, naturally, the Lockheed Ventura/Harpoon
would be on my wish list,
followed by the tigercat.

of course, the do17 is, was
and ever shall be at the top.
but, that's just my list.
 
Hello Smilo,

Yes, Now I remember you had mentioned the Do-17 "Flying Pencil", and the lack of a decent CFS1 version - the AI one being quite a simple FS5 job.
Ivan also mentioned it, and I´ve had a look at pictures. It actually looks like quite an interesting model to build, and I quite like the idea. Why not indeed!

With 2x1000 hp Bramo 323 Fafnir (the German dragon´s name - was it from the Nibelungen Lied?) 9-cyl radials, it sounds like a moderate performer, although not bad for an early war design. I´ll start doing some more extensive research and open a thread for it!

I´ve been poking around in the stock AI model´s .air file, watching performance with the Beckwith Gauge Stack, and with a few tweaks, the engine hores-power looks quite accurate, although aircraft speed is way too fast, but easy to fix. Nevertheless, I´ll check with Ivan to see if it´s a good idea to use the AI .air file as a basis or not.

At any rate, the model seems very appetizing to make!
Cheers,
Aleatorylamp
 
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Yet More Candidates

Hello Folks,

We can' leave this thread idle for any length of time. It just would not be right.
I have actually been looking around a bit even though I have not posted much about new design ideas.

I noticed that for one of the other Simulators, there is a Hawker Typhoon being developed.
It is a pity there hasn't been a good one for CFS, at least not one that I know of.
Another topic of recent research has been the P-39 Airacobra and that is likely to be the subject of a design study at some point.
The British thought it was worthless. The Americans thought it wasn't very useful. The Russians thought it was great....
Although its performance was mediocre, it did have a quite pleasing appearance.

- Ivan.
 
Hello Ivan,
Both look striking enough to make interesting projects. The way the P39 is designed is quite out of the ordinary. I wonder if it had any special handling characteristics due to the CoG with the engine behind the cockpit.
Cheers,
Aleatorylamp
 
Possible new old-timer upload?

Hello folks!
I was rummaging through my old FS98 old-old-timers and came across one that could be of interest. Dig the screenshot!
I hadn´t bothered to try it out in CFS1 because I had automatically assumed that bleed problems would make it prohibitive, as unfortunately had happened with my version of the Caudron 3 fighter and the Caudron 4 twin engined bomber. ...although the old AGO.C1 was quite bleed-free, wan´t it?

So, I tried out the 1914 Otto BI trainer and fighter/bomber Doppeldecker, and I was amazed at the low level of bleed problems, so I have decided I could upload it, as it would require no additional work!

This machine was the first German widely used effective trainer, and also saw limited service on the Turkish front in the Great War. Fighter bomber may sound like a euphemism, but the gunner did fire a hand-pistol and dropped hand-grenades.

Incidentally, Gustav Otto Flugmaschinenwerke in Bavaria was the very beginning of what today is BMW.

Apparently there is new information as to a number of the latest units produced, which had the more powerful Rapp 150 hp engines instead of the more usual 100 Hp Argus or 100 Hp Gustav Otto engines or 80 Hp Gnome Rotaries, and this makes the Otto BI even more attractive for CFS1.

Now, engine spec details for the very obscure 150 Hp Rapp engine are impossible to find, and the FS98 .air file flies remarkably well, living up to the reputation of the real plane. So, its 150Hp engine and 96-inch propeller entries in the .air file, seem good enough, and the plane wouldn´t really need a specific CFS1 .air file.

So, would there be interest for another ancient plane here?
Cheers,
Aleatorylamp
 

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Ivan said:
Hello All,

Here is what I have figured out thus far.
(Please comment if you already know this or believe I am incorrect in my conclusions.)

I tuned the Gauge so that the pointer moved one tick mark per tap of the Trim adjustment keys.
When the Trim adjustment is pressed several times very quickly,
The first key press moves the pointer one tick, but
Each following key press moves the pointer EIGHT ticks.
This is very reliable and repeatable.

So.... Now I know that the Trim settings I had been listing in my Check Lists were really showing the Large adjustments and sometimes were not even showing them consistently depending on how fast I was making the adjustments.

I would also like to see if the Lateral and Directional Trim work the same way, but can't program the gauge to show it.

Next step is to program a Trim Gauge that can be added to an operational panel and maintain the appearance.
The question now is whether to include this gauge into the main panel as I have been doing or to put it into yet another pull up panel or perhaps even to add it to the engine controls panel.
It would be even more useful if I could make the new gauge react to mouse clicks.

- Ivan.
Click to expand...
so...what ever happened to this trim gauge?
 
Hello Smilo,
Yes, why not indeed... I was afraid people might have been getting tired of slow oldies, but I see my fears were misfounded.

I will gladly upload the plane very soon then, especially as it was the more powerful advanced version of the Otto "B" seies, with much improved performance, of which quite a number seem to have been produced. Including the ones with 80Hp and 100 Hp motorizations, the grand total was 150 units produced from 1912 to 1915, so it was quite appreciable.

I´m just making the green uniforms grey to be more in accordance with those times, and correcting the readme´s.
Cheers,
Aleatorylamp
 
Hello Folks,
I have just uploaded the Otto B1 Pusher Biplane with the following link:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...id=19&id=22486

I thought it was a good idea because I very recently found new information relative to the latest and more powerful units produced of this model in 1914 and 1915, that with their 150 Hp Rapp engine (50 Hp more!), make it more attractive than it was before for CFS. The gunner/observer had a hand pistol and could drop hand grenades, making this not only a reconnaissance and training aircraft, but also one of the first fighter/bombers!

Incidentally, another curious aspect of AF99 building in the case of this particular model, apart from the low bleed incidence, is a more extensive than usual use of structures: On one hand, for the convex-concave wings - all sections including ailerons and inter-wheel plane, and also all tail surfaces, and on the other hand, for the nacelle or cockpit pod, which is made of several separate top-only and bottom-only structures, which allowed a surprising degree of accuracy with the real nacelle, combining sharp edges and smooth curves. It started out as an experiment and I hadn´t expected the results obtained from using structures in this way. ... Small wonder, that parts count is at 148.9 % !

The model is easy to fly and takes off and lands at 35 mph, and is quite manoueverable, so it should be fun to fly. Top speed is all of 84 mph! ...Quite impressive compared to previous units of this model, that had 80 and 100 Hp engines, with top speeds of only 68 and 74 mph.

All in good fun, and enjoy!
Cheers,
Aleatorylamp
 

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smilo said:
so...what ever happened to this trim gauge?
Click to expand...

Which one? The Test Trim Gauge or the Panel Trim Gauge?
The Test Trim Gauge has been in use on my Test Panel for quite some time.
The Panel-Worthy version has not been built yet because of conflicting priorities:
I would much rather finish up a set of useable Multi-Engine Gauges and there are still a bunch that I have not figured out yet.
Part of the problem is trying to figure out what the real one does in order to know what features to put in.
Also, the FS98 SDK that I was using earlier only handled Elevator Trim and I was thinking of something that would do all three axes.
Do you need a Test Trim Gauge? I can send if you need.

I also had an idea for a very cool WEP Gauge for those aeroplanes with Supercharger WEP to avoid wrecking engines so easily.

- Ivan.
 
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