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My new girlfriend...

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Lionheart

SOH-CM-2014
Meet my new girlfriend.

What you are seeing is extremely early in the build process.

I have been working on this design on in my mind and in sketches for the past year now. It is an experiment in mixing automotive inteior design into an aircraft, and powering it with state of the art new propulsion technologies, (hydrogen, etc).

Basically, its a mix between a BMW 6 or 7 series, mixed with a Cirrus and an Epic LT. Its much smaller then an Epic, and slightly larger then a Cirrus. It will be a 4 seater with neat accomodations for the passengers in the back. Its powerplant will possibly be an all aluminum V8 or perhaps a boxer 8 cylinder, with a second version that will have a proper fuel cell hybrid system.

Should be fun. :d

NOTE: The rear elevators will most likely not have the winglets. Those are only quick elevators made for some FS testing.



Bill
 
OH ...She is a sweet heart..

Dress her is black leather please....:engel016:
 
harleyman said:
OH ...She is a sweet heart..

Dress her is black leather please....:engel016:
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Will dark metallic gray work? :d

Another part of this venture is color schemes from automobiles, like lite metallic colors, such as a super lite metallic blue, champagne, etc. Pretty much like you would find in upper market Japanese cars and BMW's. (The metallic coat helps to reflect away harmful UV rays that will deteriorate the composite airframe materials, so metallics will be big on this one).


Thanks Robert.

I have rebuilt this shape so many times from scratch. I have bent it, squashed it, stretched it, widened it, so many times. I have changed the window cutouts over and over. I developed a new form of window cutting in making this one (more like 20 of these). Its a cool trick of hand cutting the Vertices into the hull then attaching Edge lines to form the windows. Faster then Boolean and Shapemerge.

One other thing.... Roll down windows. (Well, electric ones). They only roll down at lower speeds and only so far, just enough for air. The onboard computer rolls them up past certain speeds. Thats the plan anyways.

NOTE: B-pillar in windows isnt built yet. It will be under the exterior glass.

Bill
 
That's sweet Bill, I've thought about designing something from my own thoughts but every time I start, it somehow turns into a biplane:icon_lol:.

Chris
 
Bill,
why not include that version with the tail winglets as a "what if" variant
since that looks cool anyway


BR
Tom
 
OK Dark Metalic grey she is..:applause:


What a sleek looking plane too....Just looks FASTTTTtttttttt !
 
Nice one!
You clearly have a faible for the futuristic, streamlined shapes.
Kinda Naomi Campbell with wings. :applause:
 
You are a very talented individual, Bill!

Now I know why your gray eyebrows are sprouting out, Your incredible brain is pushing them OUT.... :icon_lol:

Very beautiful aircraft, with an awesome name as well.... Dress her metallic... and hot pink interior :applause:

Eli :running:
 
Great sleek design!:applause:

I wonder if X-plane with it´s airplane-shape bound flight engine would be the right testbed for your design, to see how it (theoretically) would fly!

Alex
 
I think for the elevators you'd actually want the winglets pointing the other way as the high pressure area is on the top not the bottom, although it may not make a huge difference.
 
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