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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
Some Dora-9 Progress Shots
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Great great job Alessandro, some lovely weathering and oil effects too !!
Love the spinner.
A work of art
Real interesting how they got that engine on her. You can see by the shapes and lines on the nose which have all been captured wonderfully.
SOLD!! Will buy the second it comes out.
Love the spinner.
A work of art
Real interesting how they got that engine on her. You can see by the shapes and lines on the nose which have all been captured wonderfully.
SOLD!! Will buy the second it comes out.
Thanks guys!
Yes p38man, that's one of the really interesting parts of this project to see how the original Anton airframe developed over the time.
If you compare the Dora to the older designs you can see were construction groups have been replaced or added.
Becomes very obvious when viewing them side by side.
Here's the D-9 alongside the ancestor of them all, the A-1.
And here's some showing the D-9 with the last of the Anton's, the A-9.
Yes p38man, that's one of the really interesting parts of this project to see how the original Anton airframe developed over the time.
If you compare the Dora to the older designs you can see were construction groups have been replaced or added.
Becomes very obvious when viewing them side by side.
Here's the D-9 alongside the ancestor of them all, the A-1.
And here's some showing the D-9 with the last of the Anton's, the A-9.
thunder100
Charter Member 2010
Although I like Anton a lot, D9 is always breathtaking-->WOW What a racer now!!And the TA's are still a step further
Roland
Roland
Stickshaker
SOH-CM-2023
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It seems difficult to arrive at an accurate flight model since as far as I know there are no long-noses flying anymore. How do you do that?<o></o>
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Will we be able to remove the centreline pylon or is it part of the airframe?<o></o>
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> </o>Will we be able to remove the centreline pylon or is it part of the airframe?<o
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It seems difficult to arrive at an accurate flight model since as far as I know there are no long-noses flying anymore. How do you do that?<o
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Will we be able to remove the centreline pylon or is it part of the airframe?<o
Hello stickshaker,
like with the Anton you will be able to remove the pylon.
This time we'll make it more comfortable though by means of a payload manager like we used it with the Bf108.
As you may know we use the services of AvHistory for the aerodynamics.
Of course there are many pilot anekdotes around as well as wartime testing reports with loads of hard numbers, mostly old Rechlin test center reports which Avhistory of course does use,
but it all starts with the 3d model to predict flight behaviour based on established real world industry-wide used calculation models such as USAF DATCOM and Roscam.
There are not any surprises today below MACH so this method is the most accurate anyway rather than tweaking parameters by hand just to get a certain parameter to match a certain opinion.
Having said that, pilot and test reports serve to verify the outcome of the calculated predictions or to put them into perspective rather than taking them for granted as the holy grail.
Stickshaker
SOH-CM-2023
That is clear, Matthias, thank you.<o
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> </o>Personally I particularly value the ‘feel’ of a plane. Of course performance should be more or less on the numbers, but I find it, for example, much more important that the angle of attack and the view out of the cockpit are correct during landings, and that if a plane has a tendency to bounce in reality, that it also bounces in the sim, than whether the landing speed is exactly right in terms of knots. Can you perhaps tell us a bit of the peculiarities of the Dora and Ta-152 that we will find in your new plane? I think many of us would be interested in that.
Roadburner440
Charter Member 2010
Now the Dora is coming. Is going to be a fantastic little collection there. For me it always looks odd with the exhaust ports so low on the nose, but the Germans sure liked building their V engines upside down.
Sundog
SOH-CM-2026
Well, the "feel" of an aircraft comes from accurately calculated moments of inertia from what I've been told but I'll leave that debatte to the more competent experts.
I'm sure Greg Pierson of Avhistory will pop in and and comment on the aerofiles when time has come.
It also has to do with the control system and how the rates, feedback etc are designed into it. For instance, who would have guessed that the XP-77 was considered one of the best handling airplanes by the pilots who flew it? I didn't know until I read an article with some info on some pilot reports.
Thanks for the preview pics. I'm so looking forward to this. BTW, I don't recall, will it just include the Ta-152H-1, or is the Ta-152C included as well? I think you said there were too few built; whereas, at least the Ta-152H-1 saw some action.