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LOL: I think cockpits are Mid7night's Kryptonite
Posted By: Mid7night <pakrat961@yahoo.com>Date: 10/4/12 7:57 p.m.

In Response To: I think cockpits are Mid7night's Kryptonite (scarab)


The cockpit you see in the video is the leftover cockpit from my old Halo2 version. I haven't gotten around to filling out the Halo3 cockpit just yet, but here's a couple screenshots of the actual interior:

: How much fudging do you have to do to make it fly?
: Do you get enough lift from the flight surfaces? Are they sufficient for full
: control or do you need thrusters to help out?
: How good is the Pelican as a plane?

It's...touchy. ;)
The flight surfaces are perfectly adequate for control in forward flight, however it's a bit unstable due to the odd configuration and wing angles. The only fudging required is due to the lack of any vertical surfaces, so I have to "bury" some hidden vertical tails to give it directional stability. Also, because the body most certainly has some, interesting aerodynamics, (due to the aft-body, mostly) I have to use one more hidden wing to help approximate the effects, because X-Plane doesn't analyze the 3D-flow around the body.

Mostly, there's nothing major being faked, and this version is a major improvement over my previous one. The main thing that bugged me about my first Pelican was that I really had to fake the main thruster positions and orientations. THIS time, the Pelican has eight thrusters all located exactly where you see them, and I wrote a plugin that allows you to control the vertical and horizontal engines separately with just two throttles.

It's a lot more stable in hover and transition than the previous version, but I still have some work to do to smooth out forward flight.

: Maybe 343i should ask you to design the Halo 5 Pelican and prove it's design
: aerodynamically in X-Plane.
: Guys, how cool would that be?

THAT, would be AWESOME! :D

- BSAV -


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Replies:

Better post this before FUD drops tomorrow...Mid7night 10/4/12 5:00 p.m.
     Re: Better post this before FUD drops tomorrow...Chewbaccawakka 10/4/12 5:08 p.m.
     Is that cockpit view on the right-hand side?RC Master 10/4/12 5:10 p.m.
           I think cockpits are Mid7night's Kryptonitescarab 10/4/12 5:38 p.m.
                 @Mid7night ^^^^^^^^ *NM*scarab 10/4/12 5:45 p.m.
                 LOL: I think cockpits are Mid7night's KryptoniteMid7night 10/4/12 7:57 p.m.
                       Re: LOL: I think cockpits are Mid7night's Kryptoniscarab 10/5/12 5:03 a.m.
                             Re: LOL: I think cockpits are Mid7night's KryptoniMid7night 10/5/12 11:14 a.m.
                                   Re: LOL: I think cockpits are Mid7night's Kryptoniscarab 10/5/12 1:09 p.m.
                                         Re: LOL: I think cockpits are Mid7night's KryptoniMid7night 10/5/12 1:40 p.m.
                                               Re: LOL: I think cockpits are Mid7night's Kryptoniscarab 10/5/12 4:15 p.m.
                       Re: LOL: I think cockpits are Mid7night's KryptoniRC Master 10/5/12 10:02 a.m.
     Great job, dude! *NM*The Lionheart 10/5/12 1:53 a.m.



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