Published Mar 23rd, 2019, 3/23/19 6:11 am
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Hello everyone, hope you all have been doing Great!
I’m very frilled to show you my first ever airplane, it was really fun to make, expect you find as interesting!
This is also my entry for the aircraft contest so please, if you do enjoy it, leave a diamond as it would be very appreciated. Feedback is always welcome too. The last screenshots show the up close details.
The project features a fictional experimental steam powered biplane in 3:1 scale.
Version 1.12.2 and render distance higher than 40 is not recomended.
As usually, all this started with a couple of paper sketches of ideas. I wanted to do something a bit different from the normal airplane recreation, something more personal. Being currently studying engineering I always loved mechanical stuff, and (as you may have noticed from my submissions) steam technology is, for me, the pinnacle of mechanical machinery. Having that said, I was also looking for something small I could make with the reduced amount of time I dispose of, besides, making compact systems is always captivating. With all this the idea was set and once the sketches were finished building started.
As of mine fictional builds, I always try to make them look plausible on the functional side. In this case the major mass, the boiler, is right on the wings, being well supported and centered with the point the lift. To balance the front steam turbine, the water tanks lay slightly back from the wings and boiler. Finally, four big wings should provide the necessary lift to put it in the air. Let’s just hope you don’t run out of water before you run out of fuel…
Apart from that it has all standard aviation components, like the airfoils, control surfaces, wheels and control cables and quite the unusual cockpit.
For the color scheme I decided to go for my favorite, a industrial, early XX century look.
I’m very frilled to show you my first ever airplane, it was really fun to make, expect you find as interesting!
This is also my entry for the aircraft contest so please, if you do enjoy it, leave a diamond as it would be very appreciated. Feedback is always welcome too. The last screenshots show the up close details.
The project features a fictional experimental steam powered biplane in 3:1 scale.
Version 1.12.2 and render distance higher than 40 is not recomended.
Design Process
As usually, all this started with a couple of paper sketches of ideas. I wanted to do something a bit different from the normal airplane recreation, something more personal. Being currently studying engineering I always loved mechanical stuff, and (as you may have noticed from my submissions) steam technology is, for me, the pinnacle of mechanical machinery. Having that said, I was also looking for something small I could make with the reduced amount of time I dispose of, besides, making compact systems is always captivating. With all this the idea was set and once the sketches were finished building started.
As of mine fictional builds, I always try to make them look plausible on the functional side. In this case the major mass, the boiler, is right on the wings, being well supported and centered with the point the lift. To balance the front steam turbine, the water tanks lay slightly back from the wings and boiler. Finally, four big wings should provide the necessary lift to put it in the air. Let’s just hope you don’t run out of water before you run out of fuel…
Apart from that it has all standard aviation components, like the airfoils, control surfaces, wheels and control cables and quite the unusual cockpit.
For the color scheme I decided to go for my favorite, a industrial, early XX century look.
Dimentions
Lentgh: 10,5 m
Wing span: 15,5 m
Height: 5,25 m
Wing lentgh: 7 m (individual)
Wing width: 2,25 m (individual)
Total wing surface: (*4) = 63 m^2
Vetical stabilizer heigth: 2,5 m
Horizontal stabilizers lentgh: 4 m
Body width: 1,5 m
Boiler lentgh: 3,25 m
Boiler diameter: 1 m
Propeler Radious: 1.25m
Wing span: 15,5 m
Height: 5,25 m
Wing lentgh: 7 m (individual)
Wing width: 2,25 m (individual)
Total wing surface: (*4) = 63 m^2
Vetical stabilizer heigth: 2,5 m
Horizontal stabilizers lentgh: 4 m
Body width: 1,5 m
Boiler lentgh: 3,25 m
Boiler diameter: 1 m
Propeler Radious: 1.25m
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World save : by JoaoDaFonseca 03/23/2019 11:45:28 amMar 23rd, 2019
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