Fluburtur
Cardboard Boy
A new year, a new forum challenge! This time the challenge is fictionnal aircrafts so I will be making the ADF-01 Falken from the Ace Combat series.
It is a superfighter that have been developed from the battle data of the duel between Cipher and Pixy in Ace Combat Zero, which are considered to be the two best pilots in the series however the plane has appeared in the saga since Ace Combat 2 where it was depicted as being flown by a computer program called Z.O.E.
It features the COFFIN system which allows the pilot to control the plane directly from his mind using a brain-computer interface, allowing a very high degree of control over the plane. The cockpit is also made of screens using cameras and various sensors on the plane, replacing a regular glass canopy and allowing the display of various kinds of data.
You can find all those infos here
In the games, the plane has those specs:
I have not yet decided on construction method, probably a mix of cardboard and wire cut foam with some 3d printed parts here and there.
I will first make a smaller prop slot version to prove this airframe can fly and also to claim first because it will be the first flying RC falken in the world and then design the big boy version, it will probably use twin 70mm EDFs and a flight controller to do all the controls mixing:
Elevator on canards, ailerons, 2D thrust vectoring (roll and pitch) and rudder. The bottom fin will probably be non functional and held on with magnets because I will have to belly land this thing.
If this works out alright it will have a very impressive degree of control because of the canards, thrust vectoring and forward swept wing.
It is a superfighter that have been developed from the battle data of the duel between Cipher and Pixy in Ace Combat Zero, which are considered to be the two best pilots in the series however the plane has appeared in the saga since Ace Combat 2 where it was depicted as being flown by a computer program called Z.O.E.
It features the COFFIN system which allows the pilot to control the plane directly from his mind using a brain-computer interface, allowing a very high degree of control over the plane. The cockpit is also made of screens using cameras and various sensors on the plane, replacing a regular glass canopy and allowing the display of various kinds of data.
You can find all those infos here
In the games, the plane has those specs:
- Length: 24.00 m
- Width: 15.92 m
- Height: 5.64 m
- Weight: 23,300 kg
- Max Speed: Mach 2.2 (2,695 km/h
I have not yet decided on construction method, probably a mix of cardboard and wire cut foam with some 3d printed parts here and there.
I will first make a smaller prop slot version to prove this airframe can fly and also to claim first because it will be the first flying RC falken in the world and then design the big boy version, it will probably use twin 70mm EDFs and a flight controller to do all the controls mixing:
Elevator on canards, ailerons, 2D thrust vectoring (roll and pitch) and rudder. The bottom fin will probably be non functional and held on with magnets because I will have to belly land this thing.
If this works out alright it will have a very impressive degree of control because of the canards, thrust vectoring and forward swept wing.