Intashu
Elite member
So Flerken plans in hand, I knew I wasn't going to build a standard plane. I started considering all the sci-fi swept wing planes out there, and there are many that look terrific. but while pondering how I was going to go about this build from the corner of my eye I spot a box containing the parts of a cartoon P40 I have yet to build. A quick google search led me to images of the Battlestar Galactica Vintage Viper.
The nose cone is nearly the ideal size, and while the P40 plane fuselage is a little short I can easily stretch it! While I won't be doing a twin engine design, I am already forming the beginnings of the design, and it shouldn't actually be too hard to build... till I think about ways to complicate it unnecessarily!
This leads me to consider a few things before I get too far along however. I may put some forward Canards on it. In the style of the P40 horizontal stabilizer. I COULD make this active instead of static fins, but then I have no experience in how that would impact performance, if I'd want to keep the tailerons setup the same way or make them alierons and use the canards as forward rudders, would be more of a functional reverse airplane or is this is a terrible idea?
I'm not worried about it being nose heavy from the added material, I got a slightly larger than suggested motor to put in this monster. although the overall weight may end up being this plane's downfall I hope I can build it light enough to fly still given enough thrust.
I'll be rounding the wing tips (via extension, not cutting them down) to be more P40 in style, and I'll keep the flerken positioned horizontal stabilizers, but they'll be shaped like the P40's.
I imagine this will turn out like something out of Crimson Sky in styling when I'm done. I'm sure it will fly like a brick and kiss dirt, only to end up decorating my ceiling after a failed maiden, but then again, half the fun is building and seeing "will it fly?"
The nose cone is nearly the ideal size, and while the P40 plane fuselage is a little short I can easily stretch it! While I won't be doing a twin engine design, I am already forming the beginnings of the design, and it shouldn't actually be too hard to build... till I think about ways to complicate it unnecessarily!
This leads me to consider a few things before I get too far along however. I may put some forward Canards on it. In the style of the P40 horizontal stabilizer. I COULD make this active instead of static fins, but then I have no experience in how that would impact performance, if I'd want to keep the tailerons setup the same way or make them alierons and use the canards as forward rudders, would be more of a functional reverse airplane or is this is a terrible idea?
I'm not worried about it being nose heavy from the added material, I got a slightly larger than suggested motor to put in this monster. although the overall weight may end up being this plane's downfall I hope I can build it light enough to fly still given enough thrust.
I'll be rounding the wing tips (via extension, not cutting them down) to be more P40 in style, and I'll keep the flerken positioned horizontal stabilizers, but they'll be shaped like the P40's.
I imagine this will turn out like something out of Crimson Sky in styling when I'm done. I'm sure it will fly like a brick and kiss dirt, only to end up decorating my ceiling after a failed maiden, but then again, half the fun is building and seeing "will it fly?"