Speaking of adjusting airflow around a wing, my math teacher was just telling us a story about pilot training today. He was having trouble doing a steep turn, and his instructor pilot asked if he'd ever seen it done with a door. When he said no, the instructor rolled the plane 45* and opened the door, and performed a steep turn by adjusting how wide the door was open, using it as a control surface. Then he told my teacher that if he could do it with the door, my teacher should be able to do it with the controls.
I think it would be more satisfying if you built the target drones out of multiple smaller parts so it would disintegrate more spectacularly. Maybe even a composite fuselage out of .625 metre parts for that shower of debris!
stock ksp should increase the load range, it has almost no affect on performance. my terrible computer can easily handle 20km load distance I use with bd armoury.
winterairsoft thats my old computer it has a rave party when i try to play minecraft on it but now i have my laptop that im using to type tis message right now. its not the best out there but it gets the job done can play war thunder on medium graphics. plus its got an amd a8 with a radeon graphics driver
***** im going to upgrade to a new computer soon, partially to play war thunder ground forces. I can get 80 fps in aircraft, but rarely break 25 when in a tank.
V-1s and V-2s are actually quite a feat of technology for their time, there actually modeled in Warthunder. theres a single player mission that has you intercepting them in a Spitfire, not sure if you can nock them off course with ur wings tho.
Exileine Also the last rocket fueled bomber interceptor. As cool as it is, almost all of them crashed on landing, making them an almost guaranteed one way trip.
Siphon Rayzar The russians went on to try it aswell, however there problem wasent so much the crashing. But more to do with the fuel they used, S-stoff is praticularly flameable... like dont sneeze to hard flameable, causing lots of problems with the pilots and the matienance crews that had to service them. more 163s burnt up on the runway then where actually shot down.
***** They had been in design/pre-production for quite a while, wasent so much a last ditch effort then it was another case of too little, too late. And pleny of people cared, due to the small prop on the nose to power the electronics in it, people though it was some kind of crazy prop/jet hybrid and it was studdied intensivly by the USA, Britian and Russia at the end of the war.
Exileine That too. But, when they worked, they worked extremely well. I'm sure rocket based fighters would be no problem today, but the issue of fuel efficiency comes up, along with the massive heat trail you leave behind as you fly. Amongst other things.
The Gloster Meteor, the second operational jet fighter, was not used in air-to-air combat but found its greatest success in the role of V1-flipping-over, as it was the fastest thing in the Allied armory.
Scott Manley They were mainly used in the Martian Trade Wars, when mercantile martian misanthropes assaulted mainland Mercia. Due to trade disagreements you see.
Nice one Scott. The RAF also used early Meteor jet fighters to intercept V1s. The reason you don't see many pulsejets in aerospace applications these days is that they're not easily throttleable: the inlet louvres (or the pressure dynamics of the inlet in valveless designs) only really work at one frequency so the throttle is pretty much ON/OFF.
The modern equivalent of the pulsejet is the pulse detonation engine, or PDE Tom Bussing's design from the early 90's was bought by pratt and whitney - operating frequencies in the tens of kilohertz... but then detonations are a little more intense than deflagrations. The dynajet pulsejet and modern clones are used on RC airplanes too. Fun little buggers if you get 'em tuned right. Fun video, thanks for all the work that I'm sure goes into these ;)
Ah yes Colin Furze is great! I especially liked the one where he hydroformed a pulse jet with a pressure washer. & also the one where he made a pulse jet look like a giant Butt & he took it to the white cliffs of dover to fart at France.
That dude is nuts! Did you see the video when that homemade turbojet engine exploded? Had blisters the size of tennis balls from the burns. Definitely sub worthy.
Interestingly similar 'technology' to the pulse engine can be found in a much earlier creation... the bombardier beetle! Professor Andy McIntosh has studied it greatly and it has helped improve things from aerosols to fuel injection systems (btb the bombardier beetle is literally a beetle not some slang name for a machine like the buzz bomb)
Scott the reason why the tempest was used so mush was because a lot of pilots knew the plane, how it flew, and they were near where the stacks were coming from,etc... 350 mph is not that fast even for the props used, the p51 was able to go easily 400+ ( I can't remember the exact ) so was the tempest,etc... It would have only took a about a steep 1000 meter dive to get to that speed from cruising for any of those prop planes that were used. The also used jets to take out v1 buz bombs
I use a common lagging maneuver in war thunder of pulling up and zoom climbing with my throttle down and using my momentum to roll back down behind the target.
"It's much more satisfying when bits fall off and the target disintegrates." And THAT is what putting an dual 6 pdr autoloader BDArmory cannon from LLL is for. Seriously, the things just make ships go sploosh into dust and wings. Surprisingly, the hit prediction is good enough that it's almost impossible to get near a nuclear-powered airborne ship of the line full of them. I tried putting about 20 on a regular old jet and even that was essentially unassailable.
Correction on pulse jets. There is no explosion, its deflagration. Now a pulse detonation engine does involve detonations. They have insane efficiency, but tend to fall apart.
Hmm, that plane with the lost wing reminds me of that story of that one F15 Eagle that lost its right wing to an enemy SAM. The pilot noticed he was hit, but he only realized he lost a wing after he landed back at his base.
Like and subscribe for sure. Wonderful history lesson (and a tough one) using KSP. Just imagine the German minds working with very limited technology, and the Allied forces trying to face the first generation of unmanned drones---what a crazy world it must have been. (Also, my condolences to all the brave Kerbals lost in the making of this movie!)
Thought I'd point out that V1s weren't guided, they simply ran out of fuel as they reached London. V2s, however, were guided and were actually the first ever guided bomb.
V1's had a state of the art guidance system, they had a rudder to control heading and a odometer to figure out when to nose down. Many people wrongly believe they ran out of fuel because of a defect in the propulsion system which starved the engine of fuel when it performed the dive, later models fixed this.
Scott Manley Funny enough the magnetic compass guidance system on the V-1 was targeted and calibrated by beating on the bomb's steel casing with a mallet. I wonder what the launch crew thought about that procedure...
There were many 'guided bombs' before the V2, such as the US AZON or Nazi Germany's own many kinds of radio-guided bombs launched from a plane. Japan had guided torpedoes and guided ATGM.
Scott Manley V-1s were less 'guided', more aimed. The missiles themselves didn't know when they had reached the target and they weren't radio controlled. Nothing guided them other than the on-board pendulum, compass and timer. The timer counted the rotations of a propeller which was turned by air flow and upon reaching zero it would cut the engine, in turn making the bomb nose down and crash violently. This made them accurate enough for area bombing but not for precision bombing which was their intended purpose.
Thought for air-to-air refueling: KAS has some parts that have slack. That might make the mated configuration more flyable. Also, have you tried putting defensive weapons on your drones and using the BD Armory controller to automatically fire them defensively? Ups the challenge a lot! :)
With KSP multiplayer turning out as good as it is, we need to see some anti-spacestation designs... for entertainment purposes :) I was messing around with surface to orbit missiles and huge space shark designs to scrap ships
You could probably adjust the thrust limit on the rapier as you close to intercept to give you more usable throttle resolution. It may not make matching speeds outright easy, but it can't hurt to have more control than just two clicks off idle.
Only vaguely related to the topic, but I feel like I remember watching a movie or something once, where a pilot lost consciousness with the hold-altitude autopilot locked, maybe because of a cabin pressure leak, and to save the guy another plane had do what Scott was talking about to roll the first plane enough that the autopilot would disengage and let the plane drift down to a lower altitude... Does this sound familiar to anyone else, or is my memory just making things up at this point?
This would be so cool with the Kerbtrack mod. You should try it Scott (I think you said you have a TrackIR, right?) KSP IVA missions with RPM... bloody amazing
You should check out DCS, Digital Combat Simulator. It has a very in depth simulation. If you get the flaming cliffs pack you get the SU 27, which can do the cobra maneuver, and other supermanuverability things. It comes with a free t51 and SU25. Very tough to start the t51. The cockpit is fully simulated and you go through the startup sequence. You can also start in flight for brevity.
Lanbur has returned to Kerbin with the nano-virus and at the end Scott Manley said that he might be in a future series and Scott's playing with the BD Armory mod... Coincidence? I think not! :p
Hello Mr. Manley did you here that Unity V5 is out today KSP is gonna get some cool stuff done now. Have you ever went down below the clouds of Jool it pretty trippy.
Actually I have no idea what the simulation is doing. The ailerons shouldn't be moving with you pitch. There is no need for spoilerons or flaperons when you pitch.
I remember reading in an book written by Werner Von Braun years ago, - not Wikipedia, that the V1 was "designed" to cut off the fuel pump when it reached it's intended point,; it was supposed to fall silently - that was what made it so scary - you'd hear the buzzing sound overhead and then nothing and it scared the hell out of everyone because they wondered where's it going to fall? This wasn't a "design" flaw, or a problem, although there were initial problems throughout the whole "Vengeance" weapons program, but that's another story. Wikipedia is nice and quick and convenient, but you have to take it's truths with a grain of salt. I'd rather take a known prestigious author to get my facts, either from my local library, or use ILL (Inter-Library Loan), if I can't already find it on my bookshelves. The whole Vengeance weapon program is a very interesting bit of history and it is nice that Scott talked about it and hopefully has gotten others interested in reading more about history.
"aileron" only refers to the objects that are adjusting roll exclusively. the general term for the moving surfaces that control the craft is: control surfaces
Flapperons are a mix of flaps and ailerons. Flaps are used to slow the plane down via increased drag. Although, I can see how both, flapperons and elevons are not well known. The B-2 Spirit is the only example of full scale aircraft with elevons I can name. Flapperons I only know from model aviation.
Skyliner04s there is that x plane the x-36 it had elevons and flapperons at least i think it had those two i know for certain that it had duckerons, and elevons DUCKERON: noun~ a control surface on an aircraft that provide both roll and yaw without the help of a rudder
*anyone know why my big planes lose lift every time i turn?* id assume its because the wings would be wobbly but ive strutted them pretty gud. im sure all of you have encountered this problem building huge planes, im just wondering if anyone has found the issue.
This makes me wonder, if you increase the range before parts disappear. Could one make a landing area that was actually flying or hovering :P obviously would need some custom parts. but kinda like those ships in Avengers movies, trying to land on something that is flying would be hilarios. but probably also impossible
Hold on, how were the V1s more effective than V2s? I thought the V2s were infamous because they were the first aircraft to break the sound barrier and there was no way to defend against them since by the time the UK knew they were coming it was too late? Or am I just thinking of something else?
The debris when Shooting planes infront of you was a common Problem and there is a funny Story to that, a german bf109 Pilot (don't know his Name you'd have to Google) got his guns on the lowest targeting range and literally flew up to 50 meters and then shot, after 10 confirmed kills he had to egt back just because the debris damaged his engine housing
Relative to about 7:10 in this video... The F15 is also a lifting body.. There was an Israeli F15 that suffered significant damage in a mid-air collision but was able to maintain control by throttling up to maintain speed and eventually landed the damaged aircraft. They got out to find that one wing was completely severed. The video is super corny, but it's worth a look: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M359poNjvVA.html
