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Lift => Showcase => Topic started by: Cosmic Grenade on April 17, 2014, 06:21:38 AM
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While looking at different plane designs I came across the idea of the C-Wing, where it has no rudder on the fuselage but actually on the ends of the wings. The C design would also make aircraft with small wing span, but could have more wing area then a normal wing. No airplane has been build with this design wing as it doesn't give any significant increase in speed or range. Designs do call for a front canad on this type of plane but I found that it didn't make it fly too well but after trying a wing at the back between the 2 fuselage and it's alot better now :)
(http://s23.postimg.org/4ncg9tf9n/C_Wing_Front.jpg)
(http://s23.postimg.org/cvedut763/C_Wing_Side_High_View.jpg)
(http://s23.postimg.org/s2udf5z0r/C_Wing_Top_Down_View.jpg)
Where my idea came from -
(http://s24.postimg.org/4fjawurch/c_wing_family.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/4fjawurch/)
This one ^
Cosmic Grenade
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Great post. I love that you built it from an actual design and then had to adjust it to make it work with trial and error.
It's a shame that some of these stranger designs don't serve any real purpose. Like you said, there's never been any planes built with the C wing because there just isn't a need for it. I would like to figure out how to build some gameplay in Lift that utilizes some of this type of stuff, even if it doesn't apply in the real world.