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Subject: Longsword for X-Plane

Your toast has been burned! And NO amount of scraping will remove the black parts!!.

I've been working on a flying model of the Longsword for a flight sim called X-Plane, and I'd like some feedback on it. Mostly I need feedback on the landing gear. My main source for the gear is the HGN, page 102. They appear to be similar to an airliner's 4-wheel bogie, but the picture isn't very clear.

So I took some artistic license, and here's what I got:

Longsword 1

Longsword 2

Longsword 3

Longsword 4

Longsword 5

Here is a short video of the retract sequence:

Longsword retracting gear

I put the two main gears under the engine nacelles, but forward of center rather than aft. And I put the center "nosegear" towards the tail, somewhat like an old taildragger, but without drooping the tail. This results in a sort of reversed-tricycle gear arrangement. It looks a little odd, I grant you, but it actually doesn't affect handling terribly. And since the Longsword is primarily a VTOL aircraft, I'm not too concerned with the takeoff roll. Any thoughts?

  • 01.30.2007 7:10 PM PDT

Your toast has been burned! And NO amount of scraping will remove the black parts!!.

Sorry for the double post. ISP issues...

  • 01.30.2007 7:28 PM PDT