SchizophrenicMC

Hey, anything I can do to help. I've seen you guys' work before, and it's impressive, to say the least.

Finally, I have one downloaded. I will be working with the Wolfpack, just because I like the colorscheme so much. Oh, by the way, each wing will be about 3 feet in length.

This is true. However, the GN Drives are a cheap and easy gimmick, and the Strike Rouge with Skygrasper and Aile Striker PG only costs, what, $200 US? That's $100 less for more gimmick. Also, I'm fairly certain the Strike is more poseable than 00. That's what the PDF is telling me.

I'm gonna have to do a lot of messing with it in GIMP and I'm probably gonna end up vectorizing the images I get before I do anything so it doesn't end up as crap. You know, yesterday, I spent 18 hours in GIMP making a birthday card for my gf. I'm pretty frakkin' tired.

How about sitting down?

But... Max paints it blue...

Well, maybe at 15 with no aeronautical background, I'm misinterpreting this, but the Coanda Effect is the tendency of a fluid jet to be attracted to convex surfaces. The VF-1's main fuselage is somewhat convex. Combine that with Lift, created by the flow of air being faster over a convex surface than a flat surface, creating lower pressure above the plane. So, I'm assuming that what lift you get moves the quarter chord of the plane slightly behind the center of mass, creating a stabilizing effect. Not entirely sure. The argument isn't so much the VF-1 can fly in a straight line, at this point, but whether or not it can resist flipping about its quarter chord. That's what I was answering. And, again, I'm not so sure about this, because I've not received any formal training at all in engineering or aeronautics. T-W is not an issue, here, I guess. I mean, that's a lot of thrust. It will stay in the air, and it will resist such effects, but at low speed, the issue arrises. That's a valid concern with the VF-1, I guess. I wish I had a scale mockup and a wind tunnel for some testing. And, Dave, the F-14 PROTOTYPE flew in 1970. The PRODUCTION craft flew in '72. YF-22s and F-22s aren't exactly the same bird, are they? That said, I did look it up, and the article was flawed, hence it being removed from the webs. The F-14 does not have FBW, but it does not use, save one instance, hydromechanical systems, favoring normal servo control.

MAHQ, to an extent.

Wait... They're already making a 00 PG. I was not expecting this. Well, it can wait 4 or 5 years for the price to drop. $300 for a Gundam from that series is WAY too much, for me, at least. Hell, I'd barely pay half that for what is colloquially referred to as the best PG yet, Strike. Also, looking at the PDF from the Bandai site, it doesn't look very flexible, for a PG. However, thinking of this, they released 2 PGs pretty close to each other awhile back; I'm not sure whether that was Strike and Skygrasper or not, but maybe they'll release VF-25 as a PG, then, hm? Almost definitely next year, though.

And now I have to wait for a moderator to approve me to post and/or find a thread where I wouldn't be posting idle spam...

If there is a list of all the entries and things to enter, with some help, I could probably do it. No promises right at this moment; school just started, so I'm still working out my homework schedule. But, once that's taken care of, I should be able to.

Okay, I've run through that thread at least 7 times and I can't find where I'm supposed to download this. Getter, where do I find it, exactly?

Man, I'm so pissed off! I lost my camera in June and I finally figured out how to get my landing pose all correct with what I've got... Finally, those DS game cases prove their worth.

Hellyeah! That would be awesome.

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Sh*t yeah, man. @Knight: My Great Book of Modern Warplanes is currently at a bookbinder's, since after 27 years of repeated handling, between my father and I, don't do well for a book. A website I had seen backing up the data has disappeared from the internet, but discussed how the first fly-by-wire plane was a modified F-8 or F-4, I can't remember which, but that the F-14 was first mass-produced. Now, perhaps I was misreading all of this, but I don't know. Nied, we've all been over this: The VF-1 DOES require FBW. It uses FBL, actually, now that I think of it. Also, looking at some schematic lineart, most of the upper fuselage, the lifting body I describe, is outside of the center of the plane, dominated by the engine nacelles and a good bit of space outside of that, where it is actually very much wing-shaped. This addition of lifting space, plus the amount of lift the rest of the upper fuselage would give, due to the Coandă effect, would create a good amount of lift. Maybe not 30-40% of the total lift, but at least 10. That would be enough to move the aerodynamic center further towards the back of the plane, seeing as the quarter chord would be moved slightly backwards, I assume. Moving this point back compensates somewhat for the lack of horizontal stabilizers, the rest made up for by constant adjustment of the thrust vector paddles by the flight computer. Dex, from an aerospace engineer's standpoint, does that sound about right?

It's just not the same... TV Macross is cooler. Doesn't look so splayed out.

Once you go black, you'll never go back, but once you go white, there's a trailer in sight!

So, is that your kill count or something?

The control system was an Analog Fly By Wire system. It had issues with supersonic flight where the nose tended to pitch down. This is why it had the glove vanes to start with. It also had issues with flat spins due to single-engine compressor stalls at high speed. These issues led to them using the Flightcom to stabilize the plane enough where these were recoverable. Any plane designed to fly supersonic will have some inherent flight instability, just due to having to handle transonic airspeed. However, the F-14 is especially so, due to its variable sweep wings. Those were completely computer controlled, although they could be manually adjusted. The thing wouldn't have been able to use anything but Fly By Wire to run. The hydraulic lines for hydromechanical flight would have all jammed up inside of the hinge point. The F-16 was the first to use DIGITAL FBW, hence Electric Jet. Of course, but I'm just pointing out that the fuselage is a lifting body. With that percentage, it could act as a stabilizer to an extent. It pulls the lift closer to the center of gravity, reducing its ability to flip end over end in such cases, plus the FBW actively adjusts thrust vector so it doesn't.

He brought it up... I'm not Junior. I'm the only one whose name was chosen at random. Back on topic, if this doesn't outsize everything on my shelf, I'm going to be upset and not not buy it.

Wait. I just realized I accidentally gave the fighter lenghth before, not the battroid height

There's no reason for your mom to say it!

Ugh, I know what you mean