PC, could yo give me some TGW#s of sequences with good looks at D’Flys? I need to look hard at the existing MK-I to analyze the underlying shapes in order to understand the design well enough to be able to conceptualize my own vision of a D’Fly MK-II. I’m hitting a conceptual wall and need good looks from you of the D’Fly in action. I would feel privileged and honored if you would allow me to help birth a more Wildcat-friendly D’Fly. I think the fuselage could be wider and rounder with better visibility forward and down and more internal storage for ammo for the various guns. It would also be very helpful if you sent me a basic Miral figure posed (nothing poseable or moveable) as if sitting in a cockpit, feet on rudder pedals and hand s on stick and throttle. An alternate version with right hand positioned for a right-hand-side side stick would help a lot. Might as well build a D’Fly II AROUND Miral as any other figure. Just email me the figures as an .obj or .3ds or similar format. I can import/convert as needed.
Thanks, Rob. I want to see if I can make something with better over all visibility for the pilot. You know how Miral hates being so “cooped up”. My vision has a more egg-shaped fuselage with improved visibility forward and down. Think a Hughes Hughes oh-6 cayuse, but without the need for so much bracing. The advent of practical transparent aluminum (there really IS such a thing) achieved by the Empire’s scientists (I think Old Bill probably dropped an idea or two and maybe Mr Pick as well) means that a cockpit need not have a lot of heavy metal armor to protect the pilot. Read/saw something where 1″ of transparent aluminum is superior to 6″ of laminated ballistic glass. No shite! Problem in the real world is that right now we can only fabricate it in small sections. It’s a ceramic composed of alumina, oxygen and – IIRC – nitrogen. The alumina powder is sintered in an oven and comes out cloudy white then becomes transparent when polished. If we want to use it and we need it badly enough we’ll figure out how to make large panels of the stuff. Remember, once upon a time a clear, one piece canopy like on the late model P-51s and P-47 was beyond the ability of anyone to fabricate. Likewise, when Kelley Johnson and his team started designing the A-12 nobody knew how to fabricate titanium much at all. Those guys NEEDED titanium and so they figured out how to make things out of it. You know what they say, “Necessity is a mother!”
oh look they brought more arrows… 🙂
Mala,, she means that literally….
OH NO there’s two of them.
PC, could yo give me some TGW#s of sequences with good looks at D’Flys? I need to look hard at the existing MK-I to analyze the underlying shapes in order to understand the design well enough to be able to conceptualize my own vision of a D’Fly MK-II. I’m hitting a conceptual wall and need good looks from you of the D’Fly in action. I would feel privileged and honored if you would allow me to help birth a more Wildcat-friendly D’Fly. I think the fuselage could be wider and rounder with better visibility forward and down and more internal storage for ammo for the various guns. It would also be very helpful if you sent me a basic Miral figure posed (nothing poseable or moveable) as if sitting in a cockpit, feet on rudder pedals and hand s on stick and throttle. An alternate version with right hand positioned for a right-hand-side side stick would help a lot. Might as well build a D’Fly II AROUND Miral as any other figure. Just email me the figures as an .obj or .3ds or similar format. I can import/convert as needed.
P.C. had a page, for D’Fly.. but i can’t find again.. (lost in move.?)
but here is original base model (by Karnargal.)
https://pegasus3d.neocities.org/worlds/Karnargal/DragonFlyA2a1_1200.jpg
Thanks, Rob. I want to see if I can make something with better over all visibility for the pilot. You know how Miral hates being so “cooped up”. My vision has a more egg-shaped fuselage with improved visibility forward and down. Think a Hughes Hughes oh-6 cayuse, but without the need for so much bracing. The advent of practical transparent aluminum (there really IS such a thing) achieved by the Empire’s scientists (I think Old Bill probably dropped an idea or two and maybe Mr Pick as well) means that a cockpit need not have a lot of heavy metal armor to protect the pilot. Read/saw something where 1″ of transparent aluminum is superior to 6″ of laminated ballistic glass. No shite! Problem in the real world is that right now we can only fabricate it in small sections. It’s a ceramic composed of alumina, oxygen and – IIRC – nitrogen. The alumina powder is sintered in an oven and comes out cloudy white then becomes transparent when polished. If we want to use it and we need it badly enough we’ll figure out how to make large panels of the stuff. Remember, once upon a time a clear, one piece canopy like on the late model P-51s and P-47 was beyond the ability of anyone to fabricate. Likewise, when Kelley Johnson and his team started designing the A-12 nobody knew how to fabricate titanium much at all. Those guys NEEDED titanium and so they figured out how to make things out of it. You know what they say, “Necessity is a mother!”
BTW, my over all design inspiration for the D’Fly II was the WWII German Heinkel 1078A here are a couple of pix.
https://modelingmadness.com/scott/axis/luft/he1078c.jpg
https://modelingmadness.com/scott/axis/luft/he1078d.jpg
Damned beautiful airchine.
TGW-535 to TGW 547 has some good ones. Sorry about any delays responding, I’m kind of avoiding the internet for my own mental health.