When you dismissed it, I was crestfallen...I wanted a Bovine vs. Rocket Scientist drag race...or at least altitude contest...I felt compelled. Didn't want you to get all depressed.... :-(
When you dismissed it, I was crestfallen...I wanted a Bovine vs. Rocket Scientist drag race...or at least altitude contest...
BTW, you have MAD skeeeeeels...
Gee whiz, I laugh, but you're actually quite correct!Nothing a little bit of depleted uranium in the nose can’t cure.
Nothing a little bit of depleted uranium in the nose can’t cure.
Ooooh, nice burn!I'll get in contact with Putin... He'll hook me up. He has more flexibility, since he just got re-elected.
Are we talking real aged barn wood planking? Real galvanized metal, silo top styled nose cone? Tiny hidden tractor motors?
Are you kidding? That stuff isn't even as dense than gold. What you really want is an osmium-iridium alloy. It's a little spendy, but might be easier to obtain.Nothing a little bit of depleted uranium in the nose can’t cure.
So if you fudge a little - after all, measurements from a cartoon are not all that precise - you could reduce the cone's base diameter, and increase the body tube length. How much nose weight have you got in there? You could also raise the CG by building the fin can a little lighter; try "heck for sturdy" for a change.To demonstrate the impact of that huge nose cone I dropped the lower diameter of the cone down to 3"... and look at the stability difference.
You will have to hard input some base drag hacks behind that huge witches hat nose cone. Otherwise the sim is just sour milk. That computer machine will melt faster than ice cream in July.
So if you fudge a little - after all, measurements from a cartoon are not all that precise - you could reduce the cone's base diameter, and increase the body tube length.
How much nose weight have you got in there?
You could also raise the CG by building the fin can a little lighter; try "heck for sturdy" for a change.
Is it still a BASE drag hack if it is the NOSE of the steed?You will have to hard input some base drag hacks behind that huge witches hat nose cone.
Yes, I totally get that. I'm just saying that what scale is exactly, from a hand drawn cartoon panel, may be open to a little bit of "interpretation". I mean, if you squint, maybe you can take a quarter inch off here and add a half inch there. Every little bit helps.Sure, I could do that, but nope... not gonna do it. It's the principle of the thing. Make it to scale, or don't make it.Kind of like putting Lexan fins on a rocket...
Really.. well, I scaled it. Look at this:I would say that the problem is that your nose cone is too well centered, if you look at the cartoon, you’ll see it is quite far off center.
Is it still a BASE drag hack if it is the NOSE of the steed?
Thanks, I can see it better now. I withdraw my suggestion.
All that base area under the cartoon nose cone is just screaming for some tiny plugged 13mm or micromax canted tractor motors if they could fit. AND, if it looks good with hiddenmotors, all problems solved. Turn those nasty vortices into lovely up front weight and thrust, both of whom are great friends of the silly oddroc flyer.
To quote from the Holy Grail: "and suddenly the animator suffered a fatal heart attack and the cartoon peril was no more." The quest to fly accurately proportioned cartoon rockets could continue.
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