After watching the Robotech or any anime series, I have wondered if any of those designs really could fly to satisfy my own intellectual curiosity. If the designs were feasible, how fast and manueverable were they? Would they just spin out of control? How would the control surfaces interact? Did the unconvential nature (i.e. not having horizontal stablizers or having vertical stablizers built into the main wing) of the designs compromise performance? What were there characteristics and what sort of roles they might perform? Could the older Valkyries take on an Alpha or Slyphid and win? Could you actually trap a Logan on a pitching Nimitz class aircraft carrier at night and 15mph winds wipping from right to left across the deck in storm conditions? What could they actually do in a simulated environment? Were they a beast or a dream to fly? Which design was best?
We finally have some answers.
I couldn't have done it without a few individual's prize eyeballs.
With the help of source material provided by macross.anime.net, Harmony Gold (Robotech.com), Robotech Research Page, and the Robotech Research Guide, I have succesfully produced three simulations of the Valkyrie(VFA-1J, VFA-1D, and EVAW-1D), Matt Willis' Condor (VA-5A), and my own creation, a production model of the VF-4-X called the Starfighter II, VFA-4A to start. I kept to the material as close as I possibly could, but I departed from material when it seriously comprimised the models or just plain silly. These simulations are available to everyone in the community. They work in X-Plane 8.60, a comprehensive flight simulator which uses computational fluid dynamics, subsonic, and supersonic flight model to simulate flight, and made using its own Planemaker 8.60 development program. More information can be found at x-plane.com or x-plane.org (a fan community site). These aircraft will be going into beta testing soon, and support from the community would be appreciated, especially other simmers.
I posted some pictures on my personal webspace, which can be viewed at home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-lemnet.
Let me know what you think.
Please, don't laugh too hard at the liveries.
We finally have some answers.
I couldn't have done it without a few individual's prize eyeballs.
With the help of source material provided by macross.anime.net, Harmony Gold (Robotech.com), Robotech Research Page, and the Robotech Research Guide, I have succesfully produced three simulations of the Valkyrie(VFA-1J, VFA-1D, and EVAW-1D), Matt Willis' Condor (VA-5A), and my own creation, a production model of the VF-4-X called the Starfighter II, VFA-4A to start. I kept to the material as close as I possibly could, but I departed from material when it seriously comprimised the models or just plain silly. These simulations are available to everyone in the community. They work in X-Plane 8.60, a comprehensive flight simulator which uses computational fluid dynamics, subsonic, and supersonic flight model to simulate flight, and made using its own Planemaker 8.60 development program. More information can be found at x-plane.com or x-plane.org (a fan community site). These aircraft will be going into beta testing soon, and support from the community would be appreciated, especially other simmers.
I posted some pictures on my personal webspace, which can be viewed at home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-lemnet.
Let me know what you think.
Please, don't laugh too hard at the liveries.
