Hangar 9 Pulse XT 60

[technoid]

I reshaped the canopy and fuselage to look like the Pulse and also moved the hstab down. I still need to reposition the wing servos they got off when I reworked the wing. Then I guess it will be time to add the cowl intakes. Here's what it looks like now.

 

[technoid]

I think I need to go back and reshape the airfoil. The Super Sportster had a symmetrical airfoil but the Pulse XT has a semi-symmetrical. I thought I could let it go but I don't think I can. So one more thing to do.

 

[technoid]

I created this project from a Super Sportster which has a symmetrical airfoil, but the Hangar 9 Pulse XT 60 has a semi-symmetrical airfoil, so I went back and changed the airfoil. The Pulse XT 60 also has some dihedral which I'll add after I do the mapping. To me the plane looks better with the semi-symmetrical airfoil.

 

[technoid]

Speaking of dihedral I've never found anything that say's how much it has, so give me your guess.

 

[technoid]

I went back and tweaked the airfoil a little and repositioned the servos and linkage to fit the new airfoil. Looking at the picture of the plane taking off I'm guessing maybe 3 degrees of dihedral.

 

[technoid]

I added the intakes on the cowl today. I'll take a look but that might be everything but a few tweaks.

 

[technoid]

I looked around for some better pictures tonight and found a good close-up of the intakes. So now I need to go back and rework the intakes I made. I couldn't see the intakes were rounded down as they went back in the old picture, so now I need to go backwards for a bit and redo them.

 

[asj5547]

if u want want i can show u the color and look of the plane

@gfdgdf Do you have some pictures of your plane?
Technoid will need them soon so he can start on the color scheme.

 

[technoid]

I went back this morning and reworked the cowl intakes. They do look better rounded off as they go back.

 

[gfdgdf]

Speaking of dihedral I've never found anything that say's how much it has, so give me your guess.

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i really dont know

 

[technoid]

i really dont know

Thanks for letting me know. What I plan to do is add 3 degrees of dihedral and then look at my plane and the picture I posted here of it landing and then adjust it until they look the same. Lot's of times you can find a "straight" back picture which makes it easy since I can put that picture in Photoshop and measure the dihedral in the picture. But the angle shot I posted really doesn't work for that. But I'll get it as close as I can.

How does the latest pictures look to you?

 

[technoid]

I imported the Pulse XT 60 into RealFlight to see what it looks like. I still have the mapping (which is 3 passes), color scheme, and physics to do. So there's still lots of work to finish it.

 

[technoid]

I did one more tweak. I thought the back of the fuselage was a little too tall so I reduced it some. The modeling should be finished so next I'll start mapping it. But now it's time to go grocery shopping.

 

[gfdgdf]

I did one more tweak. I thought the back of the fuselage was a little too tall so I reduced it some. The modeling should be finished so next I'll start mapping it. But now it's time to go grocery shopping.

thanks

 

[gfdgdf]

Speaking of dihedral I've never found anything that say's how much it has, so give me your guess.

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i have no idea

 

[technoid]

I thought I was finished with the modeling but for a while now I've wanted to make a big change, so I decided to do that tonight. This plane was created from the Super Sportster 96 I modeled. The Pulse XT and the Super Sportster are similar but the Sportster has a very open engine bay and just didn't look right for the Pulse XT. So I decided to go back and fix that before I started mapping. But that was a pretty big job since the front of the fuselage needed to be rebuilt where it was all cut away for the Sportster. So I deleted all the parts of the engine bay and rebuilt the front of the fuselage and reshaped it, but to look like the Pulse XT this time.

After I finished rebuilding the fuselage I did a quick push around the parts to see what it looked like, so this picture is a temporary version just to see what the rebuilt fuselage looked like. To me the plane looks "much" better with the fuselage rebuilt. So now I need to go back and do the final placement of the parts to finish it.

 

[technoid]

I started finalizing the reshaped fuselage this morning but there's quite a few little details that are different so it's going to take a while to finish it. For one thing the cowl intakes don't quite fit the reshaped fuselage so I'm going to have to rework them. But it's worth it because the plane looks so much better with the reshaped fuselage. But for now I've done enough and will take a break for a while.

 

[technoid]

@gfdgdf Got a question for you. With the new fuselage shape it would be easy to convert this to an electric version, so which version would you rather have. An electric or glow?

 

[gfdgdf]

@gfdgdf Got a question for you. With the new fuselage shape it would be easy to convert this to an electric version, so which version would you rather have. An electric or glow?

glow is peferable

 

[technoid]

glow is peferable

Thanks. I just wanted to be sure. You said you had an OS engine on it so I thought you'd want a glow version.