SOH - Combat Flight Center - Blogs - warchild http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/blog.php?59243-warchild Sim-Outhouse is a website in support of Flight Simulator 2004, Flight Simulator 2002, Combat Flight Simulator 3, Combat Flight Simulator 2, Combat Flight Simulator, Prepar3D, IL-2 Sturmovik, Forgotten Battles and Pacific Fighters en Thu, 23 May 2013 11:27:08 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/images/misc/rss.jpg SOH - Combat Flight Center - Blogs - warchild http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/blog.php?59243-warchild After the gold rush http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/entry.php?54-After-the-gold-rush Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:07:39 GMT I suppose i should update this blog.. Really there isnt a lot i can say in here that isnt said in the P-61 thread.. They tell me that spring is gonna be late this year. Up here in oregon where spring doesnt come until june. that isnt a good thing, especially when you aint so young any more and you got a body that likes to complain about every little change in weather.. Well, whatever.. Nothing i can do about the weather.

I'm hoping to retire this year. I mean really retire. Watch some TV, build that meditation garden on my back patio, maybe go have a coffee and ice cream with the other old farts downtown.. I'd like to just fly and enjoy this hobby; Not be one of the driving forces behind it ( even if its just a tiny little force ). But I have to admit, the quality of the aircraft available has come a very long way since 2004. But i also have to admit my own duality over the whole idea.. I love the people in this community. The each keep me alive by their very words, and make me laugh and sometimes cry, and sometimes they just plain piss me off, but thats what being alive is all about.. If i were too retire, I'd miss way too many people and moments..
Time will tell..
Keep watching the P-61 thread in FSX discussions to keep up with the latest on that. Now that the initial gold rush is over, we dont post as often, but what we do post is some pretty big stuff, even if it doesnt seem like it.. There's no way i can verbalie what i do to the flight model that would have any meaning at all untill you actually fly the plane, but Robert has been doing some wonderful work. Highly detailed, and yet, somehow he's getting past the framerate monster with it all, and the result is slowly becoming an incredibly good looking and complete aircraft, thats very easy on the framerates. heh. It surprises me too. But thats what i get for working with one of the very best.. He's very much worth watching, and a hell of a nice guy to boot...
Pam ]]> warchild http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/entry.php?54-After-the-gold-rush P-61 rumblings http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/entry.php?37-P-61-rumblings Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:01:34 GMT A friend of mine died today, run down by some guy in a car that didnt think he should have to slow down. My friends 16 year old daughter was also hit. She's in ICU.
Somehow over 3 gigs of gauges got deleted from my gauges folder. good thing there was a backup.
The plane works perfectly n my machine, but another person is having problems. I have to wonder what the difference is.. I need Delata558 to get his eyes on this thing and shred it. He's the best tester in the world, literally, and he's a good friend. someone i can trust..
Outbursts and explosions, mostly caused by a medical issue that they know about, but wont treat. They just want to keep taking more blood. I'm simply not myself at all..
Modeling on the Lady continues on. Robert keeps working his magic with her and i get to sit back and enjoy his work. He's begun setting the plan up to map UV texture mapping.. What ive seen so far has been remarkable. ]]> warchild http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/entry.php?37-P-61-rumblings SOH P-61 project http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/entry.php?34-SOH-P-61-project Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:34:04 GMT
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ok.. Sent Crashaz an email wondering if he's ok.. he hasnt been on since sept. 1st so hopefully things are ok and he'll recieve it..
progress notes..

esterday i was working on smoothing out the curves for the control surfaces to make controling the aircraft more precise and closer to realistic. I say closer because we only have anologies to work with from pilots and observers. I believe i have done ok with them but time will tell.. Today it was about props and getting them tuned to match the ones used on the p-61. The P-61 actually used one of two props. At first they used a Hamilton Standard prop wuth a faurly cinventional shape to it, but it was designed for and later used the Curtiss Electric prop whuch had a paddle shape out towards the tip. That paddle shape provided a percentage of higher power and therefore speed at higher manifold pressures. Our P-61 has been plagued with slow acceleration rates. That meant that even though we could engineer the drag and other aspects of it to take off with flaps in the proscribed distance, without flaps (such as in a scramble takeoff ) it would take over twice the length it should have needed.. I'd been baffled by that till this morning when i was talking with delta558 when it all fell into place.
The "paddles" on the tips of the propellers cause it to grab much more air when the pitch of the prpeller is advanced above 37 degrees, so i focused on changing only those curves in the table, the ones between 45 degrees and 60 degrees. this resulted in is a clean takeoff distance 9 no flaps 0 of about 2500 feet at 137 mph. Standard flaps ( 20 degrees ) causes the plane to be able to take off in a little under 2400 feet, and with 45 degree flaps, yoy can take off in a little under a thousand feet. Full flaps a little less than 900 feet..
I also noticed while flying around that when you banked the nose would yaw upwards instead of fall like its supposed too. Guess i was blind or something. I fixed that as well tonight..
Induced drag may be a bit high. she seems to be falling off her speed a bit fast in a turn, but that may be my imagination.. I mean, i can see a GA aircraft losing speed like that in a turn because it isnt designed for the purpose of fighting, but a fighter relies on the ability to maintain energy to some degree through a turn in order to maintain maneuverability, and this plane especially so. Part of me wants to think that momentum alone would help pull it through the turn, not to mention those big engines of hers.. She ways several thousand pounds mor than a B-25, and yet is only one man wide, carries only three crew, and no bombs. Well, at least no bombs during the earlier periods of her usefulness.. Shes a 30000 pound freight train. She shouldnt slow down quite so soon.. At least, i dont think she should.. maybe i'm incorrect though..
Work continues :)..
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