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RE: Project Chakram - A light fighter idea - Switchback - 11-19-2013
You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a record, baby
Right round round round
Not a fan.
RE: Project Chakram - A light fighter idea - Tankman - 11-19-2013
(11-19-2013, 06:47 PM)Druen78 Wrote: That fighter has no evident reason to be like that, why would an aerospace engineer build the wings in that way?
Why would a space fighter need wings at all...
RE: Project Chakram - A light fighter idea - Lythrilux - 11-19-2013
That's amazing.
Perhaps this could be an AI ship? The awkward yet unique combination seems fitting.
RE: Project Chakram - A light fighter idea - Druen78 - 11-19-2013
(11-19-2013, 07:29 PM)Tankman Wrote:(11-19-2013, 06:47 PM)Druen78 Wrote: That fighter has no evident reason to be like that, why would an aerospace engineer build the wings in that way?
Why would a space fighter need wings at all...
True... yet not completely. You can still use wings for weapon pylons, or just inertial balance. Also, some snubs are capable of atmospheric flight, and potentially any ship could take advantage of some wings to facilitate a stable landing maneuver. Ships without wings manage everything with their antigravity. That's why it doesn't make snese to have asymmetrical wings, because if you have wings, they have to be somewhat functional, otherwise just don't have them.
RE: Project Chakram - A light fighter idea - Valrin - 11-19-2013
I think it looks really cool.
But yeah....that tower thingy looks a bit odd.
RE: Project Chakram - A light fighter idea - Durandal - 11-19-2013
The design is interesting, but it could never be a light fighter. One thing people rarely do is take into account cockpit scale to model ratio, but that means everything. Even if you scaled this down to be so tiny that a pilot barely fit inside, the model itself would still be pretty large.
I don't really know who the model would be used for either. It doesn't look like anything any group in Discovery would build at the moment.
RE: Project Chakram - A light fighter idea - nOmnomnOm - 11-19-2013
(11-19-2013, 07:29 PM)Tankman Wrote:(11-19-2013, 06:47 PM)Druen78 Wrote: That fighter has no evident reason to be like that, why would an aerospace engineer build the wings in that way?
Why would a space fighter need wings at all...
To land back on planets?