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Consolidated PBY Catalina Poleax
   
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31 Dec, 2018 @ 6:15pm
2 Jan, 2019 @ 10:38pm
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Consolidated PBY Catalina Poleax

Description
Started off with trying to make a replia PBY and ended up as something a little bit different.

Features:
PID Flight assist - Freshly microcontrolled PIDs allows for assisted flight, levelling & smoothing roll and pitch while not significantly hampering regular flight, note that vehicle still climbs a bit by itself from lift

Watertight Boatplane - Practice your crouch jumps trying to even get in the damned plane, but at least the damn thing is watertight. Its also a boat!. Note that Water lift off mode will pitch the engines up so you get enough lift, some co-ordination required to switch back to normal flight mode so you dont flip backwards into the sea.

Internal elevator - Ladders are for plebians, and you my friend are only semi-pleb. Elevator/hatch up to the roof of the plane. Ladders on engines allow access to the wings and engine bay

Funky landing gear - Has the abiltiy to taxi through the power of small generators and fancy stowing mechanisms to allow enough space to the rear of the plane

Sometimes explodes - No really, will sometimes spontaneously combust, no idea why though.

Parachutes - For when the plane is on fire and you managed to just survive.


Probably wont work on it anymore until water dumping becomes a thing, and too lazy to implement GPS :P, have fun!
3 Comments
Shillelagh 18 Jul, 2019 @ 1:30pm 
Thanks for making this! The PBY-B Catalina is my favorite plane c:
Mako  [author] 3 Jan, 2019 @ 1:21am 
Cheers!, just be careful about it exploding XD. Hard turns seem to increase chance to explode.
I've isolated the lift, wheels, and engine tilts, so they're fine.

I think it could be the propellors. Seemed to not occur running the props slower (but with higher motor RPM (changing gearbox to 1:1 from 1:3 towards the engine) but then lift becomes an issue and can't launch from the water.

If so might replace the props for ducted vents or jets as a variant.

Titaniumsmasher 2 Jan, 2019 @ 10:25pm 
I know some guys I need to show this to. This is great!