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In this course, you get to wear your classroom.

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I was NOT about to draw an entire ramp full of airplanes when I drew this page.

Chucky is introduced to his first airplane, a tiny two-seat trainer. I'm very proud of it, considering that it started as a simple line drawing. But as we can see, it doesn't take much to divert a young skunk boy's attention away from his miniature classroom.

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Type: Comic

Published: 13 years, 8 months ago

Rating: General

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llMaelstromll

6 years, 6 months ago

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man let me tell you, if anything they would not ever let first day people get in the cockpit or not telling the guys to not try and spin the blades at the back due to compression in the cylinders which can make the damn things hit you right in the face (possibly knocking you out) if they aren't careful lol

Chucky

6 years, 6 months ago

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@ llMaelstromll

Sure they do. At the flight school where I taught, we conducted a full preflight with our students on day one. We give them a safety briefing on what no to do. These were students with professional aspirations, they knew not to just start dicking with things.

llMaelstromll

6 years, 5 months ago

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@ Chucky

oh so you are an instructor! welp, ignore my other response asking if you worked in the field lol I am currently studying in Montreal and its just a blast learning how to build plane components and whatnot but I plan on aiming for a pilots license since fucking around in my own little plane sounds really fun up in the north where FAA doesn't really apply :P

Chucky

6 years, 5 months ago

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@ llMaelstromll

I was. My certificate expired a long time ago.

Cool stuff man, good luck with your pursuits. A good friend of mine from college built a kitplane a while back and he continues to have a blast with it.

MviluUatusun

5 years, 10 months ago

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I like the canard wing. Even though they seem to be making inroads into the aviation industry, they're still somewhat unusual to the uninitiated. The Saab Viggen was, perhaps, the best known canard wing fighter. I always loved that design. My second favorite design was the Saab Drakken with its double delta wings.

Chucky

5 years, 10 months ago

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@ MviluUatusun

I love the futuristic look of canard aircraft, but there's probably a reason you don't see more of them. I think the design is harder to work with. And in reality, no one would use a canard wing aircraft as a primary trainer.

MviluUatusun

5 years, 10 months ago

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@ Chucky

Yeah, I can believe that about the canard as a trainer. I would believe the reaction time for pitch would be quicker than a trainee would be prepared to deal with.

Chucky

5 years, 10 months ago

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@ MviluUatusun

The two popular canard aircraft that I know of are the Rutan VeryEZ and LongEZ. Both have very small canards, thus generally perform at high takeoff and landing speeds. I gave Chucky's airplane a large, full moving canard for lots of control at slower speeds.

MviluUatusun

5 years, 10 months ago

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@ Chucky

Back in the 1970s or 80s, Grumman bought one or two Northrop F-5s and changed the main wing to a forward swept wing and gave it a canard. It was renamed the X-29, I believe. It was a beautiful looking a/c and not unlike one I had designed several years earlier for a story I was thinking of writing. Unfortunately for me, neither the story nor my design went anywhere. LOL. Now, Northrop owns Grumman. Ironic, isn't it?

Chucky

5 years, 10 months ago

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@ MviluUatusun

I remember the X-29 being used for forward-swept wing design. I think I remember it offered no advantage and significant stability and control problems. It sure looked cool though.

MviluUatusun

5 years, 10 months ago

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@ Chucky

Yeah, I remember reading that, too. But, it was funny to me how Grumman had designed an a/c that was almost exactly what I had designed. I even showed the photos of the X-29 and my drawings to a few people and they were shocked at how much they looked alike. The one main difference was the canard and the vertical stabilizer were also forward swept in my design. But, other than that, even the cockpit was in almost exactly the same place. I nearly fell over when I saw the similarities.

Chucky

5 years, 10 months ago

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@ MviluUatusun

In the world of aircraft design, that kinda makes sense. If aircraft are built for a certain purpose or mission, they'll start to look the same. When you consider your design vs. the X-29, you'll need a canard for pitch control because the center of gravity will be way aft with the wing root and engine placement, making a conventional elevator extremely impractical. The cockpit will have to be forward of the wing because, well, where else would it go? The days of extreme designs are coming to an end, if not already over.

I took aircraft design in college, and the design project for our three teams was a UAV that could carry a single bomb payload with some specific flight performance parameters. All of our designs came out pretty similar, and now Boeing's X-45 looks just like our designs did back in the late 90s.

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