r/trailmakers

I should probably tune down the roll a little...

No glitches, no gyros, just a goofy looking early jet.

Actually surprisingly simple to make and it has auto staging (only problem is that i couldn't put the seat where the capsule would be)

Yes it has a weedy chassis and turret, its like 405 complexity just to build the cannon itself.

if you can guess all of the references for these stupid vehicles i will do nothign

(These builds are about 2 months old but I never posted them here)

any tips on how I could make it look better (the actual shuttle part was for testing thats why it looks horrendous)

I was working on this build, and the thrust vectoring was a little too intense for regular flight, landing was really hard because lining up with twitchy controls is not ideal. I tried adjusting speed and angle on flaps and the rear jets, but I just made it worse. So i came up with an idea to make it toggleable. There's a pretty good demonstration of the difference in the beginning, thrust vectoring is activated and the turn radius goes to basically nil. Great for dog fighting or quick maneuvers, I kind of want to make it momentary, rather than on a toggle, but I need the right key that's easily reachable, I'd have to remap my thrust system, which has 3 levels of thrust. Flaps are automatically deployed on the second tier of thrust, which is takeoff, first is taxi. Third stage is full burn and I need to figure out how to get the flaps to lower back down on this stage, as I have to do it manually, and it basically flies straight up with flaps on. No gyros, no stabilizers. Adjustable trim and working landing gear/ gear bays. This is the most piston/ hinge glitch heavy Jet build I think I've made, I generally stay away from it as I find it to be troublesome and things tend to explode, but I needed to get more thrusters into it. I wish we had more powerful small form thrusters. Four rocket pods, minigun hidden in the nose, and two non-aim assist machine guns under the nose. I don't think it's overpowered, or gun spam.

This flying showcase/clip's aircraft, the "Sin 10", doesn't have any glitches, gyros, or exploits. This aircraft is a legit performance dogfighter. [LPD]

NOTE: The aircraft could perform much harder maneuvers, but I didn't feel comfortable pulling them off... This run took about 5 attempts already so...

So how can it perform such maneuvers at low speed and altitude? The aircraft has ways for each turning axis to be as good as possible...

- For PITCH: The aircraft uses thrust vectoring, good elevator placements, and instability [forces wise]. For the aircraft, this has fly-by-wire to make it stable and easily flyable at all different speeds. The forces of the aircraft are also layed out to help with peformence and be stable as possible but the aircraft is quite "unstable".

- For ROLL: The aircraft has roll thrust vectoring and elevators. Those elevators are connected to fly-by-wire to keep the roll stable and prevent the aircraft from spinning at all speeds.

- For YAW: The aircraft has differential thrust and elevators, which are also connected to fly-by-wire, and this allows the aircraft to fly straight with only one of the two vertical stabilizers [it also makes the aircaft more stable on this axis]. The aircraft also has "larger" wing-integrated vertical stabilizers, more so than most of these aircraft [LPD's]. That helps with stability. They are also positioned, force and aerodynamic-wise, to be in balance of yaw power and yaw stability.

So if you have any questions/feedback you can msg here.

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I have updated the Enterprise D!

A new deflector and a narrower neck!

New functions like shields and EMPs!

Running lights on the rear too!

I will not elaborate further on the trailer.