Hahaha!! Funny fake but good. The body model is great. The rotors make it look silly and fake. You make a wild turn and the rotors don't turn exactly with the helicopter. There is a small delay making the rotors look lopsided and not horizontal to it. I can't quit laughing at those lopsided rotors. Great model and video though.
This is X-Plane, a blade-element theory flight sim, not a rendered 3d animation clip. So I didn't choose how the rotors move, physics does! The rotors don't move parallel with the chopper because the banking motion is driven by a combination of tail-mounted elevators and puffer jets, not the rotors. The rotors resist the turn under inertia and wind-resistance, and hence lag as they're pulled through the air. The rotors are hypersonic, and don't use cyclic like a normal chopper :)
@nova2384 That, my friend, would be an acceptable use of graphics! A full modern Airwolf game I would pay money for, as long as it was treated seriously and not that Davilux crap treatment they gave Knight Rider.
Thanks for the kind words! She was fun to build, and is pretty fun to fly.
In X-Plane's physics she has laminar flow aerofoiled rotors that are supersonic along much of their length, thus still providing lift when she exceeds Mach 1. I'd be interested to hear from any engineers and aerodynamicists as to why that's still never going to work in a real chopper, apart from the sheer noise of it, and the overpowered engine needed to keep them turning at that speed :)
@iancstube "as to why that's still never going to work in a real chopper, apart from the sheer noise of it"
Simple. It's called "Retreating Blade Stall". In a rotorwing, the closer you get to Mach 1 the less lift the retreating blades produce relative to the craft's velocity, i.e. they work when they're on the swing forward, but they don't when they're swinging backwards. Wings only work one way and that's INTO the air/wind. Noise is an effect, not an operating principle.
Ah, but since these rotors have in the order of mach 5+ rotational velocity, they aren't going to stop generating lift, even at mach 2.5 forward speed. It's the unfeasibility of this kind of rotor speed, the power requirements to maintain it, the likely shock-wave based deflections of the rotors, and the thermal and material stresses involved that keep this aerodynamically possible approach to Airwolf impractical to actually build and fly.
@iancstube Where did you get the Mach 5 RV and where are you measuring it? The tips spin faster than the axle points :P
Where did that "Mach 2.5 FV" come from into popular consciousness anyway? I used to watch it back in the day and even then the fastest I could glean was Mach 1.5. To think that in those days even an F-14D would have a hard time keeping up with Mach 2 with afterburners without drying-up its tanks in two minutes, a small Bell-derivative w/ "turbos" couldn't possibly outrun it.
The tips - I did the math a while back based on circumferential path length and rpm, I forget the exact numbers now. X-Plane does retreating blade stalls very well, if the rotors weren't fast enough, she'd flip straight over. I overpowered the turbos a few times to check the envelope out, she'll do at least 2.5 without the blades stalling. Yes, the turbos are also tweaked for unfeasible fuel efficiency ;)
@iancstube Well apparently X-Plane doesn't factor in the transonic shock wave along the fuselage at all. A crazy boosted engine times a not-coke-bottle-shaped cross-sectional fuselage plus beneath a spinning rotor equals the tail rotor not getting enough bite, therefore she'd lose counter-rotation in before Mach 1. The boom would likely snap-off in real life from torsional stresses. Best we might do would be the pusher tails like the Speedhawk, 250 kts tops.
Oh, agreed. She gets around tail rotor insufficiency with hefty puffer-jet assistance on yaw, with artificial stability correction. X-Plane actually covers most bases, and does a very good job of trying to stop this bird flying, even with the tricks and tweaks ;)
Nice to see an Airwolf model available for X-Plane! Nice camera angles as well, 5-Stars One note on the model, the rocket pods appear a little large, but other than that, nice model!
ahhh dude how do you take the tyres down and up in the helicopter.on the keyboard????????
colinrox30 9 months ago
where do you get the mods please reply
MrYeayeayeayeayeayea 1 year ago
Hahaha!! Funny fake but good. The body model is great. The rotors make it look silly and fake. You make a wild turn and the rotors don't turn exactly with the helicopter. There is a small delay making the rotors look lopsided and not horizontal to it. I can't quit laughing at those lopsided rotors. Great model and video though.
PanZheXin 1 year ago
@PanZheXin
This is X-Plane, a blade-element theory flight sim, not a rendered 3d animation clip. So I didn't choose how the rotors move, physics does! The rotors don't move parallel with the chopper because the banking motion is driven by a combination of tail-mounted elevators and puffer jets, not the rotors. The rotors resist the turn under inertia and wind-resistance, and hence lag as they're pulled through the air. The rotors are hypersonic, and don't use cyclic like a normal chopper :)
iancstube 1 year ago
@iancstube Non the less that was cool. It would be cool if they would do a remake of this show. W/ 2 days tech the grapghics would be a lot better.
nova2384 1 year ago
@nova2384 Sadly that's all it would be is graphics, there's no way they'd do the actual brilliant stunt flying that made this show look so good.
XH1927 4 months ago
@XH1927 Or better yet. they could make a vido game of it. Then they could put in all the graphics they wanted.
nova2384 4 months ago
@nova2384 That, my friend, would be an acceptable use of graphics! A full modern Airwolf game I would pay money for, as long as it was treated seriously and not that Davilux crap treatment they gave Knight Rider.
XH1927 4 months ago
Where can I download this Helicopter?
I just have the normal Version, and I love it! xD
MrAstronomiebahner 1 year ago
@MrAstronomiebahner
Thanks! It's available for free download at x-plane dot org, in the Freestyle and Sci Fi / Anime section.
iancstube 1 year ago
cm cazzo hai fatto
CECCHINObastard 1 year ago
Fine Job !
UnityBringer 1 year ago
Great! 5!
thepiarno 2 years ago
FUCK YEAH!!!!! I didn't think anyone remembered that show, it was one of favorites. 10 stars bud.
thebarstoolprophet 2 years ago
great video :D
i got an "Airwolf Game" group on youtube
if you click my name (then at the top) click Groups & scroll through, you'll see the game group for games that feature airwolf
please post it their for the collection :D
TheWraith 2 years ago
Thank you :) I've posted the vid,
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iancstube 2 years ago
nope.. thank you :)
its you guys that give us airwolf fans a look at the other possibilities of gaming,
a lot of us only use 1 type of mod, so its always awsome to see other models on show
feel free to add any others you make
these kinda things also make it easier for noobies to work out wich kinda game will suit their needs more to :)
the group covers a prity odd bunch of games, but all airwolfy related :D
TheWraith 2 years ago
Is this a download?
motokid032 2 years ago
Thanks for the kind words! She was fun to build, and is pretty fun to fly.
In X-Plane's physics she has laminar flow aerofoiled rotors that are supersonic along much of their length, thus still providing lift when she exceeds Mach 1. I'd be interested to hear from any engineers and aerodynamicists as to why that's still never going to work in a real chopper, apart from the sheer noise of it, and the overpowered engine needed to keep them turning at that speed :)
iancstube 2 years ago
@iancstube "as to why that's still never going to work in a real chopper, apart from the sheer noise of it"
Simple. It's called "Retreating Blade Stall". In a rotorwing, the closer you get to Mach 1 the less lift the retreating blades produce relative to the craft's velocity, i.e. they work when they're on the swing forward, but they don't when they're swinging backwards. Wings only work one way and that's INTO the air/wind. Noise is an effect, not an operating principle.
RingSight91 1 year ago
@RingSight91
Ah, but since these rotors have in the order of mach 5+ rotational velocity, they aren't going to stop generating lift, even at mach 2.5 forward speed. It's the unfeasibility of this kind of rotor speed, the power requirements to maintain it, the likely shock-wave based deflections of the rotors, and the thermal and material stresses involved that keep this aerodynamically possible approach to Airwolf impractical to actually build and fly.
iancstube 1 year ago
@iancstube Where did you get the Mach 5 RV and where are you measuring it? The tips spin faster than the axle points :P
Where did that "Mach 2.5 FV" come from into popular consciousness anyway? I used to watch it back in the day and even then the fastest I could glean was Mach 1.5. To think that in those days even an F-14D would have a hard time keeping up with Mach 2 with afterburners without drying-up its tanks in two minutes, a small Bell-derivative w/ "turbos" couldn't possibly outrun it.
RingSight91 1 year ago
@RingSight91
The tips - I did the math a while back based on circumferential path length and rpm, I forget the exact numbers now. X-Plane does retreating blade stalls very well, if the rotors weren't fast enough, she'd flip straight over. I overpowered the turbos a few times to check the envelope out, she'll do at least 2.5 without the blades stalling. Yes, the turbos are also tweaked for unfeasible fuel efficiency ;)
iancstube 1 year ago
@iancstube Well apparently X-Plane doesn't factor in the transonic shock wave along the fuselage at all. A crazy boosted engine times a not-coke-bottle-shaped cross-sectional fuselage plus beneath a spinning rotor equals the tail rotor not getting enough bite, therefore she'd lose counter-rotation in before Mach 1. The boom would likely snap-off in real life from torsional stresses. Best we might do would be the pusher tails like the Speedhawk, 250 kts tops.
RingSight91 1 year ago
@RingSight91
Oh, agreed. She gets around tail rotor insufficiency with hefty puffer-jet assistance on yaw, with artificial stability correction. X-Plane actually covers most bases, and does a very good job of trying to stop this bird flying, even with the tricks and tweaks ;)
iancstube 1 year ago
Nice to see an Airwolf model available for X-Plane! Nice camera angles as well, 5-Stars One note on the model, the rocket pods appear a little large, but other than that, nice model!
tf51d 2 years ago
Amazing, i was just thinking about the nice music of the movie and you put it. This intro is a brilliant job 5/5 and fav
tiemji 2 years ago