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P3D v2 Alouette 3

euroastar350 said:
I would use the bend modifier in max to give the static drooped rotor blades. Since the AL3 has 3 blades, might want to do one blade at a time though. Looking very excellent mate:)
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I thought that would be the case, so i kept them separate! ;)

Maxman said:
Looks great, nice bit of modeling! For rotor animation, I really hope you go with the older way of using a prop disc for the blurred prop. A few developers have used the actual mesh blade animation, but "I" don't find it very appealing visually.
Can't wait to see the VC progress..
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How about a bit of both, like in EH101 from the acceleration pack?

ozzman1997 said:
That is some CRAZY modeling.
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Thanks but not as good as yours, especially the new interior! ;)
 
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Nice nice! But please, I'm wondering so very much: how are you able to create such nice details (engine, rotorhub system) in such a short time?

...or I'm just a slow one...:P
 
Dutcheeseblend said:
Nice nice! But please, I'm wondering so very much: how are you able to create such nice details (engine, rotorhub system) in such a short time?

...or I'm just a slow one...:p
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Thanks thats a very nice way to put it.

It's just that my head is bursting of all the creative stuff it is imagining, I just look at the pictures, get the most important details only and put them onto paper, prioritize them and then put them on 3ds max.
Sometimes I just sit there to admire others work. I love assembling/creating/developing/inventing stuff...just that!
 
I take like a week to model a polygon friendly hangar and you do a tail rotor assembly in a couple of hours, you have an incredible pace at this. But can you take a second look at the frame that connects to the air inlet at the front, the lower one, it's too wide, it should be so that it's left edge joins just short of the halfway point of the air inlet. It's also as wide as the central console support.
 
pina47 said:
I take like a week to model a polygon friendly hangar and you do a tail rotor assembly in a couple of hours, you have an incredible pace at this. But can you take a second look at the frame that connects to the air inlet at the front, the lower one, it's too wide, it should be so that it's left edge joins just short of the halfway point of the air inlet. It's also as wide as the central console support.
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I've edited it a bit so that it looks better, more screenshots will come after some serious progress or something new has been done :stirthepo
 
Hi, that's a floatation gear pod. The rubber float balloon is packed in there rather tightly. There are 4 nitrogen bottles fitted to the structure frame work behind the fuselage panels, forward of the 3 tailboom attachment points. Should the pilot feel a dip in the sea is inevitable, he will hit a button on the collective stick which fires a squib on the bottles, the gas is released and the balloons will rapidly inflate. Some other Alouettes have the floatation gear pods mounted lower down. Some other things I can spot in that photo.....
The pipe facing aft, underneath, between the main gear is a fuel jettison pipe.
The small wire/plug hanging down.. forward of the right main gear, is the manual release cable for a cargo sling (not fitted to this a/c).
The device fitted to the underside of the tailboom, beneath the 'M' in 'Marine' is a flux detector for the HSI/compass instrument.
The small red object on the rotor head (1 on each blade cuff root) is a hydraulic reservoir for the hydraulic damper, it dampens the lead and lag movement of the rotor blade.
As this a/c has a rescue hoist, the cabin floor right at the sliding door can drop down to allow a 'passage' for the cable and it's occupants etc. That's why there's a box section 'cutout' .. you can just about make it out in that photo.
On this a/c.. fwd of the fuel jettison, I can just make out the gripping jaw of a deck harpoon system, it holds the a/c firmly on the deck of a heaving ship. Grips into a 1 metre dia circular grille.

I'm an aircraft engineer, fully qualified on the Alouette 3 (that my employer used to operate) so I know it very well. If you need to know anything else give me a shout :).

Skip.
 
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Skip67 said:
Hi, that's a floatation gear pod. The rubber float balloon is packed in there rather tightly. There are 4 nitrogen bottles fitted to the structure frame work behind the fuselage panels, forward of the 3 tailboom attachment points. Should the pilot feel a dip in the sea is inevitable, he will hit a button on the collective stick which fires a squib on the bottles, the gas is released and the balloons will rapidly inflate. Some other Alouettes have the floatation gear pods mounted lower down. Some other things I can spot in that photo.....
The pipe facing aft, underneath, between the main gear is a fuel jettison pipe.
The small wire/plug hanging down.. forward of the right main gear, is the manual release cable for a cargo sling (not fitted to this a/c).
The device fitted to the underside of the tailboom, beneath the 'M' in 'Marine' is a flux detector for the HIS/compass instrument.
The small red object on the rotor head (1 on each blade cuff root) is a hydraulic reservoir for the hydraulic damper, it dampens the lead and lag movement of the rotor blade.
As this a/c has a rescue hoist, the cabin floor right at the sliding door can drop down to allow a 'passage' for the cable and it's occupants etc. That's why there's a box section 'cutout' .. you can just about make it out in that photo.
On this a/c.. fwd of the fuel jettison, I can just make out the gripping jaw of a deck harpoon system, it holds the a/c firmly on the deck of a heaving ship. Grips into a 1 metre dia circular grille.

I'm an aircraft engineer, fully qualified on the Alouette 3 (that my employer used to operate) so I know it very well. If you need to know anything else give me a shout :).

Skip.
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Thanks a lot skip, that was extremely helpful. I have a visit planned sometimes this month with one of my uncles who used to be an instructor on A3. I'll have more questions then I guess.

Maxman said:
Don't forget the version with the door gunner, LOL
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Sout...47654/L/&sid=5dfb65a4e691fe2806d0d655e04b7d13

And you have to include the float version!
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Cana...38038/L/&sid=5dfb65a4e691fe2806d0d655e04b7d13
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What weapon is that? 20mm? must have some effect on the helo! :p

Looks like this project is gonna take more time than what I reckoned!
 
No problem mskahn, if you need any more help give me a shout by private message here :).

Skip
 
SkippyBing said:
I would have thought .50 cal, they're bad enough on a helo, 20mm would have you going sideways!
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It's indeed a 20mm, if the assembly is the same as the portuguese ones, ALIII fitted with the cannon had their front left seat removed to accommodate a metallic base for the gun and the gunner seat. The portuguese one's had the ammo box in the front, where the seat previously was, while the SA one in the photo seems to have it in the rear.
 
pina47 said:
It's indeed a 20mm, if the assembly is the same as the portuguese ones, ALIII fitted with the cannon had their front left seat removed to accommodate a metallic base for the gun and the gunner seat. The portuguese one's had the ammo box in the front, where the seat previously was, while the SA one in the photo seems to have it in the rear.
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**** Me! I hate to think what that's doing to the airframe. Allegedly the .50 cal on the Lynx causes fatigue issues with the mounting points, fortunately the airframes run out of hours before the mounts do!
 
More than a good idea! I had my very first flight on an Alouette III!
 
Severin said:
More than a good idea! I had my very first flight on an Alouette III!
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Very cool! I had my first flight at 15 on a CH-47 Chinook.

You don't really see Alouettes in the U.S, but always liked the airframe. I did see an Aérospatiale Gazelle at an airshow a few years back and seeing as it is based off the Alouette 3, it was great to see.

Looks great so far, looking forward to it!!!
 
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