Taxiing & Folding Wing's ?

[Bluedog]

Your aircraft's turning circle while not flying ( what I meant by saying 'on the ground') depends on the positioning of your TYRES, not your wings, you could fold 'em up and down all day long, flap 'em a bit even, and it wont make one skerrick of differance ( aside from being able to pass by objects a few feet closer than you could if wings were down, as I said ) to the airframe's ability to turn on it's wheelbase.
The positioning of your undercarriage wheels does not alter in relation to each other, wether wings are folded or not.

Now....if we could unlock the tail wheel, and have it as a free swivelling castor type wheel, then you could dramatically improve ground handling/manouverability (the reason real life footage shows fighters spinning an arc around the inside wheel) , but that has squat to do with folded wingtips.


If what you are after is more deck to use for your take off roll from a CV, nudge on just a *tad* of throttle untill your park brake releases and your plane starts rolling backwards, look backwards, wait untill you are just in front of the aft end of the deck, and increase throttle so you start rolling forward on take off run.
By doing this, you gain about an extra 50 or 60 ft of deck, which makes the differance between just managing to drag your 100% fuel, 2x 1k bombs and 8 rockets F4u1D, into the air....and NOT just managing to do it and dieing as the CV rams your rapidly sinking Hog thats just fallen off the front end of the flight deck attempting to take off.

Granted, none of this will enable you to turn a Hog on the ground or CV deck like they could in real life, only an unlockable tail wheel would give that ability.

Not bein' cocky, just facts mate. Basic laws of physics and stuff.

<S> Blue

[ 01-02-2002: Message edited by: Bluedog ]

[ 01-02-2002: Message edited by: Bluedog ]

[Wilbus]

Alot of it has to do with throttle settings. Try a 109, use right brake and full right rudder, give just a notch of throttle and the thing won't turn much. Instead, give maybe 80%-100% throttle for a short while and the plane will twist around on a dime.

[RabidSquirrel]

Bluedog,

You only have limited space on the flight deck. By folding the wing's up or in (depending on the type of a/c) you could use more of the deck. Now HTC really does need to introduce the unlocking tailwheel. It's been posted on here in another section of the BB. But like I have alway's said,if your going to make a flight sim it mise well be as real to life as possible. And I've tried to do that same thing before,adding a little bit of throttle to start rolling backward's. Well let's just put it this way,it don't work for me at all. No matter what rpm or manifold pressure,it don't work.

Wilbus,

Like I told Bluedog,it don't work for me. Oh and I dont fly German fighter's (yuck)! I fly American plane's and British plane's! And sometime's Soviet plane's,they had some pretty damn good fighter's. They need to add the Bell P-39 Airacobra (made right here in Niagara Falls,NY)!   Everybody prefer's there own fighter's!

AH Pilot,
Squirral

[MadBirdCZ]

Why do you want to turn on a carrier? And even if you want to do that then its not a problem just use toebrakes and rudder... If your landing is too long and you miss the wires or you forget to lower the hook or you flying a Typhoon or P-38 or P-51 or Yak and you really need to land on a carrier for refuel and rearm (like I have to do because if you are winging wqith Orel you are coming home on fumes and CVs are your only hope). As you know there are no hooks on those planes so you have to get to the refuel spot on the CV somehow... (hint: on CV you dont even have to turn around to get there)