![]() The Airbus A330 is a medium-size, wide-body aircraft, with two engines that was introduced in 1987. It has a max speed of Mach 2.34, a range of 1,600 nmi, and a ceiling of 53,000 ft. It made its first deployment in 1974 with the U.S. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. In real life, the RV-10 is sold as an assembly kit to homebuilders. It can carry 3 passengers 825 mi/1,328 km with a cruise speed of 171 kn. The Van’s Aircraft RV-10 is a four-seat, single-engine, low-wing airplane, first delivered in 2003. The SR22 series is the most-produced GA aircraft of the 21st century and makes up over 30% of the entire piston aircraft market. The Cirrus SR22 is a single-engine four- or five-seat composite aircraft built by Cirrus Aircraft. Our Evolution was modeled directly after the aircraft of our Founder, Austin Meyer – N844X. It can carry 3 passengers 1,027 nm with a maximum speed of 300.0 kn. ![]() The Lancair Evolution is an American pressurized, low wing, four-place, single engine light aircraft supplied as an amateur-built kit, first delivered in 2008. It has a cruise speed of 100 kn and a range of 460 mi/740 km. ![]() It’s known for its ability to takeoff & land in very short distances, as well as its unmatched ability to handle harsh environments. However, as the flight model is refined, the simulator can better resemble real-world performance, and aircraft quirks and design flaws.The Piper PA-18 Super Cub is a two-seat, single-engine monoplane introduced in 1949. Famous real-world aircraft modeled in X-Plane include the V-22 Osprey, the Harrier Jump Jet, the NASA Space Shuttle, and Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne.īlade element theory has shortcomings, as it can sometimes be difficult to design an aircraft that performs precisely as would real-world aircraft. X-Plane can model fairly complex aircraft designs, including helicopters, rockets, rotor craft and tilt-rotor craft. This approach allows users to design aircraft on their computer quickly and easily, as the simulator engine will show immediately how an aircraft with a given design might perform in the real world. When this process is applied to each component, the simulated aircraft will fly virtually like its real counterpart does. With Blade-element theory, a wing, for example, may be made up of many sections (1 to 4 is typical), and each section is further divided into as many as 10 separate sections, then the lift and drag of each section is calculated, and the resulting effect is applied to the whole aircraft. Blade-element theory and other computational aerodynamic models can be used to compute aerodynamic forces in real time or to pre-compute aerodynamic forces of a new design for later use in a traditional lookup table type of simulator. It is a way of modeling the forces and moments on an aircraft by individually evaluating the parts that constitute it. These simulators do a good job of simulating the flight characteristics of the aircraft they were designed to simulate (those with known aerodynamic data), but are not useful in design work, and do not predict the performance of aircraft when the actual figures are not available.īlade-element theory is one method of improving on this. Traditionally, flight simulators try to emulate the real-world performance of an aircraft by using lookup tables to find known aerodynamic forces such as lift or drag, which vary with flight condition. X-Plane differentiates itself by implementing an aerodynamic model known as blade element theory. Switching the planet to Mars is an option that comes with the game, and although the air is thin, flight is possible. It allows flight from -70 degrees south to 74 degrees north. It comes with five scenery disks, and one with scenery and the actual simulator. X-Plane also has a plugin architecture that allows users to create their own modules and aircraft, extending the functionality of the software by letting users create their own worlds or replicas of places on earth. X-Plane is packaged with other software to build and customize aircraft and scenery, offering a complete flight simulation environment. X-Plane is a flight simulator for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows by Laminar Research.
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