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Plane Maker App Manual Laminar Research March 14, 2013 Contents Contents ii About This Manual vi 1 Introduction to Plane Maker 1 1.1 Licensing of Aircraft Created in Plane Maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 An Overview of the Plane Maker Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 The Plane Maker Interface 3 2.1 Launching Plane Maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Opening and Saving an Aircraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Opening a Livery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.3 Creating an Aircraft File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.4 Working with the Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Special Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.5 Altering a Simple Aircraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 Shaping the Body of an Aircraft 9 3.1 Fundamental Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Reference Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 How Positions Are Set in Plane Maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.2 Shaping the Fuselage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 The Section Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 ii
CONTENTS iii The Body Data Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 The Body Location Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 The Body Texture Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 The Cross-Sections Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 The Top/Bottom Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 The Front/Back Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Smoothing the Fuselage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Adding Other Bodies to the Fuselage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.3 Shaping the Wings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Setting the Basic Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Adding Ailerons, Flaps, and Other Control Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Specifying Ailerons, Elevators, and Other Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Specifying Flaps and Slats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Adding Control Surfaces to the Wings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Adding Body-Mounted Speedbrakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Customizing a Wing’s Pieces (for Incidence, Size and Position) . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Setting a Wing’s Airfoils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Making a Wing Movable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Setting Variable Wing Sweep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Setting Variable Wing Dihedral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Setting Variable Wing Incidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Making a Wing Retractable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Adding More Wing Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 3.4 Shaping the Tail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 3.5 Shaping the Landing Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Setting the Gear’s Type, Size, and Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Finishing Retractable Gears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Gear Retraction Warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Customizing Wheels and Steering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Designing Wheel Fairings and Skids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 3.6 Adding Other Surfaces and Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Adding Engine Nacelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Adding Engine Pylons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 3.7 Setting the Location of the Tow Hook, Winching Hooks, Boarding Door, and Refueling Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 4 Working with the Aircraft’s Systems 46 4.1 Creating the Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Features Shared by All Engine Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Throttle Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Critical Altitude and FADEC Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Boost Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Specific Fuel Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Engines Capable of Zero-G Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Working with Engines That Turn Propellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Setting the Engine Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Customizing the Propeller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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