One of the ways is to place the engine on a freely rotating block (e.g. Fortunately, in Besiege we can do this in a simpler manner. To counter this effect real planes use trimming. Any powered rotating block rotating in one direction will turn the rest of the airplane. Single engine airplanes (or with uneven amounts of engines) require a way to balance out the counter rotation of the main powered block.

Variable throttle can be imitated with a set of propulsion blocks on steering hinges which rotation changes the resultant thrust vector. Nives, flying blocks and steam cannons with No Bounds mod active can provide any amount of thrust. Unlike propellers and flying blocks, water cannons are not flammable. In Besiege planes are usually powered by propellers, steam cannons or nives. It is a small propeller that acts like a big propeller with a connection point at the end (used in helicopters rather than planes).įrankly, one of the most important things in the plane.

Used as stabilizers.įlat propellers used in mirrored sets provide lift in planes and allow fast and stable flight. It also keeps accelerating during free fall, but even faster (due to zero drag). Used in wings to generate lift.Īt 23.06876° from the default angle (22.875° for a small propeller), big propeller flies almost straight. It also keeps accelerating during free fall. Notice that mirrored propeller and one rotated by 45° behave completely different despite looking the same.Īt 22.845° from the default angle, big propeller’s drag and lift vectors cancel out allowing it to fly straight. Angled up flies backwards, down, forward. Low α might mean the plane flights straight at high speed while high α might mean the plane is performing a narrow turn or is flying at low speed and had to increase its lift.įrom a plane building perspective, it is better to use propellers rather than wing panels as they can generate much more lift than the wing panels.Ĭhanging the angle of the propeller changes it’s drag and lift.Īt the default 0°angle the propeller drops down slowly. The higher the AOA the higher the lift generated, until stall. Is an angle between the velocity vector and an imaginary line that goes through the middle of the wing (or whole plane to simplify).

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