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Tut'Oriole

For Besiege v0.86, Spiderling added a tutorial that shows you how to build a basic airplane! The tutorial walks you through a build, step by step, until you end up with their example airplane. I noticed some room for improvement in the plane's design, so I made some changes, and tweaked it for optimum balance and control.

I hope the devs will implement my changes to the sample plane's design.

Enjoy!



*** UPDATE! ***

I finished this plane and video as quickly as possible to get my starter plane suggestions out. But now that I've had more time for test flights, I found some improvements.

• For quicker steering, I used multiple key mapping to make the rear flaps perform both pitch and roll.
  
  
• Since the plane loses altitude while steering, I've found that some nose up attitude helps to compensate for that. So I reduced the rotation of the rear flaps from 7° to 5°.
  
  
• For a finishing touch, I added an engine shutoff. Press zero when idling. This reverses one of the wheels to compensate for the spinning block.