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Gun turrets and other weapon systems for KSP
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Stackable Control surfaces #33

Open ChristianMichael11325 opened 8 years ago

ChristianMichael11325 commented 8 years ago

I know the topic appears to have no relevance to BDA, but it has to do with the Bomb Rotary Rack. That part is able to move the root point of the part put on it. So my thinking is what if this could be applied to control surfaces? The Rotary rack rotates parts around an axis, the shaft in the middle. So that axis on the control surface would be along the long side of them, or along their axis of rotation. The use of this is that you could have a control surface on the end of another, and in effect have a curling control surface. It would look better than just having a floating control surface behind some wings (standard or advanced canards, etc.). And it would increase the effective angle of attack, because the angle of attack the second control surface would have at full is the angle of attack it has plus that of the control surface it's attached to. I know Ferram4 has been working with Bahamuto on these last few updates, so I'm hoping he would be able to give his thoughts on this too.

Shuudoushi commented 8 years ago

@ferram4 what's your thoughts on this buddy?