Hey guys! So we are still working on our main big project, due in several months still. But we thought in the meantime we would go on a little side venture, with a more fun, simple, cheaper, cool looking little plane. Let me introduce you to the Nieuport 17!

 

Comes with a boat load of nice little features, here are some:
-Highly detailed 3D model and textures
-Historical liveries
-Accurate sounds recorded from a Le Rhone rotary engine
-Accurate flight model making it nimble and useable on many tiny airstrips
-Animated pilot scarf and streamer
-Interactive clipboard
-Speedometer in knots or kmh
-Hidden radio set for IVAO or VATSIM users
-Working machine guns!
-Comes with 1 mission and 2 landing challenges
-Price expected to be around 15€
-Rob, our consultant actually built and owned a real one 

 

This is coming out soon, expect to see a few previews around the “socials” first 

 

high def pics here : https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/big-radials-nieuport-17/440891

 

Edited August 13, 20214 yr by leprechaunlive

Not quite a radial but getting closer .  That will be on my xmas stocking list for sure.

Will the non-marketplace version drop bombs by any chance ?

Wow, the aeroplane which one of my all-time heroes - Edward Mannock -  cut his teeth on. Nice one.

The real thing was a bit dodgy of course, owing to its vee-strut connection to the lower sesquiplane wing, which would cause the strut mounting to pivot excessively at high speeds when flutter was encountered; a phenomenon not fully understood at the time. Lots of them shed their lower wings as a result of that, which was usually a fatal occurrence. Mannock had one break on him for this exact reason, but fortunately for him, the thing stayed together long enough to enable him to nurse it down to a landing.

Kind of interesting that the Germans were sufficiently impressed with the Nieuport's climb rate and maneuverability to make a sesquiplane version of the Albatros D.III biplane - which was the Albatros D.V - and that suffered from the same flutter issues, which they partly alleviated by adding a small bracing strut off the bottom of the vee strut to brace the lower wing a bit more, which they designated the D.Va.

Looking forward to checking that one out in MSFS. With regard to dropping bombs, why not go one better? The real things were equipped with Le Prieur rockets for use against observation balloons:

Edited August 13, 20214 yr by Chock

+1 on rockets ... wobbly ones with smoke effects would be awesome.

It looks like you guys are coming along in leaps and bounds. Looks great.

I wish you all the best and look forward to your "main big project" 🙂

2 hours ago, Chock said:

Wow, the aeroplane which one of my all-time heroes - Edward Mannock -  cut his teeth on. Nice one.

The real thing was a bit dodgy of course, owing to its vee-strut connection to the lower sesquiplane wing, which would cause the strut mounting to pivot excessively at high speeds when flutter was encountered; a phenomenon not fully understood at the time. Lots of them shed their lower wings as a result of that, which was usually a fatal occurrence. Mannock had one break on him for this exact reason, but fortunately for him, the thing stayed together long enough to enable him to nurse it down to a landing.

Kind of interesting that the Germans were sufficiently impressed with the Nieuport's climb rate and maneuverability to make a sesquiplane version of the Albatros D.III biplane - which was the Albatros D.V - and that suffered from the same flutter issues, which they partly alleviated by adding a small bracing strut off the bottom of the vee strut to brace the lower wing a bit more, which they designated the D.Va.

Looking forward to checking that one out in MSFS. With regard to dropping bombs, why not go one better? The real things were equipped with Le Prieur rockets for use against observation balloons:

Yea, we wont go that lengh for our now dragging side project 😄

Edited August 13, 20214 yr by leprechaunlive

Looks beautiful to me. Keep them coming.

Please consider a Fokker D7. For some reason they are not replicated very often.

Thanks.

Superb news!  Looking forward to this for sure.  

Edited August 13, 20214 yr by bobcat999

 

Oh, its out by the way 😄

 

Very nice it is too. Authentic-looking and with some nice animations including the spinning rotary engine, an opening windscreen and two machine guns (which you can hide if you aren't into all that military malarkey) including the ability to smack the cocking handle on the Vickers to unjam it. Other fun stuff includes a working blip switch for the rotary engine, so you can actually try landing it with the throttle blip method - not as easy as it sounds what with no brakes. You can see me royally mess that up on my review of it, complete with a ground loop. 🤣

Performance is pretty close to the real thing as far as I can tell, not that I've flown a real one of course since there is only one real one left in existence and that's in a museum in Belgium, but from having read a lot of WW1 biographies and memoirs, it seems quite 'on the money' in that respect, with a ceiling of about 17,000 feet and a pretty good rate of climb up to around 9,000 feet, although you'd best have at least quarter of an hour to spare if you want to get it up to its service ceiling.

For those of you who want some decent books to read on the real aeroplane, I can recommend Eddie Rickenbacker's Fighting the Flying Circus and Ira Jones' King of Air Fighters (a biography of his friend Edward Mannock). You don't get working Le Prieur incendiary rockets; then again these were fairly rarely used in reality and not particularly successful even when they were, but you do get to start it up properly, including priming the engine and then spinning the prop. The pilot figure has a very dapper 'tache too, so you do look very stylish when flying around. Definitely worth a look if you fancy a challenging vintage aeroplane to whizz about in.

That's two for two from Big Radials, with both their releases for MSFS - this and their P40B - being well worth a look.

Edited August 22, 20214 yr by Chock

hehe, thanks! im watching your review right now 🙂 I mentionned it on the youtubz, but i thought i'd say it here too, you said were are experienced devs on other sims, no we'r not 🙂  we are basically noobs 😄

4 minutes ago, leprechaunlive said:

hehe, thanks! im watching your review right now 🙂 I mentionned it on the youtubz, but i thought i'd say it here too, you said were are experienced devs on other sims, no we'r not 🙂  we are basically noobs 😄

I meant experienced in the sense of being well practiced in making some good stuff, seemingly without the need to grow up in public via a bunch of steadily improving stuff as most developers do, instead going straight into the premiere league and holding your own too; thus you are quite clearly far from being 'noobz' as evidenced by this and your P-40B.

10 minutes ago, Chock said:

I meant experienced in the sense of being well practiced in making some good stuff, seemingly without the need to grow up in public via a bunch of steadily improving stuff as most developers do, instead going straight into the premiere league and holding your own too; thus you are quite clearly far from being 'noobz' as evidenced by this and your P-40B.

gotcha 🙂

Doing a little homework about your plane I found your installation unusual. I simply drop my unzipped addons in SteamLibrary\Community. Then the sim creates some obscure files in Roaming\Packages, not in the other Community which is empty but in ad hoc folders for each aircraft. Care to comment ? 

Copy the contents of the ZIP file to your community folder. The default locations are

Windows Store: C:\Users\[YOUR USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_[RANDOM LETTERS]\LocalCache\Packages\Community

Steam:
C:\Users\[YOUR USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\Community
Or
C:\Users\[YOUR USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightDashboard_[RANDOM LETTERS]\LocalCache\Packages\Community