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The Pulsar - Performance Flyer

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This is intended as my first proper high performance flyer, to not just get my tech up to date on our flyer community standards but to also try and push their limits.
This means that it has full inertia control and a speed limiter on all rotational axis for heavily improved handling. Weight reduction is also being a bigger focus (though I have still decided to use plastic and wedges for design), to push higher speeds everywhere and especially its top speed flying forward is putting all of my old flyers completely into the shadow.

W/S - Foward/Backward Thrust
A/D - Yaw
1/2 - Roll
3/4 - Pitch
1+2 - Positive Lift
3+4 - Negative Lift
(Suggest that you set up a second WASD set for roll & pitch)
5 - Main Power On/Off
6 - Power Mode Selector
7 - Throttle Switch
8 - Lights

In our flyer community the buttons 1-5 are standardized for anyone who was wondering about those. Any flyer I make will use these, including the nebula flyer I made in the past.

This flyer has 3 different power modes, primarily to make lower speed manouvering easier. These are indicated by the 3 lights infront of the driver or on top of the flyer (for third person).

Mode 3 (Orange): This mode disables all mechanical vectoring and only enables half of the rear forward thrust.
Expect half the collective performance and a quarter of forward performance to match reversing thrust.
Easiest for percise low speed manouvering.

Mode 2 (Yellow): This disables all mechanical vectoring excluding collective and enables all rear thrusters. Gives you 2 times the forward and collective performance relative to mode 3 and should come close to match solid state flyers with similiar power to weight.

Mode 1 (Green): This enables all vectoring to push 2 times more performance flying forward relative to mode 2 and is its highest power mode. Enabled by default.

Green, Yellow, Orange Lights - Power Modes
Cyan Light - Throttle Switch
Red Light - Power Off

Translation (2 axis):
Forward Top Speed - ~2300km/h
Backward Top Speed - ~450km/h
Vertical Top Speed - ~900km/h
Rotation (3 axis):
Roll Top Speed - ~56rpm
Pitch Top Speed - ~20rpm
Yaw Top Speed - ~30rpm
Stop time of ~1.5-2 seconds

As mentioned before it offers inertia control, which deccelerates every angular speed automatically. For this I am not using rotors and gyroscopic precession like the great majority of performance flyers but sensors that detect angular speeds, to use its internal thrusters instead. This helps me save huge amounts of weight and size relatively speaking.
The second big piece of tech is the mechanical thrust vectoring. It is set up on multiple thruster sets to allow them to rotate to any directions thats relevant at the moment to heavily increase the thrustforce to weight efficiency by utilizing more thrusters at a time. All thrusters are also used for flying forward, which gives me near 100% efficiency in this regard.
The last bit is not as crucial for its functionality but quite a big feature either way, the central gyro. It is just used for gravity compensation that works on any flyer orientation, simulating a 0g environemnt.

Should also point out that this flyer has full low physics compatability, as its not using springs or anything else that would compromise it. Even the gyro can handle it quite well.


Tags: Aircraft, Spaceship, Fast, Speed, Handling, VTOL, Futuristic, Sci-Fi, Mach