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Originally Posted by Talos  Anyway, thanks for the critique, I'll look into it and post what I come up with. Finals are this coming week and aren't too bad, the bad week was last week, hell week, which isn't helped by the fact that I've had a cold and sore throat the past week.  |
First of all - get well! our health is every thing
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Originally Posted by Talos I thought about that with the missiles. The only reason I hadn't yet is that in real aircraft, missiles can drop from the pylon before launching, some don't though, of course. I've been thinking of angling them, and I'll definately have to with the non-clipped earlier Long Spear missile. I really need to think how to shorten those pylons, angling will probably be the solution, without going into a complicated bend, at least.  |
As long as you don't rotate the pylons more the 45 degrees relative to the horizon, missiles will have no problem falling off them straight down.
If you do rotate the pylons more then 45 degrees you have 2 options:
1. explosive bolts - as long as your note pushing the weapon straight up, and explosive bolt can push it far enough of the hull so it can ignite safely.
2. these are space fighters after all... and nothings "falls" in space... so it doesn't matter...
(at best, since the fighter is moving, any thing released off of it will "drift" away do to the inertia and vibration).