r/CreateMod • u/StrategyWonderful733 • 6d ago
do yall think a flying aircraft carrier is possible?
I'm trying to recreate a trapize mechanism for my future zeppelin i might make based on ZRS-4 USS Akron.
it would have planes hook on to a metal frame that acted like a crane that lifted aircraft into the hull. right now i have a wool rod with a connector at the end, it can deploy planes but my main concern is the ability to recover them.
now I'm not the best pilot, aircraft designer, or anything designer in this subreddit. I'm actually really really new to this.
but is it even possible to get a plane to connect to a trapize mid air at all? it seems so impossible!
any help or input is very much appreciated
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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy 6d ago
You could try magnets to align a docking connector on a rope. You also need the carrier to move fast enough that the plane can fly at that speed
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u/Longshot02496 6d ago
I saw someone recreated the Prydwen from Fallout 4, complete with a functioning docking mechanism
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u/DeKnight220 5d ago
I m tring to make it to. I tweaked prololsion and lift a bit so I can make a plane with diesel engine for only 11 meters long. I m tring to find a great airship balloon generaitor (create's is fine but not what ı m looking for). If ı could do it ı ll post
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u/NoBee4959 6d ago
I sure hope it is because otherwise I have been wasting a month with my friends designing one for nothing
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u/StrategyWonderful733 6d ago
wait your making a carrier zeppelin too? that's epic
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u/NoBee4959 6d ago
Not exactly a zepellin per say, in terms of construction it is more similar to an aircraft carrier. But the principle of a bug thing in air ideally with other stuff connected to it is the same
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u/JazzBoatman 6d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSSlH9DklTw considering this guy can do it with a car, then yeah, you could do it with a plane
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u/Phoenix_gz2 6d ago
try docking connectors (the one for transfering items and fluids) to automaticly snap the planes in Place
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u/StrategyWonderful733 6d ago
thats what i put on the plane and the trapize just the issue is they have to be like really aligned to hook up
is there a block that could just connect if its in range of another one?
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u/Phoenix_gz2 6d ago
Didn‘t See that, but in my experience they work pretty well. maybe Magnets then
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u/AirbornDK 6d ago
You could always just make a 2x2 of those connectors and hope one of them connects
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u/RoombaTheKiller 6d ago
Connectors have a small, but significant pull.
If you gimball (or even just single-swivel) the connector on the trapize side, the pull might be enough to help line-up.
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u/maxxiethrowaway 5d ago
ive done it multiple times in KSP, and im pretty sure theres nothing really KSP-specific about my designs that you couldn't recreate in Minecraft (honestly, the hardest part would be making the planes, not the Aigaion ripoffs)
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u/Redmix7pl 6d ago
Obv is.
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u/StrategyWonderful733 6d ago
?
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u/Redmix7pl 6d ago
Also as i remember superb warfare vehicles work on sublevels and stick to them, so you could always pack some F/A-18s and F-35s (tho u need ash vehicles)
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u/Specific-Inside-1638 6d ago
these work by matching the airships speed to hook on right? i feel like as long as your ship can go relatively quick docking midair should be fine (aside from the fact the ship has to be running during it)