October 14, 20241 yr I see YT videos and magazine articles saying the CriCri is/was the smallest plane. Which alone makes it a worthy purchase. It has been unavailable for awhile but the author is fixing his store to make it be there again. ATS also made the AN-2 along with Microsoft. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
October 14, 20241 yr Author I think the maker is Russian who moved out and going back in business. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
October 14, 20241 yr It's small, but believe it or not, it's not the smallest. That honor goes to the Bumble Bee, which was built explicitly for getting the Guinness Book record for the world's smallest plane. It's less than 10 feet long, with a wingspan shorter than most basketball players. And then the same guy went and built an even smaller one, but it was destroyed in a crash after an engine failure. I'd imagine with wings like that, its glide ratio was about the same as a brick. Ryzen 7 7800X3D/B650 X AX | 5090 | 32gig | Win10 | Pimax Crystal Light
October 14, 20241 yr ...and the CriCri is twin prop or even twin jet! It's def a fun plane to fly and ATS did a very nice job on it... Cheers T.
October 14, 20241 yr 12 hours ago, Fielder said: I think the maker is Russian who moved out and going back in business. French actually: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colomban_Cri-cri Quote: "'Cri-cri' 'or 'cricri' is also the French term for the sound of a cricket or a cicada, or an informal name for the insects themselves, but it is unclear if this double meaning was intended by Colomban himself."
October 14, 20241 yr Author I meant the MSFS version was created by a Russian. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
October 14, 20241 yr While we're on the subject of ridiculously tiny airplanes, here's my personal favorite: The XF-85 Goblin. The idea was it would be a parasitic fighter jet hanging under bombers. It would drop off and go shoot down incoming enemy planes, then recover to the bomber by hooking onto a trapeze slung under the bomb bay. It didn't fly terribly well and hooking to that trapeze turned out to be much more difficult than practical, so it ended up getting cancelled, but it sure is a fun little thing to see. There's one at the Air Force museum in Ohio, and another at the Strategic Air and Space musuem in Nebraska. Ryzen 7 7800X3D/B650 X AX | 5090 | 32gig | Win10 | Pimax Crystal Light
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