Hi folks,
Stearman updates sent to Just Flight this morning and are live - I think you might have to wait for an e-mail from JF notifying you it’s ready to download though.
Most observations on the visual model in terms of accuracy and my modeling errors have been fixed as per previous posts. Tail wheel lock will follow in a future update as I’d like to see that properly functional. For aerodynamics, we’re holding fire at the moment - the John Mohr videos available clearly show that in the right hands the snap-roll rate of the stock Stearman is quite remarkable for such an old airplane, so it’s probably not as far off as many folks think. I suspect the lack of drag might be due to engine / propeller parasitic drag increasing on the real aircraft as power / RPM is reduced, rather than a lack of drag from the airframe itself. I’m not sure of the best way to do this at the moment without upsetting the aircraft’s rather nicely balanced aerobatic capability, but we’l definitely look at this in the future.
Enjoy! There will be further updates of course, mostly focusing on increasing the detail levels overall and tweaking some cockpit texturing to be more worn / realistic. I need to find a better “hand-written” font for the cockpit labelling also.