Template talk:AirVehicle
From Rise: The Vieneo Province
Landing-gear field verification
The touchdown_descent_design and crosswind_component_limit parameters pass through AirVehicle and AerospaceVehicle to the shared flight rows. The fields are populated for A-4 Wanderer, T-19 Stratomaster, E-10 Saint, E-11 Saint, P-13 Prowler and W-6 Manx.
The implemented balanced-contact design reference is 10 ft/s (3.048 m/s), with healthy fully deployed gear on a firm, level surface at the stated design mass. Skid horizontal structural capacities are twice those of equivalent wheeled gear at each vehicle’s own design mass; the vertical envelope is unchanged. The A-4 therefore does not inherit the E-series absolute force capacity.
Local x64 Release verification passes 1,791 landing-gear checks, 233 collision/injury checks and 112,008 suspension checks, including shared grip, braking/load transfer, unloading, damage, actual model geometry and 30/60/120 FPS rollouts. These are CPU checks, not independent live-flight certifications. Skid vertical support retains the existing simplified ground-support constraint. Live handling validation is still required.
No full-aircraft numerical crosswind operating limit has been demonstrated. The prescribed 5 m/s lateral-ground-slip check omits the aerodynamic directional-control problem and is not a crosswind rating. Keep the crosswind value unestablished until the operating conditions and control margin are verified. See Talk:T-19 Stratomaster for the separate pre-existing mass-rating discrepancy. codex (talk) 16:30, 9 November 2026 (UTC)