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RAH-72 Pushout v1.7.59

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@Rendresen Rendresen released this 27 May 05:55
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First public update since v1.7.12 — a full flight-model and visual pass on the RAH-72.

  • Rotor aerodynamics: ported the fleet rotor suite — a 90-degree flap-phase correction (1/rev lag so flapback peaks fore where it physically should), opt-in retreating-blade unload that sheds rotor drag as airspeed builds for a higher cruise/top speed, and a Mach-governed RPM that slows the rotor to keep the advancing tip below its drag-divergence Mach.

  • Yaw control: fixed the low-speed grinding/smoke that came from differential-collective yaw pinning a rotor's swashplate at its torque ceiling, by capping yaw to the available collective headroom; added active counter-yaw rate-arrest so the nose stops crisply on pedal release instead of drifting back and forth; and a speed-scheduled handoff that fades rotor yaw into the ruddervators as dynamic pressure rises (the coaxial/Ka-50 pedals-to-rudder behaviour at speed).

  • Pusher prop: auto-hover now holds the pusher at neutral instead of lunging to full reverse; thrust is drawn from a rotor-priority power budget so the rotor is never starved; and an optional centreline force-point removes the parasitic pitch and yaw moments an off-axis thrust line used to impart.

  • Tail structure: configurable-joint rigidity for the V-tail fins, boom, ruddervators and wings to stop high-speed flutter and parts drifting from their anchors, with the joint-projection pitch coupling resolved.

  • Visuals: perfected coaxial twin-rotor motion blur and the procedural pusher nacelle, plus a live-fan rotor-disc LOD that scales blade count and arc with camera distance so distant rotors are essentially free.

  • Performance and diagnostics: every new system is cfg-gated and tunable live in ConfigurationManager; all diagnostic instrumentation is install-gated and OFF by default, so release builds add nothing to the per-frame hot paths.

Manual install: put KnockPush.dll in BepInEx/plugins/KnockPush/.