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A-57 Bartini

18.3k KudaOni  2.3 years ago

The Most Overkill Bomber Ever

History:

The Bartini A-57 was an experimental Soviet bomber of the mid-1950s that was designed by Robert Ludvigovich Bartini to take off and land on water. The aircraft was never put into production.

The A-57 was equipped with a lift jet (similar to VTOL aircraft today) facing downward to assist its take-off from the surface of the ocean. It was intended to refuel from submarines out at sea. The bomber had a long, slender delta wing called the Bartini Wing. A 1500 mph speed was planned. It was tested in wind tunnels, but the project was scrapped in 1957 before actual production could begin. Possibly because the Soviet Government after the launch of Sputnik 1 believed that the new R-7 ICBM made bombers less required and decided the Tu-95 would do and that the A-57 project was too expensive along with the perspective that such an aircraft was not needed.


Controls:

AG-1: Thermonuclear Bomb
VTOL + Trim: Locking Camera
AG-2: Parasite Fighter Controls (Turn off AG-8 For stable main plane flight)
AG-3: Parasite fighter Gyro
AG-4: Parasite fighter cockpit
AG-7: Manual Thermonuclear Bomb drop (Not recommended but eh)
AG-8: If activated, Normal flight controls. Deactivated, Stabilizes entire craft and disables controls.


Notes:

-Safe range from the Bomb is at least 3 km away :)
-This doesn't have the lift engine and I don't wanna add it XD AHAHAHAHA
-Might be hard to take off in land, a breeze to take off in water.
-Parasite fighter top speed is faster than the A-57, but has incredibly slow acceleration.
-Might not be exact to blueprints, only built this cuz it was cool and the goal was a low part build.
-Built this within 2 days, and finished it quickly cuz I wanna explore new stuff
-Thank you so much for the support everyone has given me in the previous builds! I really do appreciate it having made it this far!!

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 127.0ft (38.7m)
  • Length 228.4ft (69.6m)
  • Height 33.3ft (10.1m)
  • Empty Weight 52,354lbs (23,747kg)
  • Loaded Weight 106,938lbs (48,506kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 3.688
  • Wing Loading 329.8lbs/ft2 (1,610.2kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 324.3ft2 (30.1m2)
  • Drag Points 7990

Parts

  • Number of Parts 416
  • Control Surfaces 2
  • Performance Cost 2,307
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    18.3k KudaOni

    Thank you so much for the upvotes! Especially for the spotlights!
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    18.3k KudaOni

    @Falkenwut thanks!

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    Amazing work! keep it up!

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    Requested Tags from Teaser post
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