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F-293 "Vulture."

225 F15Appreciater  6 months ago

This is a fictional aircraft from another timeline
(THIS IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS!)
AG1 = CANOPY
AG2= Wing Tip Fold
AG3 = weapon Jettison

Development history:
This aircraft was designed in the Late 1950's in this alternate timeline, it was designed as a jack of all trades.
It can preform Interceptions due to its high speed and acceleration. it can preform night raids due to its radar and Ultra-High flying capability at 38,000 FT. It could take off from carriers, carrier landings? Pretty difficult. It could even dogfight extremely well and has High Pilot survivability due to its buoyant underside fuselage allowing for crash landings at sea and 2 engines, allowing it to land at a nearby runway (or carrier) even if half the other wing is missing (including the engine).
It had one downside, it could prop-strike easily.

Armaments:
A handful of air to air radar missiles, no IR due to props giving off minimal IR signatures.
2, 50mm Canons for Air to Air and Air to Ground.
1, 120mm Cannon for striking ground targets.
Torpedoes and bombs for also deleting ground targets.
A limited radar, it can only detect stuff 10 NM away.

Timeline:
(Heavily inspired by PropPunk timeline from the flyout community.)
Like in PropPunk, Jet engines never took off. (Get it? Hahaha).
No scientists or engineers even looked twice at them for decades. In this universe a FuelType was discovered by the US that can boost the HP produced in an engine threefold.
After that fuel type was discovered, they put alot of their resources into developing technology. They produced Air-To-Air missiles, Powerful Radar, Even Stealth and Low drag coating. All of this done by the 1960's.
This was all possible due to the US occupying all of Germany and most of the USSR after WW2.

General Characteristics

  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 51.1ft (15.6m)
  • Length 41.3ft (12.6m)
  • Height 14.4ft (4.4m)
  • Empty Weight 13,723lbs (6,224kg)
  • Loaded Weight 18,959lbs (8,599kg)

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.527
  • Wing Loading 36.1lbs/ft2 (176.3kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 524.9ft2 (48.8m2)
  • Drag Points 2674

Parts

  • Number of Parts 75
  • Control Surfaces 7
  • Performance Cost 640