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P-93B TwinShark

3,071 TrojanAircraftSystems  3.4 years ago
Auto Credit Based on LieutenantSOT's WW2 (Fictional) Fighter Challenge! [CLOSED]

After the D-Day invasion found itself in France, it began by establishing a larger foothold on the continent of Europe. In the process, it captured a small airfield from the Nazis. Being the only airfield the Allies had in mainland Europe, it quickly became overcrowded with pilots, ground crews, and their aircraft. After a quick glance at their war room maps showed that it would be several weeks before another aiport would be in reach of the invasion, Allied Supreme Command decided they needed to solve this issue. A normal aircraft, take the P-51 Mustang, is a small fighter, but it still has a fairly large wingspan, preventing easy maunvers on a crowded tarmac. The Army Air Corps put out a proposal to fix this problem. We here at TrojanAircraftSystems answered this proposal swiftly, as we had the means already to solve this issue. The TAS development department had already designed the P-93 Twinshark a year earlier, only to have their proposal lose out in the competiton. (It was named for it’s vertical stabilizers looking like a pair of dorsal fins on a shark) When the Twinsharks blueprints and the USAAC propsal landed on the head engineer’s desk, he was hit with a light bulb moment at the same time the head designer was. Taking other aircraft designs from the archives, they pulled an all nighter. Come dawn and they had a design. They would apply some major changes to the Twin Shark. Here’s just a small list of the changes. A better engine. Tricycle landing gear. Better pilot visibility. Firepower that could tear through a BF-109 in two seconds flat. Drop tanks for extended range. And finally the Holy Grail to the airfield space issue, folding wings. Head of aqusitions for the Air Corps ordered 100 for testing after he saw the prototype. He only got half of that delivered after the P-93 showed it’s potential in combat. Inpressed, his team helped him place an order for 1,000. And that airfield in France? Now stocked with P-93B Twinsharks, it had the capacity for twic

General Characteristics

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.833
  • Wing Loading 28.6lbs/ft2 (139.5kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 350.5ft2 (32.6m2)
  • Drag Points 8402

Parts

  • Number of Parts 128
  • Control Surfaces 6
  • Performance Cost 582
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    @TrojanAerospaceSystems this is awesome! And you are fine! I really like the story that is still there!

    3.3 years ago
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    Merry Christmas everyone!

    3.4 years ago
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    @LieutenantSOT this is my medium fighter entry to the challenge. I have no idea what happened to the description, it cut half of it out, I am sad now. I had an entire story that went out and the thing cut out the description... :(

    3.4 years ago