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F-300-B3 StarHawk

9,827 SkyJayTheFirst  2.3 years ago
Auto Credit Based on SkyJayTheFirst's F-300-A3 StarHawk

This new version of the StarHawk has a massive variety of upgrades to it! The engines now have yaw TVC, as well as pitch and roll, I've given it a variety of control rates to make it incredibly stable while still being able to pull 50G turns, gave it short-range AA missile pods known as "Dagger Pods", and a bit more of a finely-tuned paint job. Because of @GuyFolk's advice, I was able to make my most advanced build to date, but this is far from the last variant. Stay tuned for more!

(PS: If you choose to download and you like this aircraft, don't forget to upvote. I see too many people downloading my planes and not leaving an upvote; a ratio of 15 downloads to 1 upvote on average.)

Credit to:
@Doomnolymo for the Radar!
@PlanariaLab for the Hud!
@GuyFolk for the advice on the last build!

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General Characteristics

  • Predecessor F-300-A3 StarHawk
  • Successors 1 airplane(s)
  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 50.8ft (15.5m)
  • Length 60.4ft (18.4m)
  • Height 16.8ft (5.1m)
  • Empty Weight 32,716lbs (14,840kg)
  • Loaded Weight 44,027lbs (19,970kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 6.125
  • Wing Loading 37.8lbs/ft2 (184.5kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 1,165.2ft2 (108.3m2)
  • Drag Points 3866

Parts

  • Number of Parts 884
  • Control Surfaces 8
  • Performance Cost 3,703
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    @BeastHunter @GuyFolk @TomatoIsAFruit @FalcoOne @IceCraftGaming @TRD6932 @Dragorans I've made the C2 variant of the F-300 StarHawk! Please take a look whenever you can!
    https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/yppej7/F-300-C2-StarHawk

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    @BeastHunter @GuyFolk @TomatoIsAFruit @FalcoOne @IceCraftGaming @TRD6932 @Dragorans Those missile pods on the wings of this aircraft, the AAM-24-A2 Dagger Pods. I've just posted one of those individually for anyone to download and use! Be sure to let me know what you think of it!

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    26.8k Dragoranos

    BRUHKING NEWS:
    Pilot died trying to pull 50G on a supersonic aircraft

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    @TRD6932 I gotchu, bro!

    +1 2.3 years ago
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    5,272 TRD

    also, i am sorry that i cant upvote. i have zero points lol

    +1 2.3 years ago
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    5,272 TRD

    really good aircraft, i wish the wings looked a bit more pleasing tho

    +1 2.3 years ago
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    Nice!

    +1 2.3 years ago
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    @Falco7 understood. I'll see what I can do with this advice on the next variant.

    2.3 years ago
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    1,690 FalcoOne

    What a huge improvement. Only major change I would make is making the acceleration more realistic. This can be done with this Funky expression in the engines:

    smooth(clamp01(Throttle), Throttle ? 1/X : 1/Y )
    Where:
    X is engine spool up time
    Y is spool down time.
    You can also add some funky to reduce throttle on AngleOfAttack, AngleOfSlip, PitchRate, and so on.

    +1 2.3 years ago
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    @TomatoIsAFruit thanks for the upvote!

    2.3 years ago
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    Noice

    +1 2.3 years ago
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    100k GuyFolk

    @SkyJayTheFirst
    Good luck.

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    @GuyFolk understood. I'll keep this in mind with the next variant of the StarHawk. Thanks again!

    2.3 years ago
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    100k GuyFolk

    I think this plane flight model is good.
    But yaw rate need more tuning, I saw you use YawRate*0.05 in code, nothing wrong but the value could be lower because the tvc oscillating due to too much control correction.
    I suggest you use YawRate/xx instead, it produce same result but the number is more intuitive, YawRate/40 is really mean if the plane yaw at 40 deg/sec the entire (YawRate/40) will be equal 1 which will cancel out the Yaw input and the plane will be limited to roughly 40 deg/sec rate.
    For comparison, YawRate*0.05 is YawRate/20 which is too sensitive and that's why it oscillate non-stop.
    Same goes for all axis.

    +2 2.3 years ago
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    @BeastHunter I see. I forgot you didn't need an account to download aircraft, lol.

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    50.0k BeastHunter

    Many people who download don’t have an account. I downloaded things long before I had one. That may be one of the reasons.

    +2 2.3 years ago