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F-104 "Starfighter"

4,956 ThePlaninatior  3.0 years ago
Auto Credit Based on Homemade1's Bellow 100 part Challange [CLOSED]

Beware! This thing (like the real one) is hard to fly, particularly on take off and landing. It has a habit of having rolling to one side when either at low speed and maintaining a constant pitch, or when pulling hard on the stick.

Built upon combining various variants of the F-104, this. . ."thing" has a lot of power behind it and a very tempermental attitude. She likes to roll to the side when pulling hard on the stick so I recommend using mouse as joystick mode and being extremely gentle on the control surfaces.

Note, some creative liberties and usage of both Fine Tuner and Overload were used
Examples include:
Renaming ordinance to real life counterparts (I.e the Boom 500 is now called the Mk82 and the Guardian is an Aim-9C Sidewinder)
Tweaking of the "M61 Vulcan" in the front to not blow up the plane when firing, while still looking passable.
Changing collision between craft parts on the all moving tail elevator to prevent weird forces from causing the plane to stall/become unstable/spontainiously explode.

AG-1: Ditch wingtip fueltanks (Do around 75% fuel for best result)
AG-2: Arresting Hook (Yes it has a hook, no I don't recommend landing on the aircraft carrier)
AG-3: Drag Chute
AG-4: Arm M61 Vulcan
AG-5: Arm Air 2 Air Weapons (2x Aim-7 Sparrows, 2x Aim-9C Sidewinders)
AG-6: Arm Air 2 Ground Weapons (14x FFARs in M260 launchers, 1x Mk82)
AG-7: Detach Ordinance on the wings (Leftover of previous verison, forgot to remove. . .oops)
AG-8: Does nothing

VTOL: Flaps
Trim: Elevator Trim

Features flares as well as Nav lights.

General Characteristics

  • Predecessor Bellow 100 part Challange [CLOSED]
  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 22.6ft (6.9m)
  • Length 43.5ft (13.3m)
  • Height 10.1ft (3.1m)
  • Empty Weight 25,612lbs (11,617kg)
  • Loaded Weight 31,325lbs (14,209kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 1.793
  • Wing Loading 197.3lbs/ft2 (963.5kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 158.7ft2 (14.7m2)
  • Drag Points 2265

Parts

  • Number of Parts 98
  • Control Surfaces 7
  • Performance Cost 528