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Rotary Bomb Bay Concept

1,563 UglyBull  8.8 years ago
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This is a rotary bomb bay: instead of bomb bay doors opening like in a conventional bomb bay, a rotary bomb bay has its entire bomb bay rotate in order to open it. This provides aerodynamic advantages over a conventional bomb bay. This was used on the American B-57B light bomber. VTOL in any direction to rotate bomb bay, press 1 to release the missile created by MaxTeoZ. There is not a lot of room to drop the missile due to this bay being on the ground, I hope to mount it on an aircraft.

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General Characteristics

  • Successors 1 airplane(s)
  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 18.0ft (5.5m)
  • Length 32.8ft (10.0m)
  • Height 17.3ft (5.3m)
  • Empty Weight 5,098lbs (2,312kg)
  • Loaded Weight 10,588lbs (4,802kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 0.318
  • Wing Loading 5.8lbs/ft2 (28.5kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 1,812.6ft2 (168.4m2)
  • Drag Points 6582

Parts

  • Number of Parts 179
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 393

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    3,485 SelectAKey

    Brilliant!

    8.1 years ago
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    7,267 Mrwhiskers85
    very cool idea
    8.8 years ago
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    1,563 UglyBull
    @Jackie that is a good idea as well: this was primarily inspired by the B-57B rotary bomb bay but a revolver type bay would be interesting. I also might try to make a rotary bomb launcher, which would be a normal bomb bay, but inside it would be a rotating rod containing 4 bombs that fire like a revolver, the concept behind it would be allowing you to select which bomb you want to drop, which is used on the B-1 Lancer and the TU-160
    8.8 years ago
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    5,055 Jackie
    This is a really cool concept! Why not try having it work like a revolver, every arrow on the VTOL slider matching up with a bomb?
    8.8 years ago

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