My first VTOL aircraft, please give tips and reccomendations so I can improve, thanks.
ABOUT THE PLANE
After seeing the Harrier jumpjet, RAE decided that its about time to make their own VTOL capable aircraft. This development resulted in the F/A-31 "Hawk", a multirole carrier-borne VTOL plane which is powered by a Blasto VTOL engine that runs on petrol. Armed with a 23mm cannon in the nose along with a variety of weapons in underwing hardpoints, the Hawk is something to be feared when it's in the sky. It is fairly maneuverable but has a slow top speed.
I apologize for the unreal acceleration, slow top speed and lack of flaps. I can't place flaps since it'll hit the intakes and the stuff under the wings. Also has a gyroscope to help with VTOL.
I also apologize for the lack of wing detailing, the wing has a dihedral so it's hard to make even with fine tuner.
Armament:
1x 23mm cannon on nose
2x 30mm rotary cannon (gunpods)
2x custom rocket pod (7 rockets each)
4x Inferno air to ground missiles
2x Interceptor air to air missiles
Controls/Instructions:
AG1- activate guns (main gun and gunpods)
AG2- nav lights
AG3~5 drops underwing stores
AG8 disables the gyro, making forward flight easier.
VTOL to move the thrusters around
I just got the Fine Tuner and Overload mods to work and boy, they made building easier. Thanks, mods.
Also, I'm planning on making a helicopter, making use of the new gyroscope. I might upload it next week so stay tuned!
Specifications
Spotlights
- RhysBrown 6.9 years ago
General Characteristics
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 36.5ft (11.1m)
- Length 39.8ft (12.1m)
- Height 14.1ft (4.3m)
- Empty Weight 11,245lbs (5,100kg)
- Loaded Weight 16,035lbs (7,273kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 0.84
- Wing Loading 33.7lbs/ft2 (164.4kg/m2)
- Wing Area 476.2ft2 (44.2m2)
- Drag Points 4342
Parts
- Number of Parts 153
- Control Surfaces 5
- Performance Cost 641
@Razor3278 yes actually Lol, and this plane can land vertically
@RhysBrown so something like a kamikaze bomber?
I'm actually not sure if this thing can land vertically lol
This thing also flys Great I found that you can take off normally then convert to VTOL then back to normal helps with faster take off @Razor3278
Your Welcome I am off on holiday but when I get back I hope to deliver a brand spanking new bomber for Germany. Capable of carrying a max payload of 10,000lbs of bombs and it can also be used as a bomb its self I have an Idea on how to make the plane a.flying bomb just the question is will it work lol @Razor3278
@RhysBrown i actually know how to make flaps, the problem is the fact that it'll clip through the stuff under the wings which is kinda unrealistic so I didn't add them.
Thanks for the upvote and spotlight btw.
Dude great job!!! Looks amazing I shall test it out... Also another cool thing with this company that I am starting up is we all help each other out and improve each others designs I can help you with the flaps that is easy to do you can add flaps to a wing with the overload mod. First step and an extra control surface and put it to pitch so it is easier to find, make sure the wing is selected then start overload... after you have done this find the pitch control surface and change the inputID to VTOL this allows the installation of flaps and you have a set of flaps. @Razor3278
@RhysBrown