I challenge you to build an aircraft capable of hypersonic flight (3,800+mph).
1. The aircraft must be able to takeoff and land (i.e. needs wheels). If the aircraft is launched from a carrier aircraft, it need not have its own wheel system; but the launch aircraft must be able to takeoff.
2. The aircraft must be able to reach or exceed an airspeed of 3,800mph (>mach 5) at or below 40,000ft. Faster is better, show off what you can do.
3. Modification of the engine is allowed. No strength modifications or weight reduction mods allowed. All aesthetic and scaled improvements are fine.
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Successors 6 airplane(s) +329 bonus
- Created On Android
- Wingspan 26.6ft (8.1m)
- Length 36.2ft (11.0m)
- Height 9.3ft (2.8m)
- Empty Weight 7,797lbs (3,536kg)
- Loaded Weight 10,067lbs (4,566kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 3.348
- Wing Loading 36.0lbs/ft2 (175.8kg/m2)
- Wing Area 279.6ft2 (26.0m2)
- Drag Points 2323
Parts
- Number of Parts 31
- Control Surfaces 4
- Performance Cost 234
Here's the link to my plane http://www.simpleplanes.com/a/4UW5Uz/Too-easy I made it in a few minutes. Hope you like it.
If this is still open I'll would like to enter my latest air arrow
Technicalities, lawyer-talk, etc. Agree with you. plan to give you, your cockpit, a 20,000 mph all-stock wings+ all-stock fuel + slightly modded engine for the challenge. Have completed the build, but not the testing, be patient. @EnderWiggin
@Stingray
...but it's a VTOL hybrid not really a prop.
@EnderWiggin
Well when you break the game to the point where islands merge, runways are in the sky, and the clouds totally disappears, and your speed doesn't fit on the actual speed scale, yeah I think it's glitchy
This link is NOT an entry, I do not wish to inflict the post on the SP community Again. But, you'll get a view of a very old post of mine.
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/ur6TBU/Snoopy-vs-Red-Baron
@EnderWiggin
@Supercraft888
Is it glitchy? I'll fly it ;)
@Stingray
I think it stops counting months at 1 year, my page says 7 months. Maybe it counts by years for you now.
Can my "plane" have the ability to break the game?
Thx for info. I may do a very simple jet instead, due to the not-modded wings requirement. As per users age, whiskey tango foxtrot? All that shows on my Airplanes page is "1 year old". @EnderWiggin
@Stingray
I actually built planes on the beta version of this game back in 2014, but I am relitively new to the online community. It must be said, there are more active users of SimplePlanes than ever before; and more every day. As I've stated in the past, any challenge I throw up is for inspirational purposes and meant to be fun first and foremost. If you choose to submit a prop aircraft modded to the point that it exceeds 3,800mph I would love to see it (without attempting to cope with the clunky google based search engine), but I assure you, I wouldn't be the first to not have seen one. BTWs, the age of a users accounts is displayed below their name on their 'airplanes' page.
You must be a relatively new SP user .. a large number of old posts, that I've not deleted yet, all exceed 19,000 mph (earth escape velocity). TBD what new animal I will build. BTW Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War" remains one of my favorites. @EnderWiggin
@EpicFirebird
No time deadline per se, as I will suspect any entery would warrent many upvotes as an independant aircraft submission (and of course I will be upvoting until they stop notifying me, which is never... hopefully). This (and all my) challenge(s) is/are for fun and meant to inspire so have some fun.
@Stingray
Hypersonic prop plane? I would love to see that ;)
I've posted propeller models that exceed your requirements. Sorta unfair for me to enter this, but if I can do a new build for this, I will.
When is the deadline
@happy3piont14
Feel free to use the modded engine from the challenge aircraft. I think it is x20 or x25 and has modded exhaust.
i could not make it go fast enough with my xml skills
I'm in
I'm down!
Im in
:P
@oDDDynamics
Indestructable wings are a no go. Modded engines are just fine. The hard part is building within the confineds of the unmodded wing physics.
@oDDDynamics
Build whatever you want, it's your aircraft. There are dozens of ways to get hypersonic.
@MysteryBox
It's fine as long as the weight of the fuel is not reduced. So no 2 million gallon tanks, unless your plane can handle the weight. I'm not a stickler for the rules, I'd like to see whatever you want to upload.
Can we use modded gas tanks, like the weightless ones with 2,000,000 gallons?