The mighty Trident, or how it should have been had we brits decided not to shoot ourselves in the testicles, once again. So many bad decisions made by government and various other heads of sheds I don't know where to begin. I suppose the first act of folly was giving a rival company (Boeing) all its research amidst talk of collaborating to create a tri jet airliner, something that allegedly amazed Boeing. (jolly good sports us brits!) The trident was designed to the specification of a powerful middle range passenger jet. In stepped BEA amid declining passenger numbers and petitions de haviland to make it smaller. A smaller design led to the engines being switched to the Rolls Royce Spey with a significant reduction in power, range and payload. Alternative engines were planned but the Gov at the time was trying to "rationalise" the industry and shelved the plans. As commercial aviation started to boom so did demand for longer range jets with greater capacity. This change eventually led to 5 different versions of the trident being built. Despite indecision, bad direction and shear bloody mindedness the trident was the first in many fields and a beautiful aircraft. First tri jet passenger liner, first aircraft to perform blind landings, advanced avionics way ahead of its time, one of the fastest subsonic commercial aircraft and the wing design was even taken for the A300.Ultimately the Trident lost out on sales to the 727 due to its limited market (namely BEA),its underpowered engines and government induced delays. The delays of which led to its major rival the 727 being introduced 2 months prior to the Trident. A terrible irony being the original design of the trident was pretty much what the 727 was made to. The former having 117 built, the latter 1,832. If only someone knew what we were doing we'd be bloody dangerous I tell you! Please see comments for controls.....
Specifications
Spotlights
- Feanor 6.6 years ago
- MrSilverWolf 6.6 years ago
- GhostHTX 6.6 years ago
General Characteristics
- Successors 5 airplane(s) +14 bonus
- Created On iOS
- Wingspan 58.7ft (17.9m)
- Length 63.5ft (19.4m)
- Height 14.3ft (4.3m)
- Empty Weight 21,059lbs (9,552kg)
- Loaded Weight 34,788lbs (15,779kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 1.356
- Wing Loading 25.2lbs/ft2 (123.0kg/m2)
- Wing Area 1,380.9ft2 (128.3m2)
- Drag Points 12128
Parts
- Number of Parts 168
- Control Surfaces 9
- Performance Cost 744
@Tang0five can you add the logo it’s hard putting a logo on the plane for me
Yeah if I were to have built this nowadays I’d be inclined to make custom landing gear to simulate that. @Anawin094
The nose wheel is to be off center and retract to the right. But great livery.
Thanks! @SSSvaSSa
Thanks buddy! @Trainzo
Just waouhhhhhh . Very nice realization .
Well @Tang0five you sure take alot time for them i mostly take an hour but my planes have only 40% the detail output... ;3
Thank you @MakeshiftPlanes - this particular one took my evenings for about four days from start to finish. I do a fair bit of research for the description and fixing any performance issues typically takes a couple of hours. The BEA tail art was a pain but worth it!
Question : how long do you take to build such a awesome creation?
I, sir, am neither. But it was nice of you say... @Tang0five
@GhostHTX your a gentleman and a scholar!
Wizard kite, old boy. Bloody well done.
@Tang0five yep XD
@Feanor thanks buddy!
Sorry @ForeverPie what I mean is when you upload you get your screenshot in the main picture and then you get what you've uploaded in the next plan view style box next to specs and it always highlights inaccuracies that you've overlooked!
"The plan view you get once uploaded makes my skin crawl sometimes!"
Can you rephrase that please?
@SgtK @QingyuZhou @ForeverPie and @Kimwonbae12 thanks guys! Any improvements let me know! The plan view you get once uploaded makes my skin crawl sometimes!....
@Tang0five no problem!
You're a gent and a scholar thank you! @MrSilverWolf
Awesome!
@SVT13 thanks buddy!
Thanks @Rhombus I try to do less common ones as it can get a bit tiresome seeing p-51s....
This is one of the first of these planes I've seen on here! Great work!
@EpicPigster1 and @RCBOSS thanks guys!
Continuing from description - Controls: VTOL down flaps, number 8 for lights. I've tried to replicate the auto land feature and it's as follows. Throttle about 8%, flaps at the first marker down, full pitch trim down. As she gets down near the wicket gently increase flaps to increase the flare for wheels down. These are ball park figures and may need adjusting depending on approach. Apologies about the unrealistic landing gear, the actual trident had an offset nose wheel and the main gear had quite a unique system of stowage I am not able to replicate. Throttle fully back for "reverse thrust buckets" which you and I both know are speed breaks!