"One last ride..."
Tier III Plane
Description
Concept aircraft based on the SR-72, the SR-71 Blackbird's successor. In real life, this project could eventually reach Mach 6, which is hypersonic speed (Mach 5 or above), and it is unmanned. In the movie "Top Gun: Maverick", the protagonist is a test pilot of a manned prototype based in this project.
This aircraft is an exclusive edition and the most complicated-to-made aircraft than the others.
Controls are still same as the previous predecessor
Changelogs
Modified
To make it looks Ace Combat-ish, the plane now modified with weaponries, internal weapon bay, and one way cockpit (As similar as shown in Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown). Since this thing is outrageously fast as fart, i added drag chute to reduce speed while landing.
Armed and weaponized
Payloads:
Guns: Pulse Laser
Primary: 2x Sidewinder
Secondary: 2x XSDB
New controls
[AG2] Open secondary weapon bay.
[AG3] Drag chute.
[Cam3] On-Board View.
[FireWeapon] Hold to open primary missile bay.
The rest are still same as it's previous predecessor.
Trivia
- This aircraft is really special amongst the other RD Cockpits aircraft series, because this is an aircraft that takes a lot of time and process, especially when making it's weaponries and adding details to this aircraft. That's really complicated.
- In the actual thing, the Darkstar suppose to be a Hypersonic Recon jet, not a fighter jet. Nor even has a one way cockpit just similar as the one from Ace Combat 7.
The main cockpit view, has a one way canopy to see through at the front.
On-Board View as an alternative view.
To make you easier to see out of the cockpit.
Fore more information, click here
Specifications
Spotlights
- This craft is curated
- Zaineman 1.4 years ago
General Characteristics
- Predecessor Darkstar V1.0
- Successors 4 airplane(s) +49 bonus
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 34.7ft (10.6m)
- Length 60.2ft (18.4m)
- Height 13.3ft (4.0m)
- Empty Weight 44,303lbs (20,095kg)
- Loaded Weight 49,658lbs (22,524kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 5.43
- Wing Loading 77.6lbs/ft2 (378.7kg/m2)
- Wing Area 640.3ft2 (59.5m2)
- Drag Points 253
Parts
- Number of Parts 349
- Control Surfaces 4
- Performance Cost 1,856
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Credits:
@ReinMcDeer
Honorable mention:
@OkaNieba
@WHNineTripleOne Alright, thanks.
@SootyMeat You know the drill, my pal.
No need to ask, it's free!
You can use it literally for free. Unleash your creations!
Credits are "optional"
@WHNineTripleOne Is it fine if I modify things like expanding the cockpit, doing exterior details and then upload it?
I bombed the uss Beast with this plane
as a heads up it is darn near impossible to get this plane to mach three at specified altitudes, changiing the Scramjet startup minimum speed to 1000 instead of 1030 allows you to engage at slightly below and then make it fairly easy to transition to hypersonic flight
"Tier III plane"
@Novaxomix read the predecessor page.
Controls are still same as the previous predecessor
yu shoud provide some instruction on how it is flown because i seem to be having issues flying at hypersonic speeds...
The first one i've seen uploaded that actually matches the 3 view
@WolfHunter9111 in the movie and if you look at the actual model the whole aircraft looks really short as if it was squished
@F8boa what's short from this thing?
Why’s it so short
@TheCommentaryGuy @funydude even in the actual thing, the Darkstar never have the one way cockpit just like in the game
@TheCommentaryGuy ace combat logic
Nice!
@Aeres91 already saw it, m8
@Griffon1 XSDB has been already attached as SP weapon
@TheCommentaryGuy in real thing yes, but this one was based on Ace Combat 7
Wouldnt missiles and bombs be useless on a Hypersonic jet?
Also aint the Darkstar suppose to be a Hypersonic Recon jet?
Not a fighter jet?
no PLSL for the SP weapon?
Nice man, I've also made a cockpit of ReinMcDeer's DarkStar... And it's VR compatible... It's highlighted in my profile.... Don't judge the other planes
@WolfHunter9111 Ops, Forgot To Upvote.
Tomcat has been already there