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F-8 Crusader

9,850 Type89igo  3.1 years ago
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General Characteristics

  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 35.1ft (10.7m)
  • Length 56.1ft (17.1m)
  • Height 19.4ft (5.9m)
  • Empty Weight 14,317lbs (6,494kg)
  • Loaded Weight 25,259lbs (11,457kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 3.202
  • Wing Loading 41.1lbs/ft2 (200.9kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 613.9ft2 (57.0m2)
  • Drag Points 4382

Parts

  • Number of Parts 137
  • Control Surfaces 3
  • Performance Cost 968
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    29.8k ChiChiWerx

    Well, I’d say it’s not a bad effort at all. Interestingly enough, though it uses the biggest SP engine possible (though I also assume it’s power has been reduced), it flies a fairly accurate top speed at both SL and at altitude. That’s hard to do in SP, so I wonder if it’s the huge amount of thrust that’s been reduced that’s the trick here. It does have horrendously fast acceleration, though, and that’s a drawback. But it’s simple, while being refreshingly accurate in many ways. One thing that really detracts from the flight model is the use of the Cessna wing...no RL jet fighter uses a flat bottomed airfoil and this build flies like it has a flat bottom airfoil. It pitches wildly at higher speeds, it floats on landing, it’s impossible to set an aimpoint on approach. I changed the airfoils to symmetric to see if that improved things and, guess what? It actually flies much, much better with the symmetric airfoil. I have no idea why builders like that Cessna wing, I hardly ever use it for my builds as the in game symmetric airfoil possesses many of the characteristics of its RL equivalents. If you’re building a Cessna that cruises at 110 mph, fine, use the flat bottomed wing, but if you’re building a jet fighter, especially one like the F-8, the “Last of the Gunfighters”, give it a low drag, high speed symmetric wing!

    +1 3.1 years ago