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Finally! After some hard times, four months worth of tearing our minds, we present to you the Firecrest. This has been our longest project yetand has been in our simpleplanes background for a long time, mostly before the 1.11 not being out, which introduce the Pigpen's fly-by-wire system. After that, we decided to make this test bed into a reality. Thanks for the sugestions from Kangy as we might just make either the 33 the 34 with improved physics and he new realistic aerofoil we've been working on, we just wanna say a big thank you to you, the person who's clicked this for taking the time to at least look at this. Stay safe, fly high, and we'll see you in a bit.

The Firecrest:

The Firecrest is a 5th generation air superiority carrier-borne jet fighter loosely based around the F15 STOL plane. The W.F.32 air frame was actually used for testing and research purposes when it was built and carried the name 0.X.-47. The 0.X.-47, along with two other airframes, were mostly used to study aerodynamic unstable flight which provided data on airflow behaviour in a high AoA enviroment, thrust vectoring, and Advanced Realistic Sytems. After months of work, the T&A Aeronautical started work on their first 5th generation fighter after seeing a rise in production of many major countries in new generation fighters. This caused the security of defense to ask for a new 5th generation aircraft to defend it’s mainland. T&A responded by converting it’s unstable test bed with a relaxed fly-by-wire system. After a bit of rework, The W.F. 32 was made and made it’s maiden flight on the 21st of December, 2021 and made it’s official appeal on 23rd of January 2022, a month after it’s test flight. Initially, the new fighter was going to be named the “Spectral,” by how aggressive and matrix-like AoA, but the name Firecrest was then chosen after the prototype Blackburn Firecrest, due to the craft’s origins.

On the 8th of January, 2022, The Defense Force of SP issued a request to arm it’s Defense Force. The T&A company decided to jump on to this opportunity and proposed it’s W.F. 32. Firecrest as it looked fit as its own home defense fighter against other major countries.

”The Test Bed”

Like its origins, the F-32 had many new technologies inside of it. The helmet mounted targeting sight helps aim the Infra-Red Owl ASRAAMS and AfterShock MRRAMS a full 360* degrees and the Phoenix MRAAMS of 30* degrees. The inbuilt “Instructor” helps the pilot stay stable during flight. By disabling the instructor, this causes the fly-by-wire system to become unstable and increase AoA but decreases turn radius.

”An Undesired Flaw”

During twice the speed of sound flights, pilots reported that the plane became highly unstable and caused the plane to either involuntary roll on it’s side or wobble. Despite their best efforts in trying to fix this issue, including folding the canards almost vertically to push the center of lift back, and tempering with the fly-by-wire system, the plane kept doing these undesirable flight movements. After a year in deployment, the Firecrest was relegated to a home defense fighter flying just above the speed of sound.

"The Fire Starters"

The No.60 Fire Starters Home defense wing were a group of elite pilots that specialised in the Firecrest. These pilots were once military fire fighters and thus the airtanker scheme found in these ace's planes. However, these aren't planes to put out fire, >"These are the ones that start 'em."
The Firestarters, unlike other Firecrest squadrons, took action and served wih many operations beside the UN and NATO and was stationed on HMS Queen Elizabeth and is set to move into the new CVN 78 USS Gerald R Ford supercarrier once it begins it's sea trials.

Controls:

Full controls found here:

Activation Groups:

AG1 Hook
AG2 Canopy (Do not open in air, will rip apart at a certain speed)
AG3 Air Brakes
AG4 Ejection
AG5 Wing Fold
AG6 Fuel Probe (Refuel)
AG7 Drop Tank (22 - 23 % of your fuel, drop after merge)
AG8 Main Battery (Turns almost everything off)

Other versions!

Over here are a set of 3 more VR ready designs if the performance cost is still a bit too much. Enjoy :p

Removed Extra panel: Firecrest 11
Removed Paint scheme (Stealth): Firecrest '21
As low as we could possibly get it: Firecrest '31

AI Variants:

For dogfighting purposes. If you ever try and invade our homeland. we even modeled ourselves in the "Ace" variant. Godspeed.

Easy High part count: [Rookie]
Easy Low part count: [Stealth]
Hard High part count: [Ace]
Hard Low part count: [Knight]

Some credit:

Credit goes credit to PlanariaLab for their amazing HUD and hpgbproductions for their amazing code that lets you put pictures in

Photos:

The Front Page!

A freshly delivered spare Firecrest without any numbers onboard the USS Beast

'Ace' dogfighting against a 'Rookie'

'101' of the No.60 squadron firing an Owl ASRAAM

0.X. 47 winning against "Diablo" in "The Dragon"

More Photos and Wallpapers!