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N.A. T-6G2 "Texan" - Algerian War

34.7k WarHawk95  3.7 years ago

Here it is ! Finally ! The Algerian War T-6 I promised !!!

First, let's talk a bit about history.

As pretty much everyone knows, the T-6 Texan is a military trainer aircraft built by North American Aviation in the 30s and 40s.
After World War Two, France bought loads of T-6D and G to train its future fighter pilots.
When the Algerian War started in 1954, the Armée de l'Air decided to use the T-6Gs as light attackers for anti-guerilla and sky police purposes, mainly against FLN (Front de Libération Nationale, the Algerian "terrorist" guerilla) and their convoys, weapon caches, etc.

The T-6G could be fitted with two guns pods, each featuring twin AA-52 7.5mm machine guns, and a lot of different armaments :
- Up to 6 Tercé T10 heavy rockets ; or
- 72x SNEB 37mm light rockets as two Matra LR 361 pods ; or
- 14x SNEB 68mm light rockets as two 7-rockets pods ; or
- 2x 50kg DT2 general purpose bombs ; or
- 8x 10kg PA anti-infantry bombs, as two packs of 4 bombs.

Now, some explainations about this particular model.

The version I brought you today is a T-6G2, fitted with the two gun pods and four T10 140 (HE warhead) heavy rockets.
The livery is inspired of a plane that belonged to the EALA 16/72.

I made some simple (but quite historically inaccurate) instruments for the cockpit view :

Controls :

Pretty simple, not gonna lie
- ActivationGroup 4 for emergency mode, then FireGuns to use the fire extinguisher (the machineguns are disabled when AG4 is activated)
- ActivationGroup 8 for the landing lights
- VTOL Down for the flaps
- Trim to trim (pitch only)

Special feature

As what I saw on @vcharng's planes inspired me, I decided to make the plane's behavior more realistic by... silmply bamboozling the control surfaces when the T-6 is overspeeding. So, if you manage to make a dive long enough to pass 378kmh, the commands won't respond anymore (oops, looks like you can't go out of this soon fatal downfall...) ; then, at about 385kmh, the control surfaces will be schredded by the relative wind and the acceleration the plane is facing.

Disclaimer : I have no idea what's the VNE (Velocity to Never Exeed) of the T-6 so I chose these speeds as they're quite far from the G2's max speed and I couldn't reach any higher speed with a 1,000m dive. Tell me if you know what would be the real self-destruction speed of the real plane. Also, it's the first time I try to make this kind of destructive realism.

Please give me your feedback !
And if you enjoyed this plane as much as I enjoy it, please consider leaving an upvote or even a spotlight !

Note : this plane is also available with the two 37mm rocket pods.

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 43.0ft (13.1m)
  • Length 29.7ft (9.0m)
  • Height 12.3ft (3.8m)
  • Empty Weight 4,493lbs (2,038kg)
  • Loaded Weight 6,265lbs (2,842kg)

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.095
  • Wing Loading 18.7lbs/ft2 (91.5kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 334.3ft2 (31.1m2)
  • Drag Points 6058

Parts

  • Number of Parts 460
  • Control Surfaces 11
  • Performance Cost 1,705
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    34.7k WarHawk95

    PS : Huge thanks to @BogdanX for making the wing tips, testing, pointing out the cons, and giving advice to me
    Go show him sove love guys :)

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    165 mateo973

    @WarHawk95 ok tank you :)

    2.0 years ago
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    34.7k WarHawk95

    @mateo973 yeah you gotta have like idk maybe 30+ points to upvote, you have 0 so far
    To get these points you gotta be upvoted urself
    And thanks but you guys aren't ready for the new version

    2.0 years ago
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    165 mateo973

    btw i cant upvote

    2.0 years ago
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    165 mateo973

    man this plane is very good !

    2.0 years ago
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    55.0k PapaKernels

    @WarHawk95 ??

    2.9 years ago
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    34.7k WarHawk95

    @PapaWii

    2.9 years ago
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    34.7k WarHawk95

    @PapaKernels

    3.2 years ago
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    29.9k Rondine

    aight,this is really good but its not a successor of our challenge

    3.2 years ago
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    34.7k WarHawk95

    @WiiMini glad you did. It's a frequent thing in the French air force.

    3.3 years ago
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    today I learned about sky police
    9

    3.3 years ago
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    4,961 MRpingouin

    @WarHawk95 my name in Ryad#1544

    3.4 years ago
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    4,961 MRpingouin

    @WarHawk95 I mean we learned.
    Pls invite me.

    3.4 years ago
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    4,961 MRpingouin

    @WarHawk95 when French live in Algeria we lerbed your language.

    3.4 years ago
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    4,961 MRpingouin

    @WarHawk95 yes I can.

    3.4 years ago
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    34.7k WarHawk95

    @MRpingouin here's an invite but I hope you can speak french correctly since it's the server's main language.

    3.4 years ago
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    4,961 MRpingouin

    @WarHawk95 hahah it is fine if you come to Algeria just tell me I will let you in my hous and I will give you some nice algerian food I live with my family. But it is ok. Also good news you can now invite me again in you discord becaus I opened a new dicord a count pls invite me.

    3.4 years ago
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    34.7k WarHawk95

    @MRpingouin pourquoi pas se rencontrer, mais t'héberger je sais pas, ç'est assez bordélique chez moi
    (accessoirement c'est assez bizarre parce que je te connais pas vraiment)

    3.4 years ago
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    4,961 MRpingouin

    @WarHawk95 it would be cool if we meet each other

    3.4 years ago
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    4,961 MRpingouin

    @WarHawk95 yes I wonder would you accept me in your hous if I visited French with my family.

    3.4 years ago
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    34.7k WarHawk95

    @MRpingouin well, I'm french. That's kinda hard to know our soldiers died too. But fortunately not this is behind us, and our countries are in peace.

    3.4 years ago
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    4,961 MRpingouin

    Well did you know that I'm algerian. Lol that was a hard war for us 1.5 million soldier died in this war. And finally we win the war.

    3.4 years ago
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    34.7k WarHawk95

    @KnightOfRen well, thx !

    3.4 years ago
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    41.8k Ren

    @WarHawk95
    oops, I only had like, 8-9K when this came out. Now i can spotlight you :)

    3.4 years ago
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    34.7k WarHawk95

    @KnightOfRen well, thx I guess... Feel free to spotlight so your followers can see it...

    3.4 years ago
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