Who said jets can't be tail draggers? This plane also sports some floppy wings up front which show quite a bit of flex during sharp turns. -Andrew Garrison
The Floppy Jet was designed by Andrew Garrison as a race plane, in the early days of Simpleplanes (before the fuselage update.) It appears to take heavy inspiration from the Heinkel HE 178 v1, which was the first Jet powered aircraft ever to fly, and the Blohm and Voss P209.02, which matched the floppy jets layout almost perfectly with its forward intake, high mounted swept forward wings (Variable geometry proposal!) and single boom tail.
I remastered it to the size and specs of the P209, meaning it now has a top speed of 990 kph at 8 km altitude. It is no longer a fixed gear tail dragger.
This variant is the fighter variant, which means no floppy wings, but you do get 3 cannons to play with.
Controls:
AG 1 Engine Master and fuel cutoff
AG 2 Canopy
AG 3 Canopy Blowoff
AG 4 Guns Master
AG 5 would be the secondary weapons master, but there is no hardpoints
AG 6 Lights
AG 7 Unused
AG 8 Unused
VTOL Flaps
TRIM Pitch trim
Flying is pretty straight forward, when landing, come it at 140 kts.
Variants!!!
Flex-wing No guns, but a variable sweep, variable dehidral wing. Kinda like the X-53
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Predecessor Floppy Jet
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 26.5ft (8.1m)
- Length 28.7ft (8.8m)
- Height 9.1ft (2.8m)
- Empty Weight 5,752lbs (2,609kg)
- Loaded Weight 6,891lbs (3,125kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 2.934
- Wing Loading 38.3lbs/ft2 (187.2kg/m2)
- Wing Area 179.8ft2 (16.7m2)
- Drag Points 1606
Parts
- Number of Parts 83
- Control Surfaces 7
- Performance Cost 505