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Khester KNK-47

43.0k Thefrenchdude22  5.6 years ago

Hi ! It's been a while !

Today i will present you my latest fighter : the Khester KNK-47 ! It is a single-seat, turbo-prop fighter, that is somwhat of a successor to the KNK-44 (M.1937), which i thought was to thin and skinny. Soo yeah, let's talk about this aircraft shall we ?

To make this aircraft i took inspiraition, from 1930's and 1940's planes, particularly the P-40, the Wyvern and also some fictional Dieselpunk designs. I really liked the turbo-prop engine, and decided to abandon the idae of two engines at both ends of the fuselage, which i considered to complicated and to redundant to the KNK-44. For the armement, i decided to go with one canon and four machine-guns, hat would allow the aircraft to be very dangerous against both fighters and bombers alike. Each engine is powered by 8000hp, and it allows this fighter to have a max speed of 580-660 km/h.

  • This plane is very agile, perhaps a little too much sometimes, which can cause it to loose control, especially in high altitude.
  • I added a Bullet ejection system to make it look a bit more realistic : under the fuselage, and the wings.
  • The machine-guns can cause actual damage to the enemy ships, so go out there and obliterate them will ya ?
  • the weird logo on the left side of the fuselage is a squadron symbol, the number on the right is the manufacturing number.

The Khester KNK-47 was a World War II era fighter aircraft produced by the Ateronian Republic from 1941 through 1945. Its primary armament was four 7.7 machine guns, aswell as a 20mm canon in the nose and in the fighter-bomber ground-attack role it could carry five-inch rockets or a bomb load of 1,500 pounds . When fully loaded the KNK-47 weighed up to five tons making it the heaviest ateronian fighter. The KNK-47 was designed around a very powerful turbo-prop engine which was also used by it's predecessor. This fighter was effective as a short-to-medium range escort fighter in high-altitude air-to-air combat and ground attack in almost every theater it was sent to.

  • Role : Fighter-bomber
  • Manufacturer : Khester Aviation
  • Designer : Thefrenchdude22
  • First flight : 6 May 1940
  • Introduction : November 1941
  • Retired : 1956,
  • Primary users : Ateronian Army Air Forces
  • Produced : 1941–1945
  • Number built : 20,636

General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 43.1ft (13.1m)
  • Length 38.8ft (11.8m)
  • Height 14.4ft (4.4m)
  • Empty Weight 8,625lbs (3,912kg)
  • Loaded Weight 8,763lbs (3,975kg)

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.912
  • Wing Loading 13.9lbs/ft2 (67.9kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 630.5ft2 (58.6m2)
  • Drag Points 6860

Parts

  • Number of Parts 329
  • Control Surfaces 5
  • Performance Cost 999

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    30.8k CrazyCatZe

    Realy good disign! (Cant fly it becorse i don’t hafe the mod)

    +2 5.5 years ago
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    @Hyattorama thanks a lot !

    5.5 years ago
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    30.4k Hyattorama

    Wow. Beautiful plane, fantastic execution, flies great, really excellent build. Great job.

    +1 5.5 years ago