Yukikaze Fand Concept
OPERATIONS:
AG-1 = Plasma Drive
Everyone who knows Yukikaze should know about the FA-1 Fand and FA-2 Fand II designs. According to lore, the FA-1 Fand (first version) was designed and produced in Japan (makes sense as it looks a lot like the F-2A). Well, I was looking at the FA-1 Fand page of a website with some Yukikaze info on it, and I saw one of the concept/production drawings for the Fand that obviously wasn't utilized. It was this goofy-looking, stubby double-body fighter design, and I thought it looked pretty cool, so I decided to try to make it in SP. If anyone runs out of ideas for fighter jets, I highly recommend the Yukikaze concept/production drawings for some inspiration that can be found on the website I linked. But not long into designing it and after a few trials, I quickly found the design to be horrendously unstable so I had to make a lot of tweaks to the design. But after nearly giving up on this plane, I finally found a "sweet spot" wing layout (also utilizing stacked wings) to give the Fand good maneuverability and stability.
(Story)
While Japan successfully found foreign partners (mainly from the US) to co-produce Japan's long-awaited F-3 Fighter to replace their F-15 and F-4 fleet, and the F-35 replacing the F-2 for the most part, they were also interested in a home-grown air-base defense fighter. Japan studied designs and proposals from various manufactures. Japan would name this fighter "Fand". After Rainier's joint-involvement with Mitsubishi and Northrop Grumman on the F-3A Shinsakuto, Rainier and Mitsubishi decided to partner again on a radical experimental base-defense fighter concept.
This Fand concept utilized a few radical untested fighter technologies. If produced, this version of the Fand would have been the world's first "double-body" fighter design. However the craziness of the tech didn't stop there. Rainier and GE had been experimenting on aircraft engine technologies for the past few years, and Rainier engineers came up with a new kind of electric-propulsion for aircraft; dubbed "Plasma Drive". Plasma Drive was a form of electric-propulsion that utilized a pure plasma jet engine. In this case, it was more of a ramjet, but basically the Plasma Drive would compress the incoming air much like a regular ramjet, but instead of fuel being thrown into the air and ignited, super-heating electric tiles lined the top and bottom of the ramjet, and they would super-heat to extreme temperatures that would rapidly expand the air and heat it, giving it a similar effect to a normal jet engine. The Plasma Drive received it's electricity from a generator that was powered by a shaft connected to the regular gas-burning combustion turbofan jet engine, making the whole system a hybrid-propulsion system.
While very promising, especially with the prospects of hybrid/electric technologies, and the use of a double-body highly efficient design at all speeds, Japan ultimately decided on rejecting this version of the Fand due to the incredibly high risks with the untested tech and the high-cost of development. Instead, Japan opted for Mitsubishi to produce a design based on the F-2A to keep development costs low for this FA-1 Fand base-defense fighter.
Rainier continued on their concept alone afterwards, although they mainly focused on the Plasma Drive hybrid-electric propulsion system and planned on using a larger aircraft as a test-bed first.
The double-body aircraft design wouldn't see much attention until 2037, during the 30-year long war on the JAM, when the Systems Corps on the planet Fairy revived the double-body design for their FA-1 Fand replacement, the FA-2 Fand II, utilizing design elements from Mitsubishi and Rainier's FA-1 Fand concept.
Enjoy!
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Predecessor Fand
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 32.1ft (9.8m)
- Length 38.6ft (11.8m)
- Height 12.1ft (3.7m)
- Empty Weight 13,119lbs (5,950kg)
- Loaded Weight 37,286lbs (16,913kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 1.265
- Wing Loading 58.9lbs/ft2 (287.3kg/m2)
- Wing Area 633.6ft2 (58.9m2)
- Drag Points 3256
Parts
- Number of Parts 88
- Control Surfaces 20
- Performance Cost 627
Nice,its only take 88 Part
@randomusername
Yea I'm liking it.
Can you tag me on one of your "electric engines" please? Just so I can see what you are talking about.
@randomusername
A gaming journal or buzzfeed isn't going to make a hit-piece against SP because someone "misrepresented electric vehicles and their propulsion". I came to SP to freely create whatever original airplane designs and concepts I wanted to make, not walk on egg shells in fear of offending one specific person in SP worried over nothing, or offend a group of people or game journalists outside the aviation community who probably have no clue how airplanes even fly.
@randomusername
By that logic, that must mean everyone who's made a non-mod laser system in SP is being deceitful or "misrepresenting lasers" because their lasers aren't true lasers as they used a gun and extended it's bullet xml values to shoot out like a straight laser.
@randomusername
For the love of God no one is being targeted and I'm not targeting anyone. It was just a neat unique airplane concept drawing that I thought would make a great simple build, and then I threw in a bit of uniqueness with the idea of a hybrid electric propulsion system. The last I checked creativity, imagination, and a bit of roleplaying were all major aspects of SP and determining tags and definitions for planes, even if their in-game systems/performance aren't actually like the real thing.
Due to the facts that there are no electric engines, what is the point of the electric tag for? I would think that it would be for things like teslas and Prius even though they use fuel, because there is no electric@randomusername
If someone made a Prius that ran out of energy on sp not be allowed to have electric tag? @randomusername
Ooooooooooooooooffff@randomusername @JohnnyBoythePilot
@randomusername
Maybe later.
@randomusername
Not likely.
@randomusername
Wth does that have to do with SP?
@randomusername
Bro, stop worrying about definitions and a simple tagging system so much and just enjoy the game.
@randomusername
This design incorporates a plasma ramjet that uses electricity to super-heat the incoming airstream passing through the ramjet for extra thrust/propulsion, and gets that electricity via an electric generator that is driven by a gas-burning turbofan engine. It may not involve legit electric-propulsion in-game, but the concept, intention, and design sure does, and therefore I'm not removing it from the electric tag.
@randomusername
The closest thing SP EVER got to "hate" was the Jelly invasion and all the Jelly fans who hated on SP because we told them to stop spamming Jelly-planes. Your making an absolute huge deal over a simple tag and it's definition.
@randomusername
The electric and spaceship tag exists because those are the things/attributes the creators intend their designs to be. The user PlayingSimple intended his STOL 'n Thunder design to be an all-electric aircraft, so he put the electric tag in it because his design involves electric propulsion, even if it's not 100% accurate or realistic.
@randomusername
You LEGIT think people outside of SP are going to get offended by some tagging system that isn't exactly 100% accurate to real life in a game that isn't even that maintstream or significant to the gaming community as a whole and cause an uproar over it? You. Have. Got. To. Be. JOKING.
@randomusername
I think your waaay over-thinking this and making a big deal out of nothing. STOL N' Thunder and the flying iPhone drone use fuel-consuming prop engines and are under the electric tag because the author/creater intends those engines to be electric, but they used the default piston engines since there are no true electric engines in SP other than rotators. And again, electricity IS NOT unlimited! A Tesla Model 3 or a an quadcopter drone are fully electric but don't have an unlimited supply of electricity. You have to charge the batteries back up before they run out. And the electric tag in SP never specifies whether that means unlimited rotator-spinning-wing powered planes or planes that use the standard SP engines but the design is intended to be electric. I know damn well what electric energy and power is and I know for a fact its not unlimited. The only person I see getting offended over nothing is you.
@randomusername
And who made you the moderator?
@randomusername
Fuel for electric vehicles is electricity. Electric vehicles don't run forever unless that are nuclear powered or have solar panels/cells. Every electric vehicle will run out of "fuel" (electricity) if they aren't recharged. And I'm not pretending. This is a hybrid gas/electric hybrid concept and hybrid aircraft concepts have been looked at by both Boeing and Airbus recently (except the electricity drives electric fans/propellers, not plasma jets). I added the electric tag because it incorporates electric propulsion.
@randomusername
Unfortunately no, because the plasma ramjet's electricity is solely dependent on the gas-burning turbine running. Without it, no electricity gets generated and that means no power for the plasma ramjet. So when the gas turbojet runs out of fuel, the plasma ramjet also stops operating.
@randomusername
Its a hybrid, with the fuel-burning jet engine turning a generator that powers a plasma ramjet on the lower second body. Yes I know the original FA-1 Fand and FA-2 Fand II don't incorporate any form of electric propulsion but this isn't a full-on exact replica of the Fand. I just used the unused production drawing/concept for the Fand and incorporated a little bit of my own originality with some design tweaking. And then I gave it the Fand name since it has ties to the original design.
@Zyvx
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
This is a fun , wild, and cool plane. Nice work
@zyq
Thanks!