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Not an F-111

2,200 Ruskiwaffle1991  29 days ago

Hello, boys! I'm BAAAAAAAAACK!

Ten months have passed since my last upload, but in those ten months I made great strides in my building skills. I'm still but a mere filthy casual in terms of these skills, but it certainly beats the stuff I made two years ago. Much like dudes with Minecraft, I go through two week periods of playing SimplePlanes and then quit once I get bored, but this time it's different. I had the sudden idea of recreating real life planes one day and it gave me something to do while my PC laid dying in my bedroom. But unlike the A-4 Skyhawk I made nearly two years ago where I put a bit more effort into making the plane look as close as possible to the real thing, I decided to use the tried and tested method of simply eyeballing pictures of said planes to make them. While this plane may look like a Vark, fly like a Vark, and fart out massive jets of fire like a Vark, it is by no means a true representation of the Vark. It's roughly the same size as the IRL F-111, nowhere near the same performance, the engines and overall build of the plane look wonky compared to the F-111, and it can't do the fuel dumping thing as majestically as the F-111, so therefore it isn't an F-111. Other than that, I'm satisfied with how this plane turned out, given how much work I put into eyeballing some details. Pretty fun plane to fly, okayish plane to land, but I didn't put any weapons in it because I got lazy so you'll get four drop tanks instead. I still have three more not-replicas in varying stages of completion so stay tuned!

Features
Variable geometry wings, flaps, animated airbrake, swiveling pylons, fuel dumping (only an animation thru XML edited jet engine)

How to use
VTOL down- swivel wings
Trim down- flaps
AG1+Throttle- engage fuel dump
AG2- jettison payload

General Characteristics

  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 62.4ft (19.0m)
  • Length 65.6ft (20.0m)
  • Height 15.5ft (4.7m)
  • Empty Weight 21,721lbs (9,852kg)
  • Loaded Weight 36,207lbs (16,423kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 2.048
  • Wing Loading 48.6lbs/ft2 (237.1kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 745.7ft2 (69.3m2)
  • Drag Points 6490

Parts

  • Number of Parts 117
  • Control Surfaces 5
  • Performance Cost 644