Hello and welcome to Red Falcon's guide to jet fighter construction and engineering.

Jet fighters are extremely different to Propeller based aircraft. They have a lot more powerful engines (as one would imagine...being a jet) that have the capability of launching the aircraft into much faster velocities. Enough of the jabbering! Time to get to the helpful stuff!

Step 1: Build the aircraft.

The first thing you are going to want to do is build the jet to your desire. Build it the way you want it to look basically. We'll get to the tricky stuff later.

Step 2: Investigate your creation.

At this time you should have an airframe to look at. When ready, switch the CoM, the CoL and the CoT on. Give it a good look so you know what to do. Don't know what to do? Keep reading.

Step 3: Adapt the aircraft to optimal performance.

In this step, we need to adapt the aircraft to make it fly in an optimal manner for the class. To do this, place full throughout the aircraft AND change the positioning and shape of the wings to make a small gap of at least one normal block between the CoM and the CoL, with the CoM being in front.

Step 4: TEST!!

Test the aircraft to see how it flies. This should be done to find things to troubleshoot and improve on. Make sure you include a variety of maneuvers and tactics to get a clear view on what needs to be fixed.

Step 5: Troubleshoot

This is the big one. Something that is noticed often with jets with tight gaps between their CoM and CoL is that at their top speed, their nose tips up in flight. To avoid this, the fix is NOT to widen the gap, it's to change the settings and shape of your wings and stabilisers. If you haven't noticed already there are three types of wing that can be chosen. These types are semi-symmetric, symmetric and flat bottom. What these wing types do is they effect how much lift that wing or stabiliser generates. In order from lowest lift to highest is symmetric, semi-symmetric and flat bottom. As well as this, the shape of the wing can be adjusted to change the force of the wing. Usually, the bigger the surface area of the wing or stabiliser, the more lift. One more thing, I promise. (I told you this was the big one). The lift of the wing only affects the area its in. Therefore, for example, if you make your horizontal stabilisers flat bottom without any adjustment on the rest of the aircraft then the nose will tip DOWN! This is so because the lift force is generating up from the horizontal stabiliser, tipping the nose down. So, overall, adjust the wing settings to level out the lift forces across the plane and adjust the size of the wings and stabilisers to change the forces more discreetly. The result should have it so the aircrafts nose tips ever so slightly up at maximum speed.

Step 6: Finalize.

Repeat steps 5 and 6 until you believe the aircraft is at a standard you want it to be. Of course you can take it a bit less seriously as well.

Thank you for reading this guide! Please tell me, the Red Falcon, if there is something you want to see in the guide or from me in general. I hope you found it useful. Fly safely and as always, have fun!!