Finally after a month of development I finally finished my latest design, the NA-4 Storm Petrel! It's a highly-specialized air-superiority fighter designed for tight-turning dogfights as well long-range bomber escort, where it can also operate efficiently at high altitudes (around 30k-40k feet). At high altitudes it can achieve 500MPH without using WEP (War Emergency Power), however it does come available with WEP for when you need a quick boost of speed. Special features include fully custom landing gear, improved cockpit layout (cockpit used from the Lark), greatly improved reflector gunsight, accurate .50 and 20mm guns with casing ejection, WEP, mostly realistic and functioning oil radiator, opening slide bubble canopy, drop tanks, and the pilot can bail out of the aircraft in the event of an emergency.
Here are some screenshots!
I will be uploading on the weekend before spring break. Happy flying!
NA-4's namesake
@Texasfam04
Oh ok sure thing. I'll tag you on any other sneak peek posts I have. Thanks, I hope this hits it out of the ball park. Took me about a month to do this plane. It's definitely my sexiest plane yet. Compared to the Lark this is a work of art.
🤤🤤🤤 (in case those dont show up they are drooling faces) lol!! anyways this is a VERY COOL build, even from the pics its very impressive. I cant wait to take it for a local. Also, sorry im not really big into the forum stuff on or off SP so i usually miss forum posts. if you have a important one like this u can always tag me. this is gonna be a popular build i think
More than likely going to upload tomorrow just FYI.
@Razor3278
Sure thing. When I release it you can dissect the exhaust stacks and see how I did it.
@JohnnyBoythePilot oh, I see. Mind tagging me on release?
@JohnnyBoythePilot Yes and no. Jammers scatter waves in every direction, almost like a transmitter. Old school radar systems like what the Foxbat used would focus all the energy in a stream roughly shaped like a wide spotlight beam, which could be aimed a bit.
It's kind of like tge difference between getting a surnburn and holding a magnifying glass to make a laser. Jammers are frighteningly powerful, though, and you may be right.
@Razor3278
Yep. The exhaust flames occur when you activate WEP. WEP essentially injects a certain amount of water into the fuel/air mixture and lowers combustion heat, enabling the engine to achieve higher power levels as long as it keeps cool. I did the flames by mounting a VTOL nozzle at the front of the exhaust stacks and xml modded it to stretch the flame so it covers the whole stack and makes it seem like the flames are coming out the exhaust stacks. I also made the VTOL nozzle smaller so it's less noticeable.
@F104Deathtrap
Damn. I also heard that the jamming equipment on the EA-6B was the same case. If activated on the ground, it could harm any ground crew (or more correctly carrier crew). I'm pretty sure it was worse for the EF-111 since that was a powerful jammer.
Are those exhaust flames? How'd you do that?
@JohnnyBoythePilot That schnoz covers a 600 watt radar so powerful that they deemed it hazardous to people and pilots weren't allowed to activate it near the ground.
@F104Deathtrap
I prefer a long and streamlined nose section. I think the Storm Petrel is my sexiest design to date. Also wonderful MiG-25 you made there!
@JohnnyBoythePilot i like a bird with a nice big nose, check this out.
@F104Deathtrap
What about it? The prop hubs are long for streamlining purposes. They were originally much shorter but they resulted in quite a bit of drag so I lengthened the prop hubs for streamlining. Is the nose too long? (particularly the prop hubs)
Dat nose