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Marshall-Lewis B-95 Phoenix MK2

1,671 MarshallLewisAerospace  6.8 years ago
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New version capable of Mach 3, and altered controls to fly at those speeds.

Designed in the mid 1980s, the Marshall-Lewis B-95 Phoenix was built to provide the Telosian military with a new supersonic strategic bomber. Equipped with three bomb bays capable of loading either nuclear or conventional ordnance, the Phoenix is desinged to operate in both high and low altitude missions, and features multiple defensive systems to avoid attack. A crew of four is carried, with 1 pilot, 1 pilot/defensive weaponry officer, 1 flight engineer, and 1 navigator/bombardier.

Note: I can provide a detailed fictional history if needed, though the names of the nations involved get really, really bizarre. This design has featured heavily in the Battleshipcraft based role play Battleshipcraft Fleets in service of the fictional nation of Telosia.

Flight controls and handling:

Fairly standard controls are present, and a nose up trim is needed for all parts of flight.

*AG1 arms the air brakes
*AG2 engages the afterburners
*AG3 drops the three bombs from the bomb bay (Credit to @alien for both the bomb bay design and the modded bomb itself)
*AG4 turns on the running lights
*AG5 arms additional countermeasures
*AG6 Activates landing lights
*AG7 arms spoilerons on the inboard trailing edge of the wing
*VTOL opens and closes the bomb bay doors

The canards can be a bit tricky, particularly at low speed. Be careful for a sudden dropping of the nose at low speed, if this happens use full nose up trim, but don't pull up on your pitch controls or the canards stall out for some reason. Landing approach speed should be about 280 to 300 mph, and try to keep the nose high at all times.

I strongly discourage trying to maneuver on full afterburners below 25,000ft when carrying bombs, they tend to explode when making abrupt maneuvers. In addition, she tends to roll over at speed when pitching up or down, and might tumble at times. If you tumble, deploy air brakes, get the nose down, and pull up under normal (not afterburner) power.

Camera 4 is the closest I could get to a pilot's view, while camera 5 is a bombardier's view.

While the bombs are giant Cleavers, it is best to operate them as gravity bombs, as any attempt to fire them like missiles will have them blow the plane up.

Hope you enjoy flying the updated Phoenix!

-Kevin

Edit: Oh wow, 2 spotlights already! Thanks all, means a lot to me!

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Mac
  • Wingspan 110.7ft (33.8m)
  • Length 197.5ft (60.2m)
  • Height 31.7ft (9.7m)
  • Empty Weight 226,315lbs (102,655kg)
  • Loaded Weight 427,394lbs (193,863kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 4.259
  • Wing Loading 120.6lbs/ft2 (589.0kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 3,543.0ft2 (329.2m2)
  • Drag Points 43378

Parts

  • Number of Parts 314
  • Control Surfaces 9
  • Performance Cost 2,443
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    @Mustang51 Glad you approve!

    +1 4.9 years ago
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    25.5k Mustang51

    This is also a very cool build! You have yourself a new follower!

    4.9 years ago
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    @Alien Hope the Phoenix meets your approval! You'll probably recognize a few parts from the Vindicator scattered around.

    6.8 years ago
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    4,755 Alien

    Interesting to say the least! I'll download it to pc later to test it thoroughly

    6.8 years ago