Waffle Merganser [WWII Jets Challenge]
This engineering marvel of an aircraft was developed throughout the entire course of the war, designed to launch a small glide bomb at high speeds and guide the bomb to it’s target from a distance, greatly lowering the risk of getting shot down by fighters or anti-aircraft guns. The aircraft was equipped with many innovations, including a pressurized cabin, a remote controlled gun turret with a high rate of fire, and a mechanically complex radio controlled glide bomb, which extended out of it’s bomb bay via hydralic pistons and unfolded itself. This one is painted to represent the only one that survives to this day, in a large aviation museum.
This is probably the most mechanically complex aircraft I have created so far. I've had the idea for this glide bomb release mechanism in my mind for a while, and I had planned to install it on a conventional propeller driven bomber, then drew it up as a future reference. Then, this challenge came by, so I converted it to a jet, and worked out a bunch of changes with the general flying characteristics of the aircraft, as well as it's type of wings and fuselage length. For these bomb doors, I have switched to using fuselage blocks instead of structural panels as were on the Sandwich bomber, because they were less wonky to build. I had to change a lot of the original glide bomb's design to fit the bomb bay. I set up a turret with a slightly higher rate of fire Wing MG's, got rid of it's high aspect ratio wings (because of speed issues), made numerous adjustments to the 6 engines, and much more. This thing took a lot of effort for me to build, especially with the unique bomb bay. This is the final product of a nearly two week build process, and I'm pretty proud of it! (kinda burned out tbh) I hope you enjoy flying this big wunderwaffe!
VTOL Down for flaps, and Trim to rotate the turret. Normal controls for the glide bomb.
AG1: Activate turret and cupola camera
AG2: Open the bomb bay
AG3: Launch the Waffle Strider glide bomb (there is a 1 second delay so the plane's gyro can align the plane for this)
AG4: Launch all exterior bombs at once
Cam 1: Bomb bay view
Cam 2: Glide Bomb view
Cam 3: Cupola view
Cam 4: Cockpit view
Tip: While taxiing, I recommend to keep it under 30mph so that it can turn sharper.
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Predecessor WWII Jets Challenge! (CLOSED)
- Created On iOS
- Wingspan 89.2ft (27.2m)
- Length 66.8ft (20.4m)
- Height 18.7ft (5.7m)
- Empty Weight 21,790lbs (9,884kg)
- Loaded Weight 41,463lbs (18,807kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 0.487
- Wing Loading 33.0lbs/ft2 (161.0kg/m2)
- Wing Area 1,257.4ft2 (116.8m2)
- Drag Points 17412
Parts
- Number of Parts 171
- Control Surfaces 22
- Performance Cost 856
@KnightOfRen thanks, the bomb bay system was a nightmare for me to figure out at the time
@TurtlesThatFly
I see. I like that nose design. Nice build.
@KnightOfRen if you mean by the nose being similar, it's cause it has a glazed and stepless nose
late war German bombers had them so i added one too, this based off of the Arado 234's nose (but thicker)
Me 264 and He 177 are other examples of this
@TurtlesThatFly
Issa B-29
@KnightOfRen what
b29
RATING
Looks : 6/10 pts.
Performance : 7.25/10 pts.
Details : 6/10 pts.
Weaponry : 7.25/10 pts.
Functionality : 7/10 pts.
OVERALL RATING : 6.7/10
Maybe I should improve this...