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F-14B "Tomcat"

57.6k ZeroWithSlashedO  3.0 years ago

TOMCAT!

-C.W "Mover" Lemoine, everytime he sees/uses an F-14.


The F-14B Tomcat is an enhanced version of the F-14A, an American carrierborne, supersonic, twin engine, tandem seat, variable sweep wings (swing wings) multirole aircraft that was manufactured by Grumman. It was soon retired and replaced by the newer and better F-14D. The F-14 was fully retired and replaced by the F/A-18E/F Hornets in 22 September 2006.

The F-14A was plagued from the start, as it's engine was getting compressor stalls at high AoA and during rapid throttle transients or above 30.000ft.

This aircraft isn't 100% completed yet, since I really wanted to add more cockpit details. But my phone couldn't handle it so, sad.
And there's also problems in this aircraft as I was testing it, but I just decided to publish it anyways, because why not?

One of the problems of the aircraft is it keeps rolling to the left, it's not rolling like crazy, but it is noticeable. I'm pretty sure this was cause by drag, but I'm too lazy to check it out.
...or maybe I did forget something. Eh, too late. Already published this and definitely not fixing it anytime soon.

This aircraft features:

-Custom missiles with a custom appearance exclusively for the AIM-54C

-Afterburner stage 1 engaged at 90% throttle and stage 2 (which gives extra boost) engaged at +96% throttle

-Nozzles, yes. Moving ones. No, not Thrust Vectoring. Just the normal nozzles. You'll see what I mean.

-3 stage Automatic Wingsweep. 1st stage (fully extended) activates below Mach 0.4, 2nd stage (half retracted) activates above Mach 0.4, and 3rd stage (fully retracted) activates above Mach 0.8 (good luck hitting that without engaging the 2 stage afterburner because that's one of the problems I had with this craft.)

-Custom Landing Gear

I really wanted to make another versions of this, but I'm really impatient, so I didn't make it anyway.
One of these variants is the Bombcat.

Controls:

VTOL Slider: Flaps
Trim Slider: Manual Wingsweep (only when AG8 is deactivated)
AG1: Drop Tanks
AG2: Navigation Lights and Tail Lights, Landing Gear Lights, and "Night Vision"
AG3: Formation Lights (right side is green, left side is red.)
AG4: Jettison all ordnance
AG6: Arresting Hook
AG8: Automatic Wingsweep

AG7 was originally an activation for catapult hook, but I removed it since it actually messes with the cockpit.

Also, this is completely by accident, but

Spotlights

General Characteristics

  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 41.1ft (12.5m)
  • Length 42.4ft (12.9m)
  • Height 13.5ft (4.1m)
  • Empty Weight 15,282lbs (6,931kg)
  • Loaded Weight 20,553lbs (9,323kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 2.296
  • Wing Loading 46.6lbs/ft2 (227.6kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 441.0ft2 (41.0m2)
  • Drag Points 4587

Parts

  • Number of Parts 376
  • Control Surfaces 4
  • Performance Cost 1,995