This a fictional aircraft, as such, the ‘history’ section is simply to help give this bird some soul, to bring her to life, so-to-speak, and should considered just a little bit of SimplePlanes fun.

History
The A.42 SkyCity is designed as a high-volume occupancy, international long-range air taxi. She would have been launched in late 1974, following a sudden inspiration, the details of which were lost over the years. The intention was to bring to the table, a Spruce-Goose level, aviation marvel. She was built to transport 1,424 persons, cruise at nearly Mach 1, and equipped with two observation lounges in the port and starboard fuselages in the nose. Some safety issues were noticed almost immediately upon testing in her prototype; landing required her to maintain speeds incompatible with safe-regulations, in that she could not risk landing on a wet runway, as her speed would be enough to almost certainly cause the wheels to skid and an inability to safely stop the aircraft. As birds are only profitable when the majority, or in some cases, all, seats on a flight are sold, the fundamental flaw in her design was seen quite quickly; this, coupled with her landing-speed-issue, raised many issues with potential buyers and investors in the project and product. With only two SkyCity’s completed, including her prototype, she never flew for more than four hours at a fraction of her capacity, and was forgotten.

AG 1 – Engine group 1
AG 2 – Engine group 2
AG 3 – Engine group 3
AG 4 – Navigation lights
AG 5 – Landing lights
AG 7 – Fuselage cabin light

For take off, flaps (VTOL) to full down, activate at least two engine groups, and rotate between 300mph and 340mph.

For landing, with all three engine groups active, throttle between 30% and 40%, flaps to half down, and the ‘full-pitch the whole time, trim to stabilize’ thing works best for her. Upon touchdown, release pitch input and trim to full up.