“An airlift is the organized delivery of supplies or personnel primarily via military transport aircraft.”

The role aircraft can play in delivering supplies is vital in modern combat. A large part of almost every air force consists of aircraft dedicated to airlifting, either tactically transporting troops around the battlefield or by strategically moving vast quantities of cargo to the frontlines. However, when you look on the SimplePlanes website, military cargo and transport aircraft are few and far between. Let’s change that!

In this challenge, I task you to build an aircraft, be it a plane or helicopter, designed for airlifting operations. In essence, your creation must be capable of transporting cargo. This may be personnel, a shipping container, a vehicle, etc. How you chose to carry your cargo around, is completely up to you. If you would like more information about airlifting and the vehicles used to do this, check out the Wikipedia page.

Rules for this challenge:

• Your submission must be a vehicle capable of airlifting in a somewhat realistic matter. (Sci-fi creations are allowed, but it needs to be believable).

• Your creation may be a modern vehicle, but historical airlifting aircraft are also allowed.

• Your creation should have a cockpit (does not need to be ultra-fancy, but at least functional).

• Must be a sucessor to this post!

• No more than 1850 parts. (Disable the drag calculations on parts that do not need to have their drag calculated!)

• Preferably no modded parts (XML modding is fine. Build that require me to download a mod will be ignored.)

• Feel free to submit multipole builds.

• The description of your creation should include the controls for your of your creation, as well as a bit of an explanation / lore behind it’s design. Please use your description to explain how your aircraft would be used if it were a real aircraft.

Awards / After the deadline:
Once all builds have been submitted, I plan on livestreaming while I check out and comment on the submitted creations. I will do this on my YouTube channel.
A recording will be uploaded to YouTube, however I might only make it accessible through the SP website.
Alternatively, there might be a video instead of a livestream.

(*If there are a lot of submission, I may choose to only look at creations that got more than 5 upvotes during the livestream due to time constrains. *)

There may or may not be an award for my personal favourite submission + straw poll favourite in the form of extra SP website points. However, I’m still looking into if this is possible.

Ofcourse, all builds submitted will receive an upvote.

Aircraft in the thumbnail is made by Spillo, it can be found here.