Please do leave any suggestions for any improvements that can be made. Took me quite a while to make this plane.
Improved aerodynamic air flow. Control surfaces redesigned.
Notes: When using all three engines, 10-15% throttle is sufficient for most maneuvers including takeoffs. Unless you want to outrun a missile, 100% throttle is almost never used. Left slider controls airbrakes, right slider controls trim (trim is inverted due to the elevators being on the wing itself, effectively changing the shape of the wing).
Controls:
AG1: Arm Weapons
AG2: Anti-Collision/Navigation Lights
AG3: Toggle 1 Or 3 Engines
AG4: Jettison External Wing Tanks
AG5/6: Jettison External Wing Mounted Munitions
AG7: Parachutes
AG8: Toggle Elevons (Useful for cruise)
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Created On Android
- Wingspan 21.7ft (6.6m)
- Length 27.8ft (8.5m)
- Height 10.1ft (3.1m)
- Empty Weight N/A
- Loaded Weight 12,101lbs (5,489kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 8.356
- Wing Loading 88.0lbs/ft2 (429.4kg/m2)
- Wing Area 137.6ft2 (12.8m2)
- Drag Points 2378
Parts
- Number of Parts 123
- Control Surfaces 10
- Performance Cost 698
@F104Deathtrap I recall it to help with airflow around the wing or something similar to that. A quick search of Wikipedia should reveal the answer.
@TheMaroon47 I like the dog teeth on the wings, gives it a nasty look.
@F104Deathtrap Thank you for the compliment on the stabilators. However, I do believe it somewhat hampers flight performance as the actual stabilators are not actually "connected" to the aircraft. I understand that fuselage nose cones and blocks can be used to store fuel, adjust their buoyancy and also introduce dead weight for potential stability of the aircraft. But since you rarely see any "blocky planes" anymore, I want to be that special guy, at least for a while until I nail the skills of building a plane out of fuselage blocks. Technically the plane has a ridiculous amount of power, partly because I use a part editor capable of adjusting the weight of every block on that plane. Also thank you for the suggestions. What do you think about the design of the wings themselves? Obviously it is quite similar to the F/A-18.
Your use of Stabilators on the tail is very impressive, not many people on here know how to use them in that way. You seem to have built most of the plane out of fuel boxes, did you know you can store fuel in wings and reshapable fuselage blocks? The plane has more than enough power, but it might fly a bit better if you stretch the trailing edges of the main wings backward a bit further. It would give you bigger wings with more lift, and it would pull the COL back away from your COM. Right now the two are dangerously close.