Introduction
Firstly I hope everyone had a good Christmas, I know I did.
Here we have my attempt to amalgamate between "stealth" and a seaplane resurection.
Built with retractable water skis (Seadart-esc), a large single engine fed from a top mounted air intake and including fuselage mounted weapons bays I think it ticks most of the boxes needed for a modern seaplane fighter. Its not massive, its designed to be employed enmasse before retreating to appropriate ships (or submarines?) appropriately tasked to re-arm them, hence light armament and no gun.
I decided to paint it in a WW2 style Fleet Air Arm colour scheme with a waving flag style fin art for fun.
Controls
AG1 = start engine
LG = retract skis
AG3 = weapons bays / arm sidewinders
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 37.6ft (11.4m)
- Length 68.1ft (20.8m)
- Height 14.0ft (4.3m)
- Empty Weight 14,101lbs (6,396kg)
- Loaded Weight 26,564lbs (12,049kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 2.093
- Wing Loading 60.2lbs/ft2 (293.9kg/m2)
- Wing Area 441.3ft2 (41.0m2)
- Drag Points 1071
Parts
- Number of Parts 776
- Control Surfaces 2
- Performance Cost 2,233
Ooooohhhhhhhhhhh that's goood... That's gooooooddddddd~ it's been a good while since I've seen and flown a plane that's made me grimace with pleasure just looking at it, and flying it.
Awesome job!
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/lqjz0s/figter-amfabi ,I'm not the only one.
Modernized F2Y Sea Dart
@RamboJutter You go to the weapon attributes, add "waterproof" attribute and set it to "true"
@MartinAeronautics Good idea, i never thought of reverse thrust to solve the lack of water friction issue, might add it to a future version.
Beautiful design. Very unique. I would only advise adding some sort of airbrake or reverse thrust to slow down once you land in the water.
@HariTheSnakk thanks, I didntveven realise it was possible to make missiles waterproof, how do you do that? (Not that I ever build anything that involves underwater but it might be useful to know)
Yet another beautiful aircraft with fantastic handling, and an overall underrated aircraft concept combined with stealth, like some uncanny NATF-23.
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My only critique is you didn't set the missiles to be waterproof, which is not that big of a deal anyway and it's not exactly something that even I do all the time.
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Overall
10/10
@RestlessGalaxies you are most welcome, enjoy it 😊
Holy crap Rambo you can't start off my year with the type of plane I've always wanted to make!😭
Thank you, this is unironically one of the best gifts I could ask for during a new year
YES! the sea dart always needed more love!
Aw hell nah stealth sea dart
Neat! I love the paint job