"Anytime SP!"
Fully tested and working in VR!
About the F-41 CopyCat
The Joint Dynamics F-41 Copycat is a carrier-capable supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, all-weather-capable variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft.
Backstory on the F-41 Program
The F-41 started its great journey into the world of SP around 3.5 years ago, It certainly has come a long way. It originally started out as a slapped together blocks of fuselages that matched something like bootleg F-14 (Which I named YF-14 at the time), but with the time it took its own look and place in my heart.
Around December of 2023 decided to give this little lovely thing a chance to live out the rest of its probably small life properly ,with a nice cockpit update and major fuselage overhaul.
It is not perfect, but it certainly will not give up evolving until SP is alive!
Armament:
The F-41 has built-in M61 Vulcan on the nose (left side, lower) that can just about demolish most planes it can encounter in the sky.
It also comes with a pack of simple custom weaponry that I made in the span of 3-4 days.
Just save it as assembly, and save or attach weapons to the plane by holding the red detacher they have, its made simple to mount by having it stick out instead of having to move them carefully so the fuselages don't join the plane and explode when firing the custom weapons.
Some Cockpit Information
Credits:
-Shibusu, for greatly helping me out with fixes, stability, rescue decals, VR testing and generally much more FT stuff under the hood!
-Aspect, for being a great test pilot once again on short-notice call.
-PlanariaLab, for their para-chan auto aim system and 1 Part HUD.
Wish you all the best,
-01
Specifications
Spotlights
- This craft is curated
- tl 2 months ago
- DISHWASHER2005 10 months ago
- YarisSedan 10 months ago
General Characteristics
- Predecessor F-41A ''CopyCat''
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 85.5ft (26.1m)
- Length 78.9ft (24.1m)
- Height 17.5ft (5.3m)
- Empty Weight 32,083lbs (14,552kg)
- Loaded Weight 53,227lbs (24,143kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 1.849
- Wing Loading 102.0lbs/ft2 (498.2kg/m2)
- Wing Area 521.6ft2 (48.5m2)
- Drag Points 1127
Parts
- Number of Parts 511
- Control Surfaces 8
- Performance Cost 2,976
08/04/24
Updated the XML with minor updates for the plane and removed the built-in pack of weaponry for it cause of spawning issues that people might encounter.
PWR has been lowered significantly, as it should have been from the start.
Drag was slightly changed.
Weapons pack will be re-uploaded later on as standalone thing.
@NavalMan96 I just noticed (haven't logged in site for a while) that the cockpit pictures have gone missing, shame.
Anyways, to start up the plane all you need is on the right-hand side panel.
I will shortly list the stuff in hopes you can find them yourself.
First and foremost uncage the gauges via the switch nearby the radar.
From here on now:
1.L and R batteries
2.Master Caution
3.Oil Pump
4.Oxygen
5.APU
6.GROUND
Then proceed to the Engine crank switch and crank it right, that will switch so the next time you hit the starter it will crank the right engine. Once right engine has been cranked and you see the starter indicator needle move (Under the RPM gauges), proceed to the left engine doing the same thing.
With that done, plane is ready to fly, albeit not in full system ready-check. (Missing RWR, nose camera screen and a few other stuff, but it WILL fly just fine)
11/03/24
I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU SAVE THEM SOMEWHERE THE NEXT TIME YOU OPEN THEM FROM HERE, CAUSE THEY KEEP EXPIRING FROM SOMETHING!
If the links expire again, notify me to re-send them somehow or to give you further contact information on Discord for in-detail helping!
*P.S. Here are the cockpit picks again:
Pic1
Pic2
@c144538707 Simpleplanes randomly decided to send me an email, so I popped up and saw this. What are you waiting on me for exactly?
Wait for you again...
@InsertNameHere01 thank u
@13hb01sedgefieldcc It's most likely because of the extra un-attached weapon pack blocks. Just save them as subassembly and remove them from the plane, should be good to go to spawn on the beast.
DONT try spawn in the beast as it just explodes
@c144538707 For some reason pictures keep getting terminated from something, will re-upload them somehow again soon. Deeply sorry for the situation!
Where is cockpit control instruction?
@InsertNameHere01 thank you very much!
can someone teach me how to start this plane up?
Lmao the name
Nice! Very much in the spirit of SimplePlanes honestly, I like it!
Budget Tomcat
Floppycat
F-41: can I copy your homework?
F-14: sure but don’t make it look obvious
Imposter ahh f-14
@Doyoucares , @PUMPKINSIDD , @N0ble
@HuskyDynamics01 , @Gro , @MrsKiwiexe
@XAircraftManufacturer , @DatTrainGuy19 , @VTPADELTA
I am gonna tag the people that upvoted on my teaser, I am sorry and will remove any comments if they did not want it and I misunderstood by some chance!