One of my Warplanes - American Navy Carrier Fighter.
Despite its clumsy appearance, the Wildcat served well as America's carrier fighter and Anti-Shipping Attacker in the early years of the Pacific War. While inferior compared to its Japanese 'Zero' rival, Wildcat Pilots turned to advanced tactics to hold their own until better aircraft arrived from the USA.
P I L O T S - N O T E S
Full working wing folds and working rockets (not intended as locking missiles).
ACT 1, 2, 3 - Fires three pairs of FFAR rockets. Aimed using the red crosshair under the main gunsight's crosshair.
ACT 8 - VTOL down 100% to bring down the wing folds, locking them into place.
In-game stats for nerds - F4F-3 Wildcat, 1200hp P&W (this version has 1300), 6,500lbs, 144gal located under cockpit, 320mph. Armed with 4x.50cal M2 Early Brownings w/2400rounds, American red tracers.
Gunsight: American ArmsLab N-2/AN Naval Mod
M2 Early Browning; 1.83m spread@100m, 750 Mv@M/s, 45g rounds, 12.5rps.
Specifications
Spotlights
- ColonelStriker 7.6 years ago
- SteveMoneyMan 7.6 years ago
General Characteristics
- Successors 2 airplane(s) +21 bonus
- Created On Android
- Wingspan 11.0ft (3.3m)
- Length 21.5ft (6.6m)
- Height 8.5ft (2.6m)
- Empty Weight 5,550lbs (2,517kg)
- Loaded Weight 6,504lbs (2,950kg)
Performance
- Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.199
- Wing Loading 35.3lbs/ft2 (172.4kg/m2)
- Wing Area 184.3ft2 (17.1m2)
- Drag Points 2323
Parts
- Number of Parts 120
- Control Surfaces 9
- Performance Cost 563
@ThePilotDude let's fly this to make it easy on ourselves you can customize it, however, don't change the flight characteristics
Nice!
@F104Deathtrap
Lol.
Hot damn how did i not see this until now. Great work!
Oh you did that fantastic dauntless? Those dive brakes were incredible! Whats coming next from you?
@Weaverfish Yeah, I recently finished a divebomber read a lot about how low FFAR performance kept purpose-built divebombers in service longer than they should have been. That's not to say divebombers weren't great planes in their time, but their time should have ended once navy fighters started going faster than 350mph!
I was gona do a Hellcat a few weeks ago, but then @Mikoyanster posted his amazing Bearcat, and I figured Grumman had enough glory for one month.
@F104Deathtrap Haha fair enough :) I would have accurately set each of the rockets to the correct weights, but apparently it affects the speed of the rockets and since they're already too fast at 450mps... original FFARS were 200mps, so I kept them on default.
@Weaverfish My mistake, I was flying it with full racks of missiles, once I got rid of them it turned much more eagerly and thats probably accurate. The flight model is fine. Great job!
@F104Deathtrap Thanks! Whats incorrect with the flight model?
The folding wings are very true-to life!
Cool!
hey,can you make me an Ar-234? I can make the RATOs for them
@TAplanes @Liquidfox thanks guys :)
I really like the cockpit view!
@ReischetzFokke Il-2 coming soon, Meanwhile, check this.