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F5F-4 Thundercat

4,971 ThePlaninatior  5.4 years ago
Auto Credit Based on Axartar's Closed The Vanilla Challenge

Made with Fine Tuner FYI

A Predessesor to the Hellcat, but a successor to the Wildcat, the Thundercat was an experiment to try and create a multirole carrior based aircraft. Capable of mounting bombs and rockets with the standard six 50. Cal M2 Brownings, the Thundercat also featured folding wings, fully trimable elevator planes, and a parachute for landing due to a suprisingly high co-efficent of lift. Due to its wing size however, when in high G manouvers it was found that one wing would stall before the other, resulting in rolling during a stall, this only occured when the elevators were pulled all the way back.

Stats
Take-off speed: 140 - 150mph depending on ordanince
Level flight speed: 500mph
Stall speed: 110mph

Weaponry
6 M2 Browning 50. Cal Machine Guns
12 HVAR Rockets
4 250lbs. Bombs

Features
AG-1 Arresting Hook
Ag- 2 Landing Parachute
VTOL - Wing Folding
Trim - Elevator plane angle

General Characteristics

  • Predecessor Closed The Vanilla Challenge
  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 39.1ft (11.9m)
  • Length 25.9ft (7.9m)
  • Height 12.5ft (3.8m)
  • Empty Weight 7,998lbs (3,627kg)
  • Loaded Weight 9,859lbs (4,472kg)

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.304
  • Wing Loading 41.1lbs/ft2 (200.4kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 240.2ft2 (22.3m2)
  • Drag Points 2420

Parts

  • Number of Parts 108
  • Control Surfaces 5
  • Performance Cost 597