A.48 Yukon
The A.48 Yukon is a mid-sized and ranged, civilian airliner, with seating for 124 passengers and 8 flight crew personnel, including flight operations and passenger services. She is equipped with a smaller version of the same engines as the A.47 Skycity, requiring two-step activation of her engines (just for fun). Cruising altitude for efficiency is 25,000 ft to 36,000 ft. For her size, she is quite agile. She also boasts one of the best landing performances among all my birds. Please note that during maneuvers, full pitch / trim combo is detrimental to her stability... the trim controls for this bird will be more then enough. I got real into all the little details and stuff so she has a lot of AG keys.
That said, let's have some fun!
AG 1 - Spool up engine turbines (should take 10 - 15 seconds)
AG 2 - Initiate thrust (the actual jets)
AG 3 - Navigation lights
AG 4 - Anti-collision light
AG 5 - Runway taxi lights
AG 6 - Landing lights
AG 7 - Reverse thrusters
For take-off, spool up the turbines, activate navigation and anti-collision lights (activate runway taxi lights if you're going to taxi the bird). Set flaps (VTOL) to half down. Deactivate taxi lights once in position for take-off. Initiate thrust and throttle to full. Rotate with trim at 205mph.
For landing, activate landing lights, set flaps to full down, and airspeed between 145mph and 160mph (throttle between 40% and 45% if most of her fuel is unused). Trim input is all you will need to guide her down. Upon touchdown, go ahead and activate her reverse thrusters for a quicker stop. Note that her engines will produce thrust even at idle, until deactivated.
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 153.5ft (46.8m)
- Length 107.7ft (32.8m)
- Height 37.7ft (11.5m)
- Empty Weight 48,269lbs (21,894kg)
- Loaded Weight 73,249lbs (33,225kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 2.147
- Wing Loading 45.2lbs/ft2 (220.5kg/m2)
- Wing Area 1,622.0ft2 (150.7m2)
- Drag Points 35093
Parts
- Number of Parts 311
- Control Surfaces 0
- Performance Cost 3,345
@fleia262 The pleasure us all mine. What can I say, I'm very easy to impress. Also, I'm looking forward to seeing your Boeing 777 replica one day. :)
@Boeing777x Thank you for consistently offering encouragement, it really helps to encourage me to improve and I appreciate it. I'm glad you liked this one! My ultimate goal is to build a near-perfect (or just adequate lol) replica airliner.. tbh I'm seriously considering the triple 7 :D
I see that you are getting noticeably better at making airplanes. Keep it up. 😉