Introduction
When the Royal Navy / Fleet Air Arm required an upgraded aircraft from its fleet of Attackers, Scimitars and SeaVixens the RJ company produced the SeaHound.
Based around a single large jet engine with reheat, it was a massive step up from the previous generation of fighters but still with the limitations of the era in regards to aerodynamics and radar etc.
This build took some doing, ive tried to include allsorts of bits and pieces i have either never done or dont do often, so it now includes working suspension to all three undercarriage legs and a man in the cockpit (with an ejection sequence).
I haven't included a full cockpit to keep the part count reasonable but i have played around and included recessed gun barrels tubes (no idea what the technical term is)
Controls
AG1 = start the engine and shut the canopy
AG2 = arrestor hook
AG3 = airbrakes (sequenced so lower petals shut at slow speeds i.e. landing)
AG4 = Nav lights
AG5 = fold wings / pitot tube
AG6 = Jettison drop tanks
AG7 = ejection sequence
Specifications
Spotlights
- EternalDarkness one month ago
General Characteristics
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 41.0ft (12.5m)
- Length 48.1ft (14.7m)
- Height 19.2ft (5.8m)
- Empty Weight 34,995lbs (15,873kg)
- Loaded Weight 54,161lbs (24,567kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 1.182
- Wing Loading 51.3lbs/ft2 (250.4kg/m2)
- Wing Area 1,056.2ft2 (98.1m2)
- Drag Points 1790
Parts
- Number of Parts 1099
- Control Surfaces 0
- Performance Cost 3,753
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@TheHaggisBasher hey i do make some realistic builds =) Check out my WW1 style aircraft for example.
@Emma159 Yeah thats fair, i used the Lightning for the cockpit only (Tornado nose - before chopping the end off, A7 fin and wing, F102 engine) but it does give off a squashed Lightning vibe =) Thanks for the upvote and comment.
a normal looking aircraft from Rambo? impossible
Naval version of the English Electric Lightning on a shoestring budget. Overall an amazing plane.
Great job!
Great jet .
why im thinking about we just took lighthing, cooked 1 engine and added landing hook and also make foldable wings for noe reason. Nice build tho
@Type2volkswagen Thanks for that, that flipping rotator has had zero on deactivate added so many times and it was working fine just before i posted this build, there are definately gremlins in the system for that. No idea what happened on the nose wheel either. Well spotted and thanks. Fixed build here
Great Build, but you missed a couple of things.
The Nose Landing Gear has a Piece out of place,(you can see it in the pictures).
The Speed brake located in the Left Bottom position doesn't behave like the others,(the white and green hinge rotator is missing the zeroOnDeactivate command).
Please feel free to delete this comment when corrections are made.