this is the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, my best build to date!
history
The Fairchild republic a-10 thunderbolt ll is a heavy ground attack aircraft designed to be able to deastroy ground targets and protect ground troops. Its widly acclaimed for its power GAU-8 30mm autocannon, and its resistance to damage. The A-10 is one of the best planes for pilot safety in the United States arsenal and quite popular with the pilots who fly her, the ground troops who she protects, and the public who adores her 30mm cannon. It has faced opposition from the air force and many times had almost pushed out of service. With all good things her life in the airforce is slowly coming to a close, but a new aircraft is to replace her.
controls
Ag1- jettison weapons (very satisfying to watch, at least for me)
Ag2 - activate nose wheel
Ag3 - nav lights
Ag4 - cockpit light
Normal flight controls
Brake for air brakes
fetures
10 250lbs bombs, and 2 rocket pods
Realistic enough interior (sorry the artifical horizon doesn't work, when I scaled it down it messed with something and now it doesn't work)
Working control stick
Airalons double as air brakes (just like the real one)
gallery
builders note:
I tried making this as realistic as I could as far as speed and details, but the speed is a bit high and I'm to lazy to try and make it better. It's a very awesome aircraft to fly and I love how well it came out. It is seriously my best aircraft yet! It's about 1-2 months in the making, so it was not an overnight transformation to absolute beauty. I tried to get the warthog face on the nose but the shape of the nose and all that was to complicated for me to do, if you can do it then go ahead just give me credit and make it a successor. I total probably about 30 some hours were put in this.
small warnings
On takeoff you NEED to put in yaw right after you put up the power because if you dont catch it early it will just spin out, you need to catch the offset early to make good takeoffs. Fully loaded it is a bit slow in the controls but once you get rid of the weapons it's quite maneuverable.
thanks to those who upvote, comment, and follow
papakernels 12/28/2020
Specifications
Spotlights
- WiiMininininini 3.9 years ago
- rexzion 3.9 years ago
General Characteristics
- Predecessor Brrrrrrrt
- Created On Android
- Wingspan 45.6ft (13.9m)
- Length 43.3ft (13.2m)
- Height 11.0ft (3.4m)
- Empty Weight 7,950lbs (3,606kg)
- Loaded Weight 14,166lbs (6,426kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 1.586
- Wing Loading 50.5lbs/ft2 (246.6kg/m2)
- Wing Area 280.5ft2 (26.1m2)
- Drag Points 2419
Parts
- Number of Parts 211
- Control Surfaces 6
- Performance Cost 1,149
Hey ya know I forgot to say thanks to @cyan for his help with the landing gear!!
All tags were requested here teaser
I'm ligit in love with this thing, any angle it looks so good, look at the 3rd screeny it looks so good.
Amazing!!
Im going for 3k
Do you think I could hold that much bombs
@Strucker it's under it.
@xboxseriesx uh yeah.....
@PapaKernels
Tbh, I read it as comment [this word/phrase] to be tagged.
Do you think this could carry 25k pounds of bombs?
Almost 11k
@Strucker well I put under it to specify if you didn't want to be taged. Read the fine print.
@PapaKernels
you can't just say "Upvote" to be tagged my man, i don't like that at all, if I upvote it it means I like what I see, not to be tagged.
Oh ok all good. @PapaKernels
Lol
If you can just patch up that stuff then it’d be a really amazing build. @PapaKernels
@KangaKangaTheRedNosedRoo well I kept the wings like that so I could see if I made the roll and yaw going ths right way because when I mirror it it makes it not how I want it, so I was making sure it worked, just never scaled it down I guess.
@KangaKangaTheRedNosedRoo I didn't even see that one. lol
Read my first comment. Just left some constructive criticism there. @PapaKernels
@KangaKangaTheRedNosedRoo what's the problems?
Haha
It’s a pretty good build, just a few problems which are easily fixed is all. @PapaKernels
@KangaKangaTheRedNosedRoo you better have! It took me so long to make.
Yessir
I enjoyed flying it. @PapaKernels
Not bad,
But if this is your best work, then I think you can do better.
You haven’t scaled the in-game wings so you can still see the blue and black paint scheme on them when you use the roll pitch and yaw input.
You should also work on the engines. You could’ve easily used a commercial jet for it.
However the weapons are great, and the gun is quite realistic as you aren’t really meant to fire the gun irl for more than 3 seconds.
Nice work though, just improve the things I mentioned above.
@KangaKangaTheRedNosedRoo well here it is. But as I see you are already here.
@PapaKernels lol ok I will help later but so you dont get bored... here is something for you to work on. Also... that's what she said a little bit