Made some vast improvements over the A3 variant, including a smooth overhaul of the fuselage and wings, changes in the airfoils, yaw rate and roll rate, a new nose landing gear, and a black and silver USAF decal on top! Even with almost every wing piece being flat-bottom, and the wing loading being very low, this darling can PSM even while flying at Mach 1, and she is a very stable angel, in my humble opinion. But, please, be sure to let me know what the rest of you think, and how I can improve this series later on!
(PS: If you choose to download and you like this aircraft, don't forget to upvote. I see too many people downloading my planes and not leaving an upvote; a ratio of 15 downloads to 1 upvote on average.)
Credit to:
@Doomnolymo for the Radar!
@PlanariaLab for the Hud!
@GuyFolk for the advice on the last build!
Specifications
Spotlights
- SPairforce 2.8 years ago
- Icey21 2.8 years ago
- Zaineman 2.8 years ago
General Characteristics
- Predecessor F-300-A3 StarHawk
- Created On Android
- Wingspan 50.8ft (15.5m)
- Length 59.9ft (18.2m)
- Height 16.8ft (5.1m)
- Empty Weight 27,862lbs (12,638kg)
- Loaded Weight 39,172lbs (17,768kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 6.884
- Wing Loading 32.5lbs/ft2 (158.5kg/m2)
- Wing Area 1,206.9ft2 (112.1m2)
- Drag Points 4136
Parts
- Number of Parts 667
- Control Surfaces 8
- Performance Cost 2,968
@SkyJayTheFirst Thanks for the tag. Oh and I think you can only tag 3 users in a single message, although I might be wrong.
@Falco7 @donkski @IceCraftGaming @TomatoIsAFruit @Zaineman @GuyFolk @Themanbehindtheslaughter I've finally built the B3 variant of the F-300 StarHawk! Now comes with yaw TVC, and more!
I really like this type of futuristic planes
@SkyJayTheFirst
lol
Making FT flight control is not easy indeed so that's why FT flight control system is so special and a rare breed of SP builder.
Good luck.
@GuyFolk I think I'll do the yaw tvc on my next variant, as well as the pitch and roll rate for both engines. Not gonna be easy, but I can definitely do it. Thanks again.
Apparently this plane doesn't need this over the top 30 degrees of tvc to do PSM, 10 is enough, it was tuned good enough so it'll not stall by normal flight but can stall if the pilot want to.
I think this leave yaw tvc to be desire, if the plane's layout not permitted you can use differential thrust instead of moving nozzle.
Also, I'm spoiled by those fancy FT control system so I suggest you to use code in tvc nozzles too, when you doing PSM the engines are most of the control you have, even you have super fancy FT but no code in tvc you'll have a hard time flying PSM regardless.
@SkyJayTheFirst I know Guyfolk (I follow him) his work is amazing ! I love this one plane of his where doors pop open under his aircraft and he has a rotating missile Bay and a self aiming railgun. Not unlike the detector Cannon
@SkyJayTheFirst omg, I'm so sorry, I forgot to Upvote you and spotlight you . My bad....done...
@SkyJayTheFirst I will ! Thank you !
@Zaineman if you think I'm good, you should really check out GuyFolk. He is noticeably a lot better at this than I am.
@SkyJayTheFirst , I plan on editing my description to give you credit. Those engines are a work of art and must have taken forever to build. All of the lights inside the engines set to light up at different levels of thrust. I counted at least 4 different stages of different lights. I think that most people would not notice just how sweet they are. I play on a tablet and know nothing about thrust vectoring. So, I grabbed your engines from the "Rotator" on back and put them in my sub assemblies and labeled them right thrust vectoring engine and left thrust vectoring engine. Lol Anyways props on the engines, they are simply a work of art.
@Zaineman sure did! Had to make them on a seperate build of mine, but yeah, I made the engines.
Did you make the engines on this aircraft ? They are a work of art and I want to see if you made them. If so,I will give you credit on my plane "Z-29 Super Yeet Detector"
Man you passed silver, well done
@Falco7 @donkski @IceCraftGaming @TomatoIsAFruit Thank you all for your support!
Beautiful
Now THAT is beautiful
Looks great, definitly an improvement. I suggest increasing wing loading to about 400kg/m2, and reducing engine power