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Barton Bolingboke Bomber

3,687 Sockdragger  12 days ago

My take on @StopbreathingMyAir's A-11: The Bolingboke from fictional Barton-On-Humber Air Construction inc.. A twin engined bomber from the late 1930's, contemporary of the Handley-Page Hampden and Armstrong-Whitworth Whitley, blessed with the flying characteristic of the Blackburn Botha.

Build on a dare by adding a new fuselage to the wings and engines of @StopbreathingMyAir's A-11 and rearranging the standard blocks (rather than fuselage blocks) of its fuselage, the result is an overall a rather sorry excuse of an aircraft, slow and underpowered and needing almost the entire length of Bandit Airport for takeoff.... And landing on any runway other than Wright or Yeager is definitely a challenge....

But hey, I bet you're the type that loves a challengs so now you are aching to download the thing and see if it is really that hard to fly.

So yea, go ahead.

Flying: The aircraft uses my favor layout of VTOL down for flaps, VTOL up for air brakes/dive brakes and Brake for full air brakes in addition to wheel brakes.
Takeoff is at 100-110 mph, which with the weak standard engines may take the complete length of Bandit Airport to achieve. This is the same with or without flaps! Somehow I never got them to work. Landing is mostly a question of lining up with the runway and not floating over it even without power. Use a combination of pitch down and brake to dive up to the runway, on the last yards, release the brake, pitch up and do not brake again until your gear solidly on the ground. Watch out for digging nose-in.

again: *credit goes to @StopbreathingMyAir for designing the A-11 that I based this aircraft on.

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 52.2ft (15.9m)
  • Length 32.9ft (10.0m)
  • Height 14.9ft (4.5m)
  • Empty Weight 8,151lbs (3,697kg)
  • Loaded Weight 9,333lbs (4,233kg)

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.482
  • Wing Loading 24.9lbs/ft2 (121.4kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 375.5ft2 (34.9m2)
  • Drag Points 2177

Parts

  • Number of Parts 76
  • Control Surfaces 14
  • Performance Cost 363