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Gloster Meteor

9,382 FlOu  9.2 years ago
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I hope for you that everbody knows the Gloster Meteor. If not, so here is it fully armed and the history from wikipedia. This was specially hard to build, particularly the armament. I build a speciall missile holder for it, wich you can put 8 missiles on each side. On the 8 missiles with the red head I had to remove the wingparts to garantee the functionality of the missiles. I tried to build it as similar as possible. Hope you like it and I wish you a pleasent flight with the powerfull Gloster Meteor.
P.s. check the cockpitview out.

I recommend you graphics settings on low or medium. With medium settings it can lagg until the missiles are fired. After that it should not lagg anymore. On low settings the wings in the back are bending while pitching, I don't know why.

Note:
1-2: Missiles with the yellow wings
3-4: Missiles with the red noses
5: Missiles holder
6: Scriefers bombs

On the function 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 you can switch the camera on to see if you hit your target.

Credits goes to:
@Scriefers for the bombs from his beautiful P-47 Thunderbolt.
@Molecule for the modded front gear from his wonderful Chrome Molly.
@SpiritusRaptor for the royal airforce logo.

As always cheers
Your FlOu

Wikipedia:
 The Gloster Meteor was the first British jet fighter and the Allies' only operational jet aircraft during the Second World War. The Meteor's development was heavily reliant on its ground-breaking turbojet engines, pioneered by Sir Frank Whittle and his company, Power Jets Ltd. Development of the aircraft itself began in 1940, although work on the engines had been under way since 1936. The Meteor first flew in 1943 and commenced operations on 27 July 1944 with No. 616 Squadron RAF. Nicknamed the "Meatbox", the Meteor was not a sophisticated aircraft in its aerodynamics, but proved to be a successful combat fighter.

Several major variants of the Meteor incorporated technological advances during the 1940s and 1950s. Thousands of Meteors were built to fly with the RAF and other air forces and remained in use for several decades. The Meteor saw limited action in the Second World War. Meteors of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) provided a significant contribution in the Korean War. Several other operators such as Argentina, Egypt and Israel flew Meteors in later regional conflicts. Specialised variants of the Meteor were developed for use in photographic aerial reconnaissance and as night fighters.

The Meteor was also used for research and development purposes and to break several aviation records. On 7 November 1945, the first official air speed record by a jet aircraft was set by a Meteor F.3 of 606 miles per hour (975 km/h). In 1946, this record was broken when a Meteor F.4 reached a speed of 616 mph (991 km/h). Other performance-related records were broken in categories including flight time endurance, rate of climb, and speed. On 20 September 1945, a heavily modified Meteor I, powered by two Rolls-Royce Trent turbine engines driving propellers, became the first turboprop aircraft to fly.[1] On 10 February 1954, a specially adapted Meteor F.8, the "Meteor Prone Pilot", which placed the pilot into a prone position to counteract inertial forces, took its first flight.[2]

In the 1950s, the Meteor became increasingly obsolete as more nations introduced jet fighters, many of these newcomers having adopted a swept wing instead of the Meteor's conventional straight wing; in RAF service, the Meteor was replaced by newer types such as the Hawker Hunter and Gloster Javelin. As of 2013, two Meteors, WL419 and WA638, remain in active service with the Martin-Baker company as ejection seat testbeds. Two further aircraft in the UK remain airworthy, as does another in Australia.

Original specifications:
Crew: 1
Length: 44 ft 7 in (13.59 m)
Wingspan: 37 ft 2 in (11.32 m)
Height: 13 ft 0 in (3.96 m)
Wing area: 350 ft² (32.52 m²)
Empty weight: 10,684 lb (4,846 kg)
Loaded weight: 15,700 lb (7,121 kg)
Powerplant: 2 × Rolls-Royce Derwent 8 turbojets, 3,600 lbf (16.01 kN) each
Performance

Maximum speed: 600 mph (522 knots, 965 km/h, Mach 0.82) at 10,000 ft (3,050 m)
Range: 600 mi (522 nmi, 965 km)
Service ceiling: 43,000 ft (13,100 m)
Rate of climb: 7,000 ft/min (35.6 m/s)
Wing loading: 44.9 lb/ft² (218.97 kg/m²)
Thrust/weight: 0.45
Time to altitude: 5.0 min to 30,000 ft (9,145 m)
Armament

Guns: 4 × 20 mm British Hispano MkV cannons
Rockets: Provision for up to sixteen "60lb" 3 in rockets or eight 5 inch HVAR rockets. under outer wings
Bombs: two 1000 lb (454 kg) bombs

Spotlights

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General Characteristics

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  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 36.9ft (11.3m)
  • Length 41.0ft (12.5m)
  • Height 12.0ft (3.6m)
  • Empty Weight 13,685lbs (6,207kg)
  • Loaded Weight 26,006lbs (11,796kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 2.592
  • Wing Loading 63.3lbs/ft2 (309.1kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 410.9ft2 (38.2m2)
  • Drag Points 7348

Parts

  • Number of Parts 267
  • Control Surfaces 20
  • Performance Cost 862
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    Do the Hispano cannons work. I'm trying to make a decision halliand vampire and I want to be as close as possible to the real thing.

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    1,147 Toast

    Updated version?

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    @FlOu lol

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    @Nickasaurus don't worry. Better late than never :)

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    @FlOu lol yeah, wish I had seen this sooner either way though.

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    @Nickasaurus thanks mate! Always nice to become an upvote after a while of post

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    @AndrewGarrison thanks buddy

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    @matador9776 hey mate. Sry but I can't help you cause I play it just on my smartphone and I know nothing about the PC-version. So I don't know how you could get it from the internet but we ask a dev @AndrewGarrison @KevinMurphy

    9.1 years ago
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    Hi I am searching for the 1.2 version of the game for PC ....
    But I can not find it
    the link of this site was locked in my country
    and i cant download it here....
    please help me....

    9.1 years ago
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    @Wakescar thanks dude
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    @ramjet thanks buddy. Glad you like it
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    @JShay thanks mate
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    4,485 ramjet
    This is an awesome aircraft, amazing build man
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    28.3k JShay
    Beautiful!
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    @CrazyAirLines okey. Do you post it on simpleplanes? Or is this another community?
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    @CrazyAirLines hey thanks mate. What is CrazyAirLines?
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    Your welcome @FlOu
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    @rezpe thank you. Glad you like it buddy
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    1,470 rezpe
    the replica is spot on, well done. I really like the cockpit view
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    @LordofLego yeah thats right. I try always to build my replicas as similar as possible
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    @GoGoBurrito thanks. Glad you like it
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    @planelover400 thank you mate
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    Nice work.
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    16.2k LordofLego
    Some people hide them in the fuselage so I thought that's what you had done.
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