The Vickers Swallow was a supersonic aircraft project headed by Barnes Wallis, working at Vickers-Armstrongs. It was envisioned as a Mach 2.5 variable-geometry airliner/bomber with swiveling engines. One of the weirdest aircraft ever.
Due to directional instability, I couldn't really use the engines to control pitch and roll like in the original design. I may build a bomber variant if this is well received.
Controls:
Activate1 toggles navigation lights.
Trim will trim pitch.
You may have noticed that the cockpit is raised up above the main fuselage. This was as designed. The cockpit will drop back down automatically when the landing gear retracts.
Canards automatically retract at >25% throttle.
Wings swing back automatically at >50% throttle.
Do not throttle up too quickly, lest you go into a flatspin.
Rotate at ~190 mph (300kph) Max. speed ~1440 mph (2320 kph) at 20,000ft (6000m).
Specifications
Spotlights
- Kangy 4.4 years ago
- CheeseTruffles 4.4 years ago
General Characteristics
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 160.5ft (48.9m)
- Length 131.2ft (40.0m)
- Height 14.8ft (4.5m)
- Empty Weight N/A
- Loaded Weight 56,820lbs (25,773kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 4.746
- Wing Loading 22.0lbs/ft2 (107.3kg/m2)
- Wing Area 2,585.3ft2 (240.2m2)
- Drag Points 7615
Parts
- Number of Parts 195
- Control Surfaces 10
- Performance Cost 953
Looks super weird. But your model is very cool, and has potential!
Excellent flight mechanics. I like how the wings don’t start to sweep until after about 80% power, nice touch. It would have made an excellent SST if the bomber version were to have been created.
I’ve been waiting for this aircraft to be made by someone for the past two years.