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AXP B-120A-1 Fulcrum

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The B-120A-1 Fulcrum is a All weather, Medium, Day and Night bomber, she has no defensive armaments or offensive armaments to save on weight, but what she lacks in Firepower she exceeds in bombing capabilities. She carries 8x boom 50s mounted in a bombay. She has a long and interesting backstory, she started off as a Floatplane bomber, but once they realized that she excelled in bombing capabilities she was transformed into a standard bomber configuration. She ran into several difficulties when being developed like the unfortunate accident of the second prototype where she suffered a non mechanical in flight fire and exploded mid air, the fire was caused by someone smoking and the ash caused it to catch fire. The first and unfinished third prototype were sent to the scrapyard because they weren’t as good as other medium bombers so the project was canceled, but they were taken out because the project was reactivated after they realized they needed something new because the D-71s were delegated to an Attacker role. She was ready for production and finalized 15 hours after the Second World War was officially ended, but the production run produced 1320 aircraft plus the 3 prototypes, she remains in service as a firefighting aircraft, but she was retired from active service in the 1970s. She fought heavily in the Krakabloan intervention during the Korean Conflict.

General Characteristics

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  • Wingspan 59.1ft (18.0m)
  • Length 37.9ft (11.5m)
  • Height 13.7ft (4.2m)
  • Empty Weight 19,421lbs (8,809kg)
  • Loaded Weight 29,752lbs (13,495kg)

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.268
  • Wing Loading 69.9lbs/ft2 (341.3kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 425.7ft2 (39.5m2)
  • Drag Points 9172

Parts

  • Number of Parts 92
  • Control Surfaces 8
  • Performance Cost 650