Merry Christmas everyone (Sorry for disappearing again). Here's a little present as an apology.
I'm presenting my next jumbo in the fleet.
Characteristics
As you can see it's a double decker airliner based on the boeing 747 and designed to serve as a successor to the P.A. 25 and the P.A. 40.
Capabilities
It can carry between 600 and 700 passengers at a max speed of 600/650 km/h with a comparable range to its predecessor. The main improvement in the design it's the lower weight and a better wing design that allows for fast take-off and lower speed landings.
Lore (skip if you're not interested)
Markus Airways has always been willing to buy large aircraft for their long range routes both as a publicity move to make the airline more and more popular both as a way to balance the use of expensive supersonic airliners that sometimes caused hard losses for the company. Their first jumbo jet was the P.A. 25, a moderate success in their fleet but it wasn't enoght in terms of capacity soon 2 projects came in to fill a market for larger planes (800-1200 passengers). Planes like the P.A. 38/40 and 46 entered the fleet but after the retirement of smaller versions of the P.A. 40 and the P.A. 25 a spot was left empty in the airline for a slow 500/700 passengers carrying aircraft with long range capabilities. It was proposed to modernize the P.A. 25 but the airline prefered instead to allow building an entirely new aircraft that would follow a similar design. The result is this plane called "the hunchback" thanks to the 747 like passenger "hump" in the fuselage. The aircraft was a success and it became well known in the airline for the ability to land even in smaller regional airports. A total of 150 were built for Markus Airways.
Controls
All the controls are easy to access in the aircraft instructions
Hope you will enjoy this and have a good Flight :)
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Predecessor Airliner Challenge
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 170.8ft (52.1m)
- Length 152.4ft (46.5m)
- Height 39.7ft (12.1m)
- Empty Weight N/A
- Loaded Weight 121,343lbs (55,040kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 1.111
- Wing Loading 41.8lbs/ft2 (203.9kg/m2)
- Wing Area 2,905.5ft2 (269.9m2)
- Drag Points 36676
Parts
- Number of Parts 446
- Control Surfaces 15
- Performance Cost 2,091
My head appears to be in the glass-
@Bellcat well yeah i started making this plane before the update but then i decided to try using it. I do have to say that it isn't my most successfull attempt.
Evaluation
Realism
Point 1: NOT REACHED(The plane is the way too fast and its handling are a bit too bad)
Point 2: REACHED
Point 3: REACHED (but the brake are very strong i suggest you to set the brakeTorque to 0)
Looks
Point 1: NOT REACHED (The plane are match with the period(1970s-1990s) but the shape are very odd and the landing gear are too small)
Point 2: REACHED (but the cockpit is too small so i not recommended this plane to used in SPVR)
Description
REACHED
In my opinion
This plane are good but i don't too like the shape because it looks odd and the handling are bad but overral, it was good
Total point
Realism: 30
Looks: 20
Description: 10
30+20+10= 60 points
Thank you for participating in my challenge
~Pane
I don’t think you used fuselage slicing all along, do you? The only thing I like are the wings and fins (except for the vertical stabilizer). The fuselage seems odd to me.
@airlinerbuilder No probs, my man. ;)
@Boeing777x thank you so much :)
Ooooh, this one looks pretty nice. :) And merry Christmas, my bro. :D