N.A. T-6G2 "Texan" - Algerian War
Here it is ! Finally ! The Algerian War T-6 I promised !!!
First, let's talk a bit about history.
As pretty much everyone knows, the T-6 Texan is a military trainer aircraft built by North American Aviation in the 30s and 40s.
After World War Two, France bought loads of T-6D and G to train its future fighter pilots.
When the Algerian War started in 1954, the Armée de l'Air decided to use the T-6Gs as light attackers for anti-guerilla and sky police purposes, mainly against FLN (Front de Libération Nationale, the Algerian "terrorist" guerilla) and their convoys, weapon caches, etc.
The T-6G could be fitted with two guns pods, each featuring twin AA-52 7.5mm machine guns, and a lot of different armaments :
- Up to 6 Tercé T10 heavy rockets ; or
- 72x SNEB 37mm light rockets as two Matra LR 361 pods ; or
- 14x SNEB 68mm light rockets as two 7-rockets pods ; or
- 2x 50kg DT2 general purpose bombs ; or
- 8x 10kg PA anti-infantry bombs, as two packs of 4 bombs.
Now, some explainations about this particular model.
The version I brought you today is a T-6G2, fitted with the two gun pods and four T10 140 (HE warhead) heavy rockets.
The livery is inspired of a plane that belonged to the EALA 16/72.
I made some simple (but quite historically inaccurate) instruments for the cockpit view :
Controls :
Pretty simple, not gonna lie
- ActivationGroup 4 for emergency mode, then FireGuns to use the fire extinguisher (the machineguns are disabled when AG4 is activated)
- ActivationGroup 8 for the landing lights
- VTOL Down for the flaps
- Trim to trim (pitch only)
Special feature
As what I saw on @vcharng's planes inspired me, I decided to make the plane's behavior more realistic by... silmply bamboozling the control surfaces when the T-6 is overspeeding. So, if you manage to make a dive long enough to pass 378kmh, the commands won't respond anymore (oops, looks like you can't go out of this soon fatal downfall...) ; then, at about 385kmh, the control surfaces will be schredded by the relative wind and the acceleration the plane is facing.
Disclaimer : I have no idea what's the VNE (Velocity to Never Exeed) of the T-6 so I chose these speeds as they're quite far from the G2's max speed and I couldn't reach any higher speed with a 1,000m dive. Tell me if you know what would be the real self-destruction speed of the real plane. Also, it's the first time I try to make this kind of destructive realism.
Please give me your feedback !
And if you enjoyed this plane as much as I enjoy it, please consider leaving an upvote or even a spotlight !
Note : this plane is also available with the two 37mm rocket pods.
Specifications
Spotlights
- MisterT 4.2 years ago
- ACEPILOT109 4.3 years ago
- Typhoon03 4.3 years ago
- Ren 4.0 years ago
General Characteristics
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 43.0ft (13.1m)
- Length 29.7ft (9.0m)
- Height 12.3ft (3.8m)
- Empty Weight 4,493lbs (2,038kg)
- Loaded Weight 6,265lbs (2,842kg)
Performance
- Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.095
- Wing Loading 18.7lbs/ft2 (91.5kg/m2)
- Wing Area 334.3ft2 (31.1m2)
- Drag Points 6058
Parts
- Number of Parts 460
- Control Surfaces 11
- Performance Cost 1,705
PS : Huge thanks to @BogdanX for making the wing tips, testing, pointing out the cons, and giving advice to me
Go show him sove love guys :)
@WarHawk95 ok tank you :)
@mateo973 yeah you gotta have like idk maybe 30+ points to upvote, you have 0 so far
To get these points you gotta be upvoted urself
And thanks but you guys aren't ready for the new version
btw i cant upvote
man this plane is very good !
@WarHawk95 ??
@PapaWii
@PapaKernels
aight,this is really good but its not a successor of our challenge
@WiiMini glad you did. It's a frequent thing in the French air force.
today I learned about sky police
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@WarHawk95 my name in Ryad#1544
@WarHawk95 I mean we learned.
Pls invite me.
@WarHawk95 when French live in Algeria we lerbed your language.
@WarHawk95 yes I can.
@MRpingouin here's an invite but I hope you can speak french correctly since it's the server's main language.
@WarHawk95 hahah it is fine if you come to Algeria just tell me I will let you in my hous and I will give you some nice algerian food I live with my family. But it is ok. Also good news you can now invite me again in you discord becaus I opened a new dicord a count pls invite me.
@MRpingouin pourquoi pas se rencontrer, mais t'héberger je sais pas, ç'est assez bordélique chez moi
(accessoirement c'est assez bizarre parce que je te connais pas vraiment)
@WarHawk95 it would be cool if we meet each other
@WarHawk95 yes I wonder would you accept me in your hous if I visited French with my family.
@MRpingouin well, I'm french. That's kinda hard to know our soldiers died too. But fortunately not this is behind us, and our countries are in peace.
Well did you know that I'm algerian. Lol that was a hard war for us 1.5 million soldier died in this war. And finally we win the war.
@KnightOfRen well, thx !
@WarHawk95
oops, I only had like, 8-9K when this came out. Now i can spotlight you :)
@KnightOfRen well, thx I guess... Feel free to spotlight so your followers can see it...