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Panavia Tornado GR.4

1,342 Mrshark17  2.5 years ago

I spent six months on this, so I hope you like it!
Last Christmas I got a book called "Tornado" by John Nicol. It's a really good book, I suggest you read it. Anyway, I decided the tornado was cool. So I made one in simpleplanes.
The Panavia Torando was a joint venture by Britain, Italy and West Germany during the cold war. It was introduced in 1979 and made famous with its service in the RAF. It was retired by the RAF in 2019, but is still used by others.
My Tornado has the Gulf War livery - so, very sandy.

To fly - flick the switches in the bottom right labelled "ENG1" and "ENG2". After that, no other instructions. It's all self-explanatory; everything is labelled and the plane flies like you would expect. By the way, feel free to mix and match your own loadouts. Want bombs on all the pylons? Go ahead!
Also comes with a fuel probe.

Pictures:
Dropping the drop tanks:

Flying with wings extended:

Dropping payload:

Pilot's seat:

Navigator's seat:

Credit:
I could not have done this without two specific builds by other people.
The first is the RWR by @Falkenwut. I changed it a little bit, but still it works brilliantly. https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/Wy4kcn/SPO-15-Beryoza-panel

Also, for the Navigator's map, I used @Type2volkswagen 's GPS with compass build. https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/5e1q7K/GPS-w-Compass. I love it.

Thanks to both of these people, I didn't ask them if I could use their stuff but I thought giving appropriate credit would be enough.

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 41.7ft (12.7m)
  • Length 56.3ft (17.2m)
  • Height 18.0ft (5.5m)
  • Empty Weight 29,243lbs (13,264kg)
  • Loaded Weight 41,216lbs (18,695kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 4.907
  • Wing Loading 80.1lbs/ft2 (390.9kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 514.8ft2 (47.8m2)
  • Drag Points 5899

Parts

  • Number of Parts 241
  • Control Surfaces 6
  • Performance Cost 1,634