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Fairey Firefly V.13

17.4k karlosdarkness  8.8 years ago
Auto Credit Based on karlosdarkness's Fairey Firefly V.12

Now with working cannon and two 250lb bombs this WWII fighter reconnaissance and strike aircraft served with the British Fleet Air Arm and with Australian Navy and the Navies of the Dutch, Indians and Canadians after the war. It entered service in the Sumer of 1944 (in time for operation Overlord (aka D-Day)) and was last flown operationally in 1962. Thanks to @cedy117 for the initial build and fabulous cockpit, flown from the cockpit view this plane makes an adequate fighter/interceptor and a pretty good dive bomber.

Full cockpit veiw cam 1 for rear cockpit cam 2-3 for bombs The Fairey Firefly was a British Second World War-era carrier-borne fighter aircraft and anti-submarine aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA).It was superior in performance and firepower to its predecessor, the Fulmar, but only entered operational service towards the end of the war. Designed around the contemporary FAA concept of a two-seat fleet reconnaissance/fighter, the pilot and navigator/weapons officer were housed in se e eparate stations. The design proved to be sturdy, long-ranging and docile in carrier operations, although the limitations of a single engine in a heavy airframe reduced overall performance.The Fairey Firefly served in the Second World War as a fleet fighter but in postwar service, although it was superseded by more modern jet aircraft, the Firefly was adapted to other roles, including strike operations and anti-submarine warfare, remaining a mainstay of the FAA until the mid-1950s. Both the UK and Australia Fireflies flew ground attack operations off various aircraft carriers in the Korean War. In foreign service, the type was in operation with the naval air arms of Australia, Canada, India, and the Netherlands whose Fireflies carried out a few attack sorties as late as 1962 in Dutch New Guinea. All credit too @cedy117 for making this fabulous replica, I've sorted the power issues, it's now got a contemporary maximum speed in the 320's once clean. It also has folding wings, push the slider up to fold.

General Characteristics

  • Predecessor Fairey Firefly V.12
  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 64.1ft (19.5m)
  • Length 55.9ft (17.0m)
  • Height 15.6ft (4.8m)
  • Empty Weight 7,688lbs (3,487kg)
  • Loaded Weight 36,233lbs (16,435kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 0.124
  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.027
  • Wing Loading 22.1lbs/ft2 (107.7kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 1,642.5ft2 (152.6m2)
  • Drag Points 5270

Parts

  • Number of Parts 244
  • Control Surfaces 7
  • Performance Cost 920