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Tupolev Tu-389 Black Crusty Swan Bear

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Backstory

In the waning years of the Soviet Union, an order was put out to design a bomber for the increasing tensions that led up to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and later, the USSR itself. The engineers at Tupolev had not yet finished their new Tu-160, but they were done with the wings and landing gear. So, they slapped the wings onto the fuselage of an old Tu-95, and added the tailplane of a Tu-134 airliner. The result, known by NATO as the “Black Crusty Swan Bear” was never used in combat due to its uncertainty of how it would actually work. It only reached testing stages, and only one was built.

Controls

Act 1 + VTOL: Landing gear door
Act 2: Afterburner
Act 3: Don’t touch
Act 4 + VTOL: Bomb bay doors
Act 5: Don’t touch
Act 6: Don’t touch
Act 7: Parachutes
Act 8 + VTOL: Flaps, slats, and wing sweep.

Aircraft Used:

REW’s Tu-160
WalrusAircraft’s Tu-95MS
Vonhubert’s and mine Tu-134UBL

Notes

DO NOT LET GO OF THE PARACHUTE. The plane has a weird bug with the main wheels where they’ll start freaking out and dragging the plane all over the place. I’m sure it’s fixable, but I don’t really know what the problem is.
Also, I know the nose wheel sticks through the fuselage, but I left it there because I thought it was funny.

Spotlights

General Characteristics

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 2.796
  • Wing Loading 23.5lbs/ft2 (114.6kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 7,602.1ft2 (706.3m2)
  • Drag Points 63648

Parts

  • Number of Parts 662
  • Control Surfaces 7
  • Performance Cost 3,625