The Falcon 50 "Susanna" is a rather unusual modification of the Dassault Falcon 50 business jet, the nose of the plane was modified to install the nose cone of the Mirage F1, that carried the Cyrano IV-C5 radar which would guide the aircraft's armament, two AM-39 Exocet anti-ship missile on two underwing pylons, this plane was a training aircraft for soon to be Mirage F1 crews, the aircraft remains relatively unknown to the outside world, that is until May 17th 1987.
During the Iran-Iraq war, the Middle East Task Force was organized to protect tanker ships in response to the Tanker War, USS Stark was part of this task force and was patrolling off the Saudi Arabian coast near the Iran–Iraq War exclusion boundary, at around 10pm that night the Stark detected an aircraft coming towards it, it's captain sent out two messages to to get the plane to identify itself but there was no response, minutes later, it was struck by two Exocet anti-ship missiles, one failed to detonate but the other one did, the first one caused a fire near the ship's bridge while the second knocked out the Stark's Standard Missile system, initially it was believed that an Iraqi Mirage F1 was responsible for the attack, however later it was concluded that the attack was done by the Falcon 50 as the Mirage F1 was only capable of carrying a single AM-39, the aircraft responsible was flown to Iran during the Persian Gulf War and was not returned.
This SimplePlanes version of the aircraft is using the usual scale, 70% scale of the actual plane or about 1:1.142, this plane is basically your standard, no-interiror type replica, it's kinda an old build as it still used my old architecture build because I was working on something else for SP, at least there's some paint job now, and the controls are slightly changed, so I didn't completely leave the plane unmodified.
Controls :
VTOL : Flaps
Trim : Trim
AG3 : Jettison missiles
AG6 : Landing lights
AG7 : Lights
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Created On Android
- Wingspan 44.4ft (13.5m)
- Length 46.8ft (14.3m)
- Height 16.5ft (5.0m)
- Empty Weight 12,223lbs (5,544kg)
- Loaded Weight 13,154lbs (5,966kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 1.153
- Wing Loading 38.0lbs/ft2 (185.4kg/m2)
- Wing Area 346.5ft2 (32.2m2)
- Drag Points 4868
Parts
- Number of Parts 147
- Control Surfaces 9
- Performance Cost 770
Está muy bien hecho 👌