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I designed this fantasy plane some 15 years ago, on paper, when the time of personal computers did not started yet, not here at least. I could not imagine then that one day I would be able to model and "fly test" it. When
I developed the idea of this plane my only one guiding feeling was
"the shape of the thing". In this case I tried to design a birdlike
plane. Later I gave it the name of one Aztec's god, that one that
have the ability to fly and that was also described as a serpent
(there are some pyramids in Central America built after he). |
Specifications (measured during flight tests): Power Plant: 2 jet engines (30,000 lb) Fuel capacity: 16,000 lb Weight empty: 23,400 lb Weight full: 54,000 lb Jettisonable: 11,000 lb Wingspan: 64 ft Length: 56 ft Fuel endurance: 4 hours (estimated) Maximum ceiling: 130,000 ft Maximum speed: 3.3 Mach Airframe limit: 3.0 Mach Equipped with Arresting Gear, Anti-Ice & Hoops |
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 Full functional custom panel subdivided in 4 main subject areas: flight controls, navigation, weather and aircraft controls. |
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| The difficult in modeling this plane was due its hull shape and most for the plane's beak. As X-Plane gives us few ribs to shape the fuselage (and few nodes in each rib) I had to break the fuselage in three major parts, so from the beak to the engines intakes I used the "fuse" part, from there to the plane's tail I used the "float" part to model the internal section (spine) of the body and the external section I did using the "nacelle" parts. | |||||
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My original sketches rescued from the past |
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Flight
Profile
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The
suggested cruise-power is at about 20% maximum engine throttle.
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SPECIAL MANEUVERS: you will like the acrobatics characteristics of this plane, specially in low speed, you can slip (fly) sideways, you can raise vertical, etc. You can do a 180 degrees directional turn, usually pivoting the entire plane with just the rudders, but be ready to counter act the rotation effect that the auto-stabilization system will engage. |
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It is amazing how far you can glide with this massive plane, probably
because its wings shape, therefore to land you'll need to maintain
the speed lower than 100 Kias. |
This
plane can reach airspeed Mach 3.3 with full engine power without having
afterburners, but if realistic failure option is set on, the wing
will be tear up past Mach 3. |
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Versions History
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Almost
everything here done by me: Marcelo M. Marques - codename 31 M.M.M
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