This is a 300 kph (185+ mph) model of the fabulous 'Hun': The U.S Airforce's F-100 D. This AV also sports rate gyros on the pitch and roll channels.
One of the most beautiful of all aircraft in my book! In this AV all the components have realistic weights and sizes, and have been located appropropriately.
The wing loading is quite low at just under 60 g/dm^2 (just over 19 oz/ft^2), about two thirds that of 'normal', making the handling light and quite forgiving , but without the model 'floating' about when coming in to land. A good setup, I think.
This model has a 2 m (6' 6") wingspan and weighs 9 kg (almost 21 lb) and is powered by a wrung-out KJ66 producing 92N (almost 21 lb) of thrust, so we are into a power-to-weight ratio of better than 1:1 after we have burnt-off a bit of fuel!. Pretty good for a build-it-yourself gas turbine. Well,excellent,actually!!
The 2260 cc fuel tank is good for 9½ mins of flat-out flying.
Rate gyros have been added to the pitch and roll channels to 'even-out' control response across awide speed range and make the model more 'predictable'.
Flaps and slats are operated by the rotary knob. Some additional elevator is mixed in with the flaps to help alleviate stick loads when flying slow with flaps down.
The throttle has -100% (minus 100%) exponential applied at all times to give more precise control at low power settings when you need it most - landng!
Wheel brakes are operated by pushing on the stick i.e. giving 'down' elevator.
The air brake is deployed by closing the throttle fully, and retracted again by cracking the throttle slightly open again - i.e. Air Brake on Throttle (ABoT).
Retracts are operated via the top right switch as normal. All the other flying controls are as per normal.
The wing stores shown on the graphic are not modelled in the physics in this AV. The clean wing gives much better handling and much more enjoyable flying.
A few different colour schemes are available on the Swaps, Mark(Inky00)England has created some wonderful colour schemes too (including my favorite: f-100 d texture, which has lots of coloured stripes etc. Commanders 'insignia', I believe). Additionally, Smiley produced f-100 d_CS , 'a minor repaint of Inky's colorful F-100D paint job', to use his words (he found the original f-100 d texture too colouful!) and Maj. Numbskully created the crome F-100_CS, a natural metal finish.
The (marvelous) original 3d model, (excellent) colour scheme and (spot-on) physics model were produced by Mark(Inky00)England as F-100D SuperSabre_EA.
I wouldl love to build one of these (and the turbine!) using the data from RF. It would be very interesting to see if the actual model behaved as it does in RF.
Many, many thanks go out to Mark(Inky00)England for the terrific original model, F-100D SuperSabre_EA, and great colour schemes too. Wonderful stuff!!
Nigel_B
One of the most beautiful of all aircraft in my book! In this AV all the components have realistic weights and sizes, and have been located appropropriately.
The wing loading is quite low at just under 60 g/dm^2 (just over 19 oz/ft^2), about two thirds that of 'normal', making the handling light and quite forgiving , but without the model 'floating' about when coming in to land. A good setup, I think.
This model has a 2 m (6' 6") wingspan and weighs 9 kg (almost 21 lb) and is powered by a wrung-out KJ66 producing 92N (almost 21 lb) of thrust, so we are into a power-to-weight ratio of better than 1:1 after we have burnt-off a bit of fuel!. Pretty good for a build-it-yourself gas turbine. Well,excellent,actually!!
The 2260 cc fuel tank is good for 9½ mins of flat-out flying.
Rate gyros have been added to the pitch and roll channels to 'even-out' control response across awide speed range and make the model more 'predictable'.
Flaps and slats are operated by the rotary knob. Some additional elevator is mixed in with the flaps to help alleviate stick loads when flying slow with flaps down.
The throttle has -100% (minus 100%) exponential applied at all times to give more precise control at low power settings when you need it most - landng!
Wheel brakes are operated by pushing on the stick i.e. giving 'down' elevator.
The air brake is deployed by closing the throttle fully, and retracted again by cracking the throttle slightly open again - i.e. Air Brake on Throttle (ABoT).
Retracts are operated via the top right switch as normal. All the other flying controls are as per normal.
The wing stores shown on the graphic are not modelled in the physics in this AV. The clean wing gives much better handling and much more enjoyable flying.
A few different colour schemes are available on the Swaps, Mark(Inky00)England has created some wonderful colour schemes too (including my favorite: f-100 d texture, which has lots of coloured stripes etc. Commanders 'insignia', I believe). Additionally, Smiley produced f-100 d_CS , 'a minor repaint of Inky's colorful F-100D paint job', to use his words (he found the original f-100 d texture too colouful!) and Maj. Numbskully created the crome F-100_CS, a natural metal finish.
The (marvelous) original 3d model, (excellent) colour scheme and (spot-on) physics model were produced by Mark(Inky00)England as F-100D SuperSabre_EA.
I wouldl love to build one of these (and the turbine!) using the data from RF. It would be very interesting to see if the actual model behaved as it does in RF.
Many, many thanks go out to Mark(Inky00)England for the terrific original model, F-100D SuperSabre_EA, and great colour schemes too. Wonderful stuff!!
Nigel_B
