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Planes for Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer
By David Thompson 4/30/88
(C) David Thompson 1988
1. FILES IN THIS ARCHIVE:
NEWFLY.DOC - This file.
F-14A.FLY - Grumman's F-14A Tomcat
MD-80.FLY - McDonnell Douglas DC-9/MD80
HARRIER.FLY - RAF's BAe Harrier V/STOL Fighter
2. HOW TO USE THE FILES.
The airplanes in this file require the use of Chuck Yeager's Ad-
vanced Flight Trainer (formerly known as Advanced Flight Simulator)
from Electronic Arts. To use these planes, simply copy them onto the
workdisk or directory with AFT. AFT will find them and add them to
the planes menu. (If you have an older version, AFS, you might have to
delete old planes to make room. Copy the old files to a new disk
before deleting them!)
3. THE PLANES.
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Grumman F-14A Tomcat
Engine : 2 Pratt & Whitney TF30-P-414A's (20,900 lb st.)
w/ afterburning, Garrett ATS200-50 air turbine
starter.
Wingspan : 64 ft unswept; 38 ft swept; 33 ft overswept.
Length : 62 ft, 8 in.
Weight : Max. Take Off 74,349 lbs.
Design landing weight 51,830 lbs.
Landing Gear : Retractable Tricycle
Service Ceiling : above 50,000 ft.
Maximum Speeds : Mach 2.34 at height; Mach 1.2 at SL;
Carrier approach speed 134 knots;
Stall speed 115 knots
Crew: 2
The Tomcat is the Navy's finest fighter aircraft, first placed
into service in 1972. The F-14A is the upgraded version with more
powerful engines, and a faster response time to alerts. The wings are
desgined to be swept forwards or back for manuveribilty during dog-
fights. Based both on carriers at sea and at Navel Air Stations
across the globe.
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McDonnel Douglas MD-80
Engine : 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-209 turbofan engines
Wingspan : 107 ft
Length : 147 ft
Max Weight : 148,000 lbs
Landing Gr : Retractable Gear at wings and nose.
Service Cl : 35,000 ft.
Max Speed : 575 mph
Crew : 2 with jumpseat; 172 passengers
Previously known as the Super 80, the MD-80 was developed from
the DC-9 to meet the needs of airlines on short/medium routes who re-
quire an aircraft with increased capacity and advanced electronic
flight systems.
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BAe Harrier; RAF Harrier GR. Mk 3
Engine : 1 Rolls-Royce Pegasus Mk 103 vectored thrust turbofan
(21,500 lb st) with four exhaust nozzels of the two-vane cascade type,
rotatable through 98 degrees from full aft position.
Wingspan: 25 ft combat; 29 ft ferry;
Length : 45 ft single crew; 57 ft double crew;
Landing Gear: Retractable bicycle type, permitting operation in
rough areas.
Service Ceiling: 51,200 ft
Maximum Speed : 635 knots at S/L; Mach 1.3 in dive from height.
Crew : 1 or 2, depending on type of configuration.
This is the Royal Air Force's and the Royal Navy's famous jump-
jet, the world's first operational Vertical/Short Take-off & Landing
strike fighter. The first prototype flew in August of 1966. The
fighter that took part in the Falkland's campaign in 1982.
4. NOTES.
These airplanes were developed with the aid of the AFSEDIT
program developed by Mike Cleary. My hat's off to him at Exec-PC BBS
at 414-964-5160.
These three airplanes are based upon staticistics for each
aircraft, and with what I felt the planes should "feel" like when
flying. I may be off the mark, but I hope it is a close as possible.
The BAe Harrier was the hardest to program, with the added feature of
V/STOL, so I gave it incredible lift and drag when flaps are down.
One thing to remember, keep the throttle at over 50% when doing a ver-
tical landing, or you'll drop too fast. The jet manages to actually
take-off and land with very little forward motion!
The MD-80 is very stable, with low take-off speed with flaps in
the down position, and once at alitiude, throttle back to about 60%,
and the aircraft stays very straight and level.
The F-14A is a souped up F-16 with changes to make it more like a
heavier, less agile fighter, but with more power. I changed the num-
bers to keep a dead-stick landing from being fatal, which is closer to
what you'd expect from such an aircraft, and keeps in line with the
listed stall speed and carrier approach speed.
I think we all know by now how the planes are programmed, and all
of us owe a geeat deal to Kirk Wagner, who figureed it all out in the
first place. Read his file, AFS747.ARC for more information. Also
read Rus Phillips files for even further information. His are in-
cluded in the collection known as AFSSTUFF.ARC.
If you have any improvements on these airplanes, name them with
an "A" or "B", etc, and hollar at me. If you have any questions or
comments, hollar. I can be contacted at the following:
David Thompson
PO Box 200514
Arlington, Tx 76006
CompuServe # 75340,2511
5. LICENSING
All of these files are intended for non-commercial, public domain
use, and may be copied, used, distributed subject to this license. Al-
terations without renaming the files is phrobited. These programs are
supplied "as is" and without any warrenties, expressed or implied, in-
cluding fitness or suitibility for a particular purpose. These files
may not be sold.
Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer, and Advanced Flight
Simulator are trademarks of Electronic Arts.
6. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Janes World Encyclopedia of Aircraft, 1986-1987 edition.