Merveille

Short lore and description

The Merveille (Wonder in french) is a single engine, experimental VTOL developed by an unknown company for an unknown nation in the early 1950's.

It's engineering design allows it to take off from almost any flat surface, and also (hopefully) land in one piece too.

Due to the technology limitations of the era, production never started for this aircraft, although it did start inspiration for other nations and companies to develop their own VTOL aircrafts.

Specifications

A bit of technical stuff for this aircraft

• Powerplant: 41.7 kn turbojet.
• Maneuverability: Up to 20-22 degrees per second when pitching.
• Burn-time: 13.6 minutes.
• Wet Mass: 2,159kg.
• Dry Mass: 1,176kg.
• Thrust to weight ratio: 1.97x.

Notes:

Read these notes before you fly!

AG1 will toggle the engine and AG2 will toggle airbrakes. It is pretty challenging to land this aircraft due to the limited fuel and inexistence of a Vizzy program for making the process easier, so be careful!

This aircraft as you may notice, is pretty much a Coléoptère, which was actually done in real life by the French Air Force. Although there are some differences, specifically in the intake area and nose-cone, as my creation has small canards.

More notes

I will (hopefully) try posting more aircrafts and other things I build together out of boredom!