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TorqueSim Pocket Rocket · TorqueSim · X-Plane 11
The engine sidebar displays fuel in gallons. The SYSTEM sidebar uses pounds and includes a totalizer for fuel used and remaining.
Pocket Rocket manual · PDF pp.26–28; source units checked
Tupolev designed the Tu-154 in the 1960s for medium-range routes. Three rear-mounted engines and a high horizontal tail formed its outline. It served across the Soviet Union, its successor states and overseas airlines. Felis represents the Tu-154M; the original product and community continuations support different versions.
Tu-154M in Czech government service; the B-2 uses different engines and weights.
The VFW 614 was a West German short-haul jet with engines on pylons above the wings. The Deutsches Museum preserves a later ATTAS research conversion and describes this unusual engine installation.
Deutsches Museum VFW 614 / ATTAS specification
The RV-10 first flew in 2003 as Van's first four-seat design in the established RV range. Its low wing, fixed tricycle gear and enclosed cabin are supplied as a kit for amateur construction.
Builders can choose different engines, avionics and interiors. Laminar's X-Plane model represents the cockpit, avionics and trim controls documented in its manual.
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Velocity XL · Black Square · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
The feature list describes a combining header tank and engine-temperature management through custom G3X indications, alongside a dedicated turbocharger simulation.
Documented simulation features; no external variable mapping inferred
Viper Aircraft's homebuilt ViperJet has tandem seats under a canopy, a composite low-wing airframe and retractable gear. Side intakes supply the engine. Aerobask's ViperJet EX has its own simulator equipment and features documented by the developer.
The Corsair’s inverted gull wing and large radial engine give it one of the most recognizable fighter outlines of the Second World War. Blackbird’s FG-1D rendition is based on Goodyear-built aircraft BuNo. 92132, which arrived too late for wartime service and later served in the naval reserve. The developer recounts its subsequent television work and restoration by the Tri-State Warbird Museum.
Blackbird rendition · FG-1D manual
The F7U-3M Cutlass used a tailless layout with its vertical stabilizers set on the wings. The National Naval Aviation Museum notes that the type’s engines left it underpowered, a limitation that became part of its service reputation.
Museum F7U-3M reference
The modern YMF-5 revives an open-cockpit biplane with a welded steel-tube structure, staggered wings and a Jacobs radial engine. WACO places the pilot in the rear cockpit and room for two occupants in front. Its history traces the revival to Classic Aircraft Corporation in 1983, with the first newly built YMF Classic certified in 1986.
The present aircraft preserves that layout while allowing contemporary equipment choices, including analog or glass instruments.
Current manufacturer configuration · Manufacturer description · YMF Classic · Current manufacturer YMF-5 reference; equipment varies
Donald MacRae’s recollections · page updated 20 October 2022
Kevin L. Cook · Fall 2005, volume 21, issue 2
The Scout developed from the Saunders-Roe P.531 for British Army utility service. It used a compact cabin, exposed engine area and skid undercarriage. The related Wasp shared origins and components but was adapted for naval work.
Wasp versions have wheeled landing gear and shipboard equipment. Cockpit and mission details differ between the two branches.
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