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Piper L-4H Rosie the Rocketer by Uncle T

FOR VERSION 1.2!

This is my take on the Piper L-4H Grasshopper reconnaissance aircraft.
This particular version is "Rosie the Rocketer" piloted by Lt. Col. Charles "Bazooka Charlie" Carpenter. Inspired by other L-4 pilots he strapped 6 bazookas to his plane and managed to destroy or disable several armoured vehicles and was officially credited with 6 destroyed tanks during the autumn of 1944.

It's an approximation, not a 1:1 replica. (I know some proportions are a bit messed up.)

The Grasshopper was produced in large numbers during WW2 and used for among other things reconnaissance, artillery spotting, liaison, medical transport and ground control.
The L-4 Grasshopper was mechanically identical to the J-3 civilian Cub, but was distinguishable by the use of a Plexiglas greenhouse skylight and rear windows for improved visibility,

Alt controls to fly.
W/S: Variable throttle.
S: Ground brakes.
A/D: Ground steering/Yaw.
Up/Down arrow: Pitch.
Left/Right arrow: Roll.
Fire action 1-6/Num 1-6: "Bazookas". *

* Since it's impossible to strap the in-game RPG to the plane and since it's as impossible to build tiny bazookas these rockets will have to do. Since they are so short they seem to be even more prone to inaccurate behaviour than missiles usually do but it's what I can accomplish considering size and weight are issues.

A note on the handling: The super realisctic "dynamic" fluid dynamics system in 1.2 for some reason robs the plane of a lot of lift between 80 and 130 kph. It just suddenly dips the nose down for no discernable reason, but I'm guessing there's some threshold in the system it reaches and the numbers are just not balanced. Since the real top speed of the plane is about 140 kph a lot of the flying happens around those speeds so to make it a bit less annoying I made the top speed is a bit higher at 175 kph to help avoid that annoying intervall at least a little.

Feel free to edit, but if you re-upload publically in any way please acknowledge the original creation and creator.

Have fun!