For me this thing doesent even take off...

My Retrofit of it goes 60ish no problem, and i never changed the Engines....

Hey Firedune, I retrofitted it with about 60 front missles and a bunch of Rocket bombs, also i gave it automatic flares for whenever a missle comes close, Do you mind if i Upload it to the workshop?

Ion thrusters(they were regular jets)? I could have sworn i fixed that problem with a new updated version. I'll have to double-check...
FTD is undergoin a lot of physics changes now so i'm holding off for updates until it becomes more stable.

I found the problem with it going down. the ion thrusters in the back provide too much thrust in the back. in flight the ion thrusters push the back of the plane up and the front down.

This looks like it has been modeled off an AC-130

if you want to fix its try placeing seperate small effecient engines to even out the weight
it will help with stopping it getting forced into the water.

This is very likely die to some physics changes lately. I'll take a look into it again but it might not be practical any more, unfortunately. My bomber design was however working more or less fine a little while ago and i'd higly reccomend soul's gunship version a look-see.

it has a habit of going down mid-air. by this i mean that its engines force it into the water.

AI is a good way to controll a boat or a plane beacus controlling a plane and controlling the guns IS TERRIBLE same in boats

A lovely aircraft. :)

(Now.. I need to make a bigger one again)
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=344318471

Fitted a mortar to its broadside.
Such a nice plane ;)
Also you can fit AA in the tail to rid you of those pesky fighters...

good, i thought it was justa ll the heavy weponry that slowed it down from waht you said of 100m/s... by the way, ive finished and uploaded (might tweak if anythign more arises)

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=365264827

Right then, it should be updated and flying better now. I've fiddled with the AI settings and thrusters so that attack runs should fly over targets now. The downsides are with the apparent update, speed has been halved to 50m/s so a LAMS might not be impractical to protect it from missiles now.

haha, i'd love to see it! put it on the workshop when you think it's ready!

WOOOO!!!.. made a gunship, proper one to... actually shoots sideways and AI will support it and fly correctly. as well as added some countermeasures and decoys, as well as reinforced the hull.

Right then, I found the issue, the rear jets that were installed to push the nose down when it pitched up too much constantly fire now due to some update or another. It sill works without them but the cruising pattern is a bit less stable. I'll update the fixed version tonight, officially.

the best way to controll a plane is AI

wait, the heck? It was working just fine last night! I'll try and find a fix.

Are you manually controlling it or using the AI? It's not prefectly balanced so it has a tendency to pitch down though the AI will try and keep it level, but it sometimes slips up. i'll give it another look though.

Hey! I found one little thing about this plane. Or both of them. They are goin' down when they are flyin'. Please fix that.

hmm... i know a way to get arial ai's to broadside (i used it in my baloonbatleships)... although im probly just gonna make a smaller version fo this, i like keeping my aircraft small. nice plane though.

so turning this into an ac130

it was honsetly a naming liberty. I've named most of my aircraft after spooky stuff in general, and "spectre" was the closest I could think of whilst still keeping the theme. It was actually modelled after the C130 though some liberties had to be taken to make it fly. It's still the best of it's kind around however though i still need to see how it operates with a full bomb load and AI routines. expect a small update soon-ish. Cheers!

Looks Badass man!