Classic Wings D-558-I Skystreak

[rpetty]

I just flew the Skystreak from Classic Wings and I had a blast. Try your hand at going supersonic, but be careful, the controls will freeze up and the altitude loss in the acceleration attempt might be hair raising. The sound of the sonic boom was reward enough for the download.

http://www.classicwings.net/freeplanes/skystreak/skystreak.html

 

[Cees Donker]

Nice! Very nice! Very rewarding to fly this one. What's with the tractor that I see in the selection screen? How do I make it show up in the sim?



Cees

(And this should be a sticky if you ask me!)

 

[rpetty]

Shift-P, places tractor in front of aircraft for push back.

 

[Cees Donker]

Ah!

Thank you!

Cees

 

[FlyTexas]

She's a beauty and is lots of fun to fly. Thanks a bunch to all involved in her creation!

Brian

 

[Moses03]

Thanks as well.

Several years ago over at Netwings, I exchanged pm's with a fella whose grandfather was one of the chief test pilots on the Skystreak program. He had set up a website dedicated with photos and information that has long since vanished. There were some good stories!

Moses

Edit: Turns out the site is still around. The test pilot was Gene May.

http://genemay.info/html/skystreak.html

 

[Ferry_vO]

Great aircraft! :ernae:

 

[Tom Clayton]

Nice! Very nice! Very rewarding to fly this one. What's with the tractor that I see in the selection screen? How do I make it show up in the sim?



Cees

(And this should be a sticky if you ask me!)

My thoughts exactly!

 

[Railrunner130]

Sweeet!!! Many thanks!!

:ernae:

 

[Flyboy208]

Great early Experimental Jet! Happy to have it. Those of us here who have flown supersonic in real life (Me with the F/A-18 A&B) know that you do not hear the sonic boom inflight, cool effect anyways.

Mike

 

[Mick]

Thank you! :ernae:

Great job!

 

[whitehawk_2009]

Wow, very cool! Wonder if the Skyrocket is nearby...

WH

 

[Zevious Zoquis]

thx for the HU on this. I downloaded a whole slew of planes from that site and theres some really nice stuff there. They appear to be built using very solid diesign principles - don't overdo the details so the performance stays nice and smooth but theres a very appealing cleanliness to the textures and lines. Very nice...