FREEBIE: The Scrapyard Monster

[HiFlyer]

If interested, go get'z it!

The Scrapyard Monster

A fictional aircraft which stands by its name! It's an improbable mix of random objects found in a scrapyard... But at the heart of this assembly lies a stunning Cosworth/Aston Martin V12 engine which gives life to the monster by pumping a little more than 1000 HP in its veins.

It is a bush plane, capable of slow and low flights with take off and landings from very short runways... even carriers or helipads if you want! But it can also perform aerobatics and fly above 200 knots, climb like crazy and reach a ceiling altitude of 37 000 feet.

Made by Lord Frites and started in January 2022, this is the first ever product under the name "Flying Fries". There will be more!

A few numbers:

• 1160 Horsepower
• Up to 2700 N.m of torque
• Total empty weight: 830 kgs / 1830 lbs
• Cruise speed: Anywhere between 50 and 220 KIAS
• Speed Never Exceed: 250 knots

The plane has a ballast that helps a lot during ground operation and makes it also more stable, less twitchy, in flight. As soon as you throw the weight, you will discover the "M. Hyde" that was patiently waiting behind "Doctor Jekyll": High responsiveness, almost vertical take off, strong risks of tearing your aircraft apart if you don't pay attention to your G-Meter...

There are countless references, Easter eggs, all over the two liveries included with the aircraft. 

 

[Fiorentoni]

It's not for me, but it's incredible how good that looks and how original it is, all for free. God I love these msfs times

[ryanbatc]

Yeah part of me wonders: why do all that amazing modelling and texturing for a pretend aircraft?  But then the other part: yes I've read Violet the Pilot.

Haha.

[Lord Farringdon]

"Fly it like you stole it!". Lol! 😊. 

 

Actually getting it for free...it feels like we did steal it!! 

[xxd09]

Great fun!

xxd09

[Glenn Fitzpatrick]

14 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

Yeah part of me wonders: why do all that amazing modelling and texturing for a pretend aircraft?  But then the other part: yes I've read Violet the Pilot.

Haha.

Yes well.

There are an awful lot of aircraft in the sim that are pretend in some fashion. Lots of $20,000 airplanes with $80,000 worth of glass you would never see in real life, all sorts of STOL stuff with impossibly overpowered engines that would require serious structural mods in real life, etc etc.

This one just takes it to an extreme 😄 ... all in the name of good fun.

I personally would like to see Porco Rosco's fictional interpretation of a Savoia seaplane  (which actually looks more like a 1920's Macchi M33 than anything from Savoia to be honest). I believe there actually is one for X Plane.

[Waldo Pepper]

The dev said he plans to add a version with floats.

[SolRayz]

This thing is pretty good, I must admit. 

[Dominique_K]

MSFS à la Mad Max. Spiked helmet mandatory.

[HiFlyer]