FS2000 Aeroworks TR-3A Stryker (Black Manta)


*******Requires Professional Edition FS2000.  If ran through FS2000 Standard Edition you may notice the abscence of some gauges!!!!!!!

STRANGE AIRCRAFT:
This FS project of mine has been around since 1996 and was the first of a long line of many (still secret) aircraft that are presumably owned and operated by the U.S. Government and/or one of it's military or intelligence branches. More than likely these planes are operated by the Air Force. But since their existence has never been proven (nor publically spoken of) one can only guess who really operates them.  I first heard of the "TR-3" in 1993 in a Popular Science issue (May I think, for those ineterested) about secret government technology.  The magazine had many illustrations of "possible" secret aircraft, but no real pictures of them.  The planes I created from that article were the TR-3A, the SR-75 and the Aurora.  The planes I created were okay in my opinion then, but I wasn't able enough to finish them to decent standards and once FS5 was obsolete I didn't really mess with them anymore until late 1999 when I found some disks with all of the old files from the FS5 days on them.  This plane and the ARX-3 Raptor are my two oldest designs.

The *Stryker*:
Once I started recreating those old designs (ARX-Concepts) for FS2000 I knew the TR-3 would have to be included.  To start with, all I had was a basic wing, tail, fuselage and very crappy engines.  The landing gear were just sticks with a nontextured wheel at the end of them!  Needless to say I had my work cut out for me so I got on the internet and searched for information.  Another Major source was the book: Dark Eagles (haven't I heard that name somewhere before!) by Curtis Peebles,...if you are interested in the history of past, present and, future Top Secret aircraft,...you owe it to yourself to GET THAT BOOK!!  Most of the information I gathered consisted of the name "Black Manta" and most images were of a bubble-canopied flying wing with inward angled vertical stabilizers.  I have never been fond of a bubble canopy on a bomber/recon plane so for my version I kind of combined what I saw in those pics with the B-2 Bomber.  That is why the Stryker has a Cabin (or Flight Deck) like a B-2 instead of the bubble canopy as well as two engines instead of four like the B-2.  I think actual plane (if it exists) is like a medium range bomber or tactical reconnaissance aircraft since the B-2s and B-52s were designed to do alot of the HEAVY DUTY work. But who knows what it's role is, or who owns and operates it, or if it is real at all...~


HAVE FUN!


Complete Aircraft by:
Jason L. Terry
red_ace1@yahoo.com

See also:
Aeroworks Main Hangar:
www.flightsimmers.net/red-ace

~and~

Aeroworks Concept Hangar:
http://www.flightsimmers.net/red-ace/main2/concept_hangar.html


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