XC-1 Strategic Lifting Body Cargo Concept

"... Like I've said, it is NOT a bomber. Just because it used data from a previous bomber project does not mean it IS a bomber."

"... so why does it have such a small RCS that you have to add repeaters?"

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".. good question. I will ignore it."

The solution to our ever growing smaller fleet of obselete cargo aircrafts and renewed interests in space operations has lead the Aerotech Divison to build a brand new aircraft from the ground up, focusing on one key point: High payload capacity. Said solution is already in front of you: the XC-1.

The XC-1 is built on the concept of Lifting Bodies, a type of aircraft that has its fuselage also generate lift. Utilizing the experience in creating an unrelated bomber project, we gave it a new life in the form of heavy, outsize cargo carriers. It also benefitted from the MR-1A program, integrating its Autopilot System* into the avionics of the aircraft.

The internal cargo bay is fitted with overhead tracks for easy cargo egress and ingress along with kneeling* to facilitate on-ground operations. Both pilots and cargo handlers have sycnronized actuator panels in their respective stations to quickly and visually know what the two are doing, especially in Air Drop operations, which are standard in nearly all cargo aircrafts.

The real specialty of the XC-1 is the Integrated External Payload Points facilitating Outsize cargo such as fully built spacecrafts, rockets, or even other aircrafts (Outsize cargo not included) utilizing custom attachment points to easily mate with the internal structure of the craft. The twin tail is even made lower than our current cargo aircraft to better minimize the chance of tailstrikes from aerial release. The main limiting factor of the size will only depend on the landing gear of the XC-1 and the way the outsize cargo would be lifted to or from the plane.

*see Activation Groups for more details

Note : optimized for high to ultra physics update frequency. Anything lower may result to manifestation of a Class 3 type Ia incident/accident(low reality, structural body compromising event)
aka kraken manifestation aka landing gear blowing up by spaghettification

Controls:

Standard Aircraft Controls
Slider 1: Flaperons
Slider 2: Trim
Slider 3: Cargo Ramp

Activation Groups:

AG1: Gear Kneeling
AG2: (free space)
AG3: (free space)
AG4: Autopilot (well, kinda... again)
AG5,6,7: Cargo Bay Lights
AG8: Landing Gear
AG9: Navigation and Landing Lights
AG10: Engines

"... Though I admit, If you would want a stealth bomber, this would be a great place to start... but we already established that it is not. Trust us.

... unless you would consider pushing nukes out its tail to be a bomber, then it would mean ALL cargo aircrafts are nuke bombers too..."

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"... wait they did drop a ballistic missile from a C-5 before right?"