Flying The Darkstar Around The World: Episode 6 - Sydney To Bora Bora, A Journey On Fs2020 

Would you care for more Mimosa?

Absolutely

Oh my god… no man is an island

@@ShawnTheDriver "Don't mind if I do."

"Hows it going honey?" "DO I HAVE TO ANSWER!!??!"

That thing is a horible plane to land

for me real life is easier to land than MSFS, msfs seems so difficult to control

id land it like that for fun, gotta admit bouncing around after flying at mach 10 would be fun

@@prestonace2448 but its rl hard to turn at least on keyboard

@@prestonace2448 victory bounce

I'm planning to record a flight, flying nonstop around the world in the future!

@@floridagamerguy8557 let me know you want to form up to 'simulate' aeral refueling

for me the game always glitched out whenever I tried to fly through the north/south extremes.

@@dr.fillyblunt7505 that's unfortunate, I've flown and landed at both the north and south pole just fine

What game is this? Microsoft simulator?

To be fair, this aircraft doesn’t have flaps or speed brakes. Doesn’t even have thrust reverse. It’s just wheel brakes. It’s not a real aircraft, but its fictional design is meant for Hypersonic Flight. It’s a smooth as can be. Also, it’s one of the most difficult aircraft to fly because it’s low detailed. It was put in the game for a singular mission and that’s it. I believe its approach and landing speed is something like 270 knots. So there is not a great way to land it at those speeds with almost no realistic flight controls.

I was fascinated by the Blackbird but the Darkstar scene surpassed it

I read somewhere that if you're not on the right flight model it handles really bad. I think "modern" or "new" or something like that is the one it needs

@@73rmin8r I didn't even know you could change it. I just want the most realistic flight model that's possible

@@bluecordprecisiongrading2504 looked it up, flight model "modern" instead of "legacy" should fix you up

@@73rmin8r appreciate it, thanks

I've seen them on a splash/loading screen so I think MSFT did that island special.

if you put it on full simulator difficulty you do have to fly within it's specific altitude window in order to maintain Mach 9+ I think at the 275k height limit , also in real life at that speed if you didn't pitch down, you'd begin to start hurling your vessel into orbital space like the x-15 used to try to do.

@@uncommonarchive9766 Yes I know. This would be more impressive if he flew with full realism and within limits. Otherwise, meh.

@@mapolinski I agree haha it's pretty hard maintaining the window between the hard floor and the hard ceiling at mach 9+, even with a flight stick it would still be way more challenging lol

I believe they just didn't model that. In game the cruise altitude is 120K ft, and the ceiling is 150K ft. Which is just about as high as an airbreathing aircraft can go. I remember reading a NASA paper on scramjets and the theoretical highest was between 140k-160K ft due to lack of oxygen. So people going up to 275K ft isn't accurate. Knowing this, I always try to keep the altitude within the aircraft specs. I also found the I hit the highest True airspeed and ground speed between 113K and 118K ft. (I've gone 5894 knots TAS at 115K ft). At higher altitudes the mach number goes up but the velocity goes down.

To me it looks like the X-30, but flatter and with a pointy nose.

That sounds like a dope concept. controlled orbit and rentry

as the name suggests airspeed, its the speed of the air around the aircraft, but when youre that high up in space, theres no air to measure, so the airspeed indicator goes to 0

aerodynamic heating limits. The SR71 Blackbird uses a type of quartz glass for its windscreen to withstand Mach 3+. I am assuming the darkstar with a Mach 10 top speed hinders the development of any transparent material usable as a windscreen for forward visibility that can withstand the enormous temperature at Mach 10

friction yoo