About This File
FSX Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket Early Model v1. This model is an early Douglas D-558-2 Sky Rocket at rollout. The canopy was a smooth flush canopy with a beautiful silhouette integrated with the fuselage. The smooth flush canopy seemed to have bad visibility and was replaced with a protruding canopy before the first flight on February 4, 1948. As a result, the vertical stabilizer was affected and replaced with a taller vertical stabilizer. Therefore, the sky rocket did not fly in this smooth flush canopy. Another feature is the smooth flush mount air intake and the jet nozzle that exhausts diagonally downwards, resulting in intake efficiency and reduced engine performance. Therefore, early Skyrocket is a low-performance, unattractive jet airplane. But I think it's a very ideal and beautiful aircraft design! The rocket engine mount has a smooth cover. Therefore, it looks like a very small white fish, "Salangidae", which Japanese people like to eat, and it is very cute. The reason for built the early Sky Rocket is how does the view from the canopy with bad forward visibility and open ceiling look? I wanted to see it. Flying an aircraft with low engine performance and poor visibility is also a real pleasure of a flight simulator. FSDS v3.5 model by uenoshing.