It sometimes work and sometimes doesn’t but I don’t know why yet.
The plane disintegrates at this altitude because the air is to thick 
The SR-71 was able to reach M3.36 at about 80K ft
I had the same idea 
. I was waiting for a studio-level version of A330/A350 to get it, but I think the Darkstar is a much better option.
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Is it possible to map the special Darkstar features to keys/buttons? I would really love to control all that special engines, energy cells an so with my hardware.
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The darkstar was great fun! Completed the flight across the USA in 34 mins and managed to land too 
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I seem to be having problems starting all 4 engines and the scram
I am having incredibly bad performance in VR. like 10fps. It was almost perfect before this update. two steps forward, one step back…
No, it is not “kinda how it is”. It “kinda” seems like a first world problem to me and guess what, they don’t have to give you anything.
OK I’m a slow and low flyer. Old man and all but …
I have no idea how to fly this F15 but I took her out for a spin. (pun intended) Very enjoyable.
At some point I’ll strap in the Dark and see if I can ‘burn’ off some skin.
Thank you MS/Asobo for keeping the game interesting.
dw
Being the total amateur that I am I can not get the Dark Star to even get off the ground. It is like I have no elevator response but the outside view indicates that I do.
Where am I missing the boat?
It works every time. Just don’t engage the Scramjets at below 50k and make sure you’re at mach 3 AND climbing while activating the scrameroos 
Then just go into a steep climb. You have to do your climb just right before and after engaging the scrammies 
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Might not work for you, but I had the same issue yesterday. Turned out I was trying to take-off with Parking Brake set to ON. Deactivating that and take-off was no issue and with good margin on runway lenght.
I can’t finish the challenge, however I flew well at Mach 9 and I landed, has anyone finished the challenge ?
That did it. Thanks for the quick response.
Thanks for the tip. It was the same with me
yes, I finished the challenge ended up off course in and had to fly South to canaveral , got pointers directing me to the way points … had to shoot the landing 3 times to get it, but the msfs let me continue from the crash to finish…
Take off with 2 engines , F3 turns on afterburners 35,000 descend to 20,000 and then gently climb to 50,000… at mach 3 50,000 feet turn on the scram fuel cells and then the engine (engines 3 & 4)
some fighters ww2 can broke back if don’t use trims accurate enough, but this ac have auto trim and don’t need any trimming at all. just be sure joystick have stable center point.
Nice free update - thank you. I like the challenges.
Is there clarification on how the “ghost” feature works? Is it we fly against AI? Against another player? is live ?
take me back to FSX carrier operations mission any day. This add on is really dissappointing
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yes, i even landing on the end of strip(long way to kissing concrete). mb you have to land same way as assistant banner wrote as i remember rwy 13. and i landing not from dive course, does one circle around. so i think it can be only if landing on wrong direction, i had same stuff with something else, don’t remember what mission was. or may be some glitch