The Rustler is a fighter plane in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas .
The Rustler is a fighter plane in GTA: San Andreas.
The Rustler draws inspiration from various real-life WWII fighter planes, primarily the North American P-51 Mustang. However, it also appears to take inspiration from the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, the Hawker Typhoon and the Supermarine Spitfire. Despite its evident inspiration on combat planes, the Rustler is seemingly treated as a recurring civilian/trainer plane.
The Rustler takes the design of a single-seater "interceptor" aircraft with a relatively large and sectioned fuselage, where the nose houses a large four-bladed propeller, a large intake below the spinner and numerous exhausts on the sides. Around the middle section, there is the small cockpit with a sliding canopy and the main wings mounted at the base of the aircraft (low-wing setup) with the corresponding ailerons, while the underside has dedicated hatches for the main landing gear. The tail boom houses the empennage with the horizontal stabilizers and the vertical stabilizer, while the lower side has a single tail wheel. Carl Johnson stands on top of the plane's left wing to open the hatch to reach the cockpit.
The Rustler is seen with a gray body and black/white stripes on the lower surfaces of the main wings and the tail boom, representing invasion stripes that signified Allied aircraft during D-Day. The primary color is applied to the upper surfaces of the fuselage, wings and horizontal stabilizers, while the secondary color is applied to the end of the nose, the wing tips and the vertical stabilizer.
The vehicle is armed with a set of six built-in machine guns fixed into the wings.
