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Rocket Builders is a great place to share your own craft, but the space craft exchange may be better as a whole. I guess I can say goodbye as I rarely go on it anymore. ;-;7

Wow I though 1.0.5 would come in a week or so! Give me thirty minutes...

Hello fellow Kerbonauts! Today I bring you he next generation in space shuttle design, the Shuttle Mk 5! This design has enough room to store 5.8 meters high and the 3 meter wide payloads while the docking/airlock hub is installed. The shuttle is propelled by a Rockomax brand "Mainsail" engine and has four backup LVT-45 "Swivel Engines". Two fuel cell clusters are use to power the ship's electronics. With enough space to fit four Kerbals on a magical journey, you can launch small satellites to building large scale space stations. Download Shuttle Mk 5 V3 HERE! (Dropbox) Instructions on how to fly: (video to come shortly (maybe)) Launch like a normal rocket occasionally using w and s to correct heading. Once you hit 10 kilometers, SLOWLY turn over to a forty five degree angle and keep that pitch until you run out of fuel in the first booster stage. Once you separate you will have to pitch downward as the engines equalize in force. Once here you will want to burn towards you desired altitude. You MUST, I repeat MUST ditch you second booster here as the shuttle will not be balanced (hopefully not in the future). Don't worry though, the shuttle has enough fuel to take you places. After you make a burn into LKO, you can switch back to second booster stage and use its reaming fuel to land in with parachutes in the ocean. Official names for the shuttle are based off exploration ships (like the real shuttles): Adventure Eagle Endurance Resolution Nova Vote in the poll for the best name! Also, send suggestions for missions for the shuttle because I'm too lazy to make any.

I did some tests on KSS Laniakea. She can easily be decapitated if your shots are aimed correctly. Engines are well armored. If you hit the most of the paneling on the sides, it will simply break doing no extreme damage. But the KSS Laniakea is built along a spine that goes from the cupola to the engines, and if one of the fuel tanks is hit, the ships is render useless being split in half.

I had to get rid of all the debris in order to get it running at a reasonable frame rate. I think it was close to 650+.

I forgot I had spent so much time putting these ships up in LKO.

A couple of days ago I created these stock propeller engines. Using air intakes and a small rocket fuel tank I was able to make the body of the engine. The propeller itself is made of a Communotron, solar panels, and cubic struts. You could switch out the basic jet engine for the turbo for more power, but the after burner effects on the turbo make it look funny in my opinion. Download as a subassembly: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8shxw6kd01gotls/AAAz4kPu4IWfxVB5JjTSv9-Ca?dl=0

The Buffalo can't really fly well even with engines and the Vampire is a brick in the air. Thanks for the complement though

Here's some random planes I made in .90. They look decent and work like trash, but I am going to fix them in 1.0. de Havilland Vampire FB.5 Brewster F2A Buffalo Not going to leave any download links because reasons.

Val!!!

No, no it can't. HHHHYYYYYYYPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8 minute HYYYYYPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I used the Gravioli first then the strut. Took a bit of fiddling but I worked it out. If you need any help with making it work I can help.