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Yeah my pre 1.0 eve lander was three times the size of that, despite similar components.

Put a capsule at the bottom and transfer the Kerbal internally. Makes much easier ingress and egress.

You can't discount just Rapiers either, 4 engines, 31t, 70km orbit with quite a bit of fuel to spare. It can get so fast it is in danger of exploding on ascent so I found keeping it just above mach 1 until you are above 10,000 leaves it with enough oomph for the dash to apoapsis. With the 4 Rapiers I don't see the pre-mach 1 slouch.

If I wasn't going anywhere else eventually I would drop the nukes and add rapiers or lvt-30's or something.

100km orbit with a 2 ton fuel tank in the cargo bay, I need to play around with it a bit, I don't think the turbojets are getting enough air and the fuel is not flowing properly. 3 stage engines. Full throttle turbojet take off, pitch up to 45 degrees kick in the rapiers, you can wait a bit on these depends how toasty you like to get, but from my experience nothing explodes. Once the airspeed acceleration starts to tail off at around 800+ (you will notice it start to slow down) before it reverses hit the nukes. Then just hold on for apoapsis. The rapiers will run out of oxygen before you finish circularising but you can finish the last bit with the nukes. Enough juice left for a deorbit and short flight to KSC.

I have verified that the Turbojets retain their color at the time of flame out. Throttle settings do not seem to matter, my LV-N even exploded and they still retained their color all the way back into the atmosphere. A very small inconsequential bug I think.

Thanks for the move I pondered which forum would be best but I am not a regular. Yes the color change, I guess it could be due to the LV-N's heat I never blew mine up as a lot of people have said happens. - - - Updated - - - Good news on the LV-N, many of the complaints about it might be solved by using LF only, saves a lot of weight.

Spaceplane utilising TurboJets and an LV-N, Jets flame out but exhaust heating animation continues out of atmosphere if engines are activated at full throttle, LV-N is staged on but uses no oxidiser (this is how it should work, but did not in the past?), if the LV-N no longer uses oxidiser it should be possible to use liquid fuel only tanks on a spaceplane. Sorry if I am making a mistake about generally known things, I have only had a few minutes to play around I was going to take a screenshot but run out of time.

Still my best screenshot

Cool, I am new to doing my own you-tube and was not aware that was possible, I have been getting by with Kevin Macleod's http://incompetech.com free music

That was a really well edited video, congrats. Aren't you worried about your video being taken down for copyrighted music (I assume its is)? You-tube always gives me all these warnings if I try and use any music by recent artists.

Have you updated via sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade then sudo apt-get dis-upgrade? - - - Updated - - - Also the Modded install thread says you need to have bleeding edge kernel (at least ubuntu 14.10) to use the latest Intel graphics drivers v1.08, currently 14.04 is running 1.07. You can see the Intel downloads page here https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads

First time poster, hope I did it right.