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Hello everyone! I'm UpsilonAerospace. Now, over the years, I've had some astoundingly awful ideas about craft. I suppose I need to showcase some of these bad ideas, because their results are often... in-ter-esting. So here goes nothing: Upsilon's Bad Ideas! ~~~ Idea #1 Premise: Y'know, I've been having too much fun with the tiny 0.625m jet engines. Why don't I create the smallest plane possible using the largest engine possible? Instead of putting the engine at the back of the plane (or even at the front), I'll build the plane around a Goliath engine. It'll be fun, and stuff! After some careful deliberation, I randomly slapped parts together in the hope that the result would be marginally successful. The result? The BTF-1! [big turbo-fan 1] ~~~ Build time: 20 Minutes Partcount: 17(!) Mass: 9.7t (of which roughly half is the engine) Crew: 1 The BTF-1 can reach speeds of up to 500 m/s in level flight before the engine overheats and explodes. Weirdly, its stall speed is unusually low: the plane can take off at a scant 35 m/s or so. Because of the incredible efficiency of the turbojet engine, this aircraft can fly across entire continents without needing to refuel. In other words, the BTF-1 is better than any other plane I've built in 1.0.5, in spite of it being deliberately constructed in a stupid way. I really need to rethink my design process. Overall Status Successful! ~~~ So I'll be posting other ideas here in the future. Many of them will probably be quite bad compared to this one, but hopefully they'll serve as an inspiration for what not to build. Thanks for stopping by! -Upsilon