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Air-breathing Engine CoM is really far forward


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I'm building a tiny little flyer.  When I slap a RAPIER on the back, the center of mass shifts forward, rather than towards the engine.  I've noticed this on two different installs.  It seems to happen with the RAPIER, Wheesly, Whiplash, and Panther, but not with the Juno or Goliath.

Has anyone else run into this? Any known solution?

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It is working as intended.  It is meant to convey the fact that in a jet engine most of the mass is not in fact in the nozzle.  It just gets a bit weird when there is no fuselage to actually contain that mass.

 

It also happens with the juno but the small mass may not be noticeable.  The Goliath has is mass centred as it is a complete engine 

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The devs considered adding a (purely visual) turbine, to make it clearer that an "engine" is not just the engine nozzle. It would not have had any effects for physics, but VTOL builders created such a mulch-storm that it got removed again. There is a mod to show them, however:

 

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