Mini SR-71 Drone

[Castille7]

Mini SR-71 Drone

This little craft has been a Diamond in rough. I started testing it and shared it with @klond for further testing and he discovered that the craft can Circumnavigate! This was a shocker, further testing was revealing some takeoff problems. The craft was not holding very well to the center of the Runway, I've try a few configurations with the location of the fuel and this helped, also the amount of fuel was making a difference. I decided to leave the craft light on fuel for better takeoffs and performance. If you would like to Circumnavigate Kerbin you will need to top off the entire craft with fuel.

The craft was looking a little fast paced so I decided to go with some classic rock for the video.

Operations: Use SAS and the entire Runway. If your using full throttle you may need to give quick taps to steer back to the center of the Runway. Full Warp is ok. Landings are a little difficult but the craft will brake suddenly after touchdown.

 

 

Klond's Test Flight

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High Altitude Testing

 

Here I was going for more details but the craft was not handling well, nor was it looking clean.

 

 

Going places quickly

 

Something had my curiosity 

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Yep! Jeb can ride on it...

Craft File: Mini SR-71 Drone
Parts: 28
Mass: 1.726t
Height: 1.8m
Width: 3.7m
Length: 5.8m

Edited June 27, 2017 by Castille7

[Bubbadevlin]

Cool! Even more fitting that I just saw an SR71 today! 

[Castille7]

4 hours ago, Bubbadevlin said:

Cool! Even more fitting that I just saw an SR71 today! 

Thank you, and seeing one must have been really cool. I've seen photos of a few of them together, didn't realize so many were built.

[SchwinnTropius]

I'm starting to like mini replicas more and more. First the Enterprise and now this. Awesome plane.

[Castille7]

7 minutes ago, SchwinnTropius said:

I'm starting to like mini replicas more and more. First the Enterprise and now this. Awesome plane.

Thank you man!!

[selfish_meme]

Trying to recreate a famous photo, just can't get the right angle, if I turn up the ambient light the fairings pop too much because of scatterer

https://www.sbnation.com/2014/3/7/5447310/sr-71-blackbird-pilot-interview

Edited June 29, 2017 by selfish_meme

[Castille7]

3 hours ago, selfish_meme said:

Trying to recreate a famous photo, just can't get the right angle, if I turn up the ambient light the fairings pop too much because of scatterer

https://www.sbnation.com/2014/3/7/5447310/sr-71-blackbird-pilot-interview

Looking cool enough to me!!