Flap powered plane help?

[Jstone39]

I've heard of a couple people that do this and I was wondering if its possible in vanilla. Any ideas? http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/images/smilies/k_huh.gif

[Respawn]

It is possible, and not to hard to make

All you need is enough control surfaces and you can fly it like a bird, by pitching up and down or roll.

You can even let sas do the pitching required to continuously apply force, but you do need some way of generating power.

Before the 0.21 sas changes you would need to add a asas part to make your "flappy-plane" "flap" by itself.

Here a video I made a while back, in response to someone doing a kerbin circumnavigation trip on this forum.

Firehawk (w/asasovercompensationdrive)

For manned "orthocopters" check out this thread: The-no-engined-flyer-challenge!

enjoy

Edited September 9, 2013 by Respawn
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[Specialist290]

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