Exciting new large aircraft project underway

[Guest Space Cowboy]

I will try to keep the noise down on this one. This design is a continuation of a design arc, you might say, that has been something I have been interested in for awhile. Anyway, this design is somewhat of a convergence of a few ideas I have been working on. The biggest and newest item is a sort of composite engine that uses 4 turbojets and numerous intakes places radially in a sort of way that makes it possibly look like a new large engine. Full thrust is available to 20000 and flameout occurs around 31000, I had recently tried two of these engines on this big airplane and it flew well, but carrying and accelerating payload to near orbit was not feasible. I upped it to 4 engines, and the whole thing was too heavy for the wing. Framerates were terrible as well. I knew to move foreward I had to try a tri-jet. I stripped my airframe down to fuselage and wings, and then added a t-tail, which I had prototyped today. The engines were place dead on the vertical COM. It flew well the first time. The only changes immediately necessary were additional struts to the tailplane, and increasing the ailerons from one large to 4 small per side, and adding a top spine.

http://youtu.be/qGvEgXjB_X8

Still in powered flight

1500m/s near flameout

Zoom climb

[LtHeckard]

Sweet mother of Kerbol that's one heck of a plane...

[Voculus]

That is a thing of beauty! I always enjoy seeing others succeed where I've failed over and over. It gives me inspiration to keep trying.

[Guest Space Cowboy]

Thank you. It really is trial and error and persistence. I get mad sometimes and have to walk away from it. Here is a video I have titled "Useful Payload"

http://youtu.be/bItTp5x9hhA

[Guest Space Cowboy]

wth here's 0.9

[Guest Space Cowboy]

V 1.0 is up

[horndgmium]

I think you just dropped little boy on the KSC!

[Guest Space Cowboy]

Smack !!