Captain Woof

Thanks for the reply! The plane is actually quite a bit bigger than it looks. The body is about the same size as the 5M parts and there are actually ~300 wings, but I just really like making planes out of the wings because they look sooooo much cooler! Besides, now I can store rovers in the hull. Anyways, I better go back to messing about and breaking the game! XD

When I install FAR (and no other mods), the mass of my space planes somehow increase and the thrust of my jets decrease. I wouldn't mind that much if it were a little bit, but my work in progress space plane, the RhiNOX, weights 88 tonnes without FAR, and 274 tonnes with it! Anybody know which config file I need to edit or mess around with or how to fix it? I think my spaceplane would work great with FAR, but sadly I cant use it... For those who want a little sneak peak of what I made with the new parts:

I launched a second Viper and 'tried' to make a more efficient direct burn and eventually ended up with 15m/s extra delta V when landed right next to my first try. I actually ended up doing the same maneuvers... but dipped into Kerbin's atmosphere a bit and lost a little part of the wings... I can't do gravity slings, skills too low. If a pro were to fly my plane and use gravity slings or something else than pushing buttons in Mechjeb until something sort of happens, then they would make it all the way... but I can't! XD I also got a third Viper to Laythe with 3570m/s^2 delta V left on the nukes (or 12,000 with the jets) after flying around the planet to find a place to land... in the middle of the night; wasted a lot of fuel. Then tried to get in orbit again, only to find it being 50 degrees eccentric because I ended up having to land close to the north pole to find land. Then I tried to escape Laythe's gravity, only to be caught by it again a few minutes later and crash landing in the ocean again. I seriously need to go to special Kerbol Training Classes... Now Jeb, Bill and Bob are all stuck on planets. I can guarantee that I can get it to Duna and back, but where's the challenge in that? Well... I couldn't do any other planets so far yet, so I better be off to do that! Anyone can give a try if they want! Just show me how far you got! XD

I haven't landed it back on Kerbin yet, because my trip to Eeloo was too inefficient (lack of my flying skills), but I did get it close to Kerbins orbit around the sun. Will try to fly it again, but this time more efficiently.

This shouldn't be too hard... use the small probe, make a frame out of the tiny blocks (now physic-less and weightless!), attach as many wheels as possible and then one liquid fuel tank with one jet engine and one intake for electricity! and BAM! That's it. Then all you need to do is change the ratio of fuel to wheels until you have the best possible combo. Not much too it... and struts are physic-less as well, so strength isn't a problem either. Can't be bothered to make that car. XD I have a feeling someone is going to do the infity glider glitch to infinitely pull this.

I present to you the Viper! It's a re-build of my old SSTO from back in 0.19 when I had barely any skills and still got that to Jool (sort of... it didn't survive) and now here is the Improved version made a year later! It's completely stock and does not use any glitches, except for maybe a little air hogging (10 intakes for 3 jet engines). No ion engines were used and to make it harder for myself, I installed FAR (makes planes harder) and interstellar mod (overheating) and yet it flies really well and is easily controllable without any overheating! I am impatient and horrible at planetary transfers, but I got it to land on Eeloo with 1300m/s^2 delta V left. I heard that you need 6300m/s^2 from low kerbin orbit to get to Eeloo and back and the Viper has 7200m/s^2 at a 90km circular obit, so a professional (*cough* Anyone but me *Cough*) should be able to pull it off easily! Any other planet should be child's play to get to, though I haven't tried. Enjoy! Download: https://www./?q31fz6ti91x1232 Image Gallery: (Order is messed up. First time doing this. ) http://s1311.photobucket.com/user/Captain_Woof/slideshow/KSP%20Viper%20SSTO <iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://s1311.photobucket.com/user/Captain_Woof/embed/slideshow/KSP%20Viper%20SSTO"></iframe>

I've got a Space plane with 7200m/s^2 delta V left once reaching a circular orbit of ~90,000km around Kerbin and 4000m/s^2 left when zooming past Eeloo at 2000m/s (with my horrible skills). I call it the Viper and it weighs under 40tonnes. Really got to post some pics up soon. Joined the forums just to show it off to the public! ;D Yes, it is completely stock. No, it does not use ION engines. No, I did not glitch anything (except for a little air hogging. 10 intakes for 3 jet engines) And to make it harder for myself, I installed FAR and interstellar mod. Overheating was no problem and FAR might have even helped a bit. It's even got some lights, solar panels and a reaction wheel for convenience. It's actually a very old design of mine I built back in 0.19 and I just rebuilt it just to see if it would amaze me if I had MechJeb to take over my horrible planetary transfer skills. Going to submit it to the K-prize thread soon.