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Kurnoc

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  1. Thanks very much to both eddiew and Wanderfound, the SAS thing fixed the wobble pretty much 100%. Still a tiny bit right after take off but thats probably just the tailstrike wheels popping off the ground and it adjusting/catching up to it. @ Hodo Yes my take off speeds a bit on the high side, but the only time Im worried about that is when I run outta runway. This aircraft gets off the ground before it reaches the hangar. When it comes for landing i actually think I have too much wing, this thing will glide for 30 minutes+ at low altitude if I dont pop the chutes x.x Its also extremely stable at those low speeds/altitudes. Ive actually been thinking of dropping the front strake to try and save some weight and maybe cut some of that glide out...
  2. Sorry Wanderfound, Deltas are pretty, and if I wanted to fly a traditional plane Id just go do it x.x The aircraft has tons of pitch authority, It doesnt really need flaps so the flaps are set to provide 20 to pitch and roll, theres also a set of elevators between the engine nacelles and the main body. Other then a slight bit of sideslip around 10k its pretty much green thru out, but I get this weird circular oscillation the entire flight, if SAS is off it just barrelrolls the whole time and crashes, like I said in my first post I can get it into orbit about every other try, Im sure my meh piloting skills are partly to blame, but Id rather like to get the plane good and then just use it to practice until my skills are up to par.
  3. So Im fairly new at the game, after making my first successful Duna trip I decided to start fiddling with SSTOs, mainly spaceplanes. Ive read as much on the subject as possible, including most of the Kerbodyne thread and tried to follow all the guidelines that seem fairly consistent through out(well accept the CoM in front of the CoL, Im a pilot IRL and that is just no bueno..) The plane can get to orbit, but it has a tendency to start wobbling all over the place at random. It also has a very odd seesaw motion when it first loads onto the run way. All I want the aircraft to do is reliably get to a 90x100 orbit and deploy one of the micro sats I use, the sats weigh about a ton and Ive been using the large Rockomax solid booster to get them to orbit, but those cost more then the cost of fuel and to circularize the orbit around the planet the sats have to use their own fuel, which really bites into the mission profiles their able to run, theyve only got about 2.5k Dv on board and my piloting skills are meh x.x
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