FiannaTiger

Cool found it and it showed up. I modified my design because the space plane that was listed before has parts I don't have yet. I did get my design cleaned up and it is working pretty good for now. Will have to fly it around tonight some more to see. Thank you all for the help.

For some reason I dropped in the craft file but I don't see any of the ships when I hit load. Any help? There are a few in there as well and I don't see any of them like the Ravenspear Mk1.craft.

Ok I think I found one of my major problems, is that I didn't have any control surfaces on my wings. I thought the slope back wings had elevons but they do not, and I guess in building my plane I picked them up but had a hard time getting them to attach so I ended up not using them. That should make things a lot better along with the center of lift behind not inside and just behind the center of the CoM maker. Thanks everyone with the information and the craft will give it a try tonight!

Cool. Ok silly question (just got Kerbal 3 days ago) Where do I place the craft file to show up in my list of loadable planes?

Thanks Prepper-Jack. Yeah I think my problem was I was putting the CoL just behind the CoM (inside of one another) which made things harder to control than I wanted. I believe for the temp reading over the 16k alt I will just build a rocket and "fly" it over there to gather that data point and then do a plane with parachutes to get the other two points real quick, since one is on the ground and I was able to land my plane but couldn't get close enough to the area without crashing my plane trying to find it.

I've done a few searches and could not find what I was looking for. I'm looking for a (unmodded) design of a stable aircraft that is pretty forgiving in flight. I picked up a mission for some temperature scans and would also like to possibly fly around Kerbin and do some science. Yes I know there is quicker ways to make science but I'd like to fly around and have fun. Also is it possible to get to 16k with the first jet engine alone? Thanks - - - Updated - - - I did find a tutorial finally. I will give it a try, but any input would be helpful!