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I don't see where any imbalanced torque could be coming from. The only things with gyros are the cockpit and two reaction wheels on either side of the fuel tank. Though, I'm not really familiar with planes in the game, so it could be that something wierd is happening with the torque.

Okay, I packed the thing with intakes, and the engines will run without flameing out. It will appearantly run on no less than three wide intakes and five narrow intakes, which sounds wrong to me. Now, the plane is imbalanced for no reason. It's not my piloting skills, for as soon as I take off, it gravitates towards the right. I checked the engines' readouts, and they're outputting equal amounts of kN, so it has to be a weight issue. However, the CoW/L indicators in the AB look fine.

On a previous design, I had three of those intakes, one for each engine, and the problem persisted. In Scott Manley's VTOL tutorial, I believe he used just two of the long intakes, which didn't work for me either. I'll try covering the thing in intakes, and see exactly how many it wants.

I seem to be haveing some problems getting a VTOL running. Not because of balance issues, but one of the two engines always fails! I've rebuilt the plane several times, and each time, one of the VTOL engines on either wings just flames out for appearantly no reason. I'm not really familiar with the game's air flow logic, but it seems like it shouldn't be happening. The engine on the left flames out during spool-up, but the one one the right runs fine Plane side profile Plane top profile