Mignear

Adventures in using only the Juno engine for planes.

Slight rework on the tail. Better performance at 8 tons instead of the previous 10 tons.

2 aircraft built around the limitation of only using Juno jet engines. The main issue here is their tiny thrust that makes them slow. Turning only makes them slower and risk stalling. The twin engine seem to fair pretty well, though still pretty horrible.

I do use them, just that on this particular plane I wanted wings of a certain size and rotating them too much throws off the angles I want.

The shape of the wing still doesn't look right to me.

Not really satisfied with the shape of the wing, gotta have to play with the wing parts and see what angles I can get.

Started work on the rival to my replica SV-262. It uses the main fuselage of the successful '35' pictured below And of course the pair together in the same shot. Personally I'm very happy with how the wing turned out. Overall its a good practice for wing designs.

The last tests of the W262. Final adjustments to the control surfaces, pretty satisfied with it. Next is the lifting capability, carries the large belly tanks with no issue. It comes with its own belly tank so this is only just purely to test its performance.

Finally got a build of the SV-262 from Macross Delta done, first attempt at it failed miserably and I set it aside to improve my building technique. Tackled it with the things I learned along the way, and of course the first use of autostrut for me.

Looks like I missed out that autostrut has been a thing. Just turned it on and it fixed the issue. Thanks guys. Cuts down on part count as well, which is great. It was hitting 100 parts with struts and still had that issue to a lesser degree, now its completely solved.

Working on something that uses airbrakes to hide the engines. Pretty nice view with them deployed. Problem is that the wings will flex though. Gonna find a way to stop that somehow. Never had this issue in my previous designs.

Following the rescue of Nelbas Kerman he was assigned to be the test pilot of an experimental variant of the very plane that rescued him. Well, he's back to Mount Treacherous and stuck there once again. Meanwhile, Jeaneane Kerman came back to life somehow and took a spin in the '36', finding out its top speed at low altitude despite running on nothing but 2 Panther jet engines.

Nelbas Kerman was finally rescued by Mount Treacherous following the use of the 15/25 to land in the treacherous terrain there, with some careful flying the 10 ton plane was able to land. For takeoff it was a simple matter of engaging full engine power and immediately pitching up to get the light aircraft into the air as soon as possible. The damaged '32' on the left and the '15/25' on the right The flight home to the Dessert Airfield and the subsequent landing.

Test flight to see if this is able to land in the treacherous terrain of Mount Treacherous. Answer? Nope.

2 of my Kerbals died testing missiles. The missile destroyed the right wing of the Stearwing A300 and sent it into a death spiral and I didn't eject them in time. You can see what remains of the torn off right wing in the picture

3km on separatrons is pretty impressive though. I assume you gave them RTGs to keep the reaction wheels powered. My jet engine propelled missiles' ability to endlessly hound its target via SAS' target guidance was thanks to the jet engines' low fuel consumption, it does make for heavy missiles(and they are relatively inaccurate) unless I use the small jet engine(and mk0 fuel tanks) which limits the altitude it can be used, so I was looking into using rockets for small high altitude missiles.

How are the missiles? Are they stable in flight or do they spin out of control?

Just a leisurely flight through the desert, or is it?

You know, when I started making the Mk0 based jet missile after making the first one off of Mk1 parts, I didn't expect it to be accurate enough with SAS target guidance to hit my 32X, perhaps Mk1 parts just make for missiles that are too heavy to guide accurately. Top speed from standalone test of missile, I later grossly underestimated how fast it would be when chasing down a plane. First test, note the 2 trails in the distance First hit, accurate hit on center of mass Second hit, basically crippled the plane It does have the weakness of having to start its engine before being dropped to chase its target down since it'll run out of power almost immediately due to SAS.

Well, the jet is only to bring the missiles up to altitude and drop them before I switch to them, set the jet as target, use SAS target guidance, and switch back. Using jet engines for missiles do make for very persistent missiles though, especially if they are sufficiently agile. More often than not, the missiles crashed into the ground(or the target) or each other(happened once during the A300 test), they just don't run out of fuel that quickly, I'd imagine its very helpful for Kerbals wanting to practice missile dodging in airliners. This was from the test with the 32X as the target. The whole time I was flying below 5k and was keeping the jet steady to see how accurate the missiles are. The missile missed, and dived down since it homed in on me from a higher altitude, it then pulled up from that altitude to continue chasing me. I know of BD Armory but I personally prefer to work within the limits of stock parts.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP "You got missiles on your tail! Evade!"

Today, Jeaneane Kerman and Mafrey Kerman gave their lives for the testing of a long range jet-propelled missile. First test with the rocket propelled version on the dedicated test craft, the 32X Following a quick test with the jet missile, a Stearwing A300 was set to be the target for the next test. A good shot just before impact Another shot from another missile of the A300 after impact, the right wing is destroyed. Unfortunately, during the 3 tests with the Stearwing, Jeaneane and Mafrey failed to escape the A300 before it crashed. Henceforth, the missile is named the Jeaneane Mafrey Jet Missile. That said, the SAS guidance is not good enough for anything smaller than a large target like the A300. The most damage 2 missiles did to the 32X was ripping 1 of its wing panels.