kspenjoyer1234

Thanks for the help!

Thanks for the tip!

That makes sense, thanks!

I've built a hypersonic plane before (only 1400 m/s aka mach 4 though), here's some tips to make something similar to that. Keep the plane small, I made mine around 4 mk2 inline cockpits (It's the cockpit I used for my craft) long, excluding the engines. Use small wings, only around the size of a small delta wing, I used 2 wings on the front and 2 wings on the back, to make up for the lack of lift. Keep the landing gear small, but make sure they're retractable. For engines, I would avoid using a Rapier as they consume a lot of fuel and aren't as efficient in the atmosphere like other jet engines are. Also, make sure to avoid liquid fuel engines. They run out a fuel fast. I know I'm a little late to this post, but I thought it would help others that come across this post with their planes.

I'm testing out a space shuttle I've built, and I added parachutes to the SRBs so I can recover them afterwards. I have them staged so the parachutes are ready to deploy when I jettison the booster. For some reason they don't deploy, and the boosters crash. Any solutions? Also I have Kerbal Engineer, and a few visual mods installed (just letting you know incase any of those could be causing my issue).