Giggleplex777

My Energia-inspired "Cyclone M" is now capable of lifting 100 tonnes to orbit. Unfortunately, the booster arrangement leaves no room for wings, so a Buran replica won't fit.

This was a bad idea.

I made a couple little planes: Man, I love these new lil' parts.

Can someone post the stats for the new engines?

Here's the Z-50: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/133402-Z-50-Cobra-Stock-Swivel-Jet-VTOL-F-35B-Replica%21 And some pics: Got passed over two weeks in a row. It'd be awesome if it was featured on SCF.

The air-brake's pretty buggy, so I just let it be and stay with its brake action group.

Zepto Eagleworks is proud to present our most advanced aircraft! Powered by (PATENT PENDING) Swivel-Jet 2.0 technology, the Z-50 can switch from an okay-ish VTOL to a forward-flying brick in seconds! Yes, you heard right. This stock aircraft (which is totally not meant to be an F-35B replica) has a pivoting engine! Powered by Pure Magicâ„¢. Download: http://www./download/n2pf22oqlb9sppl/Z-50.craft Action groups: 1: Toggle forward lift fan 2: Toggle main (rear) engine 3: Toggle bay doors 4: Toggle VTOL/secondary reaction wheels 5: Toggle main reaction wheels 6: Toggle main engine gimbal (off by default) 0: Toggle ladder How to fly (Read carefully!): Vertical Takeoff: 1. Parking brakes on. 2. Start engines. 3. Throttle to 100% 4. Apply back pressure (pitch up) to keep the aircraft level as the engines start up. This is because the Whiplash revs up faster than the Wheesly. Horizontal Takeoff: 1. Parking brakes on. 2. Start the main engine (press 2) 3. Right click the docking port on the attached to the structural intake and undock it. 4. Throttle to 100% and set thrust limiter to 100%. 5. Disengage brakes. Transition to horizontal flight: 1. Brakes off and make you are: At 100% throttle (thrust limiter set to 70% on the main engine) At least 75m above terrain and that are no nearby obstructions2. Right click the docking port on the attached to the structural intake and undock it. 3. Press 1 to deactivate the lift fan right after or at the same time as step 2. The engine should snap in place. 4. Keep as slight nose-down attitude until your airspeed reaches ~45m/s and then pitch up so you don't hit the ground. 5. Press 3 to close the bay doors. 6. Set the thrust limiter on the main engine to 100%. You may also press 5 and/or 6 to disable the reaction wheels. (Optional) Transition to VTOL mode: 1. Set thrust limiter to 70% 2. Parking brakes on. 3. Press 3 to open the bay doors. 4. Throttle down to <30% 5. Press 1 to activate the lift fan. 6. Right click the middle docking port on top of the aircraft and click undock. The engine should dock to the lower docking port. 7. Throttle up so you don't stall! Flight Tips: Always leave the aircraft on VTOL mode when leaving. Wait until the plane has stopped before dropping the rear engine if you want to takeoff vertically after you have landed horizontally. The open-end of the cargo bay creates tremendous amounts of drag and will prevent the plane from flying faster than ~200m/s below 10,000m. If you want to go supersonic, set your attitude to 20 degrees above the horizon and wait until you are ~10,000m, where you may level out.

Oh yeah. I built it (almost) from scratch in less than an hour and it flies better than the Wasp III. Hmm... An SSTO would be very hard with the current configuration. With a RAPIER installed it's probably too heavy to takeoff vertically, and that's without any addition fuel and oxidizer onboard.

Guess what this guy can do:

Added tubing for the main engine: ^New SST in the background

Stock 100% electric triplane from 0.25:

I'm already working on changing the landing gear. Just making sure the other parts work first. Thanks for the advice though! Don't really want to change the back too much as it is the counterweight and is essential to the balance of the aircraft. Edit: Here's the new version:

Supersonic!

Hmmmm..... I think I like this new look. In you're wondering this is the aircraft in the background: Nothing too special about this one, expect for the fact that it has spoilers, flaps, and air/dive brakes. And it goes very fast.

It'd awesome if they implemented Porkjet's Atomic Age Mod into the stock game. I don't see why not. BTW you can spot Porkjet's LANTR in this screenshot:

Sorry guys for being offline for 7 weeks. I just got my (glider) pilot's license though.

The Atlas-E has 3 engines in a one-and-a-half stage configuration. Your rocket resembles the Atlas A, which was a prototype used to test the booster engines.

Nice! I made something like this a while back but it used a stock hinge that allowed it to remain one craft for the entire flight. Here's the post:

One of the largest rockets I've ever built, the ULV-200: It has a maximum capacity of 200 tonnes to 100km orbit (as its name suggests) and is almost as tall as the VAB.

You should rotate one of the turbojets so that its petals can be seen. Something like this guy's engine: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/121014-KAAB-37-Thunderbolt-%28SAAB-37-Viggen-Replica%29