Harfish

Great ship! Just took it for a successful round trip to Minmus. The original goal was the Mün but I overshot my transfer badly, ended up with a Minmus intercept so went there instead. I was really surprised the lander had enough fuel to land, take off and transfer back to Kerbin.

While I haven't tested the Duna return claim, I can say that it's capable of making it all the way to Jool. I then detattched the space plane module and attempted a landing on Laythe. Unfortunately my piloting skills were not up to the job

Nice ship, all stock? Could you upload a .craft file?

This is the Artemis Mk6 rocket jet, capable of delivering an orbital vehicle to the atmospheric limit with plenty of fuel to spare and a little style and luxury on the way. I took this baby for a spin around Kerbin last night and it performed admirably, reaching 22km on jet engines before switching over to liquid rockets, making a successful orbit around the planet and then delivering the kerbinauts back home. It\'s my first successful design combining jet engines and rockets.

I\'ve had a few of those. Was showing my workmate the Artemis Mark 2 rocket which has eight wing mounted engines. Because of the torque from the engines the entire fuselage flexes and it kinda looks like a snake slithering thru the air. At least until the vibrations shake it to pieces and the Kerbinauts plummet to their fiery deaths.

So I bought KSP over the weekend and have already sunk many hours into it, including a weird rocket/jet hybrid that achieved a circular orbit, re-entry and then the command module slammed into a mountain killing all aboard. What I can\'t seem to get working is the space planes, I\'ve built one I really like but I can\'t get it to take off. So I built a really simple plane and that won\'t take off either. I can get them up to around 100m/s but when I pitch up, the control surface on the wing moves but the nose doesn\'t rise. Here\'s the Helios, I know it\'s heavy but it should take off under jet engine power only. It\'s designed to fly up thru the lower atmosphere before igniting its rockets to enter orbit. And here\'s my simple plane which also doesn\'t take off