Zahida

After some more testing, I decided upon modifying one of my previous submissions, the CF-59. This variant has been altered to comply with the new rules, and has some other improvements thrown in for good measure. Both planes are identical. Plane 1- https://www.dropbox.com/s/zegopkitbal278u/Zahida%20-%201%20-%20CF-59%20Naga%20II.craft?dl=0&preview=Zahida+-+1+-+CF-59+Naga+II.craft Plane 2- https://www.dropbox.com/s/yj9xax2elakify8/Zahida%20-%202%20-%20CF-59%20Naga%20II.craft?dl=0&preview=Zahida+-+2+-+CF-59+Naga+II.craft

I don't like the way wing stacking looks, and i'm the kind of person that obsesses over the way their planes look. If it's not flush, it'll just trigger my OCD, rather just make a new plane entirely.

I don't want the aircraft to look like that, I'd rather just make a different one and not submit that aircraft, if that's fine.

SHUBADUB After much trial, tribulation, and testing, I present the successor to the CF-59 Naga, the CF-63 Empress. I went through something like over a dozen different aircraft designs before I decided on this one. Both my aircraft are the same model but one has two 20mm cannons and the other only has one. I took inspiration from the SU-37 and MiG-29 when making this, and I think it turned out pretty well. Please tell me if I need to change anything. Turning on the AI autopilot is done by pressing "0" then spacebar. Aircraft 1: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5xzmd8szuhvaayi/Zahida%20-%201%20-%20CF-63%20Empress.craft?dl=0&preview=Zahida+-+1+-+CF-63+Empress.craft Aircraft 2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/k29r9nobdt9xfg5/Zahida%20-%202%20-%20CF-63%20Empress.craft?dl=0&preview=Zahida+-+2+-+CF-63+Empress.craft

After some digging, I found that it is yours o.o I've also been testing against the El Quicko and some of my other aircraft.

A sneaky sneak peak at one of my aircraft which is being tested against the MiG-15.This one's gonna be fun!

Question, when you say no clipping wings, does that include stuff like this? There is a small amount of clipping for aesthetic purposes (ignore the weapons, this was posted before the new rules, I won't be entering this particular aircraft).

I don't like the small landing gear on this plane, since I have a couple of small vertical stabilizers on the bottom, if the clearance is too short they break off on takeoff (and it would just look silly to put the landing gear right on the tail). It does get pretty slow, but it's also supermaneuverable. I find that slow turning speed doesn't really affect affect the plane, it only makes you vulnerable to missiles, and countermeasures seem to be the defining factor there, not how fast you are going. Also, the more you crank up steer factor it just causes the plane to go crazy, I played with a bunch of the other setting as well but the changes were either undesirable or negligible (though one of my other designs benefitted from having steer factor up to 18 with steer damping up to 6). Extra guns don't really help much either, which is why I ended up removing the second one (and freed up some extra points to use in the process), wing surfaces explode from one 20mm shot, and it's usually fatal if it's one of the main wings that gets hit. Also there's a benefit to having one gun far below the cockpit like on my plane: As the plane rolls, it makes it's own large cone of fire with only one gun, and it ends up spraying in wider area than it would normally.

Hiya, long time lurker here. After some clumsy engineering work, I present the CF-59 Naga! It did pretty well against some of the other designs, feel free to play around with it. It topped out at 60 points. Note: Some of the images show the plane firing with two guns, though the final version only has one gun. Download at my KerbalX: http://kerbalx.com/Nadeenee/CF-59-Naga