Soora666

yes, the landing gear is connected to the ion engines and their xenon gas tanks. Needed the ion engines to be able to make this craft small enough and light enough to be efficient for a single stage. It takes a while to make maneuvers with them but it allows for a much nicer craft

Thanks, when i started designing it i wasnt sure it would even be doable without making something massive. Turns out trials and testing work wonders ^^ Let me know how it goes when you try it!

Hi once again, my newest design is here and this time rather than a tiny SSTO its a fairly small SSTM! I took the SSTO 1 step further from what i build before and decided to aim for a ship capable to taking off from kerbin, landing on the mun and getting back again without refueling or losing any parts. After much testing and many trials i present to you my ship! As usual here is my download link for the ship if anyone is interested in trying it out for themselves. http://speedy.sh/GbjvM/Single-Stage-Mun-Lander.craft Here is a video showing the full event from take off at kerbin to the eventual landing back at kerbin This trip took me a fair while to complete and although it isnt perfect i managed to successfully do it. It could be better, even as it is it could be utilized better in the stages with better control and usage of gravity to make things quicker but hopefully this will suffice. As the prototype it will change and i might post a new version in the future if it proves to be a much better ship, otherwise this is fine as a proof of concept Enjoy and thanks for checking out my ship. Some screenshots of the ship flying and fully deployed are below!

You should try and make it land like teslas dragon rocket on its engine. My current objective is to finish my single stage mun lander. want to be able to take off from kerbin, land on the mun then get back without dropping anything. I have almost got it done, just needs some tweaks then you will see it on here!

Thanks. after you have used it, let me know what you think

Hi! Im back again with a tiny SSTO, lke my previous thread with the 37, 25 and eventually 23 part SSTO i wanted to take it further and create the smallest SSTO by far and after a few days of testing....i give you. The Gonzales! Named after the Cartoon speedy gonzales for its amazing speed this 12 part Plane reaches orbit and returns safely with a starting fuel of only 10% oxidiser and 60% liquid fuel in the smallish rocket fuel tank. Here is the .craft file download for the ship http://speedy.sh/K93Uh/Tiny-SSTO-mk7.craft Here is a video demonstrating a full orbit and landing with the ship Thanks for checking out the ship, let me know what you think of it

4 winged isnt stable, it dips forward alot and requires alot more input. This ship is perfect control and holds dead straight without any SAS modules needed either. Try it and if you can make it work then let me know how!

ahh its the ferram thing. i have heard scott manley talk about that alot. didnt know it was abbreviated to FAR though

Problemsz, i fixed the download link so if you want to download the actual ship off of me you can now, seems it times out after a month or so, so i fixed that. It took maybe a day or so to build, rework and make the videos. Was fun to play around with. Azimech, if you wanna try it out the download link works now ^^ try testing it with the actual ship file and what is FAR?

Final version added, ive tried alot of other combinations of wings but it has lesser control so this will be the final version, besides, to reduce the part count any further would invalidate the name octowing! Cut alot of the older screenshots off to make the post shorter while keeping all older versions visable

You beat me to it! Seems some people are new to the internet ^^ Thanks for making a screenie of the ship download link tho, hopefully it clears things up

The wierd site is actually pretty good, no adverts to watch, nothing but a download link at the top of the page. you click it and instantly get the download pop up. Much better than any of the "watch ad" or other random stuff you find on alot of sharing websites. Its also not a program, just a 34kb .craft file, you put it into the SPH folder in your KSP folder under saves and you can load the ship in game!

Thanks for the comments, the ship design is amazingly agile, it can maneuver really well. The .craft file download link i supplied should give you the ship to test out and its pretty good. I tried making the wings down to 4 like an X and 3 like a normal plane and both were a fail, this design seems to work really well though. I will upload a video of the ships agility in a bit EDIT added the agility demonstration here and at the top. Enjoy

Have improved the design and changed some stuff, also included a link to the ship itself if anyone wants to take it for a spin! With the 2 wing design it still works and is 14 parts although it certainly doesnt have the awesome maneuverability

Final version of my ship, the octowing, finally managed to find things to remove off of it without affecting control or stability of the craft. I removed the 2 fuel tanks and replaced with a smaller, lighter 1 piece medium rocket tank and reduced the oxidiser from 220 to 44 so the weight is lower than the original but still has a similar fuel amount. Then i removed the SAS, the control isnt affected too much and in fact seems slightly more responsive, possibly due to a shorter ship now being almost the same length as the actual wings with the ram sticking out just a bit beyond the tips. The only downside is manual control slightly required during rocket power in orbit to prevent spinning (unless at 20% or less throttle) I did try going with a 3-4 wing design but they had little to no control and then i needed to add wheels in other locations which wasnt the same and made takeoff and landing harder and more unstable. Thanks for the great feedback so far! Enjoy Download link for the ship -> http://speedy.sh/RbcJH/Tiny-SSTO-mk2.craft Agility demonstration of the 25 part version (second version, trimmed down the screenshots) New updated version of my old 37 part version, i reduced the weight, removed 12 parts and slightly adjusted 1 or 2 parts and here is the end result! The old ships video and design is under this. Im trying to make the smallest SSTO possible, im enjoying the 8 wing design though which is keeping the part count a bit higher but i dont mind! Anyway, as usual, here is the video of me doing a lap of the planet and then landing it, let me know what you think. Download link for the ship -> http://speedy.sh/g4rHd/Tiny-SSTO-mk2.craft (original post trimmed) A random ship i built, wasnt originally intended for anything other than a random derp around but it turned out so good i added a rocket fuel with 2 small engines to see if i could get it to go into orbit and back again, needless to say it works splendidly and i have some screenshots of the ship and a video showing it doing a takeoff and perfect landing after achieving perfect orbit with only 10% rocket fuel used (49.9% used upon landing) BTW in the video i repeatedly say "solid state to orbit" or "solid state take off" i do know its single stage to orbit but its 4am here xD Tiredness makes for bad video recording!