A380YURY

Never remembered it, but that's how initial design went. But I was mostly inspired by that little thing: ((I know, there are older projects like that, but it's An-2 remade by Belarussians. How one can resist using it as an example?!)) Didn't really need that idea after all... But thanks, I always end up forgetting about these panes actually existing! Previous iterations had less problems despite simillar arrangements... Guess it has something to do with the lesser mass of the "mini" version. And yap, guess it was the yaw control after all. Version with an extra balancing fuel tank at the front had the same problem, just more slowly developing (thanks, added mass!). Adding yaw controls far away from CoM solved the probem AND gave the RingWing Mini some stylish moustache. Still needs SAS on for keeping it under control, as it reacts too happily even with "caps-lock-mode" on... But hey, at least it can follow a straight line, and turn when I want it to! Thanks for help, and sorry for wasting time on something that obvious...

...and at last they payed me back. Basically, I've been fooling around with circular (or is it closed?) wing design for a few weeks, and two of them even were controllably hanging in the air. As long as deviation from the "flight path" is no more than 15 degrees ((all stock, so it's an easier feat.)) Now, I decided to make something smaller and easier to control. Surely enough "something" went wrong. More precisely, is that after take-off (at around 140 m/s), plane starts deviating to the left in the yaw channel violently. SAS and manual controls both fail to maintain this thing stable. Flight ends briefly a couple hundred meters away from the endge of the runway. Ouch. Here are obligatory pictures of the airpane and a couple of screenshots of the "test flights" Any ideas on how to fix that, other than "stop wasting your time and go make something that makes sense!"? Thanks in advance.

I've found several more screenshots of that lander, and even though I can't actually remember the details, I'm pretty sure it was "Ouch, landing legs are too shortl!" kind of situation (because, of course, LV-909 is "roughly the same" as LV-T30/45), which usually ends up for me with rocket falling on its side, parting ways with engines and other unnecessary stuff on the way. Sadly I don't have any other pictures of that "landing", but I'm pretty sure there were some remains there, beyond the frame. That would also explain the bigger lander that was built next. And no, it didn't end up in a catastrophic falure. Somehow.

Well, this fail comes from a previous version of KSP, and I DID get to space that day (not for as long as I wanted, though )... Yet I just like how that "landing" looks.