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Pirke

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  1. Here is my entry for 21.1: the Shotgun Hawk, 100% stock, 100% reusable single stage to Mun and back, and below is my very first testflight! It uses 2 jet engines, 2 RAM air, 2 scramjets (simulated by stacking RAM air), and 1 atomic liquid burner. As the name suggests, it has no command pod, but a shotgun chair To get a kerbal in it, there is this nice rover behind it that pushes the plane onto the runway, after which the pilot steps out and walks over to the plane As a benefit, the rover is a good reminder where the runway is when you're in orbit! http://imgur.com/a/ZfPZ7#0 I could probably have gone to Minmus as well after leaving Mun orbit with this amount of fuel left... oh well, it was a fun first testflight! Some small issues were found during testing: - the casing around the atomic engine doesn't come of well during flight, that was probably the cause of a fuel inbalance... I had to manually pump some fuel around. That, or my fuel lines are not setup correctly. - landing vertically on Mun with only a rear thruster and torque is tricky (although the torque is plenty enough, after rolling wheels down it will be a hard impact)... I suggest some small RCS thrusters to ease the landing. - a bit nose down tendency with full fuel, a bit nose up tendency with the landing amount of fuel. Perhaps empty fuel will cause too much nose up effect. More investigation needed.
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