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No pictures, sorry. Use your imagination dangit. So forever ago I made a plane that could go 1400 m/s. It was mk2 part size and had 4 ramjet engines. It has to have a heat shield on it because it goes so fast... Later I slapped a mk2 cargo bay in there thinking... "If I could get this into a suborbital flight, then if I just release a small probe with a lot of speratrons then I could get it into orbit." So I did. I got to about 52,000 meters, the majority of the atmosphere gone, and released the probe. Albeit The Evil Kraken attacked the original probe design, so I couldn't get a perfect orbit but it was an amazing achievement. The plane then re-enters near another large landmass... and you can turn the engines back on to control you landing... or crash like I did. Anyways, it only took about 250 units of liquid only fuel to get up there, and then maybe 12 seperatrons to get the probe into orbit. That is pretty cheap in my opinion. Getting the entire plane into orbit is a little tedious and fuel intensive. Finally, the heat shield on the front of my plane is NOT aerodynamic... it would be nice to have aerodynamic ones so you can make a fast plane, and still be protected.
