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I'm trying to put together a spaceplane tutorial. I'm trying hard to keep things simple as possible, and not over engineer the sample craft I'm planning to use. Looking through KerbalX and the forums, the kind of aircraft most first timers try to create is based on mk2 fuselage parts, which have very high drag. Should I have people use wing incidence right away, or is that likely to set up traps for the unwary or make them just switch off thinking "this is too hard !" ? My initial plan is to broach the subject of wing incidence in an appendix , showing how the craft's performance can be improved. I'm just warning people about the drag and telling them to keep the mk2 fuselage as short as possible, storing what can be stored in the wings or mk1 parts there instead, and to fit large wings , and try to fly as high as possible whilst keeping AoA low. Test flights of the flat-winged craft show that it reaches orbit ok, but doesn't quite have the fuel to reach Minmus, and it doesn't accelerate with much enthusiasm. Adding payload or extra fuel would make it hard to get to orbit, so it has to stay under 30 ton gross. Adding incidence halves the craft's drag, but makes the blue CoL indicator act in a disconcerting way , and means you got to start talking about mods like editor extensions or CorrectCoL. You also have to warn people about applying the danagers of having a canard at lower incidence angle than the main wing, causing main wing to stall first and flip out of control
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I have searched for fixes on this issue and did find an old thread with the exact same problem I'm having, however after applying all of the fixes that other people used I am still stuck. The scientist has asked me to add things to the Abort Function and I have put the 2 liquid engines, the radial de-coupler and the stacking de-coupler in the abort function and nothing else. As far as I can tell this is exactly what I was asked to do and this is what other people have done and it has worked for them. Please Help! P.S. I have double checked that I am using the correct de-couplers and the correct engines and I am not trying the shutdown the 'Hammer' engines. Sorry *grayed not greyed
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