Replica Fighter Jets

[MooseCannon]

Men, Women, and Kerbals,

I've been making replica planes for a while in KSP. I was told you're interested in those sorts of things! For your convenience, I'll mention the mods I made these with and which aerodynamics they work under. If you see weapons they're from Bahamut's BDArmory mod. Also, I use B-9 Procedural Wings as opposed to normal Procedural Wings because I couldn't figure out how the latter works.

Looking back, I used the B-9 engines a lot where it might have been easier to use TweakScale and stock engines. Hindsight is 20/20, after all.

Because some people don't know this, the Firespitter mod can still work. Get rid of the old, conflicting firespitter.dll plugin because the newest one is backwards compatible. Bac9 maintains the Firespitter plugin as part of the B-9 mod.

EDIT: Craft now available at KerbalX!

A-4

Kicking it old school with a Vietnam era US carrier-capable attack plane, the A-4! Notable for being able to lift nearly its own takeoff weight in munitions and lasting nearly 50 years in service. Mods: B-9 (engine, airframe spine made from engine mount) and Firespitter (airframe, wing tips). Designed for stock aerodynamics.

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A-10

Bringing the Freedom, fear of God, and the almighty BRRRRRT, the A-10 Warthog! Notable for being able to cut tanks in half with its gatling gun, and eating AA missiles to the face without a care in the world. Mods: Firespitter (airframe) and B-9 (engines, tail). Designed for stock aerodynamics.

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Eurofighter Typhoon

A modern fighter plane, made by many of the leading nations in Europe. As a result, it's completely unexportable because they'd all have to agree on something. Mods: lots of B-9. Designed for stock aerodynamics.

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F-14 Tomcat

A legendary figure in the fighter community, despite only splashing four bandits while flying American colors, the Tomcat was the supreme carrier-launched fighter for years. I actually have two versions of this plane: stock and FAR/IR.

Stock Aerodynamics

My first pass at this amazing plane. Aesthetically pretty nice, but I made a few mistakes on the bottom of the airframe and the wings didn't actuate. Mods used: B-9 for nose, intakes, and air brakes; Firespitter for the engines.

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FAR and IR

This version has actuating swing wings. FAR actually models how that changes the aerodynamics! Mods used: Infernal Robotics for rotating wings; B-9 Procedural Wings; B-9 air intakes and nose; Tweakscale; Firespitter engines; and those grey blisters on the bottom are from Mysterious Falcon mod; see the F-16. Funny aside: if your craft breaks up, and your new root part started tweaked, it will revert to its original size.

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F-15 Eagle

The undisputed king of the 4th generation of fighters with a 104-0 record, the Eagle (along with the Tomcat) was derived from the lessons learned in the F-4: while you gotta go fast, you also gotta turn fast. This version uses the mods B-9 and Firespitter, in much the same capacities as the other planes.

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F-16 Fighting Falcon

The most efficient modern fighter in the NATO arsenal, the F-16 is one of the most iconic planes of all time, and does just about everything. I've made three different version of it: the first two use B-9 and Firespitter, while the latter is the Falcon Mod, better showcased by Nazari. But I will too. So there. The homebrew variants are designed for stock aerodynamics, while the Mysterious variant works in both.

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F/A-18E/F Super Hornet

Like the USAF with the F-16, the USN realized that having the best plane in the world was expensive, so they made the F/A-18. Then they retired the F-14, so they decided that they wanted the best plane again. Uses B-9 and Firespitter like usual, and the wings are B-9 Procedural Wings, allowing for the nice tooth where in the real plane you'd have the folding wings. Design for FAR

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SR-71 Blackbird

The fastest air-breathing plane to date, the Blackbird was American surveillance before we had satellites. [1] It's famous for basically being a spaceship, and for being too fast for planes to intercept and radars to hold a lock. [2] On the rare occasion that it was successfully shot at, it simply outran the missiles. This version uses B-9 and B-9 Procedural Wings, and is designed for FAR.

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[1] Also the U2 and a few others, but they're not nearly as .....

[2] Except by Swedish Viggens somehow.

Dassault Mirage

The hugely popular French fighter family, the Mirage is a very iconic Cold War fighter plane. This version is most closely based on the Mirage 5. Mods are B-9 and Firespitter as usual, and the planes are designed for stock aerodynamics.

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F-35 Lightning II

The most controversial, high-tech, high-cost fighter of the 21st century. Less the stealthy supersonic VTOL jack-of-all-trades we were promised, it's more like the seven-of-all-trades: sort stealthy, sorta fast, sorta agile. The F-35 is the plane we all wanted to be good. If only it had two engines then maybe it could climb well. This uses the B-9 and B-9 Procedural Wing mods, as well as Infernal Robotics to make the engine rotate down. The cockpit is the B-9 Mk2 Lightning Cockpit by BD. This plane is designed for FAR, but like the real thing the design expectations and product don't strictly agree.

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AV-8B Harrier

The first VTOL to make it into common use, the Harrier is as iconic of British air power as any plane. One of the very few planes imported to America, the subsonic VTOL joins the F-22 as the conceptual parents of the F-35. This plane uses B-9, B-9 Procedural Wings, Firespitter, Infernal Robotics motors and KAX VTOL engines to be able to switch from vertical to forward flight and back.

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'Teen Series' Group Shots

F-14, F-15, F-16, and F-18 from my 0.24 stock build. They're probably bffs or something.

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Those are all the planes accessible in my current KSP builds. I have a few other planes (offhand I can think of the A-6, Mig 21, Mig 27, Mig 29, and F-111) that I have in older, archived builds. If you all seem interested I'll go back and document them, too.

Edited March 24, 2015 by MooseCannon

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

BEAUTIFUL

AMAZING

SPECTACULAR

GENIUS

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+rep

Wow, just wow.

Have you considered AJE support? http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/70008-0-90-Advanced-Jet-Engine-v2-0-3-Jan-29?highlight=AJE

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Make some more posts so I can rep them!

*Not serious*

[MooseCannon]

I hadn't heard about it, but it sounds really cool! 0.90 made it too easy to make awesome planes, I wouldn't know what to do without the challenge.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

These are great; have you considered adding a download?

KerbalX is what I use: http://kerbalx.com/

[MooseCannon]

People have been asking for downloads, so here's where you can find them!

http://kerbalx.com/MooseCannon/craft

Unfortunately, the Falcon (and possibly B-9 Proecdural) mods are uncommon enough that KerbalX doesn't recognize them. And I can't run PartMapper until I install WINE because Macs. So it'll be a little while.

[MooseCannon]

Introducing the V-23 King Fisher! Like a V-22, but without pesky details like being able to take off down a runway, the finest in paramilitary transport.

http://kerbalx.com/MooseCannon/V-23%20King%20Fisher

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