Voodoo aircraft

[Scarecrow88]

Craft updated for 1.0

Taking inspiration from the Vampire, Venom and Vixen series of aircraft, built by de Havilland from the mid 1940's to the 1960's, I present to you the Voodoo. Whilst not intended as a reproduction of any of the aforementioned aircraft, I hope that there is at least a family resemblance. Not built for any specific purpose, it has pleasant flying characteristics and I'd like to think it's a good looking aircraft.

It won't fly itself off the runway, but only requires modest elevator input to unstick and become airborne. Glide characteristics are good and with the upswept tail booms, you'd have to be seriously abusing the elevator control near the ground to suffer a tail strike.

Craft download file

Edited May 1, 2015 by Scarecrow88

[Columbia]

Mmm.. very creative layout!

I wonder how it flies..

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

That looks sweet! Downloading now. +rep

[Majorjim!]

Ooh this is a lovely looking aircraft! Why is there a jet in the nose? At least it appears to be one. Is it for balance?

[Scarecrow88]

Yes, balance only. Even though I had the CoL just behind the CoM without it, I think the CoM was too close to the trailing edge of the wing, and it led to some strange flight characteristics. Adding the engine at the front moved the CoM forward enough to lose those bad traits.

[Majorjim!]

Yes, balance only. Even though I had the CoL just behind the CoM without it, I think the CoM was too close to the trailing edge of the wing, and it led to some strange flight characteristics. Adding the engine at the front moved the CoM forward enough to lose those bad traits.

No worries man! I'm all for design first then performance balance after. Craft are more interesting that way.

[Scarecrow88]

Just realised that I hadn't locked the gimbal on the balancing engine in the nose, which means the small parts of the engine you can actually see move when manoeuvring. Bit off putting! I've amended the craft file to download the fixed version.

[Majorjim!]

I voted this up because some troll voted it low.. I think there is real talent in the cleanness of the design.

Great job man.

[Guest]

How can you vote this low? I really like the desing, I had something similar but never got it flying.

Well done!

[Scarecrow88]

It's the internet, there are always going to be haters, even in KSP.

Also curious from those of you who have actually downloaded it, what you thought of it's flying characteristics, as I really struggled to stop it cartwheeling all over the sky before introducing a few novel changes.

Edited April 19, 2015 by Scarecrow88

[ghostbuzzer7]

Hey!! I built the same thing a long time ago but it doesn't look as nice as that one.

[GraviTykillz]

Very Nice Craft my friend, I can tell alot went into getting it just right. Took it for a spin

Nice work! Flew very well..was a little worried about tail dragging on landings, but it never happened.

[Scarecrow88]

Glad you like it. It has quite a low landing speed if you cut the engine over the threshold, so there's no need to really pull the nose up to lose speed - just glide it in.

[Scarecrow88]

Just a small bump as the craft file has been updated so that it downloads the 1.0 compatible version.