Kerbal Dynamics Viper

[Scoundrel]

I couldn't help myself. I saw that ram air intake and all I could think of was:

It's twitchy and it might be able to space, but I still haven't quite figured my way around the new aero to make this baby SSTO. Mostly I've just thrown it on a rocket and gone joyriding on Lathe. Maybe I should set up a challenge or something.

Download KDX Viper

[Maelstrom Vortex]

Launch it from run way at max speed and watch it fly straight to mach 1 and disintegrate

[Kagame]

How is something with so little control surface so majorly twitchy? I might have to download that and see if I can play around with it a bit. Maybe add clipped strakes...

Regardless, epic build.

[panzer1b]

While im not donw with mine, im also making a viper replica, although im using the rams in the rear as they actually look closer to the MK-2 (unless ur trying to replicate the one from the original series the intakes were more angled).

[Guest]

It looks like it can go to space at least.

[Scoundrel]

Thanks for the compliments! Yes this is an original viper, not the reboot version, and was never intended to be an exact replica... more to just get the bird out of my system so I could move on to other projects. And it is a strange bird indeed. It does in fact fly not too badly, but I suspect there's some form of inertial coupling going on. I've discovered a few other craft I have built since the viper have that issue as well. Ironically the new heating makes air hogging far less useful as I've yet to get past 1200km/s without something blowing up, and the drag model makes it so you want to have less intakes rather than more.

It is both sad and refreshing that I must learn to spaceplane all over again lol.