Space plane landings made ridiculously easy

[0muffins0]

I\'ve never had much luck landing a space plane on wheels since the wheels from the C7 flight pack usually impact other aircraft parts upon landing, causing explosions and deceased kerbals and such ( :o ). The skids are much more forgiving but getting the plane off the ground again is tricky.

So after much experimentation I came up with a rather excellent solution using the large lander legs from the popular NovaPunch pack.

When folded the legs work like giant skids with less ground friction than the C7 skids. When deployed you\'re all set for a vertical take off, or you can deploy them when taking off normally to 'unstick' you from the ground.

Landing made easy in Kerbal Space Program

I\'ve only installed NovaPunch, C7 flight pack and KSP 0.14.4. This method won\'t work with 0.13 because the lander legs seem to need 0.14 to work.

.craft file below

[Excalibur]

That is such an elegantly ingenious design - hats off to you!

Quite jealous I never thought of that.

Mind posting the .craft file please?

[0muffins0]

That is such an elegantly ingenious design - hats off to you!

Quite jealous I never thought of that.

Mind posting the .craft file please?

I can\'t find the damn thing. All my ships are in the game when I play ... but none of my ships are in the ships folder?!?

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Is there anyway to check where the game saves the .craft files?

EDIT - Found them. My fault for putting the game in Program Files :

[Zephram Kerman]

Sweet! I think you just saved a bunch of folks a lot of headaches.

I haven\'t downloaded the mods yet, and don\'t have time for a session of KSP today. But, I wonder what would happen if you rotated those three legs 120° or 180°? That way, there would be one leg on the back to serve the same purpose as the big tail, and the two skids in front would help auto-level the plane during takeoff and high-speed taxi. I\'ll try this as soon as I can, but ideas are impatient.

Anyway, your idea and design work very well. o7