Inspired by NASA Greased Lightning, Redefined by Redneck Engineering, Electric Tilt Wing Aerocopter!

[Goddess Bhavani]

NASA's GL-10 electric VTOL demonstrator has been making headlines recently!

The bacon space program, with all its appreciation for bacon grease, built its own derivative of the NASA Greased Lightning aircraft from blueprints that can only come from some old crop-dusting aircraft.

Despite being mainly comprised of space station sized 1000EC batteries, she has a flight time of a whopping 2 minutes! I'm not sure if its a balancing issue with KAX or sheer number of propellers involved. My earlier TB-3 just about sips battery charge compared to this little rascal!

Anyways here's the craft in motion and a few pics. Nothing much to see, it's not a viable propulsion system due to the low thrust and extreme power consumption - if I want a practical VTOL I'd go for heavy lift choppers or tilt rotor craft which are easy to make with Infernal Robotics.

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[Motokid600]

I really like that. Makes me want to look into propellers for my game. What's that basket from?

[Goddess Bhavani]

For weight savings, the cockpit section is a shopping cart from Tim Yam's Spaceliner mod.

Here's the showcase thread for the mod

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/116405-Tim-Yam-s-Spaceliner-Habitats-Birds-of-Prey-Walmart-Galactic-and-Cats-in-Space!