Avro Arrow

[justidutch]

In the 50's Canada gave the world its most advanced fighter jet at that time. Unfortunately the idiotic politicians killed the project deciding that their personal agendas were more important, there were only five that ever got produced. I'm not sure of my facts and didn't take the time to check, but I think it's one of the very first planes to use a delta-shaped wing; perhaps the first. I am referring to the Avro Arrow.

So, as my first attempt at recreating historical vehicles, I did this.

Its not nearly as close as I would like, mostly due to the lack of squarish pieces in KSP, but its close. I like the cambered wings and the slightly off-axis thrusters and nose section; flying it is kind of quirky with the offset axis of thrust, but manageable and very stable. It has lots of lift. I decided to make it an SSTO, hence the Rapiers and docking port, and though I could reach space with this it didn't have enough fuel to circularize the orbit since I had to leave some fuel tanks empty in order to reach the appropriate velocities. So I created a second version that has a third engine, allowing all the fuel tanks to be full, and sure enough it got to a ~80 km orbit with enough fuel left to get higher. Here's the MK2:

I think I'll turn the MK1 into a pure atmospheric version, and try to figure out how to make it a two-seater as the real version is. If anyone wants to play around with it, here are the craft files. Enjoy!

[BriXman]

I might give it a try to make my own, remeber: When making replicas, rotate and offset is your friend. I'll post my version here when it's done.