Buran Shuttle - Flies great

[tjsnh]

http://kerbalx.com/tjsnh/Bypak

Buran shuttle.

Uses parts from ABlaunchers and Tantares, and is intended for use with my Soviet Space Program career mode mod.

Obviously, it can be flown on it's own without the SSPCM mod.

Launches very easily with a simplistic launch profile, and flies pretty well in the atmosphere.

The primary difference from the "real" buran is the addition of the third engine (the 'skipper') which ended up being a pretty important addition.

Action group 1 opens the cargo bay,action group 2 extends ladders from the hatches.

Edited July 10, 2015 by tjsnh

[pTrevTrevs]

It looks nice! But the real question remains... Can it land?

[tjsnh]

It looks nice! But the real question remains... Can it land?

Yes!!!

There are a bunch of canards clipped into the nose, it glides and lands pretty well.

I tested it about 10 times, had very few problems on landing. It tends to tumble a little bit on re-entry once it slows down to around 400ms but recovers pretty easily. Save at least 10 mono for final approach just incase the nose dips down a little (it's slightly nose heavy if you land with something in the cargo bay, and empty LOX tanks in the back).

Edited July 10, 2015 by tjsnh