The Mach 4.6 Seaplane

[doxlulzem]

As was requested due to my experience in spaceplane design (not flight, design...) I decided to take it upon myself to create the craziest plane I could. I thought for a bit about what could I do to make a crazy plane, and I got an eureka moment - a supersonic floatplane!

I set to work designing, and my ingenuity created this marvelous creation - the X-1 Floating

Going low over the ocean. This was like 40s after takeoff and we were already hitting Mach 2... What kind of beast did I create?

Touchdown successful. That's a ribbon for you Jeb (Final Frontier best mod 2015)

Can she take off again though? If not she'd make a nice and speedy ship

That she can (or maybe just because of x4 timewarp). I'm glad that exists!

Just to see what she could do I sped from where I took off from and then shut my engines off over the KSC. She landed on the land branch on the desert continent to the left of the Africa-like continent the KSC is on only a minute later.

I've created a demon guys. It can probably go Mach 5 but I went to high and the engines shut down...

I might leave a download link if anybody wants it, but I don't really think they would, except to destroy planets

I like the part where it was only going to go Mach 2 at best but ended up being a hypersonic craft. That can land on water...

P.S. I had my re-entry heat turned down to 60% on this save because I find it more fun to see how fast I can make a craft go, and I don't like it blowing up at 1400m/s

Edited November 13, 2015 by doxlulzem

[Redshift OTF]

You might want to stick some radiators on it if you don't like blowing up at 1400 m.s. It worked on one of my planes although I haven't fully tested it.

[doxlulzem]

I'll try that next time I play career then sounds like a good idea to stop my engine clusters from overheating

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

Looks great! It could probably go into space if you aimed it up.