Something awesome happened to me today

[quasarrgames]

You know your spaceplanes are determined when the cockpit blows up mid flight, but the rest of the spaceplane continues into orbit on its own, without any control! 

In fact, it had enough delta v to reach escape velocity.

Made my day. 

[softweir]

How satisfying! Now all you need to do is find a way to preserve the cockpit.

[katateochi]

That's a cool looking space plane! 
I've had some success preventing cockpits overheating by strapping radiators directly to the cockpit. (obv. the "sensible" solution is change your ascent profile and speeds, but this is KSP, who wants sensible?!)

 

[mipmo]

Haha, that's awesome!

I always find it interesting to see craft on "autopilot"!

[Rath]

You can control the fuel flow on the tanks without control so you could have shut off the engine.

[mrclucks]

Now you need a way to get the space plane to do the mission you wanted, without you telling it what to do