[STOCK] The Condor

[SasquatchM]

I was messing around with my Shovel-Nose design and stumbled into this. It may be the best flying plane I have ever made.

The SM-03 requires MechJeb, the Spidertech Ramjet and JellyCubes modular missiles.

The SM-03-S is all stock parts.

To take of with updated versions:

Throttle up then pitch up until the front wheels are no longer on the ground. Return to neutral pitch and it should lift off.

[shhhilent1]

Sasquatch, you never fail to impress me!

[Mattis]

i see two problems with this design:

first of all, its not all stock parts^^ it needs the ramjet from spider tech 1.3. i didnt have that engine installed before and it game me an error that this part is missing. it wasnt fun searching for the right part in the addon section at all...

secondly, its a huge pain in the butt to land it. while it behaves very beautifully in the air and takes off at an incredibly low velocity, the second it makes contact with the runway the nose gets very close to the ground. i just tapped the breakes at 50 m/s and it pretty much exploded instantly =P

[shhhilent1]

i see two problems with this design:

first of all, its not all stock parts^^ it needs the ramjet from spider tech 1.3. i didnt have that engine installed before and it game me an error that this part is missing. it wasnt fun searching for the right part in the addon section at all...

secondly, its a huge pain in the butt to land it. while it behaves very beautifully in the air and takes off at an incredibly low velocity, the second it makes contact with the runway the nose gets very close to the ground. i just tapped the breakes at 50 m/s and it pretty much exploded instantly =P

it must need parachutes, also, he said he was tweaking his Shovel nose craft, to get to this one, and if you look at that post it says it needs the spider tech engines.

[Mattis]

it must need parachutes, also, he said he was tweaking his Shovel nose craft, to get to this one, and if you look at that post it says it needs the spider tech engines.

well, this thread is labeled as [sTOCK] and i dont see anything about him tweaking it within this thread. so i simply offered a little bit of critique is all.

i dont go through the craft exchange section a whole lot, how am i supposed to know that?^^

[gyro2death]

it must need parachutes, also, he said he was tweaking his Shovel nose craft, to get to this one, and if you look at that post it says it needs the spider tech engines.

The thread is labeled [sTOCK] so it should be stock regardless. He should simply change it.

[SasquatchM]

My mistake.. I had 2 versions of this plane, I have now uploaded the entirely stock version as the SM-03-S.

As far as landing the hard part is slowing enough to land safely, but it is possible. I have also reversed the direction of the front landing gear and lowered the rear landing gear somewhat to aid in safer landings.

I will be updating the non-stock version with these changes shortly.

[purple100]

Thanks for the stock version. Man, this thing can turn on a dime! Congrats!

[SasquatchM]

Latest version up.. small adjustments to landing gear. If you have any suggestions or requests let me know.