Nighttime // Planes thread

[Castille7]

Sector 7-427

[Torquimedes]

Colonial Viper Mk1, descending toward the night side of Duna:

I hope it qualifies as a plane here, without being spoiled...

Spoiler

 

It can explore most of the Kerbol system with tanker support, but even on Kerbin, it flies like a plane:

 

 

[ryan234abc]

Took these not too long ago -

Aircraft isn't mine, its infact a beautiful cargo SSTO by Vaos Human, the Star Kestrel Mk9. 36 tons to orbit, I'd really recommend you get one. Great performance for a craft its size. And look at the beauty shots it can create!

Ryan

[MajaeV]

Early morning before sun-rise (light clips through the ground though...) Pretty picture none the less!

[Van Disaster]

[Kryten 2X4B 523P]

Sunrise over Kerbin

Taken on a survey mission and flew over the night / day terminator, recently installed the SVE mod.

[Castille7]

Shot from the Kerbal Air Racing Set

[Triop]

[Triop]

Edited May 7, 2017 by Triop

[Castille7]

[qzgy]

Spaceplanes have plane in the name. (anybody else wonder why the english language calls things that fly in the air using wings "planes", which are also 2 dimensional surfaces defined by a set of 3 points?)

Edited May 7, 2017 by qzgy

[swjr-swis]

The Kerman sisters take their Flyer out to the western desert. Unexpectedly, it kept flying at night...

(The rotors do run out of battery at night, but that just makes them no longer respond to commands... they keep running.)

[Castille7]

Here's a shot of @SpaceTrashCan's Mig 15 Craft File can be found here and the modified craft here

Edited August 6, 2017 by Castille7

[Skylon]

Not a real one, but an edited screenshot. I might try editing it again to add glow from the engines

Edit (Spoiler because it's off-topic): 

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On 07/05/2017 at 3:22 AM, qzgy said:

Spaceplanes have plane in the name. (anybody else wonder why the english language calls things that fly in the air using wings "planes", which are also 2 dimensional surfaces defined by a set of 3 points?)

Nice looking plane! I like the engine layout.

Plane is short for aeroplane as I'm sure you know, and  quick search reveals that aeroplane is from the French/Greek aero (air) and the either the latin planus (level) Greek planos (wandering) but I'm guessing it's the Greek. So a spaceplane is a space wanderer...

Actually that might be wrong- 'planer' is the French word for 'to soar' so it could be that too

 

Edited August 6, 2017 by Skylon

[SpaceTrashCan]

A Su-27 Flanker rising in the dawn

 

 

[SpaceTrashCan]

It's propably looking for that Starfighter. Ironically both were flown by Valentina

[Skylon]

Just finished a night-time photoshoot with my almost-finished SF-4 '(Insert name here)': 

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Edited August 6, 2017 by Skylon

[Joseph Kerman]

Though technically, the sunset flying at the second half wouldn't be called nighttime, I'd just wanna post it since the title screen has the nighttime flight.

[Exothermos]

A decent onto Laythe.

(Edit.  I know, It's an SSTO... but it's a plane on ascent and decent )

Edited August 6, 2017 by Exothermos

[SpaceTrashCan]

silent night attack on the island airport

[Joseph Kerman]

12 hours ago, SpaceTrashCan said:

silent night attack on the island airport

Phantoms on high alert!!!