[STOCK][1.1.x] F-175 "Agila" - Hypersonic, Long Range, and Agile!

[UnionPacific1983WP]

This is the F-175 "Agila". Conceived on the "'Murican Kerbal Army" forum game, today it became a real aircraft in KSP. In its first test flight, it attained a speed of 1,450 m/s, an altitude of 43km with a flameout altitude between 24-26km, and flew halfway around the equator before heading south and "landing" in Antarctica, which took only half an hour. I say landing in quotes because there's one minor design flaw... One of the rear landing gear breaks on takeoff. However, this does not affect flight performance. The only problem it causes is when it comes to landing, you have to bring the plane down as slow and smoothly as possible in order to minimize damage. The roof air intake is inspired by the North American F-107 "Ultra Sabre".

Already going Mach 2 less than 60 seconds after takeoff

<2 minutes in, already glowing

Ascending up to 43km

Still going up

Descending from 43km

Mountain flyby

Mountain pt. 2

Beautiful.

Pilot's view

Glowing at night

Flamed out, heading for Antarctica

Landing!

 

Download link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zznzy5m9xe3g3yc/F-175 _Agila_.craft?dl=0

 

Edited August 3, 2016 by UnionPacific1983WP

[UnionPacific1983WP]

Video of test flight 2 coming soon. In the mean time, another image from test flight one, taken at an altitude of 43km.

[Guest]

This will be perfect, because most of my pilots have "the need for speed"! Get it ?

[UnionPacific1983WP]

21 minutes ago, Murican_Jeb said:

This will be perfect, because most of my pilots have "the need for speed"! Get it ?

I've played those games. NFSU 2 is my favorite because of the free roam mode, and to my knowledge it's the only NFS game without the police. Because I just want to drive my car around and get up to 200 MPH sometimes without being chased.

[Gman_builder]

That is not hypersonic.

This is hypersonic

 

[UnionPacific1983WP]

7 hours ago, Gman_builder said:

That is not hypersonic.

This is hypersonic

 

Just looked it up, and apparently "hypersonic" is actually 1715 m/s or faster. I was thinking it was 1400 m/s or faster. Well, at least my plane is capable of Mach 4.227405.