Ray & Ray HS flying wing

[Dr Farnsworth]

The Kerbin sightseeing and pigeon feeding society contacted Farnsworth Rocket Surgery a while back.  They asked us to design a craft suitable for visiting points of interest, or points that have no interest at all! 

They never did pay for the design work so we are releasing it to the public (lucky you)!

The images are from the brochure that we had. It has some landmarks in it, so some may consider it a spoiler.

Introducing the Ray long range flying wing.

 

The Ray will rotate off the runway fully fueled at around 65 m/s. Cruising altitude is 8km @ 250 m/s

The aircraft flies wonderfully! You will experience some wandering when you start the take off roll, but it will center back up without any input.

The craft is a swept wing design and as such it does suffer from yaw-roll coupling at high speeds. However, I have not experienced any issues with yaw-roll coupling at landing speeds.

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First stop is the desert temple.

The conveniently located boarding ladders allow sightseers access to the ground and other hard things to fall onto.

The ruins of a strange ancient race of Kerbals that worshiped Jeb with jellybeans stuck on his hat.

Off to other sights!

We headed north towards a mountain range were we knew there was some clean bathrooms.

Hurry! I need to pee!

Where is everyone...

It was decided to head even farther north. It is getting colder but the aurora borealis is amazing!

Someone lost a frisbee.

Sunrise from the north pole is amazing!

Heading back south. Actually, every direction was south there for a minute.

You want to land where Valentina?! I don't care if you think it would be a good place for a secret base.

This is such a bad idea.

So, why is this here?

Set the throttle to 11!.

Home never looked so good. I need to pee again.

 

The aircraft will fly with SAS without any issue, but I recommend using Atmospheric Auto Pilot for any aircraft. It just makes life so much better.

 

Maybe you don't like flying slow. Don't worry! We have a solution!

Introducing the Ray HS flying wing.

Cruising altitude is 19km @ 900 m/s 

The Ray HS comes equipped with drop tanks. 

The fuel in the drop tanks is used first and gives the Ray HS the ability to reach it's cruising altitude without burning any of the fuel in the aircraft. 

I hope you enjoy them as much I enjoyed making them!

Ray: https://kerbalx.com/Dr_Farnsworth/Ray

Ray HS: https://kerbalx.com/Dr_Farnsworth/Ray-HS

[Deizelpunk]

Cool, love flying wings.

[Rath]

I dont see any intakes...

[Dr Farnsworth]

  On 9/15/2016 at 2:39 AM, Rath said:

I dont see any intakes...

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It's magic. Or it's the nacelle. Definitely magic.

I will probably have to release a MKII once the 1.2 update comes in.

The center of lift has moved to the aft on all of my aircraft and space-planes. 

[Stocchinet]

Pretty beautiful, i made something similar some time ago, if only that those wings had more heat resistance...

[DrLicor]

wow, cool design. 

Very nice size for its performance!

Thanks for the inspiration!!

 

I also see you have the same problem as me with those gray squares on the lights