Fist plane !!

[benoit406]

Hello

After several years ! of flying KSP in rockets, i've build my first plane.

He is very stable, takeoff very gently at 3/4 throttle.

I've made a 1 hour trip to the kerbal pyramids !!.

Thank to the communauty and the youtubers for the design technical help

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ce7yyz0iczwp71p/screenshot11.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g2xarw2pyw3bkhi/screenshot15.png?dl=0

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Edited October 6, 2016 by benoit406

[StainX]

Looking good!

Were u able to land it?

[benoit406]

Heu... actually i crash near the pyramids !!!. to much hill on my way land.. But actually Jeb survive and make a little journey to the ancient alien ruins :-)

[StainX]

This also always happens, when i try to land stuff in "the wilds" 

Thats also the reason i switchted to seaplanes lately...

[Karol van Kermin]

Its actually rly nice considering its your 1st rocket. Amazing Job dude!

[Van Disaster]

The pyramid is *not* an easy place to land at, despite having some flat ground - the approach does not make things easy. It took several aborted approaches before I dropped this guy in, I remember:

Spoiler

In general I'd advise using the medium gear at least for landing in the rough, or medium + small tailwheel for a taildragger ( probably the safest ).

Good job for your first craft! ( although I'm slightly disappointed it wasn't a flying fist ).

[Vanamonde]

Nice little plane. Most newbies try to over-do it and build too big. 

Meanwhile, since a recent Imgur update, albums do not work properly on our forum. Sorry.  

[He_162]

Looks great! Keep up the good work!

[quasarrgames]

When i saw this thread, i was expecting a plane that looked like a literal fist.

I am disappoint

[Torquimedes]

Twin engines and a V-tail?  Interesting features on a first plane!

For emergency landings, you could attach a radial chute directly above the center of mass, keeping in mind how the CoM will move as fuel is burned.  Then after you've flown as far as the pyramids and realize the terrain is risky for a conventional landing, you have the option of popping the chute over a flattish spot to drift down safely.

[Mycroft]

21 hours ago, Vanamonde said:

Most newbies try to over-do it and build too big. 

That's like what I did, except I kept overdoing it, and kept overdoing it, until I turned it into a tradition.  It's funny, but designing large craft just comes naturally to me. I don't do sloppy overkill, I'd like to think that all my stuff is well designed, it certainly works very well. It just turns out that they are capable of doing so much more than their original purpose. For example, I designed a VTOL SSTO for hauling stuff to orbit, and it turned out to be capable of visiting several planets as well without refueling. It had like 13k of delta-v upon reaching orbit with the sloppiest trajectory I could think up. Now that's overkill.

My tanks turned out to be capable of taking out entire armadas.

My Leviathan can take out the universe.

...

Okay, fine! I admit that last one is just lag.

Edited October 7, 2016 by Mycroft

[OrbitalBuzzsaw]

1 minute ago, Mycroft said:

That's like what I did, except I kept overdoing it, and kept overdoing it, until I turned it into a tradition.  It's funny, but designing large craft just comes naturally to me. I don't do sloppy overkill, I'd like to think that all my stuff is well designed, it certainly works very well. It just turns out that they are capable of doing so much more than their original purpose. For example, I designed a VTOL SSTO for hauling stuff to orbit, and it turned out to be capable of visiting several planets as well without refueling. It had like 13k of delta-v upon reaching orbit with the sloppiest trajectory I could think up. Now that's overkill. My tanks turned out to be capable of taking out entire armadas. My Leviathan can take out the universe.

...

Okay, fine! I admit that's just lag.

Share with me this mystical vessel.

[Mycroft]

8 minutes ago, OrbitalBuzzsaw said:

Share with me this mystical vessel.

It's on my KerbalX page.

Here: https://kerbalx.com/Mycroft_33/Leviathan

All you gotta do is launch it, then switch away from it, then switch back to it, KSP should freeze, then after a long time, it will give you a blank universe. I'd recommend doing this on a laptop, because it's almost guaranteed to work there, as it makes huge demands on the RAM, and laptops only have so much.

Edited October 7, 2016 by Mycroft

[nascarlaser1]

1 hour ago, quasarrgames said:

When i saw this thread, i was expecting a plane that looked like a literal fist.

I am disappoint

It could be a typo.

[benoit406]

On my way to the Pyramid's crash :-)

Edited October 8, 2016 by benoit406

[swjr-swis]

First and most importantly: nice, small and simple design, @benoit406. I like it. If this is your first, you have a whole new wealth of experiences and adventures ahead of you in KSP, and you're making a good start!

On 10/6/2016 at 5:48 PM, benoit406 said:

Heu... actually i crash near the pyramids !!!. to much hill on my way land.. But actually Jeb survive and make a little journey to the ancient alien ruins :-)

It's not an easy place to get to. My first visit to it in 1.2 is now marked by a cockpit -just the cockpit - permanently parked at the base of the large pyramid...

 

On 10/7/2016 at 8:22 PM, quasarrgames said:

When i saw this thread, i was expecting a plane that looked like a literal fist.

I am disappoint

Well, we can't have that now, can we? So to protect @benoit406 from claims of false advertisement , and to squash your disappointment, I present: My Fist Plane.

Spoiler

There, no more disappointments, and the thread title is accurate now.

Edited October 8, 2016 by swjr-swis
forum post auto-merge weirdness

[Mycroft]

3 hours ago, swjr-swis said:

First and most importantly: nice, small and simple design, @benoit406. I like it. If this is your first, you have a whole new wealth of experiences and adventures ahead of you in KSP, and you're making a good start!

It's not an easy place to get to. My first visit to it in 1.2 is now marked by a cockpit -just the cockpit - permanently parked at the base of the large pyramid...

 

Well, we can't have that now, can we? So to protect @benoit406 from claims of false advertisement , and to squash your disappointment, I present: My Fist Plane.

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There, no more disappointments, and the thread title is accurate now.

Awh yeah!!!

Here's my new beauty: 

Behold... the Valkyrie Shuttle!

[benoit406]

i see that some people are disapointed of my plane design ;-) I'm a french kerbonaut so, for you i translate a quotation of a famous french plane designer "Serge Dassault"; " a good plane is a beautiful plane , a beautiful plane is a simple plane".

But i'm also a honest person, so i admit that all your creations are awesome :-)

 

Here an old test for a DynaSoar, but as i've not learn how to deal with plane all the plane crash on land. So i got to the kerbal flying & engineering school and made my first plane ;-)

 

Edited October 9, 2016 by benoit406

[KerbalKid]

That's a very nice looking plane good job

[swjr-swis]

8 hours ago, benoit406 said:

What engine is that on the back?

[benoit406]

RE-L10 "Poodle"  with the Vern Stock Part Revamp

Edited October 9, 2016 by benoit406

[NotAnAimbot]

On 10/7/2016 at 2:22 PM, quasarrgames said:

When i saw this thread, i was expecting a plane that looked like a literal fist.

I am disappoint

I tried building one with Mk1 fuselages as fingers and Mk3 cargo as the palm, but it keeps going out of control.

[problemecium]

Dammit. I 100% was not trying to be a grammar National German Socialist Party member but I literally opened the thread expecting to see a plane shaped like a fist SWDennis-style xD

Edited October 10, 2016 by parameciumkid
Apparently the word starting with "N" and ending with "azi" gets auto-corrected to "pedant" now xD