Flying Car with Folding Wings - Terravia Wingwalker

[SchweinAero]

This is an experiment in folding wings without multi-part hinges. Switch the deploy direction of the Big-S Elevons to toggle them up and down. The craft will take off at 40 m/s and land safely at 100 m/s on level terrain. Also includes a radioisotope generator for infinite roving range.

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Craft file on KerbalX

[YoeriCookie]

Hey, nice craft.

Do you use some sort of mod for the way elevon deploy works? Im not sure if it's just these elevons in particular, but the smaller elevons seem to have a really limited degree of extension. I saw some guy use the big white ones (I never bothered to learn part names, sorry) use them as bomb bay doors, which opened much farther than they do stock without InfernalRobotics.

I would really like to use the mod/your trick, if there is/are any for improving my own stock aircraft.

[SchweinAero]

28 minutes ago, YoeriCookie said:

Hey, nice craft.

Do you use some sort of mod for the way elevon deploy works?

Thank you!

Every part and function here is bone stock. The trick is that the authority limiter also affects how far the surface deploys: crank that up to 150 and then keep the elevon permanently deployed while switching deploy direction, and you'll get almost 90 degrees of rotation.

It's only too bad no control surfaces are longer than they are wide, or this could yield pretty good WW2 naval fighters.

[YoeriCookie]

16 minutes ago, SchweinAero said:

switching deploy direction

I'll look into that, thanks!

[fourfa]

Brilliant!  I've been working on a winged re-entry vehicle lately - this trick will really help it fit in a reasonable fairing.  To the SPH...