help me fly this horrible abomination

[bewing]

6 hours ago, king of nowhere said:

i take the chance for an additional, related question. i still have some survey contracts to fulfill that require height above 19 km. is there a practical, reliable way to get this high with only the weasley or juno engine? or should i just fulfill them with a satellite?

Yes, I have a set of little planes that I love for this. 3 junos plus a nicely optimized design will get you the ability to supercruise at 10km altitude. From there, an additional terrier engine will allow you to hop 3 times above 19km during a single flight.

[Spricigo]

13 hours ago, Klapaucius said:

If I remember from the one career game I attempted, early on my only gear option was the LY fixed gear, which has serious bouncing issues even with a lot of tweaking.  I've built a lot of planes in KSP and pride myself on my ability to get almost anything to fly, and I found early aviation a challenge.

 

To be fair, it was in real life as well. 

Maybe we should agree to disagree. I'm not conceding that LY-01/LY05 being bugged like any other wheel in the game is a issue with early aviation.