Floating wings at launchpad

[longbyte1]

There is something horribly wrong with this.

[MaverickSawyer]

Well, that's a new one in my book. I know that they will "float" after a Rapid Unscheduled Dissasembly in midair due to the funky aerodymanics engine, but I've never seen them doing that before...

[Capt'n Skunky]

I suspect those are from that pile of debris in the background?

It's a known bug that wings will fly around on their own. There was a guy that built a craft that flew by using that bug as the only means of propulsion. Pretty freaky to say the least.

Cheers!

Capt'n Skunky

KSP Community Manager

[VincentLaw]

There was a guy that built a craft that flew by using that bug as the only means of propulsion. Pretty freaky to say the least.

Here is my very own version that I entered in a challenge' date=' but it was obviously disqualified. The jet engine is just to get it off the pad and immediately falls away after that. This bug is where the term "Magic Turbine" comes from. It is actually capable of "orbiting" inside the atmosphere at about 1.8 km/s if you launch it at the correct angle.

Edited September 19, 2012 by VincentLaw

[Cooly568]

I see this a lot because most of my planes go boom. The wings fly off and do flips for a while or fly out of simulation distance and stop in midair. It's weird.