Who likes flying wings?

[lucho]

 

 

I don't know why, there's something intriguing about an all-wing craft. So, here's the Boomerang. A (more or less, it's got a fuselage) flying wing.

Easy to fly, and long ranged, it carries five kerbals- four passengers and a pilot.

check it out here: https://kerbalx.com/lucho/Boomerang

 

[Yellowburn10]

Pretty nice, it's like if a stealth bomber was designed in WWII.

[Entropian]

2 hours ago, Yellowburn10 said:

Pretty nice, it's like if a stealth bomber was designed in WWII.

Yeah...  Oh, wait:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten_Ho_229

 

Edited September 13, 2020 by Entropian

[Jeb_Needs_A_Parachute]

Looks good. With some engines maybe it could be a B2 spirit recreation?

[lucho]

The idea was a transport where efficiency and range are more important than speed. That's an idea though; I'm not much for recreations, but a jet version could be interesting

 

*edit* forgot to mention: The boomerang is 100% stock, but testing it with the FAR mod is ialso inersting. It actually performs almost the same as without FAR. Cool

Edited September 14, 2020 by lucho

[Commodore_32]

Hey guys, any ideas on my own flying wing?

I tried to recreate the Arsenal Bird from the game Ace Combat 7:

So I wanted to do it in miniature version first, Mk 1 RGU, 8 Mk1 batteries and 2 airliner wings and for the engines I did BG rotors, but in takeoff when I throtled up and deployed the blades, the thing just smashed the nose in the ground, if I throtled slightly, it just spinned out of control, and yes the rotors were (I believe) configured correctly, so anyone knows why?

[lucho]

did you use the f12 atmospheric markers? it sounds like something is pointed in the wrong direction. How about the rotors? Did you alternate clockwise/counterclockwise to cancel out the torque?

 

[Commodore_32]

1 hour ago, lucho said:

did you use the f12 atmospheric markers?

Yeah everytime I always do that, so it first seemed normal when blades are not deployed, but when I deploy them the pink and yellow bars point to the aft of the plane, but then again the nose smashes into the ground, I tried moving the nose gear all the way into the front, again, no luck.

So I VesselMoved it up to 100M, throtled to full and the thing flat-sppined rolling to the front, even at idle throtle it was out of control.

[Chequers]

Looks great! Like something to make a super long range exploration flight in. Perhaps to a pole, packed with science equipment. 

[0something0]

On 9/13/2020 at 4:34 PM, Yellowburn10 said:

Pretty nice, it's like if a stealth bomber was designed in WWII.

I was thinking more along the lines of the XB and YB-35, and the YB-49: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YB-35

[Klapaucius]

I love them. The first decent plane I built in KSP was a flying wing, and I have since built several, including some odd variants on the idea..

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