Show off your aircraft!

[Owenmck]

I've recently been making a lot of aircraft in my new career game, and I'm looking for inspiration. I also think that simply seeing working planes improves new players ability to make aircraft, so...

Post you aircraft here!

They could be stock, modded, fast or slow, cargo planes or suborbital spaceplanes

Just remember, no SSTOs as there is already a thread for that

 

I'll start with my SR-71-K, heavily based off the SR-71

SR-71-K takeoff at dawn

Climbing to altitude. Those ramjets produce lots of thrust

Cruising at high speed, en route to the Northern Ice shelf 

Edited March 4, 2021 by Owenmck
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[Guest]

BAK Manta – a flying boat/flying wing suitable for use on Kerbin or Laythe. A solar-powered variant would be terrific for Eve, but this one runs on fuel cells. It's one of my all-time favourite planes, it handles really well, is reasonably fast for a prop craft, and operates from water easily:

BAK Elvira – the support craft for my Raphael fully recoverable Eve launch system. It's equipped with drills, ISRU, and a mobile crane used to recover the orbiter module and mount it back on the lifter module. 

BAK Sea Legend – a nuclear-powered light passenger seaplane for use on Laythe and Kerbin. Operates from water or land. Unlimited range!

BAK Bosun – it's a flying boat. Not hard to convert into something that actually carries crew. This one is just for joyriding though, the main attraction is that it's super easy to fly and takes off from water easily, even with Scatterer wave physics enabled.

And finally, BAK JUNO MIDGE, equipped with the patented BAK unicycle landing gear. It will survive atmospheric entry if you can somehow get it into space. Because why not? 

 

[dudnees]

Twin turboprop tiltwing VTOL which is well controllable up to about 200 m/s in horizontal flight.

It probably won't help you much in career mode, but it's fun to develop and fly.

The transitions between vertical and horizontal in both directions are controlled by robotics, but it possible to do it manually.

The problem of the wing hinge opening in flight is fixed with a couple of rotating locks.

Video here:

 

Edited March 4, 2021 by dudnees
Add second image and video link

[Cavscout74]

Some of the aircraft I've been using in my Out of the Sands career:

CF-01 Star - early jet, powered by twin Junos.  There was also a version using a single prop engine in the nose to test the airframe while the Juno's were being researched.   The PropStar was quite popular with Jeb & Val over the older Buffalo.

Also has the SuperStar variant with afterburning turbojets (from AirplanePlus mod)

The new CF-02 Cobra - capable of pushing slightly past mach 1.  Much more fuel efficient but not as fast as the SuperStar

The old reliable CFP-01 Buffalo was in use before the development of jets:

Plus a few "X-planes" to complete various speed/altitude contracts:

CX-01 Arrow, first supersonic aircraft

And the CX-02, capable of breaking mach 2.  Has a pair of jets for take-off & climb, then a rocket engine for a burst of speed.

 

Edited March 5, 2021 by Cavscout74

[Caerfinon]

Some early career aircraft...

 

[JIMMY_the_DOG]

Behold! The super-fast-hypersonic- KerBommer!!!!

My speed rec. is 1,453 m/s with it! THATS INSANE! It takes off at 50 m/s and stalls at...... 20 M/S!!

Pics

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It on the runway:

https://ibb.co/cXjn7r0

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Supersonic:

https://ibb.co/xDjfMPB

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hypersonic!!!

https://ibb.co/XWrDks5

Hope you like it!

 

[Owenmck]

13 hours ago, Caerfinon said:

These aircraft are really cool, how did you get these cool looking screenshots with the text? Is it an addon or did you add it yourself?

 

12 hours ago, JIMMY_the_DOG said:

Behold! The super-fast-hypersonic- KerBommer!!!!

My speed rec. is 1,453 m/s with it! THATS INSANE! It takes off at 50 m/s and stalls at...... 20 M/S!!

Very cool

[Caerfinon]

3 hours ago, Owenmck said:

Is it an addon or did you add it yourself?

This is done by Historian Expanded.  Lots of customization options.

 

[PigeonThePilot]

A Dassault Mirage recreation. i did this for a mini unofficial challenge not too long ago 

On runway https://ibb.co/0MG2gFp

In the air https://ibb.co/JxcvZLP

it aint much but its honest work

[KerrMü]

 

Hi

At the moment I´ve only got two planes to show for.

1: My humble attempt at a DC-3

and 2: I just built this today. I don´t think it´s finished yet, but my bed is calling and it´s already cool to fly. 

And parked side by side:

 

On 3/4/2021 at 7:14 PM, Brikoleur said:

 

 

 

Brilliant! 

Edited March 7, 2021 by KerrMü

[GDJ]

DC-3 in the Arctic.

Aero L-39 Albatross

CT-114 Tutor

Scatch built plane for a challenge.

Edited March 7, 2021 by GDJ

[JcoolTheShipbuilder]

screenshot of the first plane i made lol

yes the wings were floppy lol
and then there was this....
monstrousity
was hard to control, but it DID fly!

lol

[PigeonThePilot]

3 hours ago, JcoolTheShipbuilder said:

screenshot of the first plane i made lol

yes the wings were floppy lol
and then there was this....
monstrousity
was hard to control, but it DID fly!

lol

Lmao

though i have a question, on the second one, the absolute monstrosity of a plane one, could it actually fly? 

[JcoolTheShipbuilder]

On 3/7/2021 at 3:39 AM, PigeonThePilot said:

Lmao

though i have a question, on the second one, the absolute monstrosity of a plane one, could it actually fly? 

yes, the monstrosity could actually fly, but not really that stable lol

[Brofessional]

Made a helicopter mostly based on the AH-1.

 

[Caerfinon]

Flying the new passenger jet to Round Range Airport through the mountains

The final approach is a little tight.

 

[Cratzz]

Tupolev Tu-160, on my DeviantART

Edited May 29, 2021 by Cratzz

[Cratzz]

787 Dreamliner, on my DeviantArt.

[Admiral Fluffy]

OH BOY! SOMETHING THAT I'M GOOD AT MAKING!

[Ben J. Kerman]

Here is my KerbJet 45:

 

If you are wondering, I did do other flights but have not uploaded them onto YouTube yet.

I will post a video of my McKerbal Kouglas DK-10 here later.

[Mouhand]

hello i try to build a f/a18 hornet replica "still WIP"

Quote

B9procedural wings

procedural part

advanced jet engine

Ferram Aerospace research

conformal decals

aviation light

 

[ColdJ]

Apologies. I started basically the same sort of page in discussions, that got moved to exchange, so I hadn't realised this existed. No wonder I wasn't getting a lot of interest.

Good work. some great stuff here.

[uprise951]

I love messing with airplanes too, especially destructive ones   

So, I have been working on super manueverable, belkan witchcraft kind of fighters

Behold the KF-223

It is in some ways a combination of ADFX-02 Morgan and ADF11F Falken from Ace Combat series. I replicated the weapons loadout of ADFX-02 via a combined laser weapon including a seperate battery and auxillary power unit. MPBMs are also there as backward nuclear tipped missiles. 

Mods used:
NKDR
Airplanes Plus
BDArmory

[HyperDraco]

Yikes, can't believe I missed out on posting my Draconic Athena II SGI

Edited May 20, 2021 by HyperDraco
It can carry 40 missiles/bombs but also has a GAU-8 Cannon with 4,800 rounds defualt but Minor Details

[Cratzz]

Messerschmitt Me 262, on my DeviantART.

General Atomics MQ-1 Predator on my DeviantART.

Edited June 2, 2021 by Cratzz