the LAWIN S10

[warlock0110]

Finally, my first successful built aircraft!

It is called "Lawin" a filipino term that means "falcon" in english.

Name: Lawin S10

Type: Spyplane

Peak Velocity: 450m/s

Maximum Altitude: 47KM (base on my records)

Range: 400km

UPDATE: (DOWNLOAD LINK) http://www./download.php?502m0ip80vfr51z

I will post some of my other designs soon!

Feel free to write comment and suggestions, I need some feedback! Thanks

Edited October 12, 2012 by sal_vager
Changed Stock to Mod Craft

[cardgame]

Suggestion: mount some radial jet engines on the interior side of your tails, and save the rocket engine with its high fuel consumption for a later stage after you're already at 15km or so.

Looks pretty nice, I like it.

[warlock0110]

I will look forward to do that . Thank you for your suggestion.

will post more updates soon .

[keyfur42]

Which mods did you use?

[warlock0110]

Most of the parts are stocks, only the Avanced SAS came from mod I downloaded.

[Qumefox]

You could likely also get rid of half the ailerons on the wings and it stay just as controllable and reduce your part count. Though since these parts add lift (which IMHO they shouldn't, at least not significant amounts like they do now) you might have to rebalance some.

[keyfur42]

Which mods? KSP says i need smallNosecone, C7A.Structural.P2, 1mNose, and YMASasModule.

[warlock0110]

You could likely also get rid of half the ailerons on the wings and it stay just as controllable and reduce your part count. Though since these parts add lift (which IMHO they shouldn't, at least not significant amounts like they do now) you might have to rebalance some.

You are right sir!

It flies smoothly, more stable, and easy to control.

I did reduce some wings and the engine has only now 130 max thrust.

the LAWIN S9

DOWNLOAD: http://www./?xb11y8kn3f17pqp

[keyfur42]

It's still not entirely stock, would you tell me the mods so that i may fly it please?

[Qumefox]

Yeah, if it has mod parts at all (even just one) It really shouldn't be called stock since stock users won't be able to open it.

The nose cones might be from the novapunch pack (though, my novapunch parts all have the NP prefix.) and these don't seem to have that. They certainly look like the novapunch ones though.

Not sure about the ASAS module

Edited October 12, 2012 by Qumefox

[cardgame]

It's all NP.

[Qumefox]

Since I run a mostly stock install now. I ended up building my own version of the S9 going by the pics using stock parts since I couldn't use the posted .craft file. As shown, not sure why, but I couldn't even get mine off the ground.. was waaay too heavy for the available lift using a single jet. Using an aerospike got it off the ground, barely, but only yielded around two minutes of flight time on the available fuel.

After some tweaking to shed around 4T of fueltanks, some re-balancing to improve flight characteristics, adding more lifting surfaces, and throwing on a couple more engines for good measure, this was the result of my tweaking.

Actually it flies pretty well after you adjust the trim.. and is probably one of the better landing planes i've dealt with.. I managed three consecutive runway landings with it without crashing or breaking the plane.. A new record for me. I kept the tail chutes, even though they're pretty superfluous in this build, since landing speed is only like 45m/s.. the brakes stop it easy. Takeoff speed is ~140m/s and takes almost the whole runway, but it pulls up fairly easily at the end without being oversensitive and smashing the tail in the ground.

.craft file (might have to right click and pick 'save as' or 'save link' whatever the option is on your browser)

http://foxlightlasers.com/webstuff/KSP/Lawin%20S9%20%20QFE.craft