Working VTOL shuttle w/ rotating engines

[rodcastro]

Hello everyone, this is my first post here, yay.

So, I bring you my try at designing a working, fast and reliable VTOL aircraft/space shuttle. I've made 2 versions of this, one using the Aerospike rocket, and another using a vanilla jet engine, to save fuel. I've succesfully managed to takeoff and land the craft in all normal VTOL combinations, although I must admit it took me many tries, this plane is anything but stable in very low speeds, and RCS is a must if you don't want to crash it.

I used the following mods/plugins to build it:

- Damned Robotics Version 1.2.1 (http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/9675-v0-16-Damned-Robotics-Version-1-2-1)

- RedStar co-op Airplane parts v0.4.1 (http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/17081-0-17-RedStar-co-op-Airplane-parts-v0-4-1)

- TyberDyne's Shuttle System Version 3.0! (http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/4116-0-17-TiberDyne-Aerospace-R-D-Division-Shuttle-System-Version-3-0%21-Sept-20th)

Here's the video:

Edited October 14, 2012 by sal_vager

[sal_vager]

Hi rodcastro, welcome to the community

That's a pretty cool craft, well done

[detman101]

Awesome! How do you do that?

Did you side-mount the engines directly to the rotatron?

I tried sticking the radial decoupler from the "Wayland PSX Pack" directly into the center of the rotatron but all it does is wobble like a twizzler when I turn on the engines.

Do you have any advice?

Dm

[bob2787esq]

very nice dude.. i've made some nice hoppers, still working on the full vtol

[bob2787esq]

Edited April 19, 2013 by bob2787esq
went wrong here

[bob2787esq]

i'm going to link my vtols here..let me know if any are good or any ideas for a better design

[bob2787esq]

[soulreaver1981]

you need DamnedAerospace, it has better parts for plane's and shuttle's

[bob2787esq]

Cheers...what would also be nice is if there where some nacelles with pivots built in