[Craft Showcase] Hammer Head 3, an ssto project

[MassiveEffectz]

Hello fellow kerbalaughts. I present to you, a 4 month project of my idea of a ssto ship, the Hammer Head.

I designed this at first to have a cosmetically appealing aircraft with no weird intake air spam or crazy design. Orginally it was an UAV with the dual intakes at the front, but the offset weight made me run into the infiglide bug.

I quickly ran this copy up and tested it so features are missing, however it performed really good.

Key and missing items:

-5.52: 2 Intake to engines (2.76: 1)

-Agile, able to make at least 5g turns.

-75km Periapis obtained

-72 m/s max obtained acceleration

-RTG

-SAS

-Ejection system.

-6.5T empty mass.

-Docking port.

-No RCS. The next version will have it.

-No orbital engines. Will add radial lvn engine

-Forgot to add a ladder.

-Forgot sepratron boosters.

Download link in the final prototype. Otherwise this is simple to recreate with pictures.

The next version will be called the Wave Rider, due to the fact i was skipping off the attmosphere like a surfer; and where i offically acheived circumnavigation in arpox. 35 minutes.

Storyboard

here is a picture of it inflight

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I took off at dark, which wasnt too hard. Next i adjusted the pitch to 40 degrees then zoom climbed to 13km where i gradually decreased the pitch by intervals of 10 degrees.

Obtained 2020 m/s at 24km. This was a new achievement since i have never gone that fast. I then pitched back to 17 degrees to see if i can leave.

Too much pitching induced a AP of 64 km.

After falling back down and rising up, i went back to crusing altitude then tried a 8 degree pitch.

74km AP!!!

Unfortuantly without speratrons or a liquid engine, i failed to achieve orbit.

Overshot the landing by 19 km. D'oh. took me 4 minutes to circle back and land, for an overall time of 39 minutes. I had only 50 units of fuel to spare.

Jebediah has done it agian.

(Also spoilers seem not to work. Had to reduce images to just links for now.) Sorryies

[GusTurbo]

Hello fellow kerbalaughts. I present to you, a 4 month project of my idea of a ssto ship, the Hammer Head.

I designed this at first to have a cosmetically appealing aircraft with no weird intake air spam or crazy design. Orginally it was an UAV with the dual intakes at the front, but the offset weight made me run into the infiglide bug.

I quickly ran this copy up and tested it so features are missing, however it performed really good.

Key and missing items:

-5.52: 2 Intake to engines (2.76: 1)

-Agile, able to make at least 5g turns.

-75km Periapis obtained

-72 m/s max obtained acceleration

-RTG

-SAS

-Ejection system.

-6.5T empty mass.

-Docking port.

-No RCS. The next version will have it.

-No orbital engines. Will add radial lvn engine

-Forgot to add a ladder.

-Forgot sepratron boosters.

Download link in the final prototype. Otherwise this is simple to recreate with pictures.

The next version will be called the Wave Rider, due to the fact i was skipping off the attmosphere like a surfer; and where i offically acheived circumnavigation in arpox. 35 minutes.

Storyboard

here is a picture of it inflight

I took off at dark, which wasnt too hard. Next i adjusted the pitch to 40 degrees then zoom climbed to 13km where i gradually decreased the pitch by intervals of 10 degrees.

Obtained 2020 m/s at 24km. This was a new achievement since i have never gone that fast. I then pitched back to 17 degrees to see if i can leave.

Too much pitching induced a AP of 64 km.

After falling back down and rising up, i went back to crusing altitude then tried a 8 degree pitch.

74km AP!!!

Unfortuantly without speratrons or a liquid engine, i failed to achieve orbit.

Overshot the landing by 19 km. D'oh. took me 4 minutes to circle back and land, for an overall time of 39 minutes. I had only 50 units of fuel to spare.

Jebediah has done it agian.

(Also spoilers seem not to work. Had to reduce images to just links for now.) Sorryies

No need to worry about posting too many images.

I really like this plane. It's a very sleek design, which can be hard to do when making spaceplanes. Better looking that any of mine, that's for sure.