Stuka Extended Endurance Spaceplane

[AArtisan]

Designed solely for the purpose of getting a kerbal to the moon's surface and back all in a single stage.

Mods required to use:

B9 Aerospace

Ferram

KSPX

Fatman NERVA pack

Firespitter

Deep Space Mission pack

Takeoff and landing are the hardest part since the extreme sweep of the wings make this airframe need around 150m/s to take off at the end of the runway and stalls at an airspeed of below 75m/s

Flight tips:

>Use nerva engine on takeoff to get needed takeoff speed.

>Takeoff only occurs at the end of the runway.

>Climb to 13000m at around 25 degrees.

>Once reached, activate nerva engine again to keep nose up.

>Keep other engines running in atmospheric mode until around 35000m. The enourmous intakes provided by B9 should allow you to avoid a flameout.

>Before re-entry, shift all fuel into the front tanks to prevent aircraft instability.

* On a sidenote, the pictures provide are slightly different to whats in the craft file. What I didn't include was the part where the cockpit snapped off on landing and killed my kerbal.

The uploaded version has the cockpit reinforced and the landing stilts moved abit further back as you can see in the picture they were abit too short to be effective

CRAFT. file

http://pastebin.com/iEnEmBxu

[Rune]

Loving that wing profile. How did you manage such a sharp sweep, did you use the procedural wings?

Rune. The usual "good job!" is implied.

[DisarmingBaton5]

Looks amazing. Is it named after a certain dive-bomber?

[AArtisan]

Loving that wing profile. How did you manage such a sharp sweep, did you use the procedural wings?

Rune. The usual "good job!" is implied.

actually no, I used the B9 wingtips and rotated them 90 degrees frontways, Oddly enough If you do that with Pwings, they instantly stall out when you go supersonic and to warp them so that they're this far swept back would make their roots so huge that they'd look awful.

Edited June 19, 2013 by AArtisan

[AArtisan]

Looks amazing. Is it named after a certain dive-bomber?

Naa, I think the Ju-87 was was called the same because stuka means lightning or something like that in german which kinda makes sense when you apply it to a hypersonic spaceplane

[Ben Kerman]

stuka means lightning or something like that in german

Totally wrong, lightning is "Blitz", which is also the origin of "Blitzkrieg" (conquering a nation as fast as lightning).

Stuka comes from Sturzkampfflugzeug.

"Sturz" means drop (or dive, if seen in this context), "Kampf" is fight and "Flugzeug" is plane. So Stuka is an abbreviation for dive bomber (or dive fighting plane, when translated literally).

[AArtisan]

Totally wrong, lightning is "Blitz", which is also the origin of "Blitzkrieg" (conquering a nation as fast as lightning).

Stuka comes from Sturzkampfflugzeug.

"Sturz" means drop (or dive, if seen in this context), "Kampf" is fight and "Flugzeug" is plane. So Stuka is an abbreviation for dive bomber (or dive fighting plane, when translated literally).

Oh well you learn something new everyday. At least when someone makes a military mod for KSP you can expect these to be the vangaurde of an attack.