[Showcase] Share your Duna spaceplanes

[chaos_forge]

I'm starting this thread because I want to land a space plane on Duna, but all the designs I've build, while they flew fine in the atmosphere, freaked out and crashed as soon as I touched my wheels to the ground. So what better than to see other people's ideas and copy be inspired by them?

Sorry for not posting pictures of my own, I'm at work right now but I'll post pics of my Duna spaceplane attempts as soon as I get home.

EDIT: here are my planes:

Odysseus I:

Odysseus II:

Odysseus III:

Edited July 17, 2013 by chaos_forge

[Bothersome]

Here's a few of mine...

[Sesni]

Here's a few of mine...

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That last plane looks like a Cessna 170.

[chaos_forge]

Here's a few of mine...

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How do you stop the wheels from breaking on the first plane?

[Bothersome]

Don't roll on the ground faster than 60m/s. On Duna, the first plane and the last plane fly at about 50m/s at 4000 meter altitude. Some areas on Duna are that high. That was the reason I made the plane in the second picture. I large wing surface to give lots of lift. That plane can fly about 15m/s on Duna at 600 meters. I forget right off hand what it flies at 4000 at though. I was going for slow flight for takeoff and landing and also speed at high altitude.