A Spaceplane Called Fred [IMAGE HEAVY]

[leopardenthusiast]

I've been trying to build an SSTO. Since I couldn't think of a good name, I just called it Fred.

This is the Fred SSTO Mk1. It flew... well... saying that it "flew" is a little generous. It was more like throwing a brick at the ocean. A jet propelled brick with a kerbal in it. Admittedly, this isn't even the real thing - it's a reconstruction. I had to make a new one, because I absentmindedly saved over the original. But this one "flies" pretty much exactly the same way.

So here we have the Fred SSTO Mk2. Will it fly? WILL IT FLY?!

from a different angle

YES! IT FLIES! WE HAVE FLIGHT! Bit wobbly though, I'd hate to have to fly it to orbit. Let's take it in for landing on the grass.

...oh. Well. Glad there's nobody important in there... and that they survived, of course...

How do we fix a wobbly spaceplane? Struts! Meet the Fred SSTO Mk3!

Struts!

Never enough struts! Let's try that landing again.

You know, I'm starting to think that maybe this design isn't so great.

At this point, I realized that I hadn't slept for 14 hours and decided to do something that required less thought.