Probably the best sr-71 blackbird made so far

[Trollkowski]

Surprisingly easy to turn and roll considering it's weight and the fact that it's big.

[Pds314]

"Edge of space" being 25 km high, not 65....

Also, keep in mind that:

A: a standard F-18 can go that high, if only by suborbital hops.

B: Hypersonic planes can fly at double that height.

C: Kerbin's scale height is 5 km. Earth's is 8 km. The real blackbird would be limited to around 15.6 km in KSP.

[moxzot]

so what im hearing is my 21 km plane is amazing

[Trollkowski]

"Edge of space" being 25 km high, not 65....

Also, keep in mind that:

A: a standard F-18 can go that high, if only by suborbital hops.

B: Hypersonic planes can fly at double that height.

C: Kerbin's scale height is 5 km. Earth's is 8 km. The real blackbird would be limited to around 15.6 km in KSP.

Well.. I installed more fuel tanks, so i bet i can make it pretty far distance, which also made it super heavy (pwing weighs alot lol), and i've already reached 15km at 300m/s (which is only 1/3 of the sr-71 real speed but still, i'm limited to 2 engines which makes reaching 1000m/s impossible unless i mod the part.cfg of the engines to give them more thrust), so i still keep true to the op title. Might actually modify the pwing to weigh less...

[moxzot]

id love to try it i bet i could push it to 1000m/s without configs

[Trollkowski]

id love to try it i bet i could push it to 1000m/s without configs

Good luck with that, like i said it's impossible to make it go faster without better engines or config modding to make it lighter, it simply is too heavy for the engines to push it beyond a certain speed.

[eorin]

have u tryed to clipping 2 engines in once? u add more weight at the rear but u also gain more power, and if the fuel consuption start from the front of the jet can balance ur craft

[Trollkowski]

have u tryed to clipping 2 engines in once? u add more weight at the rear but u also gain more power, and if the fuel consuption start from the front of the jet can balance ur craft

just tried it now, does add more power... but the plane keeps yawing either left or right after i get it into the air, it's like when i yaw it once to the left or right it will keep turning, really weird.

[eorin]

just tried it now, does add more power... but the plane keeps yawing either left or right after i get it into the air, it's like when i yaw it once to the left or right it will keep turning, really weird.

what is ur take off speed? sometimes the problem of the yaw undercontrolled after the take off is caused by the weight, if u are sure all the parts are simmetric then the problem can be the lift/mass ratio, probably u dont have so much lift power and thrust power to compensate the heavy weight of the craft.

[Trollkowski]

Project started again, this time in 0.22.

Huge ass tail fin is only temporary, will find a replacement soon ;P

Will release the craft file the next time my game crashes, which should be shortly

[pat8996]

I've seen the black bird up close And i can verify that this is the best Black Bird on the Forums! Its So Good that i say there's no need for updates (except for when the mods used are updated and ksp itself)

[Trollkowski]

really want to add more pics (especially now that the huge ass tailfin is gone ), but the number of parts on this badboy makes ksp load it reeeeeeeaaaaaaaally sloooooooooooowww..

[Zuni]

There's too much criticism on this thread. No, it's a beautiful ship, and it deserves its title. The best Blackbird lookalike I've seen so far. Congratulations.

[glencoe2004]

Can you get the craft file plz?

[Fox62]

Someone needs to make procedural Mk2 fuselage parts. Or fuselage parts that allow us to make our own fuselage system. That plus PWings would let us build procedural SR-71s with far fewer parts.

[i like turtles]

That, is in fact, the best blackbird i have EVER seen in KSP. GJ! (y)