Osprey inspired VTOL

[Zatie12]

Hey folks,

I set out to make a jet based V-22 Osprey inspired VTOL with fully rotational engines (includes a tail thruster for stability), it has 500 parts at the moment. The rotational joints are from InfernalRobotics, almost everything else is stock. The 3 engine modules are rotatable through 90 degrees, although it's only really stable within roughly the middle 50 degrees (I need to write a small mod or use something to define a profile for the tail thruster angle to improve stability through all phases of flight). It is possible to do a normal config takeoff (i.e. with the engines fully forward, or a VTOL style takeoff as shown in the gallery, with the engines tilted to approx 60 degrees).

Here's a link to the gallery: http://imgur.com/a/gyKHA

Hope it's inspiring, enjoy the gallery and I hope this might give some ideas for your KSP projects

[Supernovy]

Moved to The Spacecraft Exchange.

[sal_vager]

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[Sickle]

Gotta Love the V-22. Very nice VTOL you got there too.

[Goodle...]

Epic. will try to copy