I am starting a new project: THE BIGGEST SPACEPLANE IN KSP EVER!!!

[andrew123]

I heard the word "Kjolsen?"

Necro post?

'twitch'

[GabeTeuton]

Honestly this project sounds awesome, ever since i started playing ksp airplanes, and spaceplanes avoided me but with time, and exponentially closer to this days, airplanes are starting to like me a lot... I will obviosly watch your result and if there's anything i can do to give you a hand, just ask... (i'm not an ultra advanced player or anything though)...

Yeah your computer will probably die... but there's a way to try to reduce this effect as much as possible, and it's not 64 bits... forget about it... and i would recommend you to use FAR... now to try to reduce the lag, you may try to use "weld it", if you are unfamiliar with it, it's a mod that allows you to transform 2 or more parts, into only one... it's tricky, as some combinations may not work properly... but you are trying to make a large plane, not a complex one with a lot of different functions... so for instance you could weld all the fuel tanks together, or by rows, or well, use your imagination according to the design you are trying to achieve... also you should try procedural wings, to avoid making larger wings with small parts... procedural wings will allow you to make a long wide wing with one part... i have to further test it with FAR, as it gave me some trouble in the past... but you can try it and see if it works for you, or you can also weld all small wings into one large wing...

Also you can try to reduce the part count by avoiding things you may not need, i can't think of it right now, but many times i came across airplanes being unbalanced by stupid useless things...

Another thing, rapiers are usefull to certain point, but i learned from guys i would call experts, that the best combination is turbo jet + lfo engines... you may want to try it... and there's one last thing you may want to try, the current B9 package adds a massive engine that has lots of thrust, you could use 2 or 3 or 4 of those, they have a quite good thrust in atmo, and vacuum, and remember that in atmo, planes don't need to have twr of >1, you can fly with TWR 0.3 if you have enough lift (wings), tough it may be hard to achieve almost orbital speed in atmo with low twr, you may want to research on that via trial and error, and adding more air intakes will increase the altitude, which will decrease air density, allowing you to go faster with the same effort, and with a large plane as yours you will be able to have lots of air intakes, if you decide to use turbo jets instead of the b9 i mentioned!

I want photos of your development and iterations! That would be awesome!

Edited November 3, 2014 by GabeTeuton

[Redshift OTF]

I guess he tried it and gave up. The biggest planes I make are around 150 tons with part counts over 600. I doubt someone could make something 500 metres wide unless they made two long wings just for fun. Nice idea though! Dream big.

[Jimbimbibble]

Here's a link to a heavy spaceplane I made. It can lift 2 orange tanks (75T). You will need B9 and FAR to fly it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/13bhjdcm10124y3/C-47%20Globemaster%20IV.craft?dl=0

I highly recommend B9 because it includes a lot of parts for big spaceplanes, including 8m parts! If you want to make something huge without a shred of practicality or sanity, B9 is for you.