Making my jets withstand more friction?

[Tortoise]

How do I make my jets withstand more heat and stuff, and high-speeds and allow me to make tight-turns without it breaking apart? Besides just struts, is there anything I can do to the actual material used on the jet or something? Or any way I can design it, to minimize the impact of those type of things?

And just a tiny piece of info: I have FAR installed (btw developers if you're reading this, I think FAR and deadly-reentry should be integrated to KSP)

[Hodo]

You have a couple of options for this. I also run FAR+DRE amoungst other mods.

The thing is you will need struts or run Kerbal Joint Reinforcement by Ferram4, same guy who does FAR. But it is still recommended you strut things that do not have a solid contact point or are load bearing objects.

You can avoid the heat by flying higher, around 20-25km you will avoid most of the thick atmosphere with the stock Kerbin scales. My maching bird challenge craft I build sometime ago flew around 22km and did 2201m/s or Mach 6+ without air hogging and burning up.

The other option is to edit your parts cfg files and increase their heat resistance.

Edited April 27, 2014 by Hodo