VTOL small spaceplane

[ikira]

What began as a quick experiment with rapier engine ended with a pretty awsome looking craft in a small form factor with very good performance! Felt like sharing it with you guys hope you enjoy!

Pilot operating manual: -Full thrust climb vertical to about 100m

-30 degres climb

-Target of 30km at 1600ms before switching to closed cycle (leaving it on auto works fine)

SAS always on. I stole the ion lander design from someone ( i dont remenber who but its an aswome desgin and fit snugly in betwen the vertical stabs.

Dont forget to empty the bottom fuel tank before landing because they act as ballast for your payload!

craft file : media fire

[Marine07]

Can it land on Kerbin without chutes?

[ikira]

Yup! But its much easier with the chute! RCS helps a lot with the rotation to vertical before landing otherwise the control surface dont have enough authority to flip the plane vertical at low speed

[pyrotech]

awesome little plane! thanks for sharing