An Unexpected Air Hog Journey!

[Torquemadus]

I built a small jet plane so I could do some "test in flight" contracts. I completed the contracts, but found that it was quite difficult to simultaneously fly high enough and slow enough to meet the required conditions. By the time the tests were complete, I realised I had already flown a quarter of the way around Kerbin and by coincidence had used a quarter of my fuel.

For a bit of fun, I decided to keep going and try to fly all the way around Kerbin and try to make it all the way back to the KSC. I fully expected that I would burn through my remaining fuel and have to make a rough landing somewhere.

I'll admit, I've read accounts of "Air Hogging", which supposedly is achieved by means of part clipping, intake spamming, and generally building planes in ways that were unintended.

I ultimately ended up circumnavigating Kerbin three times, purely because I underestimated how difficult it would be to bring myself back down from sub-orbit with only control surfaces and an air breathing engine to guide my aircraft. Third time around, I managed to bring my craft down close enough to the KSC to make a powered go-around and land on the runway.

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