First Taste of Aerospace Victory!!

[Railgunner2160]

Bill: Jeb are you sure this is even going to get off the ground?? Your X-1 never even made it out of the hanger.

Jeb: Not my fault they didn't have anything to use as landing gears.

Bill: The one try you got using a clamp to hold you up for launch wound up with you in the hospital for 5 days. You sure the aerodynamics even work on this X-2 of yours??

Jeb: Before I even took it to the builders to get built I took it to Tetragon and had them look it over, they'd said it's fly no problem.

Bill: So what are we doing again??

Jeb: Aerial surveillance, have 2 seperate contracts out that we need to do.

Bill: How far are we going.

Jeb: the first is right near KSC, the second is across the ocean east of KSC.

Bill: Alright let's get this over with and hope we survive it. (Goes to climb in...) Where's the ladder???

Jeb: Hmm, thought I included one. (Yells at a service tech...) You there, go get us a airstair!!!

Bill: An airstair?? We only need a ladder!

Jeb: I like to make an entrance!!

Bill: (Facepalms helmet...)

Jeb: That's the first lot done, Bill you okay?? You look a little sick....

Bill: (Retches..) After all those crazy maneuvers you pulled it'd make anyone sick!!! Why did I even come??

Jeb: You drew the lot, so suck it up!! Wonder how fast this baby can go!!

Bill: (Groans...)

A Short While Later:

Jeb: Now we're booking!! Look at those shockwaves!!

Bill: Be careful Jeb, BLAST IT!!! That's plasma you madman!!

Jeb: NICE!!

Bill: Nice, NICE!?!?! Did you even consider plasma when you designed this???

Jeb: Of course I did!! I designed this with spaceplane conversions down the line.

Bill: Huh, that's farther than you usually think....

Jeb: What's that supposed to mean!?!?

Bill: Jeb, you strapped a dozen of the big SRBs to one of those old MK1 pods and decided to launch them without Gene's permission. You're lucky your still in the program!

Jeb: Oh come on, it wasn't that bad!!

Bill: They had to send me up in some half-baked rescue ship on one of the old Hermes boosters!!! And we nearly crashed when the parachutes didn't deploy properly!! We're lucky they untangled themselves, as it was only our pods survived!!

Jeb: Alright you win, yeesh....

On Approach to KSC Runway:

Jeb: Alright, coming in to land.

Bill: JEB! Deploy the airbrakes, we're too hot!!

Jeb: Let's see... (Looks around the cockpit...) Huh, what's this note on the floor?

Unknown: "Jeb, the delivery guys are 2 weeks behind on our orders, so we skipped the airbrakes installation on this one. Go easy on landing. Love: Maintenance"

Jeb: Uhh, looks like the hanger guys didn't put them on......

Bill: WHAT?!?!?! you mean we're coming in hot with no AIRBRAKES!?!?!

Jeb: Yep, now be quiet it's touchdown time.

Bill: Ohh Krakens above!!!

(Massive Squealing can be heard, first on pavement then on grass.)

Bill: AHHHGHHHH!!!

(A massive crash can be heard along with wrenching metal, and finally it stops...)

Jeb: One of my better landings if I do say so myself!! Only lost one landing gear, little spit and polish by the hanger guys and it should be good to go!!!

Bill: NEVER AGAIN!!! NEVER AGAIN JEB!!!! This is the last time I climb into one of your deathtraps!!!

Jeb: What are you talking about?? I'm taking her back out next week!

Bill: (Shatters his helmet with a facepalm.)

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Now this is my first attempt at a mission report, after FINALLY building a plane and getting it to fly and land it mostly intact I couldn't hold it in. I'm considering maybe expanding it in the future, but that's a big if.

If you liked it consider it a one-off with the chance for more, if you didn't then please tell me where you think I went wrong.......

[Geschosskopf]

That's a pretty plane. Too bad you broke it .

Were you doing one of those Fine Print contracts? I just got that mod and have one of those contracts, and it's got these funny blue leaf-looking target markers on the navball. Problem is, these icons are all asymmetric so I can't decide which part of them to aim for, one of the pointy ends that looks like the tip of an arrow, or center mass. Or do you have enough leeway that it really doesn't matter?

[Railgunner2160]

There's ALOT of leeway in those, so much that sometimes if they're close enough I get 2 done!! The only things that seem to really matter is getting close enough and being at the right altitude.....

[Geschosskopf]

There's ALOT of leeway in those, so much that sometimes if they're close enough I get 2 done!! The only things that seem to really matter is getting close enough and being at the right altitude.....

Thanks. I'm currently trying one of these with my very low-tech plane. No landing gear yet and the plane itself is the 0.625m Piper Cherokee-looking things from SXT. Max speed about 70m/s so this is going to take a while even at 4x warp .

[Railgunner2160]

No landing gear?? Hope your using vanguards parachutes mod, you know the one with the ejection "seats" part.....

[Geschosskopf]

No landing gear?? Hope your using vanguards parachutes mod, you know the one with the ejection "seats" part.....

Nah, I just slapped some inflatable airbags from the USI Survivability mod on the bottom. Used them both to take off and land. I just had to build the plane with enough wing to start flying at ridiculously low speeds.

[Railgunner2160]

Interesting solution, not bad!!

Would love too see it if you've got some pics.....