North Pole Base Transport

[Stewcumber]

I haven't been on Kerbal or the forum for a while but suddenly got the urge to challenge myself to something. I decided to see if I could set up a base at the north pole, and then set a personal land speed record when I was there. Phase one was designing a plane to lug all my base stuff there.

Pelican I- A tristar rip off

Unfortunately having a big lump of weight hanging underneath ruined the flight dynamics some what. So I tried to build the cargo into the design.

long range but sub-sonic version, I just bolted extra fuel tanks to it; Jeb is ghetto like that.

Supersonic version with moaar engines!

sort of sucessful. Note lack of command module / cockpit on the base. Doh!

added a tail as the tail-less version was unflyable on the return journey

for some reason- it kept flipping over (due to the short length to width,

power and lift ratio, I guessed)

Pelican VI and IV together

not exactly a big base but never mind!

[Redshift OTF]

Yay, I love Polar bases. It's great to send planes there too. Loads of flat space to land on.