Stearwing D45

[Dman979]

Anyone know how to fly this thing? It is stock.

Edited October 30, 2014 by Dman979

[sal_vager]

HarvesteR made it, it's not supposed to be easy to fly, it's supposed to be fun

[NFUN]

There is also a theory that the stock crafts are just meant to be a demonstration of how to build various types of craft, and not be useful themselves.

[Taki117]

IT takes every drop of fuel, but it is possible to get it to orbit and back.

[Starman4308]

Anyone know how to fly this thing? It is stock.

Fly it a few times, try and figure out its flaws, and design your own.

Most of the stock craft were deliberately designed with illustrative flaws. For example, the Kerbal X, while demonstrating asparagus staging, has very tiny asparagus tanks which are depleted very rapidly, leaving you to do most of the ascent on a single engine. It also, before a buff to Rockomax parts, did not have quite enough delta-V for a Mun landing and return mission.

[Dman979]

I've already started designing my own stage-and-a-half spaceplane. I think that the flaw in this design (if there is one) is that with Kerbals in the chairs it is too heavy and cumbersome to fly right.

[worir4]

For some reason when ever i try fly it i can't get it to lift off the runway until the end. I moved the gear more closer to the CoM and it is okay now.

[Brownhair2]

Here's some advice: the Stearwing sucks. Use the Aeris 4a, it's much easier to use.