X-Plane inspired does mach 3.91901

[Kerbonium]

Hey all.

I just wanted to share this with you guys, as it is my first time building a plane of this type.

I just updated to a clean install of Beta Than Ever yesterday, so this is a stock craft.

It does 1333.6XX m/s (4800.96 km/h) and I have reached 21330m with it, without flame out.

(FYI, the SR-71 does around mach 3.3, which is about 1123 m/s)

She's also inherently stable, without SAS engaged, but for my personal altitude and speed records, I turned it on.

[nicky4096]

very cool plane! it even looks fairly good

however, if you only looking for speed, try using the ram air intakes (the shock cone intake takes in slightly more air, but is 2x heavier). the reason is that the higher you go, the less drag you have, the faster you can go. but going high in the atmo means less air, so you cant run your engine at full throttle, so you need LOTS of intakes

for example, i reached 2377 m/s in this (128 intakes):

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however that is obviously not realistic. but its possible to go 2 km/s on only 1 intake, but then the plane has to be very light.

cool looking plane though