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L-121 "Greenfingers"

Easy-to-fly low-tech basic trainer for early career. The plane itself is available as soon as the "Aviation" and "General Construction" (both 45 science) are unlocked.

Carefully designed to carry 4 astronauts and let them get familiar with take-off, flight and landing, or take crew reports / collect temperature and air pressure data around KSC airspace. For me, it is also the first moving vehicle which helps to harvest science from KSC facilities. EVA crew can climb up the wings. Very strange that the tech tree allows me to build a plane first before being able to build a car...I have to drive a plane around KSC and do science stuff, odd but fun...

It has good stability and mediocre maneuverability as a basic trainer. Crew sit in reasonable and connected spaces, two of them facing backwards. Reaction wheels are deactivated for real flight characteristics.


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100% Stock, 30 parts (thus clear to take off without any facility upgrade)
Take-off speed (Vr): 50m/s
Minimum safe flight speed / Recommended landing speed: 60m/s
Cruise speed: 230-280m/s
Max speed tested during diving: 316m/s
Ceiling: ~7000m