Kerbal Space Program

Kerbal Space Program

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Craft Type: Plane
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1 Nov, 2018 @ 10:50pm
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Personal Orbiter G-5

Description
Non-novice friendly personal transport to low Kerbal orbit. Aircraft is difficult to get to orbit, difficult to de-orbit, and also difficult to land. It's quite the challenge, but not on purpose. Taking off, be careful not to pitch up too high, as to not damage the ventral Nerv engine. The flight characteristics cause the craft to slide in the air a lot during hard turns, but so long as at least the ramjets are turned on, it won't lose control. The fuel in the nose may cause it to tumble if maneuvered too aggressively while cruising into orbit speeds. Decent can be a long process as to not to destroy the craft with heat and aerodynamic stresses. Landing the craft must be done at relatively high lateral velocity in order to have a shallow angle of attack as to not damage the ventral Nerv engine. The tradeoff for this dificulty is a crew capacity of 6, a relatively high maximum orbit (with maneuvering dV to spare), and it looks pretty good!

Hotkeys:
1 - Toggle Ramjet
2 - Toggle Rapier
3 - Toggle Repier Open/Closed cycle, toggle air intakes
4 - Toggle Nerv
5 - Toggle air intakes
Brakes - Toggle 4x airbrakes
Abort - Shutdown all engines, deploy 4 parachutes