KerbalX

Description

A stock aircraft called Kronus SD-2 Drehmeister. Built with 496 of the finest parts, its root part is strutCube.

Built in the SPH in KSP version 1.6.1.

Details

• Type: SPH
• Class: aircraft
• Part Count: 496
• Pure Stock

Special Thanks!

To HB Stratos, whose amazing TSR-2 build inspired this craft! As well as for his advice and feedback during this craft’s building process. Check him out if you haven’t already! https://kerbalx.com/HB_Stratos

Craft Description

This craft is a full stock large air-superiority fighter that has all moving elevators and wings. These all moving surfaces give the craft great maneuverability and responsiveness. The mechanism for the wings is very strong, in my testing I was able to push the craft to over 30 g’s with no issue. That being said it isn’t perfect, the wings tend to be a bit twitchy, and don’t work well with the SAS at higher speeds. In all honesty this build could be perfected more, but the latter 10 hours of it’s development consisted almost entirely of tweaking already, so I’m perfectly happy to call it done. This craft isn’t too speedy, but at higher altitudes has approached mach 2, although at these speeds the instability caused by the wings usually results in a glorious high g-force death.

So, Funny Story…

As some of you may already know this jet began development quite some time ago, and the finished product is extremely different from it’s initial finished design. This craft started it’s life as a variable sweep wing build, inspired by Servo’s Panavia Tornado replica (which at the time was still in development). However now matter how I tweaked the design it always ended up looking really ugly. So I stripped the wings out and was left with a barren fuselage, it was around that time that I saw HB Stratos’ TSR-2, and decided to take the craft in a different direction, and also began talking with HB Stratos directly. From there the craft went through numerous redesigns, optimizations, and so on. In total this craft has been finished 4 times, each time I decided to strip everything out and start a new, I’ve never changed my mind so much on a craft before.

I think the results speak for themselves, even though it’s still not perfect. And for those that did see this craft’s initial design, know that it has LESS parts now than it did before, surprisingly.