KerbalX

Details

• Type: SPH
• Class: aircraft
• Part Count: 31
• Pure Stock

Description

An experimental fighter aircraft, so experimental, in fact, that it doesn’t have a name (it was Jeb’s idea, I swear).

The aircraft in its current state carries a moderate fuel load, although this can be increased by re-filling the other tanks that I left empty for weight saving. The increase in weight will more than likely hurt performance by a fair margin, but the current format gives it a top speed of virtually Mach 3 (Mach 2.97) at low level with the ‘burners lit, so the additional weight gain would not terribly hamper performance. It is also extremely maneouverable, you can reduce the pitch authority to increase minimum turn speed (currently ~95m/s in dry and ~115 in wet mode) at minimal loss of turn radius.

This aircraft can be simply converted into a long-range fighter-bomber, as payload capabilities are very good, with filling all internal tanks and adding drop tanks in addition to the weapons
load gives significant range capacity.

A stock aircraft called XF-36. Built with 31 of the finest parts, its root part is Mark2Cockpit.

Built in the SPH in KSP version 1.7.1.

*Updated because I noticed I hadn’t put symmetry on the air intakes, now fixed.

Action Groups

AG1: Flaps (may need to change deploy direction, occasionally they stuff up for whatever reason).
AG2: Switch Engine Mode
AG3: Toggle Engine On/Off

This craft is made for the KSP Original Design Competition by Servo and HB Stratos, found at: https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/182094-ksp-original-design-competition/&
Most of my recent craft I have posted on here are built for this competition.