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If this isn’t a beauty I don’t know what is.

Infinite electricity is needed!
Important notes at the bottom
As if the 747 couldn’t look any stranger.

I’m (slightly) proud to say that this is, at the time of creation, the 2nd Dreamlifter on KerbalX. The impulse to make the gear door system of a 747 led to the duct-taping of many parts to form an exceptional, one-of-a-kind beauty which looks like a pregnant Queen. I swear, it wasn’t because I was running out of ideas. Also, fashion over function.

This reasonable conglomeration of parts include:
-Decently accurate 747 main landing gear door functionality
-Decently accurate 747 triple-slotted Fowler flaps system
-Spoilerons and Inboard Ailerons
-Happy Spooptober. You get a landing nightmare.
-Plane

Cue your disappointment. This does not feature:
-A functional rear door or enough cargo space.
-Steerable inboard main landing gear (Can be toggled if you wish, but beware on the strain on the landing gear)

V-speeds

Vr-80m/s
Vf-100m/s @ 15°
VTD-80m/s @ MLW

Cautionary Tales from Another Dimension

Landing Gear (again)
Rover wheels are meant for rovers. This behemoth is not a rover. But does anybody ever read the Use only for intended purposes labels? I sure as heck don’t. As punishment, the landing gear assembly is about as strong as my sanity. Land with 2m/s vertical speed, >70m/s <90m/s horizontal speed or face the underwing gears popping off, along with the other 600 parts of the plane.

Taking Off
To prepare for takeoff, press, in order: Brakes > AG10 > AG9
Because of the landing gear equivalent of soggy noodles, of all things, taking off poses some challenges of its own. As such, here are notes on how to take off without causing mass destruction of the runway and plane.
Step 1. Throttle to 1/3%, and taxi down the runway until past the Touchdown Zone markers (the thick rectangles).
Step 2. Full throttle until 80-90m/s.
Step 3. Slowly rotate until airborne.
Step 4. Profit?
Alternatively, just run off the side of the runway and slam the throttle.

Fowler Flaps
The flaps, when fully extended, deflect ~30° down. This has some severe implications on flight performance, such as a very strong nose down effect (which the horizontal stabiliser cannot compensate for) and very high drag. Because of this, avoid dropping full flaps in any phase of flight. Instead, a 10°-15° deflection (controlled with [I] and [K]) should be enough.

Spoilerons and Inboard Ailerons
In flight, the spoilerons and ailerons may start instantly deflecting between their max/min deflections. I have no idea why this happens, but it does. Also, the spoilerons, when fully deflected, add a lot of drag to the associated wing.
Regarding the inboard ailerons, sometimes, they might not fully deflect, and instead will only deflect halfway. However, this doesn’t impact performance significantly, and only looks strange.

Transparency time! The front landing gear brakes have been increased to compensate for the absolutely abysmal braking power of the rover wheels. Also, reminder v.2 that infinite electricity is needed. Large number of stronkk servos requires large amount of electric juice.

A stout aircraft called Boeing 747-400LCF Dreamlifter. Built with 666 of the finest parts, its root part is the root part (jazz hands).

Built in the SPH in KSP version 1.7.3.

B787 fuselage sold separately. Terms and Conditions apply. Warranty void if launched. By downloading, you acquit me of any potential misfortunes. Batteries not included.

Details

• Type: SPH
• Class: aircraft
• Part Count: 666
• Pure Stock