KerbalX

Description

This has got to be my most ambitious craft yet. I really challenged myself with this one to achieve as close to perfection as i could. I’ve spent the latter half of 4 months building and perfecting this thing, which is probably the cause of it’s monolithic partcount. I apologise for any crashed games and frozen PC’s. I would also like to take this moment and thank ScaryTerry for all his work on the decals and Serpent (a.k.a KAS or Milk) for the last few awesome screenshots. This plane is yet another update on my F-14 design, but this time it’s the D model. Everybody knows about the tomcat at this point, so no need for a history lesson. Let’s just get into the craft itself.

The Craft

The craft itself has variety of different functions. It features missiles, a tailhook, airbrakes, refueling probe and a functioning variable sweep wing. Let’s begin with the important ones. To fire the missiles simply press staging. To activate afterburner, toggle RCS. Breaking automatically extends the airbrakes, so no need to extend it manually. To sweep the wings, press 1. To extend them again, press 2. To operate the ladder, press 3. To extend and retract the tailhook, press 4. And lastly, to arm and disarm the refueling probe press 5. You could also fiddle around with the lights.

Important Notes

A few important things to keep in mind while flying this thing. Firstly, when spawning it in open the cheat menu and hack gravity, because the game will spawn the plane a few meters above the runway, and the impact of it hitting it will dislocate the hinges and mess with other parts of the craft. Hence why i reccomend to hack gravity first and put it way lower, so it can very softly touch the runway before putting the gravity back to normal again.
Flying the craft comes with a few nuances. Although difficult, due to the nature of the hinges there might be a chance that the stabilisers and wings might pop out of their respective hinges when put under very high load, so try not to pull any 20G manoeuvres. No need to worry about them breaking when flying casually or mildly aggressively.
To display the decals in-game, you first need to download the flags listed below.

Details

• Type: SPH
• Class: aircraft
• Part Count: 2281
• Pure Stock
• KSP: 1.12.1

pain: infinite