KerbalX

Details

• Type: SPH
• Class: aircraft
• Part Count: 64
• Pure Stock
• KSP: 1.10.1

Description

This early prototype jet isn’t very fast or high-flying compared to later, more advanced jet aircraft, but it flies well enough and its extensive flaps give it gratifyingly low takeoff and landing speeds.

The wing-mounted turbojets have a pair of rocket boosters on top for an extra burst of power when it’s most needed, but be careful - the rockets burn through fuel much more quickly than the jet engines do!

A stock aircraft called Keibler 2652. Built with 64 of the finest parts, its root part is Mark2Cockpit.

Another rocket-boosted variant of the Keibler 26, this time with the Cub rocket engines mounted atop the engines (reproducing the arrangement on the real-life Me 262 C-2b - only one was ever built, and it only ever made one powered flight), instead of in the tail as with the Keibler 2651.

The 2652’s fuel and oxidiser loadings have been increased to provide greater endurance under rocket power, making it somewhat heavier than the 2651, and the wing area is very slightly smaller (a small section of the wings’ trailing edge has been cut out to make room for the Cubs’ nozzles), but it remains a very undemanding aircraft to fly.

As before, 1 toggles the Junos on and off, and 0 toggles the Cubs.

Built in the SPH in KSP version 1.10.1.

Above: A test flight of the Keibler 2652, starting at the Island Airfield, looping around Tern Island (the round green island to the northeast), and then doing a rocket-boosted climb to over 20 km altitude over the Hernandez Mountains (those mountains to the west of KSC) before an approach and landing on KSC runway 09.

Below: Several views of the Keibler 2652 on the runway at KSC following its successful test flight and landing.