KerbalX

A replica of the XB-70, that I did a big enough redesign on recently to say I’m satisfied with how it looks. Let’s get this disappointing bit out of the way: the wingtips don’t fold down, and you can’t ride the wave. I know, I’m disappointed in me too.

Now that we’ve established that I’m a failure, let’s talk about the jet:

The things I cared about most when making this were at first:

• The speed
• And the strange overhanging side profile.

In the redesign I basically just redid the entire engine/intake setup to add the very distinct shroud and dual ramp intake, I’ve also corrected the main delta wing to be flat a the aft end of the plane, not sure why I made it angled forward. I’m honestly very satisfied with the intake, it looks similar to the real thing from up front and hides all the nasty internals*.

*Looking too deeply for too long into the shroud will reveal the inner ugliness of the jet. Do not do this. The jet becomes anxious when psychoanalyzed for too long, and could become hostile.

The wing tanks (and magic invisible tank you can’t see) hold way more fuel than is necessary, consider the configuration you download it in to be at max fuel and reduce it a lot from there (half is still gonna give a very good range), it can travel something like 15000km at well over mach 1 if you’re at 13,000m and stay just out of AB.

Speaking of AB, I didn’t use the real world engines for this because I didn’t want to, I am not as smart as the people who made the real thing and I don’t get the benefit of compression lift. They produce a fair bit less thrust than these engines and weigh more, and I couldn’t get them to 3+ mach without sacrificing too much fuel and payload. Almost forgot, it has 7 engines because I Trust in Thrust.

Speaking of trusting in thrust, this thing can reach just over mach 3 with full fuel and an 18,000lb payload between 13-15km.

Speaking of payload it has two areas to put one. The first is 6 recessed bomb bays under the engine shroud, each can hold up to 3x1000lb JDAMs (the standard and included payload). The second is the more conventional forward bay, it has a much greater impact on the CoM, but when you just can’t fit that 15Mt bomb anywhere else….

Lastly, and as always, Atmospheric Autopilot was gifted upon this community for all to use, please accept this gift and download it.

Mods

• Airplane Plus
• B9 Procedural Wings Modified
• BDArmory for Runway Project
• Ferram Aerospace Research
• Kerbal Foundries2
• Nice MKseries Body
• Squad (stock)
• TweakScale - Rescale Everything!
• USI Asteroid Recycling Technologies