KerbalX

Details

• Type: SPH
• Class: aircraft
• Part Count: 102
• Mods: 10

Mods

• Airplane Plus
• AviationCockpits
• B9 Aerospace Parts Pack
• B9 Procedural Wings Modified
• BDArmory
• Ferram Aerospace Research
• KW Rocketry
• Magic Smoke Industries Infernal Robotics - Legacy Parts
• Squad (stock)
• TweakScale - Rescale Everything!

Description

Harrier (FAR) is a vtol fighter originally developed by British company Hawker Siddeley, later adopted by UK and US armed services. She features one turbofan engine with four swivel exhaust to provide vertical and horizontal thrust, and reaction control ducts mechanically linked to pitch, roll and yaw control. An ingeniously simple design.

Flight Manual
Control from probe core right behind cockpit.
VTOL operation: VTOL take off, Check exhausts at vertical position, maximum thrust, SAS on. Press 1 to toggle engine. As the plane starts lifting, incrementally swivel exhausts backward by double tapping 2. Once the plane pick up enough speed (70m/s), press 4 to swivel exhausts all the way backward.
VTOL landing: Press 6 to swivel exhausts to vertical position, engage airbrake to slow down, you can swivel exhausts forward by double tap 3 to slow down faster, press 4 to return to vertical position when slow enough. For finer hover control, right click the probe core on the back of the plane near the tail and select control from here, set SAS to radial out holding.

A mod aircraft called Harrier Jump Jet. Built with 102 of the finest parts, its root part is mk1DroneCore.

Built in the SPH in KSP version 1.2.0.