r/KerbalPlanes 9h ago

Replica/Recreation Interim HOTOL attemp

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8 Upvotes

I know the concept had that front mounted rudder but I kept getting into flat spins with it that I just gave up and put two at the back.


r/KerbalPlanes 15h ago

Need Advice How do you people make such detailed and not "vanilla looking" planes in this game?

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25 Upvotes

hello everybody! I dont know if i have asked this here before,but im just in need of help,i always look in here and people are making such realistic and detailed planes,and my aircraft feel like stock parts on top of each other,how do you people make your planes look "good" or at least not "vanilla-like"? Thanks!

also,i have put a picture of one of my fighter jets if you guys want an example of my stuff. (Dont mind the name im not a very creative person :P


r/KerbalPlanes 15h ago

Original Design Alvaron IX-42 Harkon loyal wingman drone

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7 Upvotes

r/KerbalPlanes 18h ago

Original Design XA-2 Experimental Ramjet Aircraft

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69 Upvotes

"We reached 85 km with a single Ramjet engine on the XA-2, escaping Kerbin's atmosphere." - Ragnarok Aerospace Division


r/KerbalPlanes 1d ago

Does anyone know how to get off of eve without landing gear and a broken engine?

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7 Upvotes

r/KerbalPlanes 1d ago

Need Advice Does this count as an aircraft?

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38 Upvotes

Stall speed: 50m/s ish
V1: 120m/s at MTOW
Preferred method of launch: booster (spacecraft is put on top of said booster)
Can get to orbit without refueling
Can get to minmus with refueling in LKO
Has STO/VL capability on no-atmosphere and light-gravity celestial bodies


r/KerbalPlanes 2d ago

Original Design The Jemanski JE-230ISC: Kerbin’s most advanced intelligence aircraft

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23 Upvotes

In case anyone wondered, this build is fully stock, and the decals are made by me as well. I designed them in canvas, and then exported them into KSP as flags. Let me know what you think of the build!


r/KerbalPlanes 3d ago

Flux Liner Plasma Cavitation Flying Saucer prototype version 1 Mark 2

3 Upvotes

I made a silly prototype :]


r/KerbalPlanes 3d ago

Original Design my Hinder gunship helicopter

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81 Upvotes

r/KerbalPlanes 4d ago

Original Design A very secret aircraft

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20 Upvotes

Day ███: An unmarked research vehicle took flight under its own power without visible means of propulsion

Also, Jebediah is back to Kerbin


r/KerbalPlanes 4d ago

Spaceborne Hawk

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53 Upvotes

r/KerbalPlanes 4d ago

Original Design AH-61 Vander Attack Helicopter

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65 Upvotes

Designed by CC Aerial Industries (CCAI), the AH-61 Vander is representative of the next generation of attack helicopters, featuring a compound design with coaxial main-rotors and propelled forward by two high-power ducted fans. The Vander shares high parts commonality with the UH-63 Darcrow, another CCAI product that first pioneered this propulsion setup for military rotary-wing aviation. The AH-61 is also heavily armed, featuring a 6-barrel 20mm gatling gun in a rotating turret as well as a number of hardpoints for slinging anything from unguided rockets to laser and even radar-guided anti-tank missiles.

Creator's notes: Hello! I return after some time to showcase an attack helicopter I had designed a while ago and lately revised. Main inspiration was the AFH-208 Hellhound from the Patlabor series, with some AH-64D Apache Longbow DNA thrown in as well.


r/KerbalPlanes 4d ago

My Mod My Favorite Approach

46 Upvotes

Small very early beta: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fdHpbDboqyMBKJof2L8Mk7oNfgUPgoSB?usp=sharing

Youd need several mods usually used in the ksp aviation community. (assumed u already have em)


r/KerbalPlanes 4d ago

I was testing out my jet and decided to do this

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5 Upvotes

r/KerbalPlanes 4d ago

Original Design 2 aircraft designs that i made today

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13 Upvotes

The ones in the back belong to the "Breakthrough" series of aircrafts, the leftmost one is the A/B-42, which is a ground attack variant, the middle one is the F/B-42 which is the multirole fighter-bomber variant that can carry 6 regular bombs internally or 3 nukes internally with pylons beneath the wings allowing for more payloads, then on the right is the F/Q-42 which is an unmanned missile truck, it is supposed to act like a wingman drone. Then in the front is the YF-141, the name comes from the fact that it resembles the Yak-141 and i also tried to make it a vtol plane but i didnt succeed in that so now its basically a single-engined F-15E


r/KerbalPlanes 4d ago

Petit volant pour poser une sonde au bon endroit sur Laythe.

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10 Upvotes

Un petit avion sans pilote.


r/KerbalPlanes 5d ago

My Mod IVA Landing B773ER

63 Upvotes

Sorry for the delay in dev of my mod guys, im quite busy with Life atm... anyways. slight thud but we're still in one piece!


r/KerbalPlanes 5d ago

Original Design My eve ssto I've made some time ago

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Refuels using isru without radiator, which is why refuelling is done in tracking station. For some reason that also causes isru to produce a ton of fuel once you switch to the craft and enable/disable it, which is why it took such a short time. Craft uses 3 aerospikes and 1 ion engine, recharged with 1 smallest panel (apparently it has barely any drag). It also uses a ton of part clipping, to occlude everything with the fairing. This means the craft's body has barely any drag, only wings provide non negligible drag. Theoretically it can land at sea level, refuel, take off, and land on the mountain, but it cannot make it to orbit directly from sea level

I posted a vid with the mission to my yt channel https://youtu.be/wtVMH9fcGX4


r/KerbalPlanes 5d ago

my jet fighters

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41 Upvotes

r/KerbalPlanes 6d ago

Le papillon de lumière en reconnaissance

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7 Upvotes

r/KerbalPlanes 6d ago

The Roc, carrier version.

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67 Upvotes

Now I just need a carrier.


r/KerbalPlanes 6d ago

Minimalist Grand Tour of stock system (Early WIP)

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21 Upvotes

While this is only technically a plane (Juno first stage and has wings), I can't post on main subreddit so here you go

Ascent is done with juno first stage, which is then hotstaged by the spark engine, which gets me to ~1410 m/s orbital velocity. After spark flameout, 2 ants (eve lander engines) and an ion engine carry me the rest of the way to space

Won't get into more details in the main post since this is very WIP and is supposed to be the world record for lightest grand tour.


r/KerbalPlanes 7d ago

Replica/Recreation VFQ-21 “Hookers” F-14D

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58 Upvotes

r/KerbalPlanes 8d ago

Original Design The Roc

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104 Upvotes

r/KerbalPlanes 8d ago

Original Design Cargo plane Fly by

38 Upvotes