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Space Shuttle (Orbiter)

6,816 BrainyDJ  9.2 years ago
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WORKS ON MOBILE!

This is my recreation of NASA's Space Shuttle! The space shuttle was a spacecraft used to send payloads into low Earth Orbit. It consisted of two Solid Rocket Bosters (SRB) on the side of the large orange fuel take, along with the orbiter (seen here). Google it for more info. Have fun!

Instructions: Just take off! DONT MESS WITH THE VTOL!

Sorry about all the intakes on the bottom...had to do it. Also, so sorry I couldn't get engines into the thrusters near the tail fin...I wish I could but it probably would of ruined it...

This was my first airplane built on PC. I suggest you do it on PC...it MAY work on mobile I don't know. This was built and tested on High Settings.

Edit (9/9/15): Wow! Thank you for all your support! And a Dev even rated this! Wow...

Specifications

General Characteristics

  • Successors 8 airplane(s) +31 bonus
  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 35.0ft (10.7m)
  • Length 41.0ft (12.5m)
  • Height 17.9ft (5.4m)
  • Empty Weight 17,548lbs (7,959kg)
  • Loaded Weight 34,269lbs (15,544kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 3.344
  • Wing Loading 66.6lbs/ft2 (325.3kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 514.3ft2 (47.8m2)
  • Drag Points 6732

Parts

  • Number of Parts 119
  • Control Surfaces 9
  • Performance Cost 633

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    6,816 BrainyDJ
    I suggest you allow the front wheel of the landing gear to be steerable...It will help.
    9.2 years ago
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    6,816 BrainyDJ
    If you guys are interested I am planning on making the full shuttle with the Fuel Tank and SRB's because this came out so well!
    +1 9.2 years ago
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    6,816 BrainyDJ
    thank you all for the support! I didn't expect it to be this good...oh and I wish this thing could fly without the RCN and the VTOL Engine for trim, but I would have to get into editing the engines angle and such...
    9.2 years ago
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    16.2k LordofLego
    Hard to fly, but it doesn't matter. This is beautiful.
    9.2 years ago
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    9,382 FlOu
    Tricky to fly and land this thing but great fun
    9.2 years ago
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    Dev PhilipTarpley
    @BrainyDJ I really like how you can land this with a massive angle of attack just like the real shuttle and still maintain roll authority (no doubt b/c of the RCNs, but still)...pretty fun to try and land this thing.
    9.2 years ago
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    Dev PhilipTarpley
    It looks great. The only reason I gave it 4 stars is b/c you absolutely must use the VTOL controls to control pitch reasonably in many situations...but I had a lot of fun flying it around anyway, and was able to land it pretty easily when I used VTOL in addition to pitch....and it looks great while doing so. I was conflicted even taking off a star for that b/c the real shuttle would be unflyable w/o computer assistance anyway and you setup the VTOL pretty well to mitigate that issue...actually, I'm giving it 5 stars now that I've thought it through :)
    9.2 years ago

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