StratoLaunch Air Carrier

StratoLaunch Air Carrier

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This plane design comes from Stratolaunch- Systems and its partners 

Paul G. Allen had an idea to fund a project for the worlds largest plane 

The wing span is going to be 117 meters and weigh 590 metric tons and it will carry a rocket with a payload of 6 metric tons

My plane is only a rough estimate of the real plane because i could only find a few stats and mainly based it off pictures

The one I built is a little bit smaller with a wing span of 112 meters and only weighing 360 metric tons with 189 parts 

This plane does need the majority of the runway to take off  and you have to go slightly to the left side of the runway so the wingtip doesn't hit the fuel tanks next to the SPH and climbs the best at 7 or so degrees it does how ever like to float in different directions so you will have to manually control it most of the way up to the rockets launch altitude of 9,110 meters 

You can change the payload of the rocket to something else but right now it is a fuel tank to simulate the payload of 6 metric tons

The wings do bow like a lot but I haven't had them brake on me yet 

The aircraft it stabile in FAR with and with out the rocket 

When you launch the rocket you do have to use full throttle and the lift buster I put on the side to keep the nose up until mach one but after that you want to throttle down to around 50% so you don't go through your fuel in 15 seconds 

Mods used

B9 Aerospace Pack

B9 Aerospace Procedural Parts

Active Texture Management 

Ferrem Aerospace Research

Fantom Works

KW Rocketry 

Advanced Jet Engine

Tweak scale

FS hanger extender

Kerbal Joint Reinforcement

Module Maneger 2.5.6 (comes with B9)