Hello folks,
I'm new to the whole addon making scene, but I managed to knock up a decent STSO and an Aircraft Carrier, so I figure I'm ready to have a bash at designing and making my own addon. I'm just going to go for a pretty standard spaceplane, with the idea being that it's the sort of thing we might see in, say, 25-30 years time (actually, I'm guessing there, I know nothing about space-craft and how quickly they develop
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One thing I'm considering is that instead of being SSTO (Which I don't think will really be feasible in that timeline) the shuttle will have a pair of boosters on pylons mounted on the wings, the combined thrust from a few minutes of their power+the shuttles own engines being enough to lift it into a ~500km orbit, with some spare to manoeuvre. The boosters would seperate and fall back to earth before either:
A) Parachuting into water.
B) Deploying wings a la a cruise missile and landing automatically on a skid.
C) Deploying a parafoil a la the X-38
The second idea I had was that, rather than a single vertical stabiliser, I'd have something like the A-225's H shaped tail.
Are these reasonable ideas, or am I just completely nuts?
I'm new to the whole addon making scene, but I managed to knock up a decent STSO and an Aircraft Carrier, so I figure I'm ready to have a bash at designing and making my own addon. I'm just going to go for a pretty standard spaceplane, with the idea being that it's the sort of thing we might see in, say, 25-30 years time (actually, I'm guessing there, I know nothing about space-craft and how quickly they develop
)One thing I'm considering is that instead of being SSTO (Which I don't think will really be feasible in that timeline) the shuttle will have a pair of boosters on pylons mounted on the wings, the combined thrust from a few minutes of their power+the shuttles own engines being enough to lift it into a ~500km orbit, with some spare to manoeuvre. The boosters would seperate and fall back to earth before either:
A) Parachuting into water.
B) Deploying wings a la a cruise missile and landing automatically on a skid.
C) Deploying a parafoil a la the X-38
The second idea I had was that, rather than a single vertical stabiliser, I'd have something like the A-225's H shaped tail.
Are these reasonable ideas, or am I just completely nuts?
