How to build first plane?

[Abu Hajaar]

I ahve hte mk-1 cockpit and and the juno engine which are different sizes. how else can I build a plane. Do i use a rocket engine for now?

[Bardouv]

juno is a bit weak. let me mess around and i'll see if i can build something effective with it.

edit: yeah its a mess. just use rockets for now.

[Abu Hajaar]

i dont have a cockpit to fit the juno

[EchoPapa1]

Stock KSP doesn't have a size 0 cockpit (the Juno is size 0). You'll have to use adapters or radially mount a size 0 liquid fuel tank.

[AoD_lexandro]

Originally posted by Abu Hajaar:

I ahve hte mk-1 cockpit and and the juno engine which are different sizes. how else can I build a plane. Do i use a rocket engine for now?

Take a Mk 0 small fuel tank, add a juno at one end and a small circular intake at the other.

Congrats, you just made an engine. Slap a pair on to your design and go flying.

[RoofCat]

^ this. You problem is, you have to place Juno sized fuel tank first. You can attach it radially to most other parts. Then place intake on one end and engine on another. That's it. Or be creative.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1242831316

[andylaugel]

Here is another example of using the Juno engine. You just use the smallest fuel tank side-mounted to your plane, with the juno and air intakes attached to that.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1147202135

[CalmLlama]

I have a Juno powered stunt plane. Great for those high G tourist missions.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1426227230

[Abu Hajaar]

Originally posted by RoofCat:

^ this. You problem is, you have to place Juno sized fuel tank first. You can attach it radially to most other parts. Then place intake on one end and engine on another. That's it. Or be creative.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1242831316

I guess I didn’t really understand the concept of building a plane and still find myself confused because it looks like your airflow is through the fuselage as well as others here. But I never saw any indication that the personnel pod allowed airflow through it. Nor did it make any sense to me that I could put an air intake on the front of a fuel cylinder and a turbine on the back and it would work because I didn’t see how air just magically flowed through the fuel cylinder.

[Abu Hajaar]

Originally posted by andylaugel:

Here is another example of using the Juno engine. You just use the smallest fuel tank side-mounted to your plane, with the juno and air intakes attached to that.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1147202135

What component made up the tail piece of your fuselage. Is it a rocket engine? Or just some structure piece and your only thrust is from the jet engines? Or is it a liquid fuel tank that your jet engines can utilize like that? Idk much about ksp

[Chibbity]

The starter air intake, fuel tank, and jet engine all go together like this:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=919584475

Then you slap that on the side of the plane or on a wing, preferably in a pair.

[Chibbity]

Originally posted by Abu Hajaar:

What component made up the tail piece of your fuselage. Is it a rocket engine? Or just some structure piece and your only thrust is from the jet engines? Or is it a liquid fuel tank that your jet engines can utilize like that? Idk much about ksp

Looks like a structural fuselage piece.

[Abu Hajaar]

Originally posted by Chibbity:

The starter air intake, fuel tank, and jet engine all go together like this:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=919584475

Then you slap that on the side of the plane or on a wing, preferably in a pair.

Yeah I get that now by looking at these designs but when I was designing that didn’t make sense because I didn’t understand how airflow could occur through the fuel tank. You know what I mean?

[Chibbity]

Originally posted by Abu Hajaar:

Originally posted by Chibbity:

The starter air intake, fuel tank, and jet engine all go together like this:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=919584475

Then you slap that on the side of the plane or on a wing, preferably in a pair.

Yeah I get that now by looking at these designs but when I was designing that didn’t make sense because I didn’t understand how airflow could occur through the fuel tank. You know what I mean?

Yeah I get what you're saying.

To clarify; the game assumes air/fuel is piped wherever it needs to be in planes.