CJF-Cougar

Hello again to everyone on Simple Rockets 2 and the SR2 community! I decided to post my lastest craft that I put together over the weekend. I am happy to introduce the CJF-Cougar. First off, it's a self lifting , sweep wing craft that I built from scratch and using memory references only.

It's heavily inspired by the F-14 Tomcat sweep-wing design with some fun rockets on the back and my customary Cargo bay , except stream lined as the cockpit. The benefit to this is that the few times I did crash during testing, the cockpit would fly off intact like an escape pod so it's a nice surprise to see when it happens. On a more technical stand point, with the wings swept forward give the craft a self-lifting flight between 400-500m/s as high as you want, then you simply lock in trajectory angle, sweep the wings back and watch the speed pick up very quickly. I fueled it with Methalox and maxed out the tank efficiency with the design as much as possible so there's only 9% of the craft that isn't used for fuel. Everything else is full and hooked up to a rocket or a jet. It's really easy to fly although jittery on trajectory lock until 8000ms, but it's not needed as the self-lifting design handles that for you from lift off. It was easy to build and an absolute riot to fly around and zip through the air. It's set to two stages and activation groups for easy flight. Completely vanilla, made on mobile. I tried to put cup holders. Enjoy!

Group1: Plane Jets (2 x JL-250 at 250%)
Group2: Rockets (4 x pixie, 1 x Mage)
Group3:Sweep hinges (between -50 to +50) Slider 1
Group4: Cargo bay cockpit