It seems the same problems that were affecting the V-22 Osprey crept up in the prototype I am building. Namely a strange resonnance effect when the reactors are being tilted from vertical to horizontal and when the body of the ship is leveled up.
Flying tests in my desert secret location have revealed it is controllable but I am thinking of applying some kind of adaptation mechanism to let the ship learn and control by itself those forces, probably using some basic AI.
So far the tests have let me fly the small prototype I created for about 5 min. The fuel is methane and liquid oxygen powering a rocket engine and a turbofan that replicate the performance curve I expected from the versatile air scooping engine that will power the real thing.
400 lb total mass vs. 250 tons for the end game... some ways to go but moving fast.
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