Vortexe Spaceplane Work-In-Progress

[MikomDude]

I got the idea for this plane from reading about the Skylon project and those supersonic jet concepts that seem to be all the rage nowadays. I just love those concepts and here's my take on it.
Thrusters built on a similar principle to the SABRE engines on Skylon.

[Finis]

Nice! Do the engines need air intakes or are they rockets? I'd leave it without intakes because the design looks great as is.

Can I get one of these with VTOL so I can land it on the converted aircraft carrier I call my yacht? (Finds a billion dollars between the couch cushions.) Make that two, can I get two?

I like the U.S.S. Revolt too.

[MikomDude]

The engines are a hybrid like the SABRE engine so it will have air intakes as well but my first idea was to have them come out of the hull kind of like flip-up headlights. That part is also still very much a work-in-progress.

If you want a cool VTOL/STOL concept then check out the Sky Whale concept:





I love this design. I want to marry it and have its tiny space ship babies but I digress... you said something about a private aircraft carrier?

[Draise]

I too love that design, I downloaded all the pics of it as much as I found out about it!

[MikomDude]

Here's what little progress that I've made thus far. I probably won't have a lot of time to work on it in the near future. I've got a commission for another spaceship that I've got to get done this weekend.

WIP #2: