Kerbal Space Program - 51 ton Eve SSTO

Single stage from Kerbin's surface, to Eve's surface, and back to Kerbin. Mass on the runway is 51.7 tons.
As far as I know, this is the lightest such craft that doesn't use magic wings. Previous record was 57.4 tons by nonRO-tesseract. A bit of lateral thinking here - this can go down to sea level, refuel, and then climb a mountain before refueling again. So technically this can be a sea level Eve SSTO as well.
With the xenon drained this plane becomes pretty hard to control so I just did a water landing. I am impressed at the capabilities of the KSC recovery crew.
Not all gravity assists and ion maneuvers are shown in this video because there were a lot of them and it would be boring.
Music: Zombie Hyperdrive - The Destroyer

[@Marioand64Luigi]

at first I thought "oh cool, an ssto from eve to eve orbit" and then they took off from fucking kerbin

[@axoodle]

"oh they must just be testing it- OH GOD OH FUCK"

[@lewismassie]

This song was in my playlist that I used to listen to on loop while playing. It's a banger.
Super neat and compact design too

[@GuybrushKerman]

Heavens above, this is insane

[@BloxStorm373]

Very underrated!

[@bravoalpha101st]

epic

[@Moonbow826]

simply beautiful

[@jedoesstuff9086]

actually the goat

[@nvb9218]

What was the main engine used here?? Based on the plume, a Vector maybe? Or an aerospike?

[@Countryballsandstuff999]

That's so tiny, nearly 1/10 of Lt. Duckweed's Even ssto

[@lechimiste5135]

Joli. Est ce que tu peux préciser tes moteurs ?

[@insuffbun]

Wow it's crazy seeing you build something over 10 tons nonetheless 50!
In any case, nice!

[@proxima_fish]

Hard to make an eve ssto for 10 tons

[@experimentalmenace]

PLease show what engines were used here I want to try and build it.

[@JYF921]

Nice! Way better than my bulky ssta

[@ЗабродинПавел]

How did you survive the heating in Eve's atmosphere?

[@proxima_fish]

if you look at the thermal gauges, I almost didn't!

[@AdamSchadow]

Why did you use those wings I was always under the impressing the ones with liquid fuel inside are better?

[@proxima_fish]

I don't use a rapier or nuclear engine so there's no point in the additional fuel tank.

[@Nicolas_Gamer5476]

cool shape

[@ez_theta_z9317]

surely you could get rid of the vertical stabilizer? at least replace it with something lighter?

[@proxima_fish]

probably

[@andreybushev3020]

But then it would look less cool

[@thatgpu]

this is tiny

[@lowkeylowkey9119]

return to hunting when

[@proxima_fish]

Not sure what you mean