One of my biggest pet peeves with SP is the lack of tutorials for new players. They teach you how an airplane works, and how to build a twin prop aircraft, then leave you own you own. Hence, I decided to make a full tutorial on creating a functional VTOL aircraft for new players. I kept it simple as well, to make something that would be simple to copy.

The tutorial

So, you wanna build one of these eh? Follow the steps below
1: Open Menu
2: Create new aircraft
3: Open the parts menu. Go to "Structural"
4: Grab blocks and drag them onto the body to start building up your rear fuselage
5: Grab one block. Attach it in front of the cockpit
6: Attach a "Nose Cone" onto that block.
7: Grab a block and an angled block. Attach these behind the cockpit for S M O O T H
8: Exit "Structural" category
9: Open "Wings" category
10: Grab "Primary wing". Attach this to the right side of your fuselage. Feel free to change the wing shape as you want.
11: Exit "Wings" category. We will return to this later.
12: Open "Gizmos" category
13: Grab "Small rotator" part. Attach this to the tip of your wing. Then flip it sideways.
14: Exit "Gizmos" category
15: Open "Propulsion" category
16: Grab "Blasto J15". Flip it upwards, then attach it to the rotator. (You want the thruster part to be pointing down. This is where the rotator comes into play)
17: Grab "Blade T1000". Flip upwards, attach to the Jet engine
18: Exit "Propulsion" category
19: Open "wings" category. Its time to build our fork tail.
20: Pay careful attention. This is where things get quite tricky.
21: Grab "Horizontal stabilizer". Attach this to the rear fuselage.
22: Exit "wings" category.
23: Open "Structural" category
24: Grab "Fuselage"
25: Open the part settings. Scale it to 0.25 in length, then scale it to 0.25 in height and 1 in width. Attach this to the tip of your horizontal stabilizer
26: Exit "Structural" category
27: Open "Wings" category
28: Grab the vertical stabilizer part
29: Attach to the fuselage you just added
30: Congrats, you built the fork tail! Your plane is almost complete. Time for some gear now
31: Exit "Wings" category
32: Open "Gear" category
33: Grab "Retractable Landing Gear"
34: Attach to front of the fuselage. Now do this again, but attach it to the back.
35: Congrats! You built a VTOL (Vertical Takeoff And Landing) Aircraft!

How to fly your VTOL plane

1: Open the level
2: Throttle up
3: Once the nose starts to angle down, move the VTOL slider (left side) all the way down. This will tilt your engines forward, causing the plane to go forward instead of up
4: Pitch up by pulling back on the right joystick
5: You're flying now! Good work!

I hope this was helpful