Landed pretty much everywhere with stock parts and kind of got bored of them so I went to check out what new mod parts are available these days. This made it possible to make a, shall we say, different approach to landing on other planets / moons
I made some kind of truck / helicopter hybrid (basically just slammed two VTOL rotors on the thing) to see if this would even fly. Surprisingly enough, when thrust and mass centers coincide this thing actually flies like a proper helicopter, so after testing it on Kerbin, I decided to test it a bit further away: on Laythe (one of Jool's moons; Jool is a gas giant and currently the outermost planet in the Kerbol system - call it a Jupiter analog for lack of a better one. Laythe is an ocean moon that seems to be all about sandy beaches on it's bunch of small islands; perfect vacation spot for Jeb and the gang).
So, I slapped this truck with rotors on a massive rocket. What could go wrong?
Trucks in spaaaaceee!
Here's something you don't see from a truck's cabin every day. Chew on that, History Channel.
Picked a landing spot in relative vicinity of one of my previous landed missions. What's the point of awesome maneuvers if nobody's around to see your showing off, after all?
Amazingly enough, after ditching the interplanetary stage, the helicopter / rover stage didn't decide to have any nasty stability issues and instead flew like you'd expect a real helicopter to. That's definitely one of the cooler ways to land a spaceship
Lots of fuel left in the truck's main tank, these VTOL rotors are pretty efficient. Doesn't exactly fly too fast (managed to get it flying close to 100 m/s while maintaining a 500m altitude) and it's ceiling is just below 10k, but it's certainly a better way to explore Laythe than just having a regular rover - this thing can drive just fine, but it can also air hop between islands.