I'm not questioning what you currently have; I'm just curious as to whether you'd have the landing gear and jet engines be driven in-engine or you'd bake out animations for it. Also, the jet engines connections look way too weak to lift the ship. Really cool stuff by the way!
ah. I assume baking animations would come with severe limitations, so i'd probably try building the animation setup in-engine. Though the animation of these parts is not *that* complex, either way might work. And yes, i'll try bulking up the connecting tubes.