Advanced Question I need a few questions answered.

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First, I'd like to know how to land a tailsitter. Every time, it eludes me. Things such as either coming down too fast, or having way too much horizontal speed.
How can I stop this? I've tried a few methods, such as a normal, retrograde re-entry, which leads to far too much horizontal speed, and I've tried the 'Kill all orbital speed first, drop' method, which leads to far too much vertical speed. How?

Another thing is: Getting to planets faster. I'm not especially experienced with this, my pretty much only interplanetary trip was an Earth -> Mercury -> Venus -> Earth.
According to NASA, a spacecraft under constant 1G acceleration would reach mars in 2 - 5 days. (Not taking into account the turn around and de-accel.) Are there any add ons for orbiter that model this? Or at least provide a faster way of getting around.
 
Try both at the same time - manage vertical speed while slowing down, by using pitch for the first part, until you are almost vertical, then use throttle, pitch and yaw for some sort of helicopter flight to the launch pad.

I recommend getting reentry MFD for this. While you are not flying a typical reentry, the output of the MFD can be helpful, since it tells you how much you have to slow down each second and how much slow down you have.

It takes some lot of training, but it is not impossible. I personally also use the following rule of thumb for landing on Moon or Mars: Vertical Speed is maximal the square root of the altitude.
 
Another thing is: Getting to planets faster. I'm not especially experienced with this, my pretty much only interplanetary trip was an Earth -> Mercury -> Venus -> Earth.
According to NASA, a spacecraft under constant 1G acceleration would reach mars in 2 - 5 days. (Not taking into account the turn around and de-accel.) Are there any add ons for orbiter that model this? Or at least provide a faster way of getting around.

This spacecaft is designed for constant 1g accel: http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3034

And this is and MFD for flying constant accel journeys: http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3111
 
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