VertiPlane Challenge

[EGB9000]

If the pictures don't work, just download the craft and mess around with it.

[swjr-swis]

2 hours ago, EGB9000 said:

If the pictures don't work, just download the craft and mess around with it.

The pics are accessible now, I notice. I like how it looks when in the 'vertical' configuration; you should show that one on the download page as well. The large wings rotate through the others?

Some feedback:

• A craft file download is always nice and appreciated, thanks. But: people would have to mess with their current set of mods to test fly a modded craft, so 'download the craft and try it' is not a good method of verification for a challenge. Hence the usual request for screenshots with key information in them.
• Speaking of which: your entry (and the pics) miss the details needed to score your craft on speed and fuel.
• And at such low resolution judging the aesthetics gets difficult too. It deserves better pics to showcase the design, very different from the other entries so far.

 

[HamnavoePer]

13 hours ago, swjr-swis said:

Ok, I notice you've updated the requirements about that, no problem. In which case, remove my first entry, because it had no Kerbal pilot aboard at all, just the probe core (the cabins don't work as command pods).

And you still need to adapt the fuel score of my second entry, it's too high.

You entered the first one before I added the kerbal rule so it still counts.

[swjr-swis]

Ok, Jeb wouldn't take no for an answer and hid all the snacks until Bill agreed to tune up his VertiPlaneTiny. So here's a slightly improved version of my 2nd entry, to get full points for fuel and more points for speed (and because it needed a few touch-ups anyway ).

Please replace my 2nd entry by this one and rescore.

VertiPlaneTiny-01a - 301m/s with Jeb onboard (200m/s with four kerbals), 250 units of fuel, and improved landing gear and vertical trim.

Spoiler

 

Craft file: https://kerbalx.com/swjr-swis/VertiPlaneTiny-01a

 

Edited September 20, 2016 by swjr-swis
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