KSP Challenge: Crosswise the Sea!

[MiffedStarfish]

My definition of "aircraft" is loose...

[Just Jim]

10 minutes ago, MiffedStarfish said:

My definition of "aircraft" is loose...

Moar pics!!!  

[MiffedStarfish]

14 minutes ago, Just Jim said:

Moar pics!!!  

I will once I get it working. I can takeoff easily enough, but I'm trying to deal with a problem causing it to violently roll right, with no apparent cause, after takeoff.

Edited June 23, 2017 by MiffedStarfish

[JoeNapalm]

On 6/22/2017 at 2:15 PM, Azimech said:

 

 

 

-Jn-

[Cpt Kerbalkrunch]

On 6/22/2017 at 1:15 PM, Azimech said:

 

 

Hope you don't take offense, cuz I dig your plane, but it sorta looks like a P-40 that grew up too close to a nuclear power plant. 

Any chance we could see the Flying Tigers' decals on there? 

Edited June 23, 2017 by Cpt Kerbalkrunch

[Dills0n]

The most original landing? I thought theres only two kinds. A normal one and a crash... Will be streaming this challenge in career mode later today... Twitch TV/Dill sub

Edited June 23, 2017 by Dills0n

[Azimech]

1 hour ago, Cpt Kerbalkrunch said:

Hope you don't take offense, cuz I dig your plane, but it sorta looks like a P-40 that grew up too close to a nuclear power plant. 

Any chance we could see the Flying Tigers' decals on there? 

 

That made me laugh. Thank you.

Decals? Maybe.

[qzgy]

Decided to re-do this challenge. In a car.

What? It works. Also, sorry for the image spam.

Went from KSC to the island in the bay that the KSC peninsula helps form.

[The solid fuel chemist]

2 hours ago, qzgy said:

 

Went from KSC to the island in the bay that the KSC peninsula helps form.

ahh, i use that island as a landing site for aborted shuttles.

[qzgy]

Just now, The solid fuel chemist said:

ahh, i use that island as a landing site for aborted shuttles.

Its quite nice. Flat and a big target.

[artwhaley]

Well, I'm not much of a planes guy...  so I set out to do the bare minimum on this challenge.  Which then lead to a whole night of enjoyable play trying to really get to the bottom of what the 'bare minimum' might look like!     And while there ARE some parts I could ditch...   (bicycle landing gear?  The probe core was really only there for testing so I didn't have to keep EVAing a kerbal into the seat...) it's pretty freaking minimal.

 

 

[NISSKEPCSIM]

I was testing the reusable carrier aircraft for the Russian 'Spiral' spaceplane system from the '60s, which will be featured in my ETS-style mission reports series, when I realised that I could perform a test flight of the carrier aircraft while also accomplishing this challenge. The total mission flight time was 20 minutes.

Spoiler

The aircraft on the runway: (Yes, I know, I forgot to change the flag from American to Russian, meh, doesn't really matter)

10 Whiplash turbo ramjet engines power the aircraft, resulting in a max TWR of 3.28!

Full throttle!

Takeoff!

The nose is raised from the higher-visibility landing position to the more-streamlined flight position.

The aircraft ascends steeply to an altitude of 20 kilometres, where it levels out to get the maximum thrust and performance from the Whiplash turbo ramjets.

The Cormorant Aeronology vertical stabilisers deploy their flaps to stabilise the aircraft as it ascends.

The plane breaks Mach 3 as it reaches 17 kilometres.

Oops! As I did not level the aircraft out enough at 20 kilometres, the Apoapsis reaches 33 kilometres, and the jet engines flame-out.

After leveling out back at 20 kilometres, the aircraft continues to fly.

Hmm, I don't like the look of the land mass up ahead, I think I'll wait for the next one.

Oh, look! There's another one up ahead.

The aircraft cuts its engines and deploys its airbrakes to slow itself down for a landing approach.

After 12 minutes of flight, over 700 kilometres downrange, the aircraft descends to land.

You know what? This piece of land look too bumpy. I'll just fly over the lake and try land there.

Yes, over here looks nice and flat.

Lowering the nose to landing position.

Lowering landing gear...

Oops! There go the lower engines!

Oh noes! My engines!

With some slight modification, I managed to get the aircraft to land without the rear engines being smashed off the ground and destroyed!

 

Edited June 24, 2017 by NISSKEPCSIM

[Haruspex]

Across the sea? Sure. How about a proper atmospheric circumnavigation, would that count?

Vehicle used: Condor (Craft file)
Flight time across the globe: 4:14:53

Assembly

Resource check before takeoff

Takeoff

Peninsula east of KSC (I call it Keralonia)

The Canyon River

Dark Side of Kerbin

The Crater

The Great Desert

Landing

Flight Report

Too easy

 

[The_Rocketeer]

I decided to take a new approach to this. My new attempt uses an unguided rocket tractor for a tow up to 10,000m, then cuts the tether (the tractor has chutes) and glides back down.

[qromodynmc]

I remade my vtol from stock parts for this challenge, now it looks heavily innocent. (non innocent version here; http://coub.com/view/u9hz8  ))

made a coub too.

[Human Person]

@NISSKEPCSIM all those images cause the site to load forever! Please put them in Spoiler. Or just as an Imgur link to a complete album.

On 22.6.2017 at 10:36 PM, siimav said:

When at altitude all pitch control was done with trim.

Wait! Ther're trim controls? 

How?

2000h of KSP and I wonder why planes are so hard to fly.

[Azimech]

11 minutes ago, Physics Student said:

@NISSKEPCSIM all those images cause the site to load forever! Please put them in Spoiler. Or just as an Imgur link to a complete album.

Wait! Ther're trim controls? 

How?

2000h of KSP and I wonder why planes are so hard to fly.

ALT+ control you want to trim. ALT+X resets all trim settings to 0.

32 minutes ago, qromodynmc said:

I remade my vtol from stock parts for this challenge, now it looks heavily innocent. (non innocent version here; http://coub.com/view/u9hz8  ))

made a coub too.

Totally new to me! Sort of GIF with music right? Totally going to try this!

Also, nice plane!

[NISSKEPCSIM]

58 minutes ago, Physics Student said:

@NISSKEPCSIM all those images cause the site to load forever! Please put them in Spoiler. Or just as an Imgur link to a complete album.

Great idea, done, thanks!

[klesh]

1 hour ago, The_Rocketeer said:

I decided to take a new approach to this.

 

Its nice to see someone else using the Interior Overlay.

[OrbitalBuzzsaw]

18 hours ago, qzgy said:

Decided to re-do this challenge. In a car.

What? It works. Also, sorry for the image spam.

Went from KSC to the island in the bay that the KSC peninsula helps form.

What black magic is this? You crossed the Gulf of Klaathu in a ROVER?!?!?!?!?!

[qzgy]

9 minutes ago, OrbitalBuzzsaw said:

What black magic is this? You crossed the Gulf of Klaathu in a ROVER?!?!?!?!?!

I didn't go too far..

But yeah, I guess. It's technically a racecar

It's got some wings on the bottom, but also its immense speed helps. (avg 120 m/s)

[Vaisman]

This is my attempt. Unfortunately kerbals did not discover propellers and built jet triplane

And my vote for flying rover

 

Edited June 24, 2017 by Vaisman

[scottadges]

So to clarify, only the person who gets the most likes will get a badge? Just askin'!

[scottadges]

On 6/22/2017 at 2:39 PM, TheEpicSquared said:

704 passengers and 4 crew, powered by 24 Panthers.

This thing flies? Wow, impressive. Video please!

[scottadges]

 

Not sure it's the most original, but I post this since it was my first real jet to work flawlessly. Every time I've made airplanes in the past in KSP, there's always something tragically wrong... It flips over, it's not maneuverable, it runs out of fuel, etc.

This one not only flew well, but made the transcontinental trip with over half its fuel left. It had so much fuel left, I made another attempt to fly across another ocean. That didn't didn't end so well.

Transcontinental with Kerboeing's X-01 "Whiplash" Jet

Edited June 25, 2017 by scottadges