qzgy Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 (edited) 32 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: What... is that...? Reference to the James Bond film You Only Live Twice.The actual craft is called the Bird one, ran by SPECTRE operatives (the main baddies from the film/series). Idea was to capture an American spacecraft, but of course, plot thwarted, probably with epic explosions Any one want to say if the movie was good or bad? Never watched it.And no, I did not know this from heart. I used the internet to look it up.Edit: So apparently, the exact intent was not what I had mentioned. See Martian Emigrant's post. Edited April 30, 2017 by qzgy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Emigrant Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 (edited) 8 hours ago, Spacetraindriver said: My first "flying boat!" (That Titanic that I strapped wings on doesn't count) I call it the Duckling! 2 hours ago, klond said: Damn, that is ugly. Upvote anyway for respect. Next time tho man IDK. Reminds me of that Tailspin cartoon I watched as a kid. Well to me it looks like the Canso (Canadian name of the Consolidated PBY Catalina) Quote What an ugly airplane. Can't fly! Canso! I think Disney made the other one up . As for James Bond You only live twice. I only remember the miniatures (Way way before CGI) were badly done. The only reason I remember that is because a friend and me saw the movie and laughed at them. Pointing stupid things as they went. Specter wanted to start world war 3 by getting the Americans and Russians at each others throat. ME Edited April 30, 2017 by Martian Emigrant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 14 minutes ago, qzgy said: Reference to the James Bond film You Only Live Twice.The actual craft is called the Bird one, ran by SPECTRE operatives (the main baddies from the film/series). Idea was to capture an American spacecraft, but of course, plot thwarted, probably with epic explosions Any one want to say if the movie was good or bad? Never watched it.And no, I did not know this from heart. I used the internet to look it up. Ah yes, I was thinking it was one of the Bonds, couldn't remember which one. Now someone seriously needs to make that for KSP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qzgy Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 14 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Now someone seriously needs to make that for KSP! On it! Sorta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 15 minutes ago, qzgy said: On it! Sorta ...stock hinges continue to weird me out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qzgy Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Just now, CatastrophicFailure said: ...stock hinges continue to weird me out. Its not the hinges, its the rcs balls I am attempting to use on the airbrakes to move the panels. I saw the technique on (i think) Servo's tomcat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urses Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 9 hours ago, maceemiller said: NEVER thought I'd say that playing this crazy game Now you are no beginner anymore Congratulations! You begin with Kaboom -> moar Booster -> moar and BIGGER BOOSTAS -> moar struts -> MOAR EVERYTHING!!! -> endless loop.... till you reach the poont where you get the first time a though maybe smaller is better... And there the spaceengineer childhood is through and you become "adult". Funny Kabooms Urses 5 hours ago, Spacetraindriver said: Just don't know how I'll balance it... Screw it. I'll just put it on a chassis! Some reaction wheels and set the SAS for radial out maybe? I get a sounding rocket balanced on launching stik this way. Funny Kabooms Urses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maceemiller Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 8 hours ago, Bornholio said: I started planning to probe Uranus. Sorry.....I couldn't resist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numerlor Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Created this abomination based on XB-70 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeiss Ikon Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 5 hours ago, qzgy said: Any one want to say if the movie was good or bad? Never watched it. It was a very typical 1960s Bond film -- as noted, spectacular explosions, hundreds of corpses during the big set-piece battle, but of course there's the moment when Bond dies (in the intro), and also the scene where he flies an armed autogyro (which Q brought to Japan in half a dozen suitcases -- no explanation of what he did with the rotor blades) and shoots down (IIRC) four Spectre jet fighters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Raging Sandwich Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Dogfights! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EpicSpaceTroll139 Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Even though it's from the wrong movie, I've got Live And Let Die stuck in my head now. Actually I inexplicably have two songsstuck in my head, one being that, and the other being The Writing On The Wall. Anyways, I forgot to mention a day or two back I made this plane, which I called the "Really Ugly Duckling" or something along those lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julien Kerman Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 I prepared a new space station for Vall, which I will launch tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmchairPhysicist Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Oh that's a tricky question. I built the Ramjet Testbed MK1. I unlocked hypersonic flight for the first time in career, and simply had to see just what a ramjet could do. I built a Delta winged space plane that consisted of an adjustable intake, mk2 to 1.25 meter converter (long), a fuel tank, cockpit and a bicoupler. Stuck two ramjets on it, took off and giggled as I hit 2k m/s. Fun stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joacobanfield Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 I got two mun flybys for the price of one! Also, my space program has run into some serious trouble out there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerhamster Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 There was a collective sharp intake of breath when the fully loaded Deliverance 2 was rolled out to the pad (and some distant screaming from finance). The biggest, heaviest costliest in fact every 'est they could think of ship yet launched by this program. Although the go module had already flown with a relay sat payload this was to be its first use in anger carting 2 Globetrotter rovers and 4 crew to the Mun. Launch went well with no dramas leaving the business end in a 200km orbit with ample DV in hand (luckily as it's supposed to get to Duna in the future). Transit to and orbit of the Mun went well. Deciding to plant the cargo in the NW crater rather than anywhere near Munbase she wallowed down to a safe landing before elegantly flopping over. It's supposed to do that. Its job done the engine unit was dispensed with. And the two rovers were disengaged, the mongo reaction wheel rolling her over with ease. The rovers are currently testing systems whilst mission control consult the contract list before planning routes (or heads N tails S.....). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDARKOMETER Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Transported my rover from the testing site back to the Kerbal Space Center, how I did the task is ridiculous, and quite difficult Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fury1SOG Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Prototype VTOL Greenhouse Supply factory about to make a landing at Minmus base. It is a mixture of SSTU, DSEV, MKS and SpaceY parts. (Its missing some important parts, like solar panels...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bornholio Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 5 hours ago, maceemiller said: Sorry.....I couldn't resist I have not yet probed it, but a mission is on the way! Joke aside it is really hard to get to. Gave up on a Pluto scansat until most of my tech tree is up a tier. Neptune us going to happen on 30% plutonium RTG's even with 20kdV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klesh Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 (edited) More and more work on the Iota base I've been posting about lately. Recently laded an ore-scanning rover and found a spot 600m from my base where the concentration went from 4 to 14%; nice. Left the rover there, planted a flag so the rover could move on, and now landed a drilling ship to start ISRU operations for the base. I'm real good at precision landings now: Recently added a proper USI life support recycler at the base to solve Supplies concerns, but the crew needed more habitation considerations. Enter the Hitchhiker, with some fiddlybits added for fun. I particularly like the descent package consisting of a decoupleable structural tree, long oscar tanks, and 24-77's. This can all be removed if need be. Here it is just before connecting it to the base: Drilling at the base is great and all, but you need the other half of the deal to get anything worthwhile. Enter nuclear-powered fuel conversion unit, to be landed at the mining location. LF/O loads can then be trucked over to any ships that land at the base in the future. Here you see Bob and the ore-scanning rover that located this concentration mulling over the admittedly lame connection between the miner and the fuel generator. We need to bring a ground pylon to make this more awesomer: To present the big picture, here is a shot of the mining operations in the foreground, with the main base ~600m away: BONUS CONTENTS!1! Edit: Freshly delivered fuel transport truck with a ground pylon in the inventory makes for the more awesomer-ness. Edited April 30, 2017 by klesh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torquimedes Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 11 hours ago, qzgy said: On it! Sorta You've doomed us all by creating a sandkraken! THE SPICE MUST FLOW! I know, too many lips, but that's all I can see here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconiator Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Been doing some experimenting in the lab. This thing actually flies real nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torquimedes Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 11 hours ago, qzgy said: Its not the hinges, its the rcs balls I am attempting to use on the airbrakes to move the panels. I saw the technique on (i think) Servo's tomcat. Position an RCS ball on each side of the airbrake and they will hold their parent assembly in place against gravity (or any other force that doesn't break the hinge). I got the notion from @Servo's XB-70 wings. Static and dynamic diagrams here: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Servo Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 11 hours ago, qzgy said: Its not the hinges, its the rcs balls I am attempting to use on the airbrakes to move the panels. I saw the technique on (i think) Servo's tomcat. You have to have them farther apart (probably). For future reference, craft where I use the technique are my F-111 and the XB-70. https://kerbalx.com/servo/F-111-Aardvark https://kerbalx.com/servo/XB-70 Good luck! That system will be awesome when it works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackstech Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 i try to make it my own pegasus mission 10/10 the result Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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