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both are plausible we'll have to see the landing footage to be sure (or verbal confirmation)

Currently I think no one has a recorded run though I did get to eve in a week.

Should be possible with k drives in stock

I have provided the stats and crafts you could potentially calculate from those the acceleration of the craft if you know it's mass

The kraken s is about 1.25 m radius you could make an ssto from it but it would probably won't accelerate very fast

Well other then small moons you could get anywhere once you achieve orbit around kerbin since 700 m/s is more than enough for most orbits

i think this is before 1.0 since in 1.0 "massless" parts are massive now and add their mass and drag to their parent part.

well from my experience it's all dependent on the angle of the drive but really as long as it's on an angle it will produce forward thrust, again i'll recommend getting my Kraken drives as they have a very reliable mechanism and high thrust & TWR

Sure, I'd make it as a PoC but I'd like to build a flying carrier similar to the one in the avengers I just can't make as beautiful hulls as you Yes, k drives produce measurable thrust (look at the kraken programm I have made tests) and it's conserved in both modes so really if you figure out how much your drive produces you can figure out about how much it could lift, my tests have been successful so far but the main problem was keeping them stable while moving around while in atmo.

i REALLY like this, now my current K drive lifter can do 20 mT without a problem and can work in tandem with other drives, would you like to cooperate on the first ever stock (K-Drive) flying aircraft carrier in KSP? you'd just need to make the body and let me worry about lifting it

seems that experimenting with K-drives makes my kerbals seem extra tasty to the kraken itself

that's up to the poster's decision and not anyone else, plus their entries are on the thread so really they are not "lost" , the whole "cheater" stuff well if you apply to a challenge and intend to cheat on it it's your problem and honestly why even bother? i dont think anything will be solved by this to the contrary people would be encouraged to push their abilities and knowledge further and further

I have not done much testing on multiple drive configurations just yet so anything i say right now is strictly speculation and results from 2-3 tests i have made. from the limited testing it seems that if you attach 2 drives "tail to head" their functionality will interfere with one another and result in only one drive producing thrust. The batteries provide flexibility and a greater distance traveled when pulsating, they also act as shock absorbers to help the leg stay intact. this drive is not a miracle it's crafted as a part of an experiment i was running on a single design of which i just changed the pushed mass(and the vessels mass) incrementally, those results are show here: as you can see this design had the greatest TWR of all for some reason i dont really understand and any attempts at fitting this to an equation have not been favorable. all the crafts i tested are HERE (except the last 4 tests of the 2.05-2.75 range of tests which are the same craft just with more legs). All the tests were conducted at a 1000K km orbit with the use of hyperedit, i would love it if someone can recreate these tests and make variations on them, also testing at higher and much lower pusher fractions are welcome too as my ratios were very low. i have found that higher forces can be achieved with more legs the problem was that the forces were not always enough to counter the extra mass of the legs themselves but it would be useful for heavier payloads. There also seem to be some anomalies in the data, the jump in thrust from 80.6 to 138.0 at the 3rd iteration, the jump in thrust from 153.6 to 295.6 in the 6th iteration and the decrease of thrust at various points after the 6th iteration where i would expect a steady increase at the least if not another jump at some point.

you cant make it period, you could possibly make a device that shoots electromagnetic waves towards a conical metalic surface but i dont see what would that accomplish. Now assuming this device works and actually produces thrust we are going to need to invent totally new theories about either momentum or electromagnetism which (while totally possible) is extremely unlikely that would happen, plus none of the "experiments" done so far have been peer-reviewed and most of them are inconclusive anyways so really i wouldnt hold my breath to some guy inventing a real life kraken drive

i'd have a column every other week if you'd want to, presenting some of the aerospace events and maybe some KSP events and such (mainly innovations in those areas) now just to get a name EDIT: maybe "blasting off"? hmm i am open to suggestions

My highest performing K-drive in 1.0.5 , 26.2 G's super reliable (just dont turn it too hard or go below 750 m/s while active) TWR of 262.22 and a thrust of 295.6 kN and only at 16 parts, very controllable and very stable, in surface mode it's capable of lifting 25 mT without a problem. (thrust may decrease when attaching cargo) while it is possible to attach multiple drives to a single craft thrust may infact be reduced from one or both of the devices, so far accelerations of over 27 G's using multiple drives have failed. Download Warranty void if activated,loaded into a save file or looked at in this post. I am not responsible to any lost saves,installs,computers or family members caused by this device.

My highest performing K-drive in 1.0.5 , 26.2 G's super reliable (just dont turn it too hard or go below 750 m/s while active) TWR of 262.22 and a thrust of 295.6 kN and only at 16 parts, very controllable and very stable, in surface mode it's capable of lifting 25 mT without a problem. (thrust may decrease when attaching cargo) while it is possible to attach multiple drives to a single craft thrust may infact be reduced from one or both of the devices, so far accelerations of over 27 G's using multiple drives have failed. Download Warranty void if activated,loaded into a save file or looked at in this post. I am not responsible to any lost saves,installs,computers or family members caused by this device.

A) just missed it by 3 days but dont mind that B ) i LOVE it so much *sheds a single tear* i never thought of making this myself (and as a israeli and a jewish person i am ashamed of that) i salute you mate and i wish you a merry holiday season!

i can confirm these reports of 14.5 Gs of acceleration and i can say i have gotten about 20 G's myself on a modified design that includes some more flexible joints, so far it seems like having more legs pushing only reduces the total power of the device but it might be connected to distance traveled by the oscillator which i can increase with multiple legs on different levels and batteries (which are surprisingly flexible as you all know) this is the smallest K drive i could muster to produce with reasonable thrust, and no, thrust is not scaled with the ship's' mass

I don't know what you are talking about I got up to 0.5 m/s^2 of acceleration without breaking apart, what version are you on?

subs. you can make subs! and large ones too take a look at the Pompeii Class Submarine

yeah i agree with majorjim here please provide a craft file since i currently cant reproduce major accelerations (0.2-0.1 g's was all i could get) with regular pusher plate designs i would like to improve and learn from working drives since i dont have the time for a lot of experimentation like i had back in the days

if you can provide craft files designs techniques for new K drives it would be very helpful