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    Flying wing tips

    in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials

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    You still need some way of yaw control. Even spoilers can work. The problem with 0 yaw control is that you will eventually get into a maneuver and want to turn out, rolling out is fine but then you will have a slip and not be able to correct for it easily, and that causes asymmetric lift and drag performance which can cause a nasty spin.

    Using Kerbin's rotation for infinite endurance flight.

    in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials

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    10 minutes ago, Bej Kerman said:

    Actually, you know what, let Henry explain this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gNkgj9h2oM

    Going any non-vertical direction on Kerbin does not affect flight, especially considering atmospheres in KSP are perfectly uniform.

    Using solar power on a plane with the electric motors as propulsion should let me get to a point where I can match the Sun's movement in the sky. It'd be slow, and someone above mentioned that it is possible, so I figured I may as well add it to one of my janky experiments in ksp.

    Using Kerbin's rotation for infinite endurance flight.

    in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials

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    2 hours ago, IkranMakto said:

    Maybe it is lossible witb kOS, but I think you won't wait for a kerbin year, even for a day since you cannot time warp or phys warp with this craft. Just make simple helicopter, put 1-2  RITEGs on it and make it howering above KSC. New blades require absurdly low power to spin under load. 

    The problem with hovering it in place is that the atmosphere moves with the planet, meaning that just hovering wouldn't actually move you horizontally since you still carry the momentum from being on the ground.

    Tesla had ideas for an internet-like thing with data transmitted through balloons or something like that that didn't take such a thing into account, hence why it was never tried.

    Using Kerbin's rotation for infinite endurance flight.

    in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials

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    Just asking this here to get extra feedback.

    If there was a way for an autopilot to work with the ducted fans in 1.8 and set you on a westward course with 167.0m/s surface velocity, you should theoretically have infinite endurance since you are going against Kerbin's rotation and keeping the sun in the same spot (not accounting for Kerbin revolving around the Sun mind you but there should be a way around that).

     

    Any thoughts? Has someone done this before?

    Getting (short) flameouts and don't know why

    in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials

    Posted · Edited by TheTripleAce3
    Last paragraph.

    CG shift aft in flight, set fuel priorities.

    A canard design without a horizontal stab with fuel draining evenly and large parts at the back is destined to spin out, and your canards being standard size may not have the moment to recover.

    Basically what I'm saying is that your plane may not need more air, unless you mean at 16+km in which case clip another shock come in there, but it could be that your plane lacking passive stability in the rear is causing the nose to rise slowly, increasing your alpha, and decreasing the air you get to a point you lose controllability and stability.

    HG-48 shenanigans

    in Breaking Ground Discussion

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    1 minute ago, Geschosskopf said:

    Gotta give you props for trying it, or even thinking of it, though ;)

    What you call "odd" is actually how all non-relay antennae work.  The only thing that actually moves across the airwaves are science data transmitted by the ship.  For this, you need a link back to Kerbin and the amount of science you get is based on signal strength all along the way.  If your game settings require signals to control probes, then you need a link from Kerbin (or a ship with a probe control part) to your ship.  But this is just a line drawn on the map, which you either have or you don't.  There are no actual "control signals", of course, because all control inputs come from your keyboard/controller.  So if you have the line, then you can fly the ship the same as if it had a crew.  If you don't have the line, then you can't do much with the probe at all.

    The reason I tried it is because they can bounce things through relays without a direct connection to kerbin, but if the station is the one with the primary connection (say you have a 27 antenna boosted outpost on Eeloo, and an RA-2 equipped satellite) the station CAN transmit to kerbin, and if the probe could be told to, the commsnet lines did suggest that it COULD bounce signal through the relay to other places on the planet, however this is not the case in practice.

    HG-48 shenanigans

    in Breaking Ground Discussion

    Posted · Edited by TheTripleAce3

    26 minutes ago, Geschosskopf said:

    Is that the deployable science antenna?  If so, then I would say no, it cannot.

    First, it's not a relay, it's just a regular antenna.  It can't relay, it can only transmit the surface science back to Kerbin.  And it's pretty weak, so even with relays you still get a lot of signal loss.

    I've already got 25 of them placed and the rover is coming soon so we'll find out either way in a few minutes

    (sending a rover there since there is an eelooberg right next to the station)

    HG-48 shenanigans

    in Breaking Ground Discussion

    Posted · Edited by TheTripleAce3

    Since it can talk to relays AND the KSC, would a large battery of HG-48s be able to act as the root of a local comms network?

    I'm trying this on Eeloo (yes this is hurting my soul) so if I find an answer personally I'll say so here.

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