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Eve electric prop airplane speed record?
king of nowhere replied to Hotel26's topic in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials
I got 140 m/s with a half-assed design i scrambled together in a short time as part of a larger mission. Very basic plane, but it flew thousands of kilometers. Can't post links from mobile, but it's linked in my signature, the Bolt/Nail mission, Eve chapter. That kind of performance is easy to get if one does not overengineer the plane - you appear to have a small rotor on a relatively big plane, which limits performance. Getting faster is harder. I know @Lt_Duckweed as a great expert of planes, if 229 is his best attemp, it's probably close enough to the upper theoretical limit -
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I'm asking about unique personal achievements: things that you have done and that probably nobody else has done. i'm not talking of things to boast. great achievements, low mass, low parts, most landings. there are other places for those. i'm talking of doing something so bizarre that after doing it, you muse "you know, I must be the very first person to do this exact thing" let's try a couple examples. here i was driving a rover on Tal. plenty of people have the outer planets mod. thousands will have landed on tal, and many of them will have used a rover for the task. nothing worth noting here. i did bring a rover to tal to circumnavigate it. nobody else circumnavigated tal with a rover - at least, nobody else wrote in the challenge subforum about it - but that's the kind of big achievements and this thread is not for those kind of things. i was planting a flag, and since tal has low gravity stopping a rover is annoying, so i sent a kerbal out while the rover was still moving, to plant the flag and rejoin the rover by jetpack. but I mishandled the maneuver and ended up with the rover running over bill. and i wondered, hey, what are the odds that someone else went all the way to this remote moon to have one of his own astronauts run down by a car? it must be a world first! I sent a rover to circumnavigate tylo. many other people have done it. i made a detour to reach the cave complex, and while there I climbed it, pushed the rover to the top. not very original. a lot of people must have landed near the cave complex, and surely somebody else already tested their rover mountaineering capacity by climbing to the top. but it just turns out that my rover has a cupola installed on a rotating servo on top - because i figured activating it and looking all around could help break the monotony of the long trip. well, what are the chances that someone did this already? surely others brought a rover on top of the cave complex. most likely someone else thought of putting a rotating cupola on top of a rover, though that's a weird enough idea. but using a rover with a rotating cupola on top to get a panoramic view from the top of tylo's cave is probably something unique. i'm curious to see other bizzarre dealings
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i suppose you mean your most memorable kerbal death? well, i built a memorial for val during a caveman career
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The Ultimate Jool 5 Challenge Continued
king of nowhere replied to JacobJHC's topic in KSP1 Challenges & Mission ideas
I do take this chance to ask a question that has been bugging me since i started this challenge the first time, almost four years ago: why the science contest is named after jeb? shouldn't it be bob's level? -
Part 6: Need for Speed: Tylo Flying Christmas Tree 2 drops Tamarromobile on Tylo. It's a completely different experience than it was with Dancing Porcupine, with sustained speeds between 150 to 200 km/h. As Tylo is big, this piece of report only covers the first half. The second half of the circumnavigation is still underway. Two pictures to get a clear view of the western emisphere of Tylo. Flags are 90 km apart Meaning that between flags 10 and 11, as well as 15 to 16, I crossed 90 km in 28 minutes. It gives an average speed of 193 km/s (53.5 m/s, close to the maximum of the wheels at 58 m/s), but the time includes planting a flag. 6.1) I thought docking issues would be a thing of the past 6.2) Beautiful desolation 6.3) Mountains ahoy! 7.4) Bonus: Back to El camino de muerte
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there are times when the game does not make struts across docking ports. not sure when it happens; i know it's a bug of some editions. so, no matter how much you autostrut, it won't strut the payload to the rest of the rocket. which also explains why, before you add the rocket, the payload is fine. you can check it out, somewhere in the alt-f12 menu there is a "show autostrut" function. easy fix: add a normal strut. it's just 50 kg. you'll remove it later with eva construction.
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Part 4: Pretty little world Leaping Mantis circumnavigates Pol, gathering all available science in the process. I wanted to call this chapter "Pol is dead", but I thought it would be very confusing for those who would not get the reference. It took 73 days for the circumnavigation, but only because I stopped to do other tasks. From Pol 13 it was straightforward. Every flag is spaced 10-12 km Science recap In space high you can run 10 science experiments: EVA report, EVA experiment, crew report, goo observation, materials study, temperature scan, atmospheric pressure, gravity scan, infrared telescope, magnetometer boom. Except for the gravity scan, all are global. So you can run high space experiments equal to 9+1*biome. In space low the situation is sligtly different; you can't use the infrared telescope, but EVA report also can be done in multiple biomes. So the numer of experiments is 7+2*biomes. I am collecting all space science in Flying Christmas Tree 2. It's easier to keep track of which experiments I may be missing if I divide the reports. On the ground you also have 10 experiments (seismic scan and surface sample are available, but you lose magnetometer boom and infrared telescope), and all except EVA experiments are biome-specific. So you get 1+9*biome. Plus surface features. On Pol there are 4 biomes and 1 surface feature, so there are 38 reports available and collected so far.