The HA Mk13k MiniJet challenge

[Cit.Zen]

 

Hello there fellow aerospace engineers, here is a little challenge for you to keep your brain busy during the weekend

During the early stages of the space race between USA and USSR, both nations put their top minds on designing jets to brake speed and altitude records,
eventually it brought them both to a new dawn of espionage, using high altitude spy planes, on some of which there are many heroic stories, and even some great movies.

So... the "High Altitude Mark13k MiniJet" (HA Mk13k MiniJet) is a tiny low tech jet which, so far i could only bring it to about 12.000 meters at about 200ms.
Your mission (or challenge) is to brake new records with this little thing, both altitude and speed.
It doesn't have to be effective altitude, you don't have to maintain it, only reach it.
The design is simple, you can use any amount of tier 1 jet engines, any amount of tier 1 air intakes (the once you see in the picture, frontal intakes) and any other jet parts you choose to pick. (wings etc)
The rules are simple as well, no solid boosters, no decouplers, no liquid rocket fuel or engines.

Every percipient have to post a screenshot of his record braking speed or altitude (or both)

At the end of the race the winner will get one of those little banners with his name and his record on it

Let the race begin!

Edited December 25, 2015 by Cit.Zen

[Grenartia]

Any mod restrictions?

[Kokanee]

what's a " percipient  "???

[zolotiyeruki]

Let me see if I get this straight:

1) Only Juno engines for propulsion (with matching intakes)
2) Go as high/fast as you can

Sounds interesting...

[Nefrums]

You did not say it had to be maned right? and it does not have to be able to land?

I got this 7 part ship to up to 30,323m and 522m/s

 

 

 

You should add maned and landing requirements, It would make this more challenging and fun!

Edited December 28, 2015 by Nefrums

[Reactordrone]

And at the other end of the scale this one can cruise at 15,000m and zoom up to 16,500m and is just supersonic at lower altitudes. It can also land although it's a little light on stability and control.

 

[Hawks Of Hazard]

I completed the challenge very quickly, heres the evidence.

 

MINIPLANE challenge!!!!

[zolotiyeruki]

Yeah, I think a few rules need to be clarified:

1) must it carry a kerbonaut?
2) if yes to #1, are command seats allowed?
3) infinite fuel cheats allowed? 
4) what mods, if any, are allowed?  (KER, pilot assistant, mechjeb?)

[Grenartia]

On 12/28/2015 at 1:54 PM, Reactordrone said:

And at the other end of the scale this one can cruise at 15,000m and zoom up to 16,500m and is just supersonic at lower altitudes. It can also land although it's a little light on stability and control.

 

If I didn't know any better, I'd say you tried to do an all-jet variation on the B-36.

[SSgt Baloo]

More below...

On 12/28/2015 at 8:23 AM, Nefrums said:

You did not say it had to be maned right? and it does not have to be able to land?

I got this 7 part ship to up to 30,323m and 522m/s

 

 

 

You should add maned and landing requirements, It would make this more challenging and fun!

I saw yours and decided to use a Mk0 tank with only 5 units of fuel in it, to see how well that worked (plus, I set the fins lower and offset them in a little). I don't think I did as well, but I can assure you, that it was going even faster when it hit the ground than the numbers you see in the last image.

Going up, right after flameout.

Reaching the top of the rollercoaster.

This may sting a bit.

Edited December 30, 2015 by SSgt Baloo

[Cit.Zen]

ok guys first of all no mods for obvious reasons

and yeah i guess i forgot to mention, there must be a single kerbal in the jet

you can use mechjeb as its not the "best" piltot but the best design

 

so far, the first place goes to Reactordrone  at 16.500 meters and 306ms while Nefrum, even though he made it to 30.3 at 522ms, he did so with a tiny minimal UAV, lets see if you can make a new plane with a kerbal in it this time

[Zoidos]

You should specify that the kerbal must survive. Just in case PEGI come sniffing around the forums...

[swjr-swis]

Hmm, this allows quite a bit of freedom.

For example, this entry, while nowhere near to winning on altitude or speed, would be valid, yes?

213.7m/s in a dive (2nd pic), 10.5km altitude (26nd pic). And a loada fun.

craft file: click here

Edited December 30, 2015 by swjr-swis
added craft file

[swjr-swis]

Ok, another uhm, unorthodox entry. Obviously both sides have to be represented to be fair.

All stock, all 0.625m intakes, cones, tanks and jets. 13280m altitude (14th pic), 323.8m/s speed (15th pic). No winner, for sure, but I'm having fun at this.

Craft file: click here

 

Edited December 30, 2015 by swjr-swis
added craft file

[Nefrums]

Cool TIE fighter! and pod racer!  

I'll make another entry, this time with a maned survivable one with a kerbal in a pod.

 

 

 

[swjr-swis]

Ok, a more serious entry now:

Valentina got this baby up to 17151m and reached a top speed of 488.5m/s. And she got to keep her favourite command seat.

Craft file: click here

Edited December 30, 2015 by swjr-swis
added craft file

[Nefrums]

Nice one!

Here is my manned version:

 

32,928 m

664 m/s

64 engines 

 

[Nefrums]

As this is a plane challenge I tried to make a plane for it.

It went even faster and higher.

33,115 m

721 m/s

86 engines 

 

Edited December 30, 2015 by Nefrums

[SSgt Baloo]

My entry is a bit Gerry-andersonish, and doesn't go as fast or as high as some of the others. On the runway:

 

 

 

Here it is cresting the top of the rollercoaster:

 

Here it is making its speed run:

 

Oh, look! A city! (I didn't realize the mod that makes clouds did that).

Edited December 30, 2015 by SSgt Baloo

[SSgt Baloo]

Here's the one with the city. I guess it took me too long to fix my earlier mistakes, because now it won't let me edit.

Edited December 30, 2015 by SSgt Baloo

[Grenartia]

On 12/30/2015 at 4:58 AM, Cit.Zen said:

ok guys first of all no mods for obvious reasons

and yeah i guess i forgot to mention, there must be a single kerbal in the jet

you can use mechjeb as its not the "best" piltot but the best design

 

so far, the first place goes to Reactordrone  at 16.500 meters and 306ms while Nefrum, even though he made it to 30.3 at 522ms, he did so with a tiny minimal UAV, lets see if you can make a new plane with a kerbal in it this time

I don't think I'm going to be winning any altitude records (12.57km seems to be my max), but I am certain I'm winning a speed record, at least for size and number of engines (and the fact that I'm using the only intakes allowed). 



Just barely manages Mach 1 in a shallow dive, but reaches it nonetheless. Its got decent roll and pitch control (as should be expected, given its size and wings), but has a rather high takeoff speed (around 160m/s). 3 engines, 2 intakes, minimal part count (18).

On the runway: