KSP Challenge: Crosswise the Sea!

[Darth Badie]

 

 

Check out the amazing and creative entries of last week challenge!

This week we have another theme for you: “Crosswise the Sea”

Fly across the sea in an airplane and land safely. Sounds easy right?
Share your screenshots, videos or images. We want you to have fun and share it with the whole community!

Rules:

• Airplanes only
• Stock parts only
• Parachutes are allowed

 

The most original airplane and landing will receive a special official badge, you need to vote for your favorite ( the one with more likes will win) 

Have fun!

 

[qzgy]

It does. Just literally "Fly across the sea"?

Be back soon.

[Mikki]

Cool sunday morning breakfast challenge! Miumm!
I will send all my Kerbals over the sea for lunch at the beach, with a truly humongous airplane.
Jeb wants his GoKart within the cargo for sure.

[Skylon]

Time to try atmospheric docking for the first time I guess. 

 

[MiffedStarfish]

I'm having ideas...

what do you mean by "across the sea" would flying to the island airport suffice?

Edited June 21, 2017 by MiffedStarfish

[kurja]

Transport for family of six kerbals, from runway to the coast east across the sea from KSC in five minutes at mach 4.5 and still enough gas in the tank for a return trip. Took good two minutes to get it landed though, note to self - pack air brakes and drag chutes for next intercontinental vacation.

[Alchemist]

Across the sea? I once tried launching a shuttle on a shuttle with suborbital separation. The launcher ended up across the ocean - then I sent a refueler plane to it, and flew them both back.

It takes most of this video, even though that was only preparation for a much more daring operation...

[Just Jim]

On 6/19/2017 at 6:12 PM, Badie said:

Stock parts only

Awwww... I just did this a couple weeks ago in a blimp... 

[Tex_NL]

Don't want to P anybody off but how is flying a stock aircraft across a stretch of sea a challenge? Has the definition of the word challenge changed recently

[Darth Badie]

Just now, Tex_NL said:

Don't want to P anybody off but how is flying a stock aircraft across a stretch of sea a challenge? Has the definition of the word challenge changed recently

We have a different challenge every week and the idea is to make everyone participate and have fun 

[TheEpicSquared]

Will be doing this tomorrow (if I remember).

[invision]

im bad at planes so not going to try anything extra fancy

 

X-wing

 

[Kyle Worden]

Mirage 2000c flying under the radar, decided to up the ante and stay below 100m the entire flight. Really wish there were mappable trim keys for joysticks.

 

Edited June 21, 2017 by shadoxfilms

[Human Person]

I'm terrible with planes, so I build redicolous ones

Behold: Plany McPlaneface

 

Plany McPlaneface features 2 Mk3 crew cabins stacked ontop of each other to maximize cuteness.

 

It's slow but handles well.

 

 

Edited June 21, 2017 by Physics Student

[SudAntares]

@Badie, which region/sea/ocean counts? Is there anything to do there? Speed challenge, or direction? Or we fly where we want across a sea we choose?

[Darth Badie]

Just now, TheYellowMan said:

@Badie, which region/sea/ocean counts? Is there anything to do there? Speed challenge, or direction? Or we fly where we want across a sea we choose?

You can fly across the sea you want

[Cpt Kerbalkrunch]

This is not a challenge.

 

Unless you're serious about landing safely. In which case, it's a challenge. 

[Kyle Worden]

11 minutes ago, Cpt Kerbalkrunch said:

This is not a challenge.

 

Unless you're serious about landing safely. In which case, it's a challenge. 

Then make it a challenge for you, do it in a VTOL, make a stock propeller aircraft, fly as slow as you can, fly as fast as you can, fly as low as you can. There are challenges everywhere, you just have to look for them.

[Cpt Kerbalkrunch]

16 minutes ago, shadoxfilms said:

Then make it a challenge for you, do it in a VTOL, make a stock propeller aircraft, fly as slow as you can, fly as fast as you can, fly as low as you can. There are challenges everywhere, you just have to look for them.

I was being facetious. I've yet to land an airplane. It's already challenging enough for me.

[Mjp1050]

I wasn't sure how much fuel I would need, so I put in as much as I could. 4600 units of fuel!

Spoiler

Takeoff was slow. This thing accelerates like a tortoise in molasses.

I can't tell what Jeb's doing; is he bored, or annoyed, or doing the hokey-pokey? 

The view is nice, though.

Final approach for landing...

Touchdown! 

 

...and I only ended up using about 400 units of fuel. 

[Kyle Worden]

10 minutes ago, Cpt Kerbalkrunch said:

I was being facetious. I've yet to land an airplane. It's already challenging enough for me.

What are you having issues with? do your airplanes fly? The best thing I can suggest is to load some of the stock aircraft in sandbox and play around with them. Biggest thing to remember is to make small corrections during landing, over-correcting can easily lead to a loss of control and crash. Turning on fine controls may help if you are flying using a keyboard, press caps-lock to turn it on.

[DeltaDizzy]

I'm still in the midst of a jool mission that I started for last weeks challenge but couldn't finish in time. For this reason, I'll use Janitors Closet to un-display all modded parts.

[Cpt Kerbalkrunch]

28 minutes ago, shadoxfilms said:

What are you having issues with?

Just the time consumption. I don't get anywhere near as much KSP-time as I'd like, so I don't usually mess with planes. They're cool, of course, and I'll get around to 'em eventually, just not sure when. I always say I'm gonna dedicate a couple weeks to spaceplanes, but I never do. Just too much I wanna do. I've actually built a few and even put a couple on the ground; though I wouldn't call it a "landing". Maybe I'll make a crappy plane and see if I can land it, just for this challenge.

[StrandedonEarth]

15 minutes ago, Cpt Kerbalkrunch said:

Just the time consumption. I don't get anywhere near as much KSP-time as I'd like

You could always try to fly at 4x physics warp. My planes can usually handle it as long as I don't maneuver. Straight and level does the trick.

I've crossed the oceans in smallish, very fast jets. I guess to up the challenge for this I'll try my hand at a proper airliner

[Just Jim]

OK.... So maybe I'm bending the rules a little... maybe.... I didn't see anything about having to stay in the atmosphere the whole time... 

And y'all know Val... She's such a showoff.

Once she heard what the challenge was, she ran out, stole an older (stock) banshee, and... well... did just what Val does...

She crossed the ocean.... Valentina Style... 

(There's a bunch of screenshots, so I'll put them in a spoiler thing)

Spoiler

 

 

Edited June 22, 2017 by Just Jim