Race to the Island Airfield Tower...without reaction engines!

[qzgy]

Aww yiss. Back to reclaim the throne with the Goddammit III

Album Link - https://imgur.com/a/ZJUUc

Final time - 3:19 with Master and Commander, Breakfast Club, and No Strings Attached

Edited March 13, 2018 by qzgy

[foobar]

If I wasn't so lazy, I'd slap another prop on mine.

 

[qzgy]

1 minute ago, foobar said:

If I wasn't so lazy, I'd slap another prop on mine.

 

Why not just copy the existing one over to the back?

and re jigger it a bit for weight and what not?

[ManEatingApe]

8 hours ago, qzgy said:

Hmm. Not sure what the policy is on double entries...

Multiple entries are totally fine, nay, even encouraged!

Nice work on the Goddammit - I've added you to a well deserved first place

Edited March 13, 2018 by ManEatingApe

[oAsAo]

I done this in 13 min. 22.sec. on my El.Prop. Test plane(pretty old craft)

screens:

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There is .gif (epilepsy & motion sickness alert)

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Edited June 2, 2018 by oAsAo

[ManEatingApe]

1 hour ago, oAsAo said:

I done this in 13 min. 22.sec. on my El.Prop. Test plane(pretty old craft)

Nice entry, I've added you to the leaderboard including the No Strings Attached bonus.

 

Additionally, because it seems much trickier than I had originally anticipated, I've increased the underwater bonus 20,000 Leagues under the Sea from 6 minutes to 10 minutes.

[roboslacker]

Are ladder drives allowed?

[ManEatingApe]

9 minutes ago, roboslacker said:

Are ladder drives allowed?

No, as they would fall under the "Kraken" drive category of exploits.

However you can still roll, spin or fling your way to the island!

[sevenperforce]

I wonder if I could trebuchet a Kerbal high enough to chute himself to the island.

[MaverickSawyer]

2 hours ago, sevenperforce said:

I wonder if I could trebuchet a Kerbal high enough to chute himself to the island.

Only one way to find out! 

[ManEatingApe]

On 6/4/2018 at 10:11 PM, sevenperforce said:

I wonder if I could trebuchet a Kerbal high enough to chute himself to the island.

That would be spectacular and very Kerbal! I suggest that you give this a read 

 

Doing some quick sums - to get to 5km altitude (neglecting air resistance) you'd want fling your victim at √(2*9.81*5000) = 313 m/s

However Kerbals have a fair bit of drag, so flinging a small aerodynamic craft might work better.

 

The good news is that if you could build something capable of flinging at those speeds you could set a new time record!

Edited June 6, 2018 by ManEatingApe

[Gaarst]

Is shooting Kerbals out of a (stock) cannon allowed?

[sevenperforce]

31 minutes ago, Gaarst said:

Is shooting Kerbals out of a (stock) cannon allowed?

Presumably no.

[sevenperforce]

Using a rather large electromagnetic trebuchet I can get up to around 380 m, which is nowhere near high enough.

[ManEatingApe]

2 hours ago, Gaarst said:

Is shooting Kerbals out of a (stock) cannon allowed?

Anything that uses reaction engines is a no-go (even if technically the Kerbal is the reaction mass )

However some kind of rover wheel based linear accelerator would work.

58 minutes ago, sevenperforce said:

Using a rather large electromagnetic trebuchet I can get up to around 380 m, which is nowhere near high enough.

Pushing the boundaries of Kerbal flinging is one of the challenge's aspects. I'd love to see some pics of the contraption!

[sevenperforce]

4 hours ago, ManEatingApe said:

Pushing the boundaries of Kerbal flinging is one of the challenge's aspects. I'd love to see some pics of the contraption!

Let's see here.

I fire the two decouplers to drop the command pod and free the axle, then start pushing W to rotate the whole assembly.

The axle uses a triple-nested structural tube with matching caps for maintaining alignment. 

I get it going as fast as I can (it won't show surface-relative speed because the CoM isn't really moving)...

...then "Leave Seat".

But drag is high.

And I glide for a while:

But not quite to the island.

At all.

[MaverickSawyer]

Try ejecting the crew capsule instead, then bail out once you cross the 5 km altitude mark. May require some fiddling to find the most effective pod for that.

[oAsAo]

@sevenperforce i think it will be better to kick him vertically up and inside of capsule.Most effective should be "Mk 1 cockpit" with monoprop inside.In theory at least.

[sevenperforce]

7 hours ago, oAsAo said:

@sevenperforce i think it will be better to kick him vertically up and inside of capsule.Most effective should be "Mk 1 cockpit" with monoprop inside.In theory at least.

Perhaps a glider built around a Mk1 cockpit?