Jet HoverCars w/ Gimballed Engines(a first I think)

[Gavin786]

Welcome Humans,

Today I present 2 jet-powered hovercars which are controlled with gimballed engines.

First uses a single engine block set.  Second uses dual. Both use jets with gimballed blocks and have a unique(so far as I am aware) flying profile.  

There is a difference between the single and dual models in how vertical thrust is regulated.  In single engine one we have to lower the TWR which is dangerous because bringing it back up again is slow process in a jet engine.  We tried to solve this problem in dual engine version by vectoring the engines so they dont need to be spooled down.  Would be great the day SQUAD finally gives us some scripting or fine-grained control over things, highly anticipated.  Would be of massive benefit on this vehicle.

I have created some videos and some screen shots.

If any human knows an easy way to make videos appear smaller in size on these posts or side-by-side etc a PM would be appreciated.

Single Engine Block :

Dual Engine Block :

 

and the downloads may be found at : Single block : https://kerbalx.com/gavin786/HoverCarSingle-export Dual block : https://kerbalx.com/gavin786/HoverCarDual2-export

I have already explained how to create gimbaled engine blocks in a previous post.

Gavin786

Edited July 3, 2019 by Gavin786