Eve Circumnavigation with a propeller plane

[xendelaar]

circumnavigation around Eve with a stock propeller plane.

weight: 3,400 kg top speed: 130 m/s
total duration of mission: 12 real life hours
ksp version: 1.7.3 (Breaking ground DLC)

 

 

[Reinhart Mk.1]

WOW

[xendelaar]

On 7/30/2019 at 12:28 AM, Reinhart Mk.1 said:

WOW

No YOU'RE WOW!

thanks for watching. the mission was really fun and pretty easy! It only took most of my Saturday (starting at 9:00 and finished up around 22:00). I was AFK a lot of the time, but I did enjoy watching the scenery! 

 

Edited July 31, 2019 by xendelaar

[Aelipse]

Haha, that's awesome. What software did you use to capture the video? I assume you didn't just take hell of lot of screenshots.

[xendelaar]

3 hours ago, Aelipse said:

Haha, that's awesome. What software did you use to capture the video? I assume you didn't just take hell of lot of screenshots.

I actually took over 1055 screenshots with a autohotkey script I wrote haha XD. I  tried to record the whole 10 hour mission, but then got a nag screen from my recording software that my 10 minute demo was expired... so I had to think of something on the fly! so that's why I made the autohotkey script to help me out. the script took a picture every 30s en 60s. 

Stitching all the pictures together (in VideoPad) was a poodle and the result is less than ideal, since it's kind of choppy... but it's better than nothing I guess. Next time I will try to get proper recording software before i start a mission haha. In hindsight I don't think my hard drive would be pleased if it had to store 10 hours of 2k footage haha.. 

 

[Reinhart Mk.1]

15 hours ago, xendelaar said:

No YOU'RE WOW!

 

15 hours ago, xendelaar said:

thanks for watching. the mission was really fun and pretty easy! It only took most of my Saturday (starting at 9:00 and finished up around 22:00). I AFK a lot of the time, but I did enjoy watching the scenery! 

and no problem! i like missions like this, and this thing being stable as it is i bet afk stuff was a breeze

[Wallygator]

Pretty cool!

Did you get your kerb back to kerbin?

 

[xendelaar]

On 8/1/2019 at 9:39 PM, Wallygator said:

Pretty cool!

Did you get your kerb back to kerbin?

 

thanks for asking  

not yet.. i designed a 20 tonnes helicopter/spaceship hybrid for the occasion but somehow lost interest after posting this mission report.  maybe I will try it again when I regain the KSP-virus. I'm currently working on other stuff

Edited September 23, 2019 by xendelaar