cantab

You're spot on here! Here's a Kerbal I tried to rename using the method, you can see the craft name is changed but not the crew member name. When I right-clicked him he still showed as Dooding Kerman, and when I recovered him he was still in the astronaut complex as Dooding Kerman.Dooding, where's my name change by cantab314, on Flickr

I do, indeed, want to go to 1

KSC's runway, on the other hand, is 2.5 km. That's not extreme, but it is kind of short.

The scoring is indeed a bit out of whack. Size matters little if I just make a plane that flies far, and a solar powered aircraft can fly as far as I want albeit with possible overnight landings. But maybe I'll come up with something interesting anyway.

Bear in mind Laythe isn't all flat gentle dunes, it has some intimidating terrain. For a first landing site I think NASA would choose somewhere easy. The island around 65 S, 80 E looks like the flattest outside of the ice caps. But personally I just sent a boat

That would actually make a fun game But it wouldn't be KSP. More along the lines of Take On Mars I think.

3 below 0.

Well you don't watch the number tick down. You stick a TV show on and keep half an eye on KSP, occasionally hitting a key or clicking something.

No, two.

Lucky Number Seven

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Love.

mi-mi-mi-mi-minus one

Zip, zilch, nada, ZERO.

In FAR almost anything can generate lift, though at typical plane speeds the wings do the real work.

Granted. Chlorine is green, a good disinfectant so it's clean, and it and has tons of energy to share with everything it touches. I wish Super Monkey Ball on the 3DS wasn't such a let down.

No no, no no no no, no no no no, no no there's no adding 1

Not really. Sure, they're hardly "mass produced", but my understanding is most real rockets are built for a general "x kg to LEO, y kg to GTO" kind of thing. Payloads have to be built to fit the mass limits of the rocket, and yes to fit inside the fairing. Right now if I design a satellite that's 8 metres wide, no launcher can put that in orbit.

For what it's worth, I've done a biplane in FAR. Flies very well too, though it's a strictly subsonic thing not a Mach 3 spyplane!

Electricity? Edit: Though actually, I think raptor has it with lift. Plenty of ways to generate it (fixed wings, rotorcraft, flapping wings, etc). And if you've come across any of the arguments over how wings make lift - we've had one on this forum recently - you'll appreciate the fourth line.

Flipping the wing parts 180 degrees won't matter. The important thing is their front-back axis needs to be aligned to your direction of flat. If you turn them 90 degrees you get no lift. Failure to take off until you reach the end of the runway is simply because your plane cannot lift its nose to angle its wings. For a tricycle gear like yours, move the main gear closer to the CoM to make it easier to lift the nose, and/or add more pitch control authority whether it's more or bigger elevons or moving the ones you have further back. Alternatively for any style of landing gear ensure the plane sits on the runway with the wings angled up. Yaw instability is because your tail fin is too far forward. At best it's doing nothing and it might even be destabilising the plane. Think of the tail fin like a weather vane, it goes at the back and it tends to make the plane point into the wind, ie towards the prograde marker.

You know, in that huge space of the VAB a small blue box is surprisingly inconspicuous.

Needing to brace and strut past every decoupler and engine - and pretty much anywhere else. I only had to endure that for one update, then ARM came out. The Mun's surface looking like rock, not like grey grass. The cupola being a massively heavy thing you had to actually work to use, put an effort in to get it on your ships and stations. Meanwhile, a year from now I bet the big thing will be the Mk 3 parts being made of tissue paper. Assuming Squad fix the way they fall apart super easily, that is.

Got this to Mun orbit. Note the TWR.

I guess Nylon. Since the origin of its name is still somewhat disputed.