Captain Vlad

Saw my first last night. Wanted me to move a craft in orbit to a different orbit altitude and inclination. Didn't take it since the craft it selected was the Duna rover I had parked at 100x100 waiting for a launch window.

Nah. Was a nice-looking part with a better aesthetic for a lot of uses (more space-y than than the current one; the new one's very nice but looks way too 'luxury jet'), and the OP's suggestion for modifying would be pretty welcome, especially since a two-man pod at that size level is something that's been repeatedly asked for (though I'd prefer a Gemini-style one).

Seems like a good idea for me. On Kerbin I'd suggest the values be a bit (not much) higher than the land biomes.

Please, yes.

Agreed that this was a very good call, and I haven't even built a sub yet. In my head the air intakes are water intakes for MHD-style engines anyway...I don't need no steenking water engine when my brain can come up with a way to explain it. That said, if they did add an electric propeller (or multiple sizes thereof...), I'd be tickled pink, as that would be great for little planes on planets with an atmosphere but no oxygen for jets.

KSC Runway South -- 69 meters "I'm a fully qualified Kerbalnaut, and I've spent the last week living in what amounts to a mobile home on the side of the runway with Donby, whose feet smell, and I mostly get to go out on the rover to replace the flags at the end of the runway after Jeb screws up a landing and knocks one over." -- Seanrim Kerman. KSC Runway North -- 69 meters "Someday, it'll be me knocking over the damn flags. Really, a whole month of runway duty? What did I DO?" -- Seanrim Kerman. Island Runway Tower "So Jeb says, 'Hey Sean, wanna take one of the jets out?' And I say 'YES! Sweet Lord, what do you want me to do?!?' Turns out they wanted me to fly out here and plant another flag. And to climb a bunch of stairs first this time. Small steps, Sean, small steps." -- Seanrim Kerman

Sounds like an excellent hotkey candidate.

He's a KSP player. He knows all he needs to do that is boosters and some struts.

Re-entered a Mk1 cockpit shuttle last night from a 100x100 orbit and didn't experience any problems going in with the front of the plane facing prograde. That said, once I started to get re-entry effects, I pitched the plane up to use the underside as a giant airbrake. So maybe try that? It slows the plane MUCH quicker than going in nose first, so maybe the heat doesn't get too intense because by the time you reach thicker atmo, you're going slower?

1. Microjets. Built one last night. 2. Mounted radially, two of them are a good alternative to a Wheesley when you wanna save the centerline hardpoint for something else. I did this with a shuttle and it worked quite well. But other than engines, you can use wing or radial mounts to have a fuselage with passengers, a tail, etc. 3. Haven't tried it yet, but intend to try one for a heavier rover; Jet assistance can make tough hills more manageable, but the Wheesley weighs a bit much to be ideal. 4. Got plans for a VTOL using Junos. Way less space than the Wheesley. 5. Boat or amphibious rover propulsion.

Atmospheric Sensor Calibration Nov. 9, 2015 Mission goal: Test new atmospheric sensors at areas around space center to establish baseline, Kerbin-normal readings. Personnel assigned: Bill Kerman. Equipment authorized by flight control: Caterpillar Rover, Prototype 001. Additional equipment requested by Mission Commander: Caterpillar Rover, Prototype 002. Personnel injuries or loss during mission: See text. Damage to KSP vehicles, equipment or structures during mission: See text. Mission Narrative (prepared by Mission Commander Bill Kerman) Checked out prototype of Caterpillar Rover No. 1 at approximately 0800 this morning after making sure hangar crew had installed new atmospheric sensors. Sensors were installed and passed operational tests, so I proceeded from the hangar into various areas around Kerbal Space Center to establish baseline atmospheric test results. During this process, was required to exit cockpit of rover to physically download sensor data onto a USB drive before re-use of sensor in different location. Note: Must return Jeb's USB drive. On second extra-cockpit excursion, was attempting to retrieve data and lost footing on forward section of rover. Received no noticeable injuries during the fall, but was admonished by Mission Control for cursing over open circuit. Ignored this, crawled back up to cockpit via rover's wheel assembly, returned to cockpit and proceeded with mission. Performed additional tests at R&D facility and KSP tracking station. Exited cockpit to retrieve data and again fell from the vehicle, landing headfirst on this occasion (see photo of scuffed helmet, attached). Stood. Attempted to climb back onto rover using same method as before. Rover instead began to move forward, as it appears I forgot to engage parking brake. Believing this to be minor obstacle, made continued attempts to climb onto Caterpillar Rover Prototype No. 1. Each attempt only resulted in rover achieving greater velocity and required me to wait until vehicle slowed to make further attempts. Pursued vehicle on foot until it halted. Made another attempt to climb wheel assembly. During attempt, right foot became lodged in assembly. Attempt again propelled Caterpillar Rover No. 1 forward. Vehicle's momentum sufficient that Mission Commander was dragged along with vehicle along its route (see embedded photo) Admonished again by Mission Control for cursing over open channel. Responded with pleas for assistance. Was advised by Mission Control that no personnel were in hangar complex but they would "send someone to find Jeb or Val." Replied again. Was not admonished for said response. Noted vehicle seemed to be headed for tracking station antenna structure and from my perspective, it appeared Caterpillar Rover Prototype No. 1 would impact the building at slow rate of travel and presumably halt. Continued to be drug along behind rover as it narrowly missed structure and continued toward nearby incline. Continued pleas for assistance reinforced with profanity continued to be ineffective in obtaining help from Mission Control. Caterpillar Rover Prototype No. 1 proceeded to incline and picked up speed as it traveled to lower altitude. See above paragraph for description of my reaction. Was advised by Mission Control that 'velocity not life-threatening'. Suggested Mission Control personnel recreate incident and take turns viewing from perspective of just below right middle wheel of Caterpillar Rover Prototype No. 1. Noise of helmet scraping along terrain obscured response from Mission Control. Rover seemed to bounce as it transitioned to flat ground. Foot, happily, came loose from wheel assembly, and roll to side to evade rear wheels proved successful. Rover continued traveling into surrounding grasslands. I stood and pursued on foot. As ankle sustained some injury while using previous mode of travel, experienced significant pain during this process. Extensive verbal reactions helped ease this sensation. Advised Mission Control to not bother with further admonishments. Foot pursuit took longer than expected as rover had gained significant momentum. Began to worry as direction and rate of travel made encounter with seashore seem possible. Happily, Caterpillar Rover Prototype No. 1 began to slow some distance away from shoreline, though not quickly. Eventually caught up. Halted rover's forward motion by blocking it with body. Again attempted to climb onto vehicle. Attempt was again unsuccessful and despite urging from Mission Control refused to try again, recalling previous experience. Retrieved socket wrench from tool vest and hurled it against Caterpillar Rover Prototype No. 2, resulting in minor paint scuffing. Asked what positive results from action were by Mission Control. Advised Mission Control of various other places socket wrench could fit. Mission Control expressed doubts about my statement, citing insufficient width of receptacle. Returned to Hangar area on foot, later assisted by Range Safety Officer with golf cart. RSO attempted to engage in conversation. Responded with profanity. Attempts ceased. Retrieved Caterpillar Rover Prototype No. 2 from Hangar and proceeded to No. 1. Ensnared No. 1 with wheel assembly of No. 1. and ENGAGED PARKING BRAKE. Exited cockpit, leapt onto rover No. 1 and entered cockpit where I ENGAGED PARKING BRAKE. Drove Caterpillar Rover Prototype No. 1 to hangar along with test data. RSO retrieved second rover. Injury status of Mission Commander includes sprained ankle, numerous bruises, severe chafing and minor lacerations, elevated stress hormone level. Damage status of vehicle includes no distress affecting operational systems, but does include minor paint scuffing on Caterpillar Rover Prototype No. 1. Attempts to recover socket wrench by RSO are continuing. Suggestions: Installation of remote control system OR entry ladder onto both rover prototypes would likely prevent similar user error or allow re-entry of vehicle should said error recur. Mission Status Successful, all objectives achieved.

Built myself this mini-shuttle. At $35,000, she's probably not that economical as I have rockets that can do the same job and get about the same value recovered, but I'm still tweaking things. But economics are one thing; She works very well thus far, aside from some foibles I should be able to correct. More than enough delta-v to get to orbit...I know that because one of the problems is that until she gets to over 20K meters, even trying to start a gravity turn starts the whole thing cartwheeling. But I can probably fix that and she had enough fuel to make orbit anyway, as you can see below. I just allllmost made it to orbit solely on the boosters followed by the Skipper. If I can do that with the cartwheel, I might be able to hold onto some of big tanks fuel until she's in orbit and have the entire fuel load for the 909 to go places if I can fly her normally all the way up. I ended up in a 100x100 orbit with about 3/4 of a tank or so and did NOT do my best piloting job ever getting up there. Reentry went fine, and the little jets worked great once I got to lower altitude. On the other hand... ...I may need to work on my landing gear's stability. Think the footprints...a little narrow for me...

You, sir, are a man of excellent taste. For my part, I've been dying for those little jet engines. My first-ever shuttle-style spaceplane worked, but I felt really inhibited by the jets not stack attaching and having to mount two big honkin' nacelles to the side of my plane. Now I can have my centerline 909 and some tastefully small, less draggy, lighter engines for it. I have a booster+main stage rocket with two cockpits that has no stack separators. Use it for LKO rescues and tourist hops cuz it's fully recoverable other than the boosters. With the new two-crew cabin it's about to be a three-person ship, and I may be able to adapt it to be my space station's crew transfer vehicle instead of building an SSTO spaceplane for it. Want to make tiny drone aircraft. Maybe send one to Laythe. Also want to put a Panther on my favorite jet, which looks and acts like a fighter with the Wheesley. The turbojet made it super fast, but...can't wait to see what the thrust-vectoring does to the maneuverability.

Me too. I REALLY want those little jet engines.

So, if we have buoyancy coming up, does that mean insufficiently buoyant objects...will sink?

The same thing I do every night, Pinky.

I use the hell out of the Skipper, especially for middle stages. A lot of my rockets use SRBs to boost themselves up to 10K+ and I finish the orbit with the Skipper under one large fuel tank. A probe core, some RCS thrusters, monoprop and parachutes and I can even recover it, saving even more $$$.

I use a US military style (letter or letters)-(number)(letter for specific model) type format for craft that, in my head, are reusable. Like X-15, FA-18, etc. Rockets, spaceplanes or aircraft use this. The first letter or letter denotes the type of engine or engines the craft uses. J for the lower-end jet, T for the turbo-jets, R for Rapiers, I for Ion, L for liquid fuel. The second letter is whether the craft is either atmospheric (A) or orbital (O). Any craft that can't make orbit is considered atmospheric even if capable of suborbital flight. Any craft that can go farther than Kerbin orbit is still considering an 'O' for the purposes of this system. Then the number is the just numerical for the order I created the craft, but each number/letter combo has it's own series. When I'm first building the thing, it's X-whatever, and those have their own order (X-1, X-2, etc.). Only when the bugs are worked out do I decide they're 'operational' and give them their 'in-service' designation. Then when they're 'in-service', they get like, JA-1, or TLO-3. Not all of the 'X' craft go into service. Some have letters after the main combination to denote a variant with some minor change. JA-3B, etc. I also give my craft some cool word name, too. So JA-3 Sparrow, RO-1 Torpedo, etc. Expendable craft like rockets are usually a 'mission name' followed by a number.

Watched it with the lover, her best friend, and her best friend's kid. Was a great night.

I looked through those. Given that nearly all of it was historical or technical information, at least the largest portions I looked at, it doesn't fit the definition of plagiarism in my opinion. She could have easily written the portions I saw solely by checking whatever source material the offended author used. Did she use the article as a reference? Only she knows for sure, but even if she did, there's no real way anyone else could prove it (unless they made a mistake she also copied that wasn't present in the source material). If it doesn't match the original article and the sentences are re-written enough that the plagiarism software didn't see it, mostly likely it doesn't fit the legal definition of plagiarism when you're dealing with information she could've gotten somewhere other than the offended author. I don't see anything in the above examples where she repeated any original ideas or interpretations of the other author, which would've been more telling. The portion in GoSlash's quoted bit about editorial oversight she would've been under are also rather significant. If the above examples constitute the bulk of the "evidence" that she's stealing people's articles, I have far, far, FAR more suspicion of poor intent regarding the people claiming she copied their material given that, from what I've seen, the "case" against her is quite underwhelming as Mike said. And I subscribed, having never seen one of her videos before. She presents interesting information on lots of interesting things in an entertaining fashion.

I hope they retain the current Mk1 cockpit as it looks, to me, far more appropriate for a single-seat "faster, farther, higher Chuck Yeager broke some kind of record in this" type craft than the new Lear Jet-styled one. But the Lear Jet style cockpit also looks neat, and I see no reason not to include both, especially as it looks appropriate for other types of designs. The smaller jet engines and fuel tanks have me excited, as does the two-person crew cabin. The second seat should greatly simplify some of my early-career designs. I missed anything else that's been confirmed because I didn't want to sort through pages of people arguing about crap.

Mount them to an LF tank on an jet-powered aircraft in the early game to reach altitudes that are difficult or impossible to attain with the basic jet engine. It's relatively light and works well for this, ever since I saw Wanderfound do it and totally stole the idea. Used four on a two-stage-to-orbit rescue ship that used Rockomax tanks but MK 1 inline cockpits. Boosters got her high enough to make orbit with the Thuds, do the rescue, de-orbit and come down in one piece. Landing engines, as others have suggested, especially for big ol' long duration semi-bases.

Dress.

I didn't vote. There's no 'I can't choose' or 'Both are nuts' options. I personally view Val as my lead spaceplane/jet pilot and Jeb as my rocket guy, though I do send each on occasional missions that are the other's specialty. Val did my first orbital rescue this career. Jeb was first into orbit. Like both of them.

A very, very close friend of mine struggles with this disease. It took forever for her to be diagnosed, because as you said, no one seems to know what the hell it is, especially in the not-exactly-cosmopolitan area of Oklahoma we live in. She seems to do all right, although she had daily issues I'm certainly glad I don't have to deal with. Prayers and best wishes are offered.