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I just pwned this troll so hard. Like a mod.

Ok, abandoned the Seagull work. Instead, using something similar but taking a leaf from Gaby\'s book. And then, admittedly, using it as toilet paper. Because Gaby\'s are obviosly better. However, I hope to get something a little bigger to the Mun with it.

The VA Inca Tern is a long range cargo carrier, with space for a medium sized satellite or small spacestation/spacebase slung under the fuselage. Its large wings give good glide time, and it has reasonable maneuvrability with low risk of fatal control failure. Its two gimbaled engines provide the thrust for space travel, orbital insertion, and descent control. Its unusual landing gear, partly comprised of a typical water skid/pontoon setup, partly land skid/hardpoint/pontoon setup. The latter has proven itself capable of providing both shock absorbance and strength against damage. These make up the majority, being 3 of the five gears. Horizontal takeoff speed is ~=100m/s, if pulling up. Recommended landing speed without power is anything below 60m/s. Anything below 100m/s is possible with engines running. Water landings are not recommended, but are survivable. This craft is a Long Take Off and Landing type, and is intended to be landed without assistance from RCS. Although it will be fitted with RCS for maneuvring in space and possibly Munar landings, these don\'t have to play any role whatsoever during landing, either to slow it or to prevent it impacting too hard. Both can be managed by normal ASAS. Do not attempt landing with SAS on.

I\'m sure that\'s a feature.

Concord.

Not quite as sleek as the F-52.

I see absolutely no relavence in this statement.

Takes emergency Spam from zombie survival cabinet Also, when you do overthrow your government, use the British structure. It works a lot better because parliament is moderated by executives and the executives are moderated by the judiceries and the judiceries are moderated by Parliament. No one faction in the circle has significantly more power than the next. And, of course, the House of Commons is full of exactly what its says - commoners. Pretty much anyone who has a degree in law can become a member any one of those factions, and I know several people in my Physics class who are going to take that. My RE teacher used Italy [i think] as an example. He said that the judicery [judges etc] had a lot of power and influence, and it often results in corruption and fraud. As you\'ve said, the federal government clearly isn\'t up to running America. And since America was, before your war for independance, a British colony, I shouldn\'t be surprised it you were able to make it work. Perhaps get yourself an NHS.

Sleek, good looking, nice effect. Do want.

Thanks, Pandora. I added spaceplane grade and Mk16 parachutes to the orbiter section. Also replaced the orbiter\'s gimbaled engine with an LVT-30 thruster, as the LVT-45 wasn\'t powerful enough for everything I had upgraded, and the gimballing was upsetting its balance anyway. The orbiter section after jettison, heading for ocean. The wrong way up, and missing an engine. But nevertheless, a lot of reusable equipment that would otherwise have seriously put a dent in our insurer\'s confidence. Though since this is a prototype being tested to destruction, it has no insurance. And this one came in the right way up.

Sneakey, the point is that although the Internet isn\'t going to be shut down, massive numbers of US websites will be shut down for copyright infringement or \'copyright infringement\' [sOPA doesn\'t require proof from the complainant to have the site shut down], and massive numbers of international sites will be blocked to the US. I\'m surprised Facebook isn\'t doing anything. The place must be full of links to sites putting up copyright infringing or \'copyright infringing\' material. Though Facebook being shut down would, in my view, be no bad thing. The entire site is a confidence trick.

Lost a wing at 2X warp. Still have formidable gliding though. Realised I was coming in too fast. Jettisoned the orbiter, and made an emergency landing on the shuttle. Flight results. No recognition of the liquid boost towers being destroyed. The orbiter however, was registered destroyed. From this I can deduce that I do in fact have enough fuel to make a touchdown. However, I will need to fit the honeymoon suite to be jettisoned. Need to add skids too, for water landings. And a lot more RCS, both for slowing down and for Munar touchdown, if that works better.

Miles 52. Would have been the first supersonic jet if the Americans hadn\'t reneged on their deal to swap information after they took ours. USAF even claimed that they invented the moving tail fins [required for Mach 1. Ailerons just get blown flat.] There\'s a piece of movie footage which shows a British plane with movable tail fins taking off, and it was built around a decade before Bell X-1. Also, \'Bell X-1\' sounds siller than \'Miles 52\'.

Bump. Here\'s the escape shuttle for my work-in-progress Cormorant limo. At the moment it can\'t actually properly land [on land] without just breaking up. And I\'m having some sort of glitch in the VAB, so construction is on hold. ==================== EDIT ==================== The glitch sorted itself out. Realised that I needed landing gear on the escape shuttle. Added it. It now has the vague hope [if not going inanely fast] of landing safely if the orbiter/transfer/reentry vehicle section does break up in the atmosphere. Inanely powerful gimballing engines used to get the stack inanely high so the orbiter section [with its 1-meter gimballed engine] so can power itself into orbit easier. These liquid boosters are dropped, and are fitted with spaceplane-grade parachutes. Though I doubt much of them would survive the ground impact. Also realised that I already had a Cormorant-type, so I renamed it Seagull-type. The entire stack on the launch pad. This is it in Munar orbit. This is it after returning from Munar orbit, in reentry.

Shutting down a website comes with all the technical hitches of trying to get it running again. Especially with all the servers Wiki must have to run it all on.

Ok.

I was pretending to be Ross Kemp at the time... ...so I got out of there. Also, I have a skin condition.

Having a payload on board makes the setup more stable, if anything. Its just that it means that it should have more RCS ports but there is nowhere to put them. And usually is just small things like satellites or mini-spacestations, or fuel tanks. It is, after all, basically a short range non-exoatmospheric flying van.

Habitation modules for overnight stops are just behind the cockpit. Also, due to the nature of its being STOL and the near-impossible task of aborting a landing, I used the stacked skids landing gear type that Tim favours, to keep the whole thing from blowing up. Usually. In fact, the most dangerous part is horizontal takeoff, though its not much better afterwards when the two lower engines run out of fuel, leaving the Aerospike engine operable but bad for maneuvring, and there is the possibility that if you are too liberal with the RCS it could run out before attempted landing. That said, most flight collisions involving this craft are the result of pilot errors such as oversteering, misuse of RCS or failing to check whether the SAS is on or off. Or going in at the wrong angle. Or using too much fuel. Or crashing into a mountainside because of using too little fuel because you don\'t want to use too much fuel. Or attempting maneuvres that would be possible with all engines running but only the Aerospike engine still has fuel and the whole thing flips out.

When new space station nodes arrived in the lorry parking space behind the VAB yesterday, Veto Aerospace engineers decided they were too fond of six of them to put them into orbit forever. These six nodes were instead used in the construction of a glider-dropship, the VA Robin, which is designed to carry crates with a medium range. It can fly reasonably stably without payload, though has a funny habit of making explosions when its lands, though on inspection, the flight crew couldn\'t see where the destroyed sections had come from. In other words, it lands pretty well intact. Uses huge amounts of RCS fuel. It is difficult to land with payload.

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ALERT CONDITION 3 SITUATION \'HAZARDOUS\' 001010010 010101011 101001001 101000010 NOTES \'Atmospheric breach\' \'Bronies\' ADVISORY PREPARE ESCAPE SHIPS

'Who parked their Ausevir... on my sanwich? ROAAAAA...' //Death by caesium reaction I have only ever posted that before on one of Tim\'s ships. Rather than give you an accurate description and constructive critiscism, I\'ve told you how impressive I think it is in a good-humoured and ASDFMovie-ripping-off-kind-of-way.

Looking at squeal\'s work, suuddenly I\'m thinking \'one step closer to building the Hunter-Gratzner on KSP.