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Please also give consideration to Telemagic above: see https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/202253-surface-refuelling-another-solution/&do=findComment&comment=3971543

I'd also like to recommend the Telemagic mod, recently released for 1.11.2. Two vehicles parked on the surface within 30 meters of each other may transfer fuel, supply ship to client ship, in which the focus is on the client and the supply ship is its target. The mod also allows refueling of craft at certain designated "fuel aprons": at KSC, Island Airport, Dessert Strip and Baikerbanur. Single click of the button and ten seconds to transfer fuel, repack chutes, clean the windshields and empty the ashtrays. (Spark plugs and oil changes remain your own responsibility.) There's a rumor it can also teleport runway and launchpad vehicles at the KSC immediately to the equivalent location at Baikerbanur, making the latter location finally a first-class spaceport again, but that capability is probably still a "work in progress". The history is that, after 1.2.1 and 1.3.1 completely torpedoed existing mining with breaking changes ((extra) radiators and other nonsense), and after spending the following years looking for "claw" solutions (see my Pegasus line of fuel tankers and also the pitifully desperate Bowser attachment; as well as the Goblin & Gremlin line of lunar miners), I finally got "jack" of it and made Telemagic. No parts involved; just a little imagination. If your pilot can walk or swim to the other craft and back then the "hose" is a given. A certain co-collaborator of mine has just manufactured a tanker capable of delivering 22 megakallons of fuel to anywhere on Kerbin in 35m to act as a base fuel supply ship to all visiting craft and will be publishing it very shortly (@swjr-swis: HELP!). Think about it. Regional airports/operating bases. Telemagic works on any celestial body (other than asteroids)... No fuss; no muss.

Not Telemagic. That's a mod that allows you to refuel on Kerbin at the major airports (KSC, Island, Dessert and Baikerbanur) and also allows you to transfer fuel, parked on the surface, from a tanker craft to the client. It's objective is to facilitate transportation networks. I believe it can also be used on the surface of any other body in the Kerbolar system. But not in space.

OK, so some people have never seen a helicopter before... And helicopters can be rowdy, e.g. in the wee hours! See Leg 19, in which our intrepid Dick Smith 'beats up' Gilligan's Island for no good reason -- other than chopper pilots are, well, a 'rowdy' bunch. Or maybe that's just Australians in general?

In honor of Dick Smith: Australian entrepreneur and first person to circumnavigate our Earth solo in a helicopter (a Bell JetRanger) -- with the bullet holes to prove what a hardy race we are.

Leg 20 [prev] [progress] [click + arrows] Departed: -1.524/-71.903 @ 3.259.0.52 Airborne: 8m Heading: 298 Distance: 32.3 km Altitude: 0.5 km Arrival: -0.097/-74.618 Dick Smith and trusty Engineer sidekick Newgas Kerman embark upon the final, arduous leg of the journey over a particularly hazardous stretch of shark-infested waters... ...and touch-down on the roof of the KSC VAB. No one had believed this journey -- thither & there & back again -- would ever complete. But here we are -- where we were. Well done, Everyone![1] Dick Smith, having followed the 3-page Chippewa Shutdown Check List, takes note of the awaiting, cheering, adulatory crowd... No one. Then realizes he has landed, of course, on the hardest place to get to in the KSC. Only one thing for it! JUMP!! [click + arrows] Amelia Kerman & Dick Smith pose together before the ever-reliable Juice Goose supply ship: "Could not have done it without you, Amelia!", says Dick, most warmly. The next morning's KSC Spaceport Times headline would herald: "Dick Smith Completes '20 Legs Around The Globe' Voyage" [1] including, You, most Gracious Reader!

Best technique for me now seems to be to set an Outer Marker 5 km out and fly at 75m ASL at some speed about 10 m/s above stall (maybe +5 deg pitch) and then use a somewhat steep approach in the final moments, triggering the chutes when I see the whites of the ball boy's eyes... I have the chutes attached about a meter behind the CoM, which means I can still flare just before hitting the deck. Oh yeah, there's something else... Umm. Oh right: gear down at the OM and set the brakes at the same time! (Yamamoto, by comparison is 70 x 20m (74 parts). It would need a crane to stack planes on the aft deck... So, strictly: one visitor at a time. )

OK, you know I might as well get into the spirit of this thing: here's my entry, Firebrand... It's 6.7 x 5.8m. It's just a trainer jet for making touch-and-goes splats on carriers. (Love your carrier, @Pds314! What are her dimensions?)

And I always use them unless there are good reasons not to. So, on Rosetta, I have 200% on the rear and 100% on the nose. I tried 200% on the nose but with the layout of this undercart, hard braking causes it to tumble. (In this case, I actually wanted 200% merely to hold the craft until the engines had fully spooled. Turns out that 100% on the nose and 200% rear while stationary will hold it (almost) on full dry power and one triggers the afterburners instantly exactly upon releasing the brakes.)

Philae_Rosetta2021 had it setup for 35 m/s but my rev'eng version ("Rosetta") has a stall speed of 44 m/s. But... I did get it stopped. I flew the inbound, knowing the carrier heading and I maintained 48-50 m/s, not far above stall. 50m off the deck. And my version has a couple of chutes on it. I threw them 20-30 m before the deck. I may put my Sudden Arrester System (a.k.a. Sepatrons) on it or use a slightly bigger wing design.

I tell my guys if they can't stop in 12 meters they don't get to park on my 'boat'. Here's the plan view: (Updated for @Pds314

I made a landing barge. Not big and not self-propelled, but hey. T'was not as hard as I thought. OK. Now it's propelled. And makes 45 knots. She's called the 山本。 And... my very first successful landing on the Yamamoto! (Tip of the hat to @Philae_Rosetta2021 for the design of this natty little carrier trainer. It can actually turn around quite easily on that deck.)

Why, KerbalX.com, of course!! Ha! I see you have an account: https://kerbalx.com/Philae_Rosetta2021 Good man. In other news, I made my first carrier!! Well, more of a "landing target", in actuality, since it is not self-propelled. It just needs a bullseye decal on the deck, methinks. (Sorry, I know this is all "off topic". I'll back off.)

This is a brilliant little trainer for carrier landings! I hope you will publish it.

Leg 19 [prev] [fin] [progress] [click + arrows] Departed: 9.280/-46.356 @ 3.258.5.48 Airborne: 44m Heading: 260 Distance: 296.5 km Altitude: 4.0 km Arrival: -1.524/-71.903 Dick: "Lay in a course for Gilligan's Island, Engineer Newgas" Newgas: "Aye aye, Cap'n". "But we could get home, ye damned fool!!", under his breath. Approaching Gilligan's, Dick can't resist a 'beat-up' of the field. Dick: "Set speakers to 11, Engineer!" Newgas: "Aye aye, Cap'n... But, Cap'n Smith: is it wise to -snip- 'warm yellow liquid' off the natives immediately before landing??" Dick: "This isn't Minecraft, Newgas; this is KSP! And we're not landing! We're intrepidly pushing onward, I say!! And damn those fuel gauges!" Some time later, apparently lining up an airport approach... Newgas: "Excuse me, Cap'n. It's bin a long time, aye... but this din'na look like the Space Center...? What's happen'd in all these long years ah've ben cast-away?" Dick: "Well, Engineer, you are right: it's been a long time since you've been in Polite Society, but I think gentlebals should give the lady [referring to Amelia Kerman] a chance to catch up and land at KSC first, wouldn't you agree?" Newgas: "Aye aye, Cap'n. Right you are..." The KSC Spaceport Times would later headline, "Showboat Millionaire: disappoints huge, waiting, KSC reception crowd".

You've invented the 'joystick dongle'!! You should get royalties...

Congratulations, console users- You have my respect.

Very likely you already know this, too, but since I discovered it very late, for anyone else who doesn't know: Shift-Period increases 'physics' warp, even in space, allowing engines to keep firing and netting up to a 4x speed-up in time progression. Congratulations on your 'catch'! If it's not at least a Size E, you should throw it back.

Leg 18 [prev] [next] [progress] [click + arrows] Departed: -17.067/-39.821 @ 3.258.3.54 Airborne: 41m Heading: 345 Distance: 281.2 km Altitude: 7.0 km Arrival: 9.280/-46.356 Dick and Newgas fly past Papillon and into the northern hemisphere to the Galapagos, where they find a "control tower" from which they can refuel using [1.11.2] Telemagic, provided by a company that Dick Smith (shameless self-promoter) owns a controlling interest in. Newgas hardly said a word during the 41m flight, but he did extract his slide rule and began some calculations coming up with a new and more precise estimate of the Chippewa range, certifying it as 748km. Enough to get home to KSC in one more leg! Meanwhile, Amelia Kerman had landed her Juice Goose 2 a km or 2 away to the east on the very small island, next to a Chalet. "The world is starting to get awfully crowded again," growled Dick, who generally does prefer the wilderness.

Leg 17 [prev] [next] [progress] [click + arrows] Departed: -60.337/-27.427 @ 3.257.5.33 Airborne: 65m Heading: 344 Distance: 451.7 km Altitude: 7.1 km Arrival: -17.067/-39.821 Not quite a distance record (previously 471km) but a new altitude record. The Chippewa draws only 0.063 kal/sec at this altitude. That gives it a range in excess of 600km! As a bonus of landing on this large island at a well-used 'airport', Dick has been able to offer a ride to Engineer Newgas Kerman, who has been stranded upon an old, obsolete Hobgoblin field miner for 3 years now. Although Dick is looking forward to the company for the rest of the journey, Newgas isn't going to have a lot of conversation about recent times. So it goes.

Leg 16 [prev] [next] [progress] [click + arrow] slideshow Departed: -59.210/31.415 @ 3.257.3.28 Airborne: 45m Heading: 243 Distance: 297.3 km Altitude: 2.0 km Arrival: -60.337/-27.427 Yes, I know what you're thinking... "Come on, Dick! Get a move on!" Or you'd even completely forgotten multimillionaire Dick Smith's solo attempt to circumnavigate Kerbin by helicopter?? Nope, it's still happening. At snail's pace. What a great flight, though! The scenery was great. The transition to hover was effortless. And we got a bonus (partial!) eclipse of the Sun by the Mesa South station, completely by chance, just as we had finished shutting down. What a surprise that was?!! Dick is continuing to learn great things about his Chippewa helicopter. Fuel management onboard enroute can be quite tense because the Chippewa carries 380 kallons of JET-A, 180 usable and 200 on reserve. Dick has figured out that he can simply watch the gauge heading down from 380 toward 200. As it approaches 200 (Oscars running dry), he can pin open all ten Oscars and then begin transferring fuel from any of the 4 pontoon tanks. By the time, Dick has transferred all fuel from the pontoon tanks, fuel load should be down to 180 or lower, which means the Oscars are then holding all remaining fuel. This means that all fuel management can be performed in a single operation carried out spanning the short period between 200 and 180 kallons remaining. "No drama", as the Ozzies would say!

Happy to announce that the [1.11.2] Telemagic [v1.11.2.10] "Phoenix" release is available on Spacedock and also via CKAN. Please do report any problems, issues or suggestions here in this topic. Hmm, I appear to have inadvertently left the cursed 'teleport' feature engaged. So be it. Have fun with it. Your first teleport will work fine. After that, KSP gets the shimmers... Switch anywhere out of physics range and come back and you are whole again.

This is a great site. And an outstanding community. We'd all like to think everyone in it is great. Precisely because it is so exceptional, newcomers may just not realize for a while what they've stumbled into. They have yet to appreciate it. I know that was my case... And I know this is a painful subject to discuss, but my 'posture' on this is: if one conducts oneself honorably at all times and is known to do so and transacts politely with what you've termed above as 'opponents' and then, inexplicably, breaks off all transactions with such a person but that person continually attacks or maligns or scoffs at the honorable one the newcomer risks disgracing him/herself in the court of public opinion a court -- in this community -- in which I absolutely trust and this will inevitably be to the very great loss of the aforesaid 'opponent' as they are not at all likely then to receive any benefit from this Great Forum after that point. I can't say if I exactly live up to all of this, but I have absolutely no fear what anyone might say behind my back and I'd prefer to not even know about it.

I'll make this the last post on my aircraft carrier obsession:

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