XB-70A

Something "new" today with a bit of space : Scott Carpenter in "Aurora 7". I really need training for spacecraft so I used a base to make it.

And they got the same for the airmen, private as pro', ultralight as super-heavy. Never wish a "good flight" before a flight. Even in the air clubs I used to be some were laughing after wishing a "bad flight". Or even the tradition to never embark onboard a boat with a rabbit.

More drama in today's drawing : The famous crash of the MiG-29S duo at the RIAT 1993.

I got a pretty fancy ex-military instructor when I started to fly. He used to swear pretty often and some quotes I will never forget : About the nav' lights : "Never forget, lights are like politics, the reds are on the left wing" For a perfect landing in calm wind conditions : "Just keep the stick at the right of your left ball" About approach and landing on some of our Caribbean's rough and short airfield (this was about TFFJ/SBH) : "Never hesitate to go around. A landing here is a missed go around"

I started this Harbin SH-5A the last week and finished it two days ago but still don't like it : The water effects aren't good enough and these sheets of paper I'm using too small to realize more details. In the same case I started a Gemini-Titan weeks ago but don't find a way to finish it, every new attempt seems too "crass" with an incorrect contrast.

Thank you. Surprisingly I haven't even think about these legends when I made it. Yet the concept well is the same, putting the most powerful engine in the most compact cell.

Thanks and sorry for being so late. Hopefully ME gives you the answer. It's an annoying thing I got with a stock alike Soyuz descent module I tried to make. Offsetting three Mk1pods to make it. There was no playing or structural problems but the crew images were screwed up by this. To be back to the topic I've seen there was a lot of tadpole-like or super compact aircraft online so it gives me the desire to try. And here come the "Triton", no taxi and flights test, just a dumb concept made to see if it will fly : Roll is awesome, the pitch terrible! - Tower, this is Green Rider requesting a flyby. - Negative, Green Rider, the pattern is full. - "YEEEHAAAAAAAAaaaa" (look at his face) - "%@#$!!! This son of...!!! Wernher one of your damned flying clowns once again buzz my tower at more than 700 knots!" This pitch control is so terrible, I felt like no landing in one piece will be possible. Full reverse and everything went well! Now Steven was not aware that Werner and the Air Boss were waiting for him on the tarmac.

After some experiments which brings 164 sciences points it was the time to leave the North Pole. Sergei refilled the braking chutes while Steven planted a flag to the glory of the Klan. Engines started and... began the take-off roll. With less than 350 fuel available and a perfectly flat land the use of afterburner would have been crazy. We then started to climb to 9000 m, still for less consumption. Less than 40 minutes later the situation appeared to be worse than expected... having less than 8 minutes of fuel remaining to fly over the water while maintaining the altitude. It was a necessity to find an emergency terrain to land. Some of these beaches seems pretty flat from our cruising altitude. The descent was then begun. Mmmh... two braking chutes with a slow approach speed should make it possible... arrrg, just 23 units of fuel remaining! Let's initiate the approach circuit! 12 of fuel... to keep the possibility of a go-around to the front other beach we shut down one of the Panther to economize some fuel. Hopefully the craft touched not too hard... ... its chutes ensuring a fast and brutal braking. - "Are you sure they will come for us in hours?" - "I'm more than sure..." - "The Klan never gives up their Wolves".

Mmmh, I love the Ames-Dryden-1. There is a cool topic at the Lounge were you could share it.

Stayed on Kerbin on again. I need a compact science-carrier aircraft to go for my first time with a plane to the North Pole (no really, before I was launching capsule to it...). A first attempt of pure delta called OT-3A Sarcina was a huge deception and forced me to build the OT-4A Sarcina-B ,way more different: (It's hard to build something in this game without skinning to craziness) We never have enough power in this game. Two turbofans were a necessity. Sarcina-B appeared to be more maneuverable than what I expected... but who says maneuverability also means instability. Steven and Sergei were climbing peacefully to their cruise altitude of 7100 meters when an unexpected damn' cat jump over the keyboard and put the craft in a spin! Hopefully after a dive of 2500 m we recovered the control. Finally! After more than an hour of flying we overflew this land of desolation. It appeared so peaceful from here. The original target was to reach geographical North Pole but after having check the remains of fuel the decision was taken to try a landing more southern. A pretty slow descent with nearly no thrust to keep as most fuel as we can and we got a perfect flat landing zone. Aaaaarg... that was close once again! We make it! We now are in the only Kerbin's climate were a Kerbal wearing a spacesuit 24/7 doesn't look illogical. I made all the science experiment then leave them here 'cause I had to go outside. Will Sergei and Steven will return safe to the KSC? You'll know it on the next episode.

Some pictures for all aviation fanatics around here. The 2017 editions is happening in France, the last time was in 2011, but for the first time it's at the BAN (Naval Air Station) Landivisiau in Brittany instead of the traditional Cambrai air force base they used all the times before since 64. Our family house being just at an hour of driving from Landi' my father just make the trip today and sent me the pictures. Alas only the French Navy flew today, all the other members being grounded. Morane-Saulnier MS.760 "Paris" leading a Fouga "Magister" and a Dassault "Rafale-M". Grumman E-2C "Hawkeye" 2000 with its simple special livery. AgustaWestland AW101. Then now enters the Tiger!

Decision was taken to stay on Kerbin today. An occasion to build a new plane in minutes, or rather a seaplane! And here comes the ugly OS-40 for its inaugural flight : (Any similarities with the Beriev A-40 would be purely "accidental") The take-off was long and slow the aircraft being really heavy for the "boosting" Junos. It took off but was not able to reach an altitude of 1000 m without stalling. So back to the SPH! The second try was way better! The craft having good maneuverability and a sufficient rate of climb the Junos were not needed any more. It now was the time to test its abilities to land on water. It's easy to imagine what would be the result in real life for a seaplane touching the water, even of a calm lake, at 142 kt... hopefully this is KSP. Controls were "heavy" and slow at this speed despite the good speed but the craft was still flying well, and far from stalling. I, alas, don't get a screenshot of the "impact". Despite a soft touching with the rear the craft simply decelerate to the speed showed in like 1 or 2 seconds and I was pretty sure it would broke up. But no, it survives and well! Peaceful shot. Next step will be to test its cruising altitude and speed. Then I will more than probably replace one of the empty Mk2 fuel tank for a cargo bay, to place all the scientific equipment for the Kerbin's discovery flights.

Titan is my favorite, just like in real life. Then I would place Triton for the 2nd place. Both of them are nicely representative or their subjects, Titan seems nearly uniform and peaceful while Triton got its ravaged lands.

The team hasn't changed too much since I found Samus months ago : I actually created Sergei Pavlovitch but all the others were random made by the game. Samus now is my favorite pilot Like Newbro too, sounds like he's coming from the Westside bro'.

Glory over such an incredible probe.

Seems awesome. This sole "man" and the shopping cart make it looks like themed on a nuclear apocalypse survival. I also maid two new additions these last days : Flaps and slats extended, the famous F-GGMB registered McDonnell-Douglas MD-83 of AOM (Air Outre-Mer) is taxiing to runway 08 at Paris Orly in 1997. It received a pretty particular livery in 1995 when a theme of "The Little Prince" ("Le Petit Prince") from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was painted all over in a childish dream style, making it a particular aircraft well knew of the spotters and passengers. Getting the serial 49617 it was firstly delivered to the French airline Minerve in 1988 and was integrated to AOM four years later when both airlines merged, keeping its registration. It stayed with them for 10 years before being sold to Transjet Airlines which sold it to the US low cost airline Spirit. It finally finished in South-Africa, flying with 1Time, which ceased its operations in 2012, the aircraft being stored since. Its fate probably will be dismantling... For having flew onboard it at many occasions as a kid it is one of my favorite aircraft and livery. (I needed to trace a lot of lines with a ballpoint pen out of ink to "mark" the paper and then color over it without the pigment going inside the mark, making possible to keep the white...) September 2004 : over the bay of Gelendzhik the sole airworthy Beriev A-40 "Albatross" (NATO codename "Mermaid") and one of its older Beriev Be-12 "Chaika" (codename "Mail") brother are flying all together during the city's airshow. Developed at the real end of 70's the "Albatross" after a request of the Soviet Navy for a multi-role platform able to realize surveillance, anti-ship and rescue missions to replace their Be-12 seaplane and Il-38 patrol aircraft. It made accidentally its first flight the 8 December 86 when the speed reached during a rolling test was enough to make the prototype airborne. Mainly powered by a pair of Soloviev D-30KPV turbofan, the craft also benefits of two more Kolesov RD36 turbojet to boost the take-off whole power. Despite incredible performances and a high number of records broken the A-40 was disowned by the Navy, which considered its whole cost as too high. The fall of the Soviet Union finishing to achieve the program, the first prototype was conserved while the second staid uncompleted at the Beriev facility. Anyway a part of the "Mermaid" is still flying today as its concept served as a platform for the now famous Beriev Be-200 jet seaplanes which served all around the world for firefighting and rescue missions.

GOT BETTER! Nope, no cheats, my first and still only space unicycle.

Morning, 07.30, what can be done before leaving for the work? KSP of course!.. But just for a short time, or at least that was what I expected (). It was the occasion to finish the flight of Eve Express, launched in December. E.E is my first ever probe ever launched to Eve in about three years of playing... I sent a rover sooner in 1.0.5 but the creation of the network system later totally modify the deal. And it's pretty good, at least it forced me to try it. E.E now is close from its final destination. The inclination was not satisfying alas and needed a expensive correction... Eve seems so beautiful and peaceful from here. Thanks to @Galileo for his awesome Stock Visual Enhancements mod. The deceleration point alas was in the dark side of the planet... the second stage also was not capable to complete the whole maneuver of re-inclining... Forcing to use the probe engines which, hopefully, got more than 2 km/s available but with such low TWR... that the maneuver needed 13 minutes to complete! Yay! Finally! My first probe orbiting Eve! As for Duna once all the antennas deployed it got enough power for a direct link to the KSC and will allow me to send a rover to one of the planet's poles. But that's another story.

A pretty nice way to write. Personally mine

Got 40 minutes off to make the inaugural flight of Vishnu light-shuttle : Finally choose to make it ride the main core instead of placing it at the top. The whole system appeared to be hard to control. Hopefully we already were at 27 km when the SRB were jettisoned. For a reason I couldn't explain I really like the second shot. Ap was placed at 200 km and at his moment the main core still got about 700 m/s available. Of course, with just 0.26 of TWR, the craft is terrible when it had to circularize... Just a bit more than one orbit and it already was the time to come back. For sure it's one of the most stable craft I made for the re-entry, it nearly didn't move. Having overshot the KSC I was about to re-route to the Island... ... but finally decided to turn-back to the Center, a step dive being the most welcome here. Vishnu appeared to be a nice glider too, I mean it's not totally a flying brick. A parachute vertical descent was possible instead of a horizontal landing but I preferred to test its comportment until the end. A soft landing but I once again forget something... the suspension! The craft was bouncing around in terrible boing-boing, SAS deactivation solves the problem. I still need to work on it and build a specific launcher for.

Also, just in case, if you got subassemblies and don't want to re-create all of the folders the files is not in your craft directory... but at "GameData\Squad\PartList\SubassemblyCategories.cfg".

One of the nicest Ariane 5 stock replica I've seen for now.

Don't worry, I was not against your post or I would not have "liked" it. But as we wrote I will probably just place one image per "chapter", the others being in spoiler. The main problem to me being the fact that some persons could have to wait a long time the load the whole page due to all these images. To be back to the topic I just started another shuttle this morning, called Vishnu, for Mun/Minmus touristic trips. But it only is at the re-entry test : It's possible to land it by gliding or by using descent parachutes. I find the noose ugly. The round cone is too short and the aerodynamic fuel tank too heavy for this... maybe I should select the last and install another turbojet to make it a full plane instead.

Thank you. But I think they are not so wrong, it was pretty long and heavy (I mean with all these pictures) for a "What did you do today" topic. Maybe it would have been more easy to show just one picture of each mission parts and the others in spoiler, just to ease the situation for some peoples who still don't have access to a high performances network.

You both are freaking right. I didn't even see how many there was while writing the post. And as a traditional idiot I didn't read it back before posting it... a mistake to don't make anymore. Sir, ALL my creations are like second-class engineering ! More seriously it's hard to understand how it happened, the craft got it nose gear when I built it in 1.2.1. Then I just copy all my career and craft files to the fresh 1.3 installation. So maybe something occur at this time.