[Flying rockets and aircraft made in KSP in real life]

Awesome! Did it perform like the rocket on the computer? Also, I can't tell but how big is the rocket? And its powered by solid rocket motors?

[Flying rockets and aircraft made in KSP in real life]

Hi,

My questions are short. Has anyone here taken an aircraft or rocket design built in KSP and built/flown it in real life? If so, what was your experience and do you have photos?

Thanks

[Making Kerbal Space Program Realistic Enough to Design Real Rockets and Aircraft]

Hi All,

This is my first post, and it maybe repeating a topic from the past, but doing a search I couldn't find anything like it so here goes.

Kerbal Space Program is the best space simulator out there for the richness in mission content, and having a very active community that builds its own rocket, aircraft, and spacecraft designs, and then flies them in the simulator. As an engineer working in the aerospace industry, it fills my heart with joy to see this. It also is an opportunity in my mind. Aerospace has been stuck in the weeds ever since we left the Moon in the early 70's. True, companies like SpaceX and Planetary Resources are pushing the state of the art forward, but aerospace still suffers from Cold War era thinking in that nobody shares information. The KSP community does not have this problem, you all share freely! I for one want to see much of the vehicles you design in KSP to actually be built and flown, and think the aerospace industry would benefit ENORMOUSLY from your passion and creativity.

So on to my actual question to the community. Is anybody interested in making KSP realistic enough to make it useful as a design tool? From asking around on other forums, and reading other people's posts on this forum, I know KSP has made a lot of progress in making the aerodynamics and dynamics more realistic. Also from playing KSP, some heating effects are also included. But, I also know there is still work to do; I have a list of things that should be included and couldn't tell if they were to make KSP useful as a design tool.

Now I know some of you (the ones who work in the aerospace industry at large companies) have access to very accurate flight simulators (SDK and others) and wind-tunnels, and may be wondering why bother making KSP more realistic. Well my answer is this, those accurate flight simulators are not accessible to the mass public, KSP is. KSP is affordable, and already has a huge community of vehicle and mod developers, so if we choose to do so, KSP can become just as good the expensive flight simulators NASA or Boeing use.

I'd love to see what you all think about this. Let me know what you think.