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    THE BARTDON PAPERS - "Cancel all previous directives."

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted

    On 12/11/2018 at 11:24 PM, UnusualAttitude said:

    submitted you to a brutal interrogation and killed you, Bartdon

    O.o

     

    On 12/11/2018 at 11:24 PM, UnusualAttitude said:

    Despite this, you deserve some answers, so I have taken the risk of writing to you. Don't be offended if the gentlekerb who handed you this letter personally didn't stop to chat. He is putting himself at risk too by delivering my mail.

    Uhmmmmmm. o.O

    On 12/11/2018 at 11:24 PM, UnusualAttitude said:

    I'm sorry but I had to send you to the most remote place I could think of.

     

    Hol' Up, is that Ascension Island?

     

    On 12/11/2018 at 11:24 PM, UnusualAttitude said:

    PS: I had a set of clubs left in that basement. At least you will be able to practice your swing.

    XD 

    Kerbal Express Airlines - Regional Jet Challenge (Reboot Continued)

    in KSP1 Challenges & Mission ideas

    Posted · Edited by HamnavoePer

    On 13/04/2018 at 3:57 AM, CrazyJebGuy said:

    @HamnavoePer Your Beluga.... I think we have to disqualify for it being practically a helicopter, and for the large reaction wheels module, reaction wheels is not allowed. Except cockpit SAS, because it has a negligible effect.

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    It WAS a joke entry. Not surprised it got disqualified.

    EDIT: Do I still get extra points for originality? :P

    Kerbal Express Airlines - Regional Jet Challenge (Reboot)

    in KSP1 Challenges & Mission ideas

    Posted

    7 hours ago, CrazyJebGuy said:

    Test Pilot Review: @HolidayTheLeek's AC-H1 Island Hopper

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    Figures as Tested:

    • Price: :funds:473,374,000
    • Fuel: 000 kallons
    • Cruising speed: 104m/s
    • Cruising altitude: 1000-2000 m
    • Fuel burn rate: N/A kal/s
    • Range: Keeps going until the pilot needs a nap

    Review Notes:

     This review is way ahead of schedule, we normally put submissions in a very long queue, but in this case, the sheer absurdity is reason enough to queue jump, that and the fact we should do this before nuclear powered aeroplanes are made illegal, give us plenty of reason to do this.

     First off, one of the elephants in this bizarre room: the price. It is simply astronomical, the largest documented entry (by passenger count) has a price $80,000,000 lower than this, and it holds 45 times more passengers. We could quite literally buy 25 normal jets, for the price of a single one of these. The rest of the review will answer the question "should we?".

     This plane seems like someone had an idea in a board room, drunk, and suddenly some engineers start making bets on it and debating whether they could, and this debate was so intense no-body stopped to ask if they should.

     One reason not to do it, is the pilot training costs. It is so different from every other aircraft at engines, and when our engineers opened up the engine cover, they quickly closed it becuase it only made them more confused. It also has an instruction manual, that is actually needed to fly the thing, and considering it carries radioactive material, our pilots had better well be able to recite the thing backwards while riding a bike with no hands on a speeding merry-go-round!

     Oh yeah, and did we mention the other oddities of this thing? So many! And they are all irrelevant compared to the engines! There is a second fuselage, embedded but lowered, into the higher fuselage with passengers, and for some reason the high winged monoplane has it's wings bolted onto the lowest fuselage? This second fuselage also does nothing as far as we can tell, it just sits there, not providing fuel or anything.

     Now, up till now we haven't even got into this crazy contraption, let alone fly it! But now, we will. And we revved up the engines, (due to complicated procedure only 1 can be throttle adjusted at any one time, and it's slow) the plane practically lept into the air! With an acceleration of a whopping 20m/s in our first 15 seconds, we knew this thing would go at least mach nine hundred!

     Although credit where credit is due, it takes off at an amazingly low 31m/s! The surprises never stop! We just hope any future ones won't need to be measured in kilotons of TNT.

    Up in the air, it won't get very up any time soon, this plane climbs at the pace of a snail carrying heavy shopping the wrong way up an escalator! But fortunately it cruises just above sea level, very low altitudes.

    Handling wise, we were amazed. We expected something extraordinary from this plane, and we were astonished when it handled completely normally and like a regular plane. It's nothing special here, not bad, not good, but not being remarkable is remarkable for a plane so strange as this.

    The engines are completely silent, so silent that it is eery to fly on this plane. Our pilot, on several occasions, thought the engines had stopped with how quiet they were, and panicked. We had to install speakers to play a bit of engine noise, just to calm down the pilot and passengers, the comfort here is impeccable, although vibrations happen a heck of a lot of the engines, they get transferred a bit to the wings, but the thing is so bendy or something, because it is hardly felt in the cabin.

    And when we mean a heck of a lot of vibration in the engines, we mean it. A huge jet at full blast has nothing on these things, these things will be shaking back and forth about 2 inches difference, several times a second! There are warning signs to not put anything next to then when in operation, because the engines will smash it to pieces!

    On landing, the engines were quick to throttle down, and the plane glides well, and can land pretty quickly.

    It's maintenance is.... incredibly high. Not as stupidly high as the price, but very high. The nuclear powered engines are a total mystery to our engineers, let alone mechanics, and it has a part count of 159! One hundred and fifty nine!

    The range cannot be calculated normally, this plane does not need to be refueled for decades.

    The Verdict:

     This is an absurd plane. In ever way, it's absurd. The price is absurd, the engines are absurd, the speed is absurdly low, the range is practically unlimited, so again, absurd. It doesn't have much going for it, other than a range of fly anywhere. Even then, it's so slow it would be faster to fly a faster plane and have some stop-overs, so it's really only suited for the sort of crazy en-devour of very long range stunts, and for PR. We will be the airline of the future, powered by nuclear energy!

     Even though we don't have to buy fuel, we'll never make a profit using these for normal things. We will buy one though, for a publicity stunt and for that sort of long range tom-foolery mentioned before.

    Pfft, just buy a Perbro Aerospace Zoomer Island Hopper.:P  You can still go round Kerbin twice and do some cool stunts. 

    Definitely not an advertising attempt to persuade the company to buy some more island hopper varients.

    Kerbal Express Airlines - Regional Jet Challenge (Reboot)

    in KSP1 Challenges & Mission ideas

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, CrazyJebGuy said:

    Test Pilot Review: @HamnavoePer's Perbro Aerospace Zoomer

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    Figures as Tested:

    • Price: :funds:29,580,000 fueled
    • Fuel: 1800 kallons
    • Cruising speed: 1,042 m/s
    • Cruising altitude: 20,000 m
    • Fuel burn rate: 0.24 kal/s
    • Range: 7,900 km

    Review Notes:

    This plane is a very old entry, it is the third oldest entry still not reviewed, and the first oldest isn't even a proper aircraft, and the second is just a Skots Small fitted with tiny wing pontoons and called a seaplane. When we flew it, the first thing we noticed was it's incredible acceleration, the massive engines can propell this thing to 8 thousand meters climbing at 880m/s in well under 50 seconds.

     It's top speed is reached on pretty low throttle, we couldn't get it down to the claimed 1/6, but we could get to 3/15 with slightly slower speed, but it is still impressive. It claims it is the company's first plane that can circumnavigate Kerbin, we our calculations say this is wrong, it can do it twice without refueling. Which, is very, very good! In the last review I had just sung the praises to an aircraft with 2,000km shorter. And this aeroplane does it at over 4 times the speed.

    Up at 20km, it manuevers terribly, but so does every other plane. For pretty simple reasons, to turn 90 degrees you need a much larger change of velocity at 1000mph* than at 100, and up there the air is very thin, so you need to whack a lot more of it to change velocity. In other words, you need to do more turning, and your worse at it. So we give it a pass here. At lower altitudes, it doesn't have that excuse, but it doesn't need it. Except on the yaw axis, that's very weak. But pitch and roll are strong, roll a bit too strong even, some pilots had trouble adjusting to such a powerful roll.

    It's not great on comfort however, as the engines are mounted inline and very close to the cabins, vibrations are an issue, but the side cabins have some built in suspension and drinks, so it's okay, since in flight the engines are on low throttle, so it isn't a big issue, except on takeoff and whenever the pilot really needs speed.

    We do think highly of the lowly cost, being under 30 million for a supersonic like this, it's quite good, how the engineers did so much with so little. It can even land on water, and take off again! It can't do it normally, it has to build up some speed, duck under the water and then come out at a crazy angle so the engines can just brute power the thing away. We like the maintenance costs of merely 29 parts, it's very cheap.

    At this point, I will just say that the Island hopper is exactly the same plane but they added air-brakes and parachutes. The maintenance is a bit higher and it costs :funds:32,040,000. We like the additional stopping power.

    *true of any speed unit - mph is there because it's nice to say

    The Verdict:

    It's a great supersonic plane, a bit uncomfy, but otherwise very good, and such a huge range means we can't turn it down, especially for the price. We'll buy 32 normal planes, and 17 of the Island Hopper variant.

    I hope you like my 1.8 second review.

     

    Oh wow, that was quick! How the f**k did you get it round Kerbin twice??? And I only tested landing on water, I didn't know it could get off again. 1/6 throttle can be reached at 15km altitude by using a higher throttle to get up to speed then reducing it so that you are holding your speed, but only just.

    The K Prize - 100% reusable spaceplane to orbit and back

    in KSP1 Challenges & Mission ideas

    Posted

    2 hours ago, boolybooly said:

    Congratulations to...

    @Dark Lion Advanced Pilot Precision Award with Storm.

    @HamnavoePer Advanced Pilot Precision Award with Kerbero V.

    ... on completing the K-Prize challenge in v1.4. Thanks for your mission reports and welcome to the roll of honour aka the K-Prize party guest list.

    Noting the release of 1.4, this is great news and fortunately does not drastically change craft or environment physics so it is appropriate for the Roll of Honour to continue to compare like with like regarding the remarkable achievements of illustrious K-Prize winners, from v1.2 onwards.

    And I clearly get a "Best Design in 1.4" award :P

    The K Prize - 100% reusable spaceplane to orbit and back

    in KSP1 Challenges & Mission ideas

    Posted · Edited by HamnavoePer

    My entry, The Kerbero V. It is my first cargo SSTO and is capable of putting small satellites or ion probes into an LKO. It makes a gliding approach back to the KSC from orbit, and often does not need to use it's engines after re-entry until it taxis back to a hangar on the ground.

    https://imgur.com/a/TgRUv 

    And yes, 1.4. How many others so far?

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