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    Kerbal Express Airlines - Regional Jet Challenge (Reboot)

    in KSP1 Challenges & Mission ideas

    Posted

    Here at Perbro Aerospace, we have a new entry: The Beluga Class Not Quite Helicopter! With all the benefits of a Helicopter but with a takeoff roll of 1 metre to help it be usable, you just put the throttle to 2/3, roll forward and increase to take off with a takeoff speed of just 1 m/s! In the Beluga Class, you can carry 24 kerbals roughly 600 kilometres at 5 kilometres altitude at the leisurely speed of 60 m/s to help ensure the most comfort and best views around. We know that this is just half of the recommended cruise speed but we think that this is just too good an opportunity to miss! This is a sea-Not a Helicopter meaning that it is fully amphibious and can land almost anywhere! Contact us at https://kerbalx.com/HamnavoePer/Beluga-Class-Heli to purchase! Oh, and did we mention that it's a noise and sound dampening cabin to help ensure comfort for every kerbal? (Crew training included in purchase price, cinema style landings NOT guaranteed)

    NOTE: Yes, I know that this is borderline not rolling takeoff but I designed it so that it can make rolling takeoffs, not really expecting any judges to actually approve it. But hey, it's somewhat unique to this challenge so far... :P 

    THE BARTDON PAPERS - "Cancel all previous directives."

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, UnusualAttitude said:

    You misunderstood. I didn't mean that it is impossible to improvise a piece of music on the violin. Sure you can. I meant that without skilled instruction and a lot of practice, it is (almost) impossible to get a violin to make a nice sound unless you have rare and unique abilities. Conversely, I first picked up an electric bass guitar when I was 14 and after a few weeks of plucking and blisters, and no lessons, I could jam along to Nirvana with my school friends. It took me years to get actually good at bass, of course, but I managed to play along and have fun initially with relatively little effort.

    To me, orbital mechanics feels much more like learning the violin than the bass guitar. Just sayin'.

    Ahh, right. Yes, i mis-understood

    THE BARTDON PAPERS - "Cancel all previous directives."

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted

    6 minutes ago, UnusualAttitude said:

    Wowzers. That's about the age of my son. He's an enthusiastic reader, but he wouldn't touch something as convoluted and technical as this with a bargepole. I'm humbled, and I find it seriously cool to be posting this on a forum where it is appreciated by both young sprouts and old farts alike... :sticktongue:

    What? I like astrophysics, and I have corrected my teachers before when they are trying to explain to the class how to get between earth and mars. I distinctly remember one teacher saying "To get to Mars from earth without using too much fuel, you have to wait until they are REALLY close together, and then you have to go towards mars"

    11 Year old me: "No, you have to wait until earth is approximately 1/3rd of an orbit behind mars, then do a Hohmann transfer"

    Teacher: "Ummm....."

    Kerbal Express Airlines - Regional Jet Challenge (Reboot)

    in KSP1 Challenges & Mission ideas

    Posted · Edited by HamnavoePer
    Forgot a number in cruise speed

    Perbro Aerospace have a new addition to our lineup! The Keinheim Passenger Transport is an ex WWK Keinheim bomber modified for use on short to medium routes in remote, hard to reach locations. Cruising at 150 m/s to 170 m/s at 8000 metres will ensure maximum efficiency, and this aircraft is near impossible to tail strike! With deployable flaps, activated by pressing the "1" key on your forward, modified glass cockpit, shorter landings are ensured. With a takeoff speed of 60 m/s this aircraft will get off the ground quickly and effectively, requiring as little as 500 metres for a takeoff roll. Thats shorter than many remote airport runways on Kerbin today! with 24 somewhat comfortable seats, with onboard entertainment and noise/vibration dampening provided as part of the base package, every kerbal will love a ride in this thing! Contact us at https://kerbalx.com/HamnavoePer/Keinheim-Passenger-Transport to purchase. (Perbro aerospace takes no responsibility for bad piloting, crew training is included with purchase)

    THE BARTDON PAPERS - "Cancel all previous directives."

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted · Edited by HamnavoePer

    9 hours ago, UnusualAttitude said:

    I truly believe that this is exactly the right frame of mind with which to approach life. Doubt everything. Question all things. Always. Including (and most importantly) yourself.

    However, if you can't trust me to (eventually) come up with another episode of The Logs, then you haven't been paying attention. :wink:

    Wow, dude. From your previous comments I just realised that you must have started reading this crap when you were, what.. 13, 14...? That's impressive.

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    Damn, do I come across as that old? I started reading this when I was 11 or 12, somewhere around that. As it happens, this is the reason I made a KSP forums account, because I wanted to comment on this. I've had KSP since I was 10, I will be 14 in 3 months. 

    Kerbal Express Airlines - Regional Jet Challenge (Reboot)

    in KSP1 Challenges & Mission ideas

    Posted

    4 hours ago, CrazyJebGuy said:

    Test Pilot Review: @HamnavoePer's Perbro Aerospace and Aviation Delta II

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    Figures as Tested:

    • Price: :funds:156,333,000
    • Fuel: 6685 kallons
    • Cruising speed: 1050 m/s
    • Cruising altitude: 12800 m
    • Fuel burn rate: 1.96kal/s
    • Range: 3,570 km
    • Passengers: 72

    Review Notes:

     On the engineer inspection we found oxidizer and mono-propellant inside the fuel tanks, they were full of it. So we removed it. We wondered why it was included, and decided it was probably a tax-write off. On the runway it took off at a pretty high 76m/s, we weren't impressed. Although we were a bit surprised at how heavy it was (70 tonnes) compared to how small the wings were. It has excellent pitch authority, slightly more powerful than we'd like roll, and a not very good rudder. (Although two rudders are placed directly inside the engines for some reason.)

     It is not a very comfortable ride for whoever sits at the back, with no views to speak of, a lot of vibrations and a good amount of noise. Further forward vibrations are still a small issue. It flies up to it's fairly low altitude acceptably quickly. It can water ditch safely, but not without a significant repair bill. It also doesn't have much of a way to slow down, an it needs a bit of planning before landing.

    On the topic of bills, this plane has attached a high one. It's over two million per seat, with a fair maintenance, having 4 huge engines and 47 parts.

    The Verdict:

    With a price tag of 2 million a seat, they had better be stellar seats for us to buy any. They aren't though, so we won't. The plane is pretty good (save comfort) but let down by a huge price tag.

    Ahh, did we not mention the totally existant noise dampening tech we put in there and the vibration cushioned seats? Whoops, we'll be on to the PR department about that.

    THE BARTDON PAPERS - "Cancel all previous directives."

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted

    49 minutes ago, UnusualAttitude said:

    Hmmm... we might be on to something here... What if Camwise only used pirate speak until the end of part five...?

    “Aaaaar! I'm plunderin' this 'ere space frigate, Special Bilge Rat. Be ye blind? I say ye all find something to anchor yerselves to right now, savvy?”

    “Here's th' deal, Samrod. I be sailin' westwards and I will continue t' do so until th' perilune o' this ship drops 'neath th' Lunar waves, we'll keel-haul ye, to be sure! If me calculations be correct t'will strike a ridge betwixt Mare Nubium and Mare Humorum at five-thousand two 'undred knots. I'll welcome yer company if ye want t' come along fer th' voyage, but I do suggest ye weigh anchor if ye don' want' visit Davey Jones Locker, ye Earthlubber!"

    I am ABSOLUTELY asking you to do this, and I want it soon. MOAR

    THE BARTDON PAPERS - "Cancel all previous directives."

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted

    14 hours ago, UnusualAttitude said:

    Indeed. Prograde is for sissies. If you burn radial or anti-radial it's obvious that you don't have a clue what you're doing, you noob. Normal and anti-normal are for the obsessive, and hold maneuver node is for control freaks and nerds.

    Retrograde is definitely where it's at.

    Good, you're learning. Now give me the next chapter already! I must see this retrograde burn's result.

    Jeb: Origins

    in KSP Fan Works

    Posted · Edited by HamnavoePer

    I've given up on images (Couldn't get the mods to work together, idk why), but here is the next chapter:

    Chapter Two: Jeb came too in a grimy police cell and looked around him. He was wearing a Shirt and smart trousers. Across the room, behind some bars, there was a large machine resting on 6 hydraulic rams with some kind of cabin resting on top. There were giant versions of the Phone things which Jeb saw so many kerbals walking around holding set up around the cabin. At that moment, there was a knock; “Jeb, are you awake?”

    “Umm, yes. Where am I?” asked Jeb

    “This is the National Academy for Reformed Convicts. We have been studying you street kerbals and realised that you have a unique skill set compared to many kerbals. You are used to hardships and are a lot tougher than your average Bob.” Jeb realised that he had been recruited for something. He wanted to know more. “Please sir, What is that machine over there?”

    "That, my kerbal, is the latest in full motion  flight simulator technology."

    Jeb was obviously confused. "And why aren't you just locking me up?"

    "For science my kerbal. For science"

    To be continued...

    Jeb: Origins

    in KSP Fan Works

    Posted

    Chapter One, Sometime in the Mid 1950s AK: Jeb was a street kerbal. He scavenged to make a living in the far-off city of New Kerbal in the Kerbal Islands, some small, windy islands of the north coast of the U.K.E (United Kerbal Empire), by sitting on street corners with a tin and admiring the small aircraft which flew overhead. It was his dream to one day pilot those aircraft and go the the United Kerbin States to see the Statue Of Kerbal. Anyway, back to the present. In New Kerbal begging was illegal and “Koppers” would wander around trying to locate street kerbals like Jeb. The street corner he was on at this particular moment would be his last street corner as there was a Kopper top about to wander around the corner to make an arrest. As Jeb looked around he realised that there was a Kopper sprinting towards him. He grabbed his pack and started to run TOWARDS the Kop. the Kopper was put off by this and decided to pull his taser. There was a buzz and Jeb felt immeasurable pain as he blacked out…

    To be continued...

     

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