DualDesertEagle

I just decided to land aswell, I'm not willing to sit through burning all that fuel.

Well too bad, then I'm gonna have to buzz the KSC until my fuel runs out and simply land.

It's been a while, when's the next chapter comin'?

Finally back at the Space Center I'm stuck with a problem: How can I deploy my refueling plane with the challenge plane still in the air?

Just went past my second sunset, so now I've officially circled the planet once. About 60% fuel left so my assumption that I could make it 1 and a half laps around the planet wasn't that far off. I just noticed that I got a little off course so I'm gonna have to correct that. Looks like I'm gonna have to refuel on the night side of kerbin, I'd better add some lamps to the refueler About to hit the 2nd sun rise and I'm honestly not too confident that I'm gonna make it back to the space center anymore. While I've circled the body of kerbin a bit more than 1 and a half times now I only made it half-way around relative to the planet's rotation as I'm heading east. Should've gone west instead. Oh, and I'm about to cross one HELL of a huge ocean, so I should also prepare for a water landing. Just completed the second lap relative to the sun. Relative to the planet's rotation I'm about 2/3 of the way around. Wether or not I make it back to the Space Center, it's gonna be a close race! Jeb and bill have been sittin' in their seats for the last 8 hours and are probably dyin' to take a pee but I'm thinkin' about wether or not I should risk swapping out the crew during refueling (provided I make it to that point!). Growin' more and more confident that I'm not gonna make it back to the KSC and instead will be forced to land in the desert, the west coast of kerbal africa or the sea inbetween. Just hit the third sun rise and I'm about to pass the last bit of desert before crossing the ocean that separates kerbal africa and the desert! 20% fuel left, I MIGHT just make it!

My attempt is being done. Plannin' to mid-air-refuel as I pass the KSC again, in theory my plane carries enough fuel to make it 1 and a half laps around kerbin.

No clue how strong the thrust actually is but the numbers are definitely not correct. It was labeled to be only slightly more powerful than the Wheesley, that's why I assumed it would be slow as hell and probably not make it to more than 20 000 meters. Instead, I made it to more than Mach 13 and the highest flame-out I got was at 51 000 meters with low throttle!

Since I just recently found a good use for the Spark after at first I thought "What the hell are those tiny engines good for?" I'm gonna say I'll probably also find a purpose for both the ant and spider sooner or later. Other than that I've used pretty much every engine in the game for something. Sometimes I still even use the flea when I just need to accelerate quickly.

Sure, go ahead. The parts on the 1st plane are all visible. Parts list for the second one: - 1 OKTO 2 - 1 of those tiny square pattern tanks - 1 twitch engine - 2x that huge wing - 2x fixed nose landing gear with steering turned off

I wish this would be all rule-compliant coz I think even without ignoring heat I could reach at least 2000 m/s before the intakes blew up, but it uses parts of the Mk2 essentials pack (YES, I FINALLY FOUND MODS COMPATIBLE WITH MY OLD VERSION OF THE GAME!!!) and I think the Mk2 engine's stats aren't quite the one listed in the info tab. Anyway, competing or not, have fun tryin' to beat THIS: EDIT: Just incase I didn't make it clear enough, this is not a contest entry for the reasons already included above, this is just to show what I stumbled upon using the new parts and I thought I'd show u.

Even in Sandbox I use that kind of lander when I wanna go to Mun or Minmus. It just works best for me.

Was that supposed to go together or did u just call me smartass? Just to prevent misunderstanding.

aileron* And like I said before, in this case it's a reaction-wheels-and-RCS-roll as the chariot doesn't have ailerons or even wings, which don't work without an atmosphere anyway.

I don't know wether it's still a problem in the newer versions as I'm still restricted to 1.0.2 for some reason but the reaction wheels aboard the pods are mostly OP for the pod only and in some cases even small vessels. Having SAS turned on when only the pod is left often makes it wiggle like crazy. Same goes for RCS on small vessels.

While I do tend to pick favorites where u can't really pick favorites I have to say that all engines in KSP just have their own purpose and aren't really useful for anything else than they've been designed for. Just to name an example, I'm guessing that everyone sending a single kerbal to Mun or Minmus with no further science onboard is gonna use more or less the same lander, consisting of an MK1 Pod with a nose parachute, a decoupler, the 3rd-shortest 1.25m fuel tank and a terrier engine, while the landing struts and other accessories may vary. The reason why I think so is that that particular lander can of course land safely and then it still has enough fuel to return to kerbin on its own, no matter if it's Mun or Minmus u landed on. And that's the kind of mission that the terrier is perfect for, while the Nerv nuke engine only really makes sense when ur going to another planet.

Nope, definitely NOT a barrel roll! In this case it would be more of a reaction-wheels-and-RCS-roll tho

Even more so with the RCS assisting.

No clue, but I'm done with this crap anyway! While others can achieve speeds far beyond hypersonic I can't even get to mach 5 coz my rapier engines constantly blow up even when I leave them off and pre-accelerate to Mach 3.something using separable whiplashes! Smell ya later!

I've reached 1 602 m/s with my first aircraft but kept experimenting to achieve higher speeds. My second craft made it to 1 664m/s (about Mach 4.89) in one try but the engines keep overheating and exploding even with pre-coolers. It's gonna be a hard task for me to get a good ranking simply coz I'm restricted to version 1.0.2 AND can't install any mods.

I'm about an hour and a half late but CLOSED! All further likes will NOT count for the voting anymore! Final results: 1. Cunjo Carl wins by a LIGHT YEAR with his Midge, scoring 14 likes 2. Followed by DoctorDavinci with his Pod Racer, which got 8 likes 3. My Supersonix Experimental Plane and my Sonicstream Thunderstorm share the third place, both with 3 likes 4. The fourth place is also divided into 2, taken by my rough remake of Anakin's Pod Racer and Scarecrow's Twingo which both scored 1 like The other 3 submissions didn't receive a single like for whatever reason.

Any clue when the next chapter's comin' out?

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I know the U2 very well and have even built a rough replica of it in KSP before, but I already have the slowest plane (on kerbin) with the least amount of parts and the best weight-to-lift ratio. My 2nd submission is gonna be very, VERY hard to beat, if it's possible at all. I'd like to see someone do it tho, to show me I haven't reached the limit yet.

Wouldn't wanna be on that ship tho, it's most likely an orbital sauna on steroids

Do u have a screenshot of that? I'm honestly not even buyin' 150 000 meters