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[(THREAD) What amazing things have happened in your lives recently?]

Title mostly says it, the point of this thread is just to make other people's days better by simply writing about what good things have happened to you or your families recently.

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any rude/off-topic comments will be removed.

I'll start

I'm a senior in high school, I have 1.5 months left before I graduate. Pretty good student, A's/B's mostly etc..

The good thing;

Prom happened a few days ago, and I got to take a date (who is now my girlfriend)

It was a blast, it all happened in our school's gym. It was so heavily decorated that it looked nothing like school and felt surreal to be there. I've never seen so many people dressed so well.

I danced (I can't dance) for about 3 hours before we needed to go home because it was late, (11 ish) and we where exhausted.

got home and immediately died in bed.

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I didn't actually die. it took me like 10 seconds to fall asleep though.

It's your turn now!

[Pilots?]

7.9 hour student pilot. I fly Cherokees.

Heading for commercial pilot.

[what's you'r favorite food]

I really like pecans.

Cheesecake

Steak

Chicken (nuggets too)

burgers

mushrooms

most Chinese food (orange chicken is nasty)

fries

eggs

The list is endless.

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

built yet another TBM 900 turboprop. I believe this is the best one yet.

[What are some useful parts you don't use enough?]

The Juno engine. It's too small for practical use (for me) on my replica jets, unless it's a small jet, but that's unlikely i'll wind up using it.

[I need some suggestions]

17 hours ago, The_Cat_In_Space said:

@TheKorbinjer since you don't want your computer murdered, try doing a Hawker Typhoon

I remember that thing from War Thunder! I like the fat intake below the engine. I'm def' trying this one.

7 hours ago, bigcalm said:

BV 141 - https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=781 .  I tried to build this.  I did get it off the ground.  The pilot survived, the plane didn't.

Y E S I LOVE WEIRD LOOKING PLANES!

What about the hated BV-238? Maybe i'll touch that thing some other day, I feel like the part count would be too high for that beast.

 

5 hours ago, Schwarz said:

I don't see a J-35 Draken, could be an interesting little plane to build.

It looks like something from KSP that accidentally got built in the real world. The air intakes are almost separated from the aircraft. 

[I need some suggestions]

2 hours ago, Gargamel said:

b-17, b-29, Sopwith Camel, AeroCar, Spruce Goose, Spirit of St louis. 

Just go to the Smithsonian Air & Space museum website and look at the exhibits they have.   Same with the USAF museum at Wright Pat in Dayton. 

I just built the B29 a few hours ago, the spruce goose i built in RSS, i forgot to add it. Behemoth, it was. I'll try the Sopwith Camel.

 

2 hours ago, The_Cat_In_Space said:

AN-225 Mriya? 

I'd like to not murder my computer lol

 

24 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said:

I didn't see a F-14 Tomcat on that list; the swing wings might be challenging..

Maybe an X-29?

I touched up on the F14, but I wasn't able to create wings that could sweep and go straight again. I'll try the X-29 though!

[I need some suggestions]

For those of who do not know who I am, I build scale replica aircraft (stock and modded) all of the time, and lately, I've run out of ideas.

The purpose of this post is that maybe someone browsing the forums will throw me a suggestion to build because I've really run low on things to build.

Things I have built

C5 Galaxy, Q400, BF109G, Piaggio P-180 Avanti, F18, F35, F22, F16, F15, C-17, 747, B2, SR-71, F4U Corsair, XP-55 Ascender, Do-335, B52 Superfortress, Bell X-1, X-15, Cessna Caravan, Cessna Citation X, Piper Cherokee, F82 Twin Mustang, Wright Flyer, 787 Dreamliner, A-10 Warthog, Avro Canada CF-105, Avro Vulcan,  F5 Tiger, F86 Sabre, Eurofighter Typhoon, Embraer ERJ 145,  F104 Starfighter, Vampire FB5,  YF-12A, SU-47, SU-25, SU-27, SU-34, ME-262, Concorde. etc...

Please, whoever reads this, suggest something.

 

As always

Take care!

- TheKorbinjer

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

I'm continuing to create scale replicas of aircraft

So far, I've created the :

-     A-26 Invader - Most maneuverable, despite its size, slowest.

-     XP-55 Ascender - Coolest looking

-     F4U Corsair - Most detailed

-     F-82 Twin Mustang - fastest of the group, least detailed (hard to make wings right)

-     Do-335 - 2nd fastest, only push / pull prop combo i've built, very ugly looking.

-     BF109G - slowest takeoff speed of around 30 m/s, 

(They all have flaps)

 

I intend to create more, does anyone want to suggest planes for me to replicate? 

 

[Why are probe cores so heavy?]

3 minutes ago, 5thHorseman said:

Because it can withstand re-entry.

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If they could withstand reentry, why don't they have an option to "look" like they have ablative shielding on them? To me, they're just overweight wings.

 

[Why are probe cores so heavy?]

off topic, but I agree with the weight problem.

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and why are wings so heavy, like planes in real life are supposed to be light. I can make a 1:1 scale replica of something, and it will weight several hundred kg over the real thing, like why?

[Rss but stock]

23 hours ago, Fluffy crocodile said:

Is it possible to do it in stock?

Unfortunately, No.

[Rss but stock]

Try the mod "Hyperedit" 

It allows you to alter atmospheres thicknesses, and densities, as well as change planets' inclinations.

 

Don't get too carried away with it, like I did.

 

Have fun!

 

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

Imagine putting a space station in orbit around Dres.

 

Now imagine that station weighing 100 tons.

 

Now think about 8 kn of thrust pushing it along.

 

(78 mm/s^2 acceleration, 0.7% of 1 G)

(I had to sit behind my computer, 4x time warp for 8+ hours getting this into orbit.)

[Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 [Working doors/hood/trunk/windows)]

Instead of adding struts to it, try enabling "advanced tweakables" in the settings, you don't have to add to the part count, as Auto-strut could greatly help.

On 12/9/2018 at 3:56 PM, Trollkowski said:

i haven't placed any struts yet

 

[Kerbal Interstellar Planets Official Release Page]

1 hour ago, Cyrus Playz said:

I have been banned from there.

Create a new profile 

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::Circumvented::

 

[How do kerbals reproduce?]

1 hour ago, Orbiter Space Program said:

Kerbals split.

Like mitosis?

[What have you been playing recently? (Other than KSP)]

Geo-FS

(Geo-fs.com)

Universe Sandbox ²

Terraria

Minecraft

Overwatch

Starcraft 2

World of Tanks

World of Warships

Paladins

Toontown Rewritten (Don't ask, it was a part of my childhood, played it since i was 7)

Powder toy

Roblox (played off and on since I was 10)

I have serious ADHD, so i can never focus on one game at once.

[So what song is stuck in your head today?]

 

 

[Is a one day, solar polar race possible?]

On 9/30/2018 at 12:23 PM, 5thHorseman said:

Kerbin is 600km in radius so you need to go 2*pi*600/4 or about 942km, or let's say 1000 for easy math and to account for deviations.

You have 3 hours from sunup to sundown.

To travel 1000km in 3 hours, you need to go 333km/hr or 5.55km/m or 92.5m/s.

That's about 1.6 times your max speed.

I don't know how much more time you get at the poles due to the sun taking longer to set, but don't think it's that much? If it gave you an entire extra hour you'd need to go 250km/hr or 4.17km/m or about 70m/s, which is still not doable.

Also you'd have to drive a rover for 3 (or 4, or 5) hours non-stop without making a single mistake, or multiple quicksaves that eat into your average speed.

What he could also do is drive north west, to "follow" the sun, you would be able travel further that way, right?

[Your first hours in KSP]

I watched Scott Manley before I ever played KSP, so I had an idea of how to play the game, but not very well. First launch, i  built a rocket, and didn't know how to start the engines. Took me 30 minutes of googling to figure it out. Made orbit finally several hours later, but that was because I didn't know about SAS. Orbital inclinations where always off by several tens of degrees. I had the max of 3 rockets in orbit (demo) and none of them had fuel in them.

 

Good times.

Got the game a year later, been loving it ever since.

 

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

With the update, I had to uninstall all of my mods, and I am finally playing KSP as it was intended, I usually play sandbox, but not this time!.

Probably 1,000 hours of sandbox and less than 200 career.

 

Not ksp related:

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I got my student pilot's license, Time to solo!

 

[!!!! I Need Help With Something !!!!]

Orbital Rendevzous:

I've pretty much mastered orbital rendezvous, without mods, i have maybe 2000 hours. I suggest leading your targets when you launch, and if your target winds up infront of the ship, drop your orbit. What that will do, is the ship you're in will move faster, as it is closer to the planet, and you will eventually catch up to the target. This effect is the opposite when your target is behind you.

I however suck at launch windows.

[Thread to complain bout stuff]

Complain about stuff? When I went skydiving, i almost chickened out, I personally didnt want to go, but that was before my tandem instructor literally threw himself and me out of the plane. 

 

No regrets, it was fun.