Flying dutchman

for some reason the object thrower has never worked for me. no sandbox but i tried career aswell..

i have tried just about anything but i can't destroy any of the buildings in the ksc. this was easy before the update. i checked and indestructible buildings is switched off.

@James Kerman i removed eve and scatterer and that worked. but from what i understand it is able to run the latter?

i'm getting this

He is talking about an 18 meter starship which would make the radius 9m

Elon has never been a good speaker tbh. I just think it's really cool he's over there on that podium answering questions and inspiring people. I also don't get why people are saying that there is not that much new info.. i mean we get almost daily updates from the guy on twitter and since this is pretty much the final design there simply won't be any radical changes to talk about.

that makes me wonder how they will actuate the fins with the huge amount of torque that is required to do that..

@sevenperforce this may sound weird but could it be a ring gear?

I think it would be in the spirit of the challenge to only use the fuel tank for propulsion. I'm not sure if fuel cells can run on liquid fuel only. Edit: they cant. But you could use a small jet engine as a generator.

Could you supply us with the launch order of the modules?

probably

Second fin going on right now.

Well, thats how i got to orbit on only nuclear engines. No dlc though.

Sir you have blown my mind.

Not bad! Vertical horizontal it doesn't matter. Whatever you like. The only real rule is that you don't use the debug menu to cheat. Any other exploits etc are allowed as long as you don't use any of them to power the craft.

The Challenge is simple. You must try to get as high as possible, Easy right? No. Because you can only use launch ecape systems with their asymetrical thrust as propulsion. Scoring is easy highest altitude wins. Leaderboard: 1 8636m dvader 2 3983m swjr-swiss

It's been a long time since there has been any falcon 9 launch and it doesn't look like there is going to be another one soon. Why is that? Because a couple of months ago spacex did so many launches back to back i couldn't keep up.

A caveman mun mission. Everything went perfect until jeb realised he had forgotten the parachute...

Ah yes.

That shower will put the furnace out

i'll do that shortly

https://kerbalx.com/theflyingdutchman/piston-engine-plane-mk1 for anyone who wants to experience the raw power of stock piston engines... here you go A piston engine powered biplane that flies (just) top speed is 30m/s and climb rate is about 0.5 m/s, the max flight time is around 20 min. build in ksp 1.7.3 requires breaking ground and making history. instructions: 1 engage sas 2 pres 1 to engage the starter motor 3 stage the engines and press z for full throttle. 4 pres 2 to disengage the starter motor. if you don’t do this the plane won’t take off. 5 wait and keep it on the runway. the plane will take off by itself have fun!!

@mikegarrison Is it your opinion that we should stick to expendable rockets?

Can we perhaps just open a topic to argue about spacex and say negative things so that we can use this one for updates and positive things? I really feel like this topic has been going downhill and i used to enjoy reading this but now i don't.

There is a carriage with straw on the floor