Wolvenhaven

You are eaten by a grue.

They're pretty capable for a $1000 desktop printer. The next step up is about $10-250k ones which are used for industrial prototyping. I've messed with several iterations of the makerbot(http://www.makerbot.com/) and it just keeps getting better, it would be more than capable of building the body, fins, and nosecone for a rocket, you couldn't do the motor but you'd pretty much be able to print everything else you'd otherwise buy from estes. The original ones were build it yourself for like $900, I think the newest one is like $2k. The other option is called reprap which is in-line with the older makerbots and you build it yourself so you can choose which things you wish to upgrade or spend money on to customize it to your requirements.

"I'm finally home." Men are from Mars, women are from Venus joke.

Haven't managed to reach any of them and I've lost 12 ships now to the new space kraken.

30km x 30km 100 degree orbits worked perfect for Mun and Minimus, and a 71km x 71km 95 degree orbit for Kerbin. I just set them on 10x and left them running overnight and got complete sets for all 3.

The smallest one I\'ve seen was about 2ft high and 4' diameter. The problem is they aren\'t really true liquid engines, they\'re hybrids, they use parafin wax and liquid oxygen. I don\'t know of any true liquid engines, I\'m sure they\'re out there but I haven\'t seen any.

There is, but no one really cares about being that pedantic.

I used to do a lot of rockets in highschool. One of my favorite builds was a no-parachute glider which used the fins to come down at a 45 degree angle in a lazy spiral. I got yelled at several times by adults for making 'a ballistic missile' because they had never seen it work. It consisted of a full length BT-20 tube with 4 2' high basswood fins cut so that a 2' high BT-80 tube would fit around them and glued in place. C and D engines would get it up to several thousand feet and then you could watch it fly back down for a gentle landing. I know I have pictures of it somewhere but I can\'t find them. I also did the TSA rocketry competitions which required a lot of math and work, rocksim was a lifesaver for design testing. I miss flying them but it was too much work to get to decent launch sites around here, you\'d have to drive 3 hours just to get somewhere you could launch above 200ft and as a teenager that was difficult. When a friend told me about Kerbal I got addicted because it was like my childhood with rocksim only so much cooler.

It works! Here is my really crappy testbed platform. It uses damned robotics and each hinge is set to a different button set so that once you get into the water you can change the angle of attack. I got up to 80m/s before I accidentally hit W and it nosed into the water and exploded.

Has anyone that has messed around with boats built a hydrofoil? With the damned robotics pack hinges it should be possible to lower them into place. My thinking is that using wings which have lift, they would probably function the same underwater as in the air. I\'m going to give it a try once I\'m finished writing this research paper, but I wanted to see if anyone had done it.