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I'm glad you shared this with us. If it's any help, this here group recognizes your hard work. We know you care about people and can be very dedicated and driven. Future employers are going to see all these qualities. You'll be alright eventually. Enough ego stroking. We've totally derailed this new engineer's posting. Keep up the good work, NightshineRecorralis!

Grats, sir!

My job has been slow this week so I've had time to catch up and read all the posts and download some planes/choppers. I've been working on piston stuff and I wanted to drop my hottest new tech. It's on kerbalx, but if you don't look often stuff gets buried pretty fast. It's kind of off-topic for this forum, but I wanted to release it here because you dudes make amazing sh*t and though you all would appreciate it the most. Yo dog, (insert meme) I put valves on your crank so your pistons can push your crank while your crank pushes your valves so your pistons can push. Here

It's either download and reverse engineer, or reinvent the wheel. So so many times I've seen designs I never could have come up with myself. Don't feel bad about borrowing some parts, just give credit to the originator if you feel that it needs it.

That is a beautiful machine. When you reduce main rotor power I'm assuming tail rotor power gets reduced too. Does it work as well as it sounds like it should? Speaking of parakeet, I liked how there was only one support bearing and the prop thrust pulled the shaft and held it in place/centered. I used a pusher prop to the same effect on this flying coffee table, squeezing the shaft between the fuel tank and 2 structural pieces (forgot the part name, the light 8 sided ones) to make a machine under 1000kg.

Bested me in one day! Even has a little dude on there. Guess that's how challenges go. Back to the drawing board. *cracks knuckles*

Thanks for the reply. Roger on the size - gives me something to work towards. I need to download and study a few designs, maybe try that inside-out ring tech. Your insight about torque arm length/radius earlier saved me a lot of time.

Dear Pds314, I took up your mini-challenge for a really small or lightweight or low-part engine (can't find the post). Well, I've been working on a one juno unit and struggled to get the bearing and prop efficiency high enough and weight low enough for takeoff, yet have enough fuel to do stuff. I have emerged from the garage victorious with this lil guy that can just make it the island. It's on my kerbalx page too. 'Was so giddy that my hours of work paid off. Oh and I borrowed that avionics cone tech 100% stock but floating parts might be bending the rules a bit I suppose

This reciprocation action leads to piston engines and that means fun! Anyways, hello everyone. Much respect for all the work you've all done. I've been playing with small bearings every day after work. 'Can't wait to get home today and get a small turboplane to the island on stock. 'Trying to make my own without directly copying work, but without re-inventing the wheel either. Reminds me of playing with Lego Technic sets when I was younger. 'Been trying to put steering on gman's 4wd car. 'Never did finish, but I'm imagining a universal joint on the center driveshaft and a center pivot (articulated steering) to just bend the whole vehicle in the center. Would be easier than a whole new front end (which I originally started with but paused). Thanks for keeping this amazing thread alive.