diegzumillo

I lost my avatar and the thread containing it in the great depression of the forums. So here it is again, for your nightmares:

That artist on the first post is pretty awesome! thanks for sharing, I love sci fi art and I didn't know this guy. And it's strange, usually sci fi art isn't that colorful, it looks great. I thought the OP was talking about graphics at first, like how the planets are monochromatic and there ain't much to see. This will probably improve with time though.

You said "a glitch that actually does something useful". What use do you have in mind? That made me laugh lol

I wasn't sure whether to tag this thread as 'stock' or 'mod craft', in theory it's possible to get this plane to the mun without mechjeb 2. In theory. With this new mechjeb (2.0) all my SSTOs became much more efficient, thanks to that neat option that controls the thrust to avoid flame outs. So I decided to rework some of my successful SSTOs and voila, orbit with a generous amount of fuel left! taking a step further I swapped the engine it had for a nuclear engine and it still reached orbit with lots of fuel, but with that engine in orbit its reach is big enough for a mun travel. This was a test trip, the plane had no landing struts, no ladders, no lights, just the essential. But I kept pushing it forward "I wonder if I can get into mun orbit", then "oh, I can. Nice. I wonder if nuclear engines are powerful enough to land", then "I wonder if I can land the plane standing upright with no landing gears"... "IT CAN" The return trip was a bit tense though, there was a spit of fuel left but it was enough to leave mun and get an interception with kerbin's atmosphere. By pure dumb luck I ended up near the ksc's runway, not very close but it has plenty of lift so it's possible to glide between continents from very high altitudes, if you're careful. I have a couple of screenshots, I wasn't planning to document anything... I wasn't planning to actually survive the trip Landed about ~800m from the mun base. A rover drove from the base to the landing site carrying one of the base crew to the plane so it can return to kerbin. That would be the use of the space plane, carrying astronauts one at a time lol back home (and a bugged kerbal stuck in the T-pose) I can upload the craft file if anyone's interested but there's an annoying problem with the fuel lines that ended up using fuel asymmetrically, so you might prefer waiting for an updated version.

I've been trying to do that for a while now with no success. I just made a space plane capable of going to the mun and returning, but all my VTOL prototypes just barely reach orbit, let alone have enough fuel for a trip to the mun, landing and returning. I'm curious to know if anyone makes it, as I'm not a huge fan of planes either. docking with orbit stations is hell and achieving orbit is also more complicated.

You want the small plane to return to the launcher or just land? Have you tried the landing gears? they are smaller than the rover wheels and can survive high speeds and high impact. Now, returning to the launcher is a whole different problem.

Same thing. Weird o_O

It says it's incompatible. Is it really stock? I'm using version 19.1.54

lol If you improve the SSTO (single stick to orbit) share it with us

Indeed. For the new iteration I removed an entire row of those rockets. I understand it's possible to make jets and ion engines alone, just keep gaining speed at the highest altitude possible with jets. It's kinda silly, but the atmosphere is so scarce that you can open up all solar panels without breaking and activate the ion engines, all still running the jets on low power. But I hate ion engines! I just managed to upgrade the flying stick to include ion engines and it's a nightmare getting anywhere, so I'm dropping ion engines from future plans

I was quite surprised when this thing achieved orbit! much easier to maneuver than all my plane SSTOs and all my other VTOL SSTOs, much lighter too! I'm working now on one with ion engines to increase its reach a little There's a small detail, however. Even though it has a decent amount of fuel left when in orbit, it's not sufficient for a good landing (I haven't even added landing struts) but it's so light that parachutes should be able to keep it from merging with the ground. I feel like I'm getting nearer to an single stage to mun rocket!

About stability, check your center of mass, center of lift AND center of propulsion. I say this because people often neglect center of propulsion assuming the ship is sufficiently symmetric (aside from a few light parts like landing gear below and a few small wings above), but that's not always the case. Assuming your CM and lift are aligned, if you have more weight on top your propulsion will raise the nose.

That design works? interesting... I never thought about not using the turbo jet and ram air intakes for space planes, they just seem like the obvious way to go. And it's been a long time objective for me to make a space plane with nuclear engines.

Just a handful of solar panels and batteries

Looks awesome The white things are lights?

I set out to make a car plane. Something that drives like a rover and then takes off and fly. The challenge comes from the fact that these rover wheels are somewhat delicate, they break under too much speed and hard impacts, so I'm sharing my two solutions. The simplest one consists of using both rover wheels and landing gear. When the landing gears are up the rover wheels touch the ground and vice versa, so it's very easy to switch from car to plane, but you need a runway to take off and land. Here's a video: That was fun Quite useless though. It would be nice to not need the runway, so we could use it to find anomalies around kerbin. So that's my second design's objective! this vehicle has no landing gear, it takes off vertically with a toroidal engine beneath it, which also works for landing, there's also a couple of small rockets on the front for breaking. For the exploration purpose, I also made it with more fuel and turbo jet engines. I realized however that landing doesn't have to be vertical, you can get the horizontal speed low enough and use the toroidal engine to ease the touchdown, the rover wheels can take it. It's tricky to fly this thing, I set up 5 action groups for different stages of flight to help me out. On the video below I illustrate the purpose by setting out to "investigate" some debris near the space center. Everything worked perfectly! except for the very ending, when I did something stupid but completely unrelated to my design. I had already landed and was working as a rover, then I underestimated my speed and the runway slope, breaking the front wheels... doh I can upload the craft files if anyone's interested. Even though one of the designs has a mechjeb it can fly well without it. I use it in the video only for the kill rot feature, which makes it easier to take off, but it's also useful if you're making a long trip to somewhere, as these can cake up to an hour because we are unable to time-warp.

I made some missile launchers, not exactly a tank. I'll make a video of it edit: oh, you're talking about that one specifically. Nope

I think this counts as a rover... Its purpose is to launch things from mun or other smaller body into space. A gentle push, to help achieve orbit. It can also be used to clear areas from debris.

It's not finished but I'm already having fun with it It doesn't launch at a very high angle, but considering it's meant for the mun it's still almost useful...

It's been a while since the last time I played ksp, it didn't have any planets or satellites. I forgot how incredibly rewarding this game feels! I've successfully landed on the mun and on Minmun. Very fun to fly around at Minmun with the astronaut's backpack I have to find some use for the astronauts... it's too much fun to leave the ship when in orbit and fly around.

LoL! Two actually did it! I have a question. Can you see it after landed? a tiny pixel orbiting? that would be awesome

Helloooww (with Seinfeld's silly belly button voice) I pre ordered and did not receive the email. What now? edit: forgot to say that I did check the spam box before posting