Immashift

One note* Where I said Eagle in the last post I actually meant the Falcon. Posting at 4am clearly wasn't a great idea. Oh I can fly them well enough I remember doing that in particular to the aeris 4a at one point, giving it six ram intakes and about twice the radials it had...slightly air-hoggy I know, but it ended up wanting to spin sideways at about 27km doing something like 1500m/s. That design actually runs out of air for the control surfaces before the engines choke. I need to upload that somewhere at some point. Anyway with the Falcon, the climb angle was non-existent. I treated it like every other space plane. I leveled it out after a 45 degree climb at about 18km, then tried to make it go as flat out as possible. I got it to like 7-800m/s before the speed started *dropping*. I thought pushing it into thinner atmo would help that out so I pushed it into a bit of a climb to about 24km. It went maybe 800m/s before the angle started dropping past the horizon and it started going down. Even lighting up the LV-Ns didn't want to save it. Gonna try it again right now I think though. See if I can make it behave a little better. Maybe I'm just doing the ascent slightly off. I remember the KR-X Sparrow BARELY making 80x80km orbit with ZERO fuel remaining and finishing the circularizing with the ion engines pretty regularly.

They do indeed look really nice . Performance of the Angry Bird is pretty spectacular - treated it as any other space plane and got it to orbit extremely easily with a pile of fuel remaining. I gave the Eagle a shot but ran out of oomph at about 25km. Still had plenty of fuel but wasn't going anywhere. I probably did something wrong Gonna have to try again later. Some very well designed craft though. I too thought LV-N's would have too little TWR for the more active ascent of a space plane. Also, if you're having trouble seeing numbers on images, try a better resolution or right click on them and "view image". I'm running at 1680x1050 and can see them perfectly in-thread.

No problems then! Thanks for the clarify. I assumed that since it was just a host that it was a random upload Google just happened to come across when I looked. Good to know.

Good to see you back in action sir! Wonderful parts as always. If you need any specific screens I'd be glad to take some for you

After some Google searches I found .4.3 (newest version) here: http://nabaal.net/files/kethane/Kethane-0.4.3.zip

Oh well, we're all new again. I miss that thread where everyone posted what they first flew after getting the game.