Kappa73

Here's a floatplane i built a little while ago, kind of a proof of concept, but i figure i might aswell submit it for this challenge. Seats 7 kerbals, no idea if it can circumnavigate or not. Takes off and lands both on land and on water. All stock parts.

you, sir, have made a mistake.

Most excellent! very well done. With a t0 mission like that, it's not just feasible to fill out the tech tree in 2 goes, it's actually easy! =)

i chose to unlock all of the science equipment with my 1st mission, and what ever i could with the rest of the points, but it could be that that was a mistake, we'll see. Trying to figure out my 2nd mission, was thinking of hopping all of the munar biomes with all of the science but im not so sure about that anymore. I guess i could do a tour shooting probes to planets with atmosphere and radioing the science back home? If i was to spend the science again i'd seriously consider getting docking ports for some mothership/lander action.

Yeah it turns out it is indeed enough for all of the science equipment. This is what i ended up buying, now i just got to put those experiments to good use... =)

tier 0 rocket, 1204.3 points upon return home, rest radioed in from space. 1712 points total for the flight. I skipped the mun altogether, gonna go there and map out those biomes with all those science equipment im gonna get from this 1st mission. What i did instead was Kerbin equatorial biomes eva reports, Minmus, interplanetary, Jool, Laythe, Vall, Pol, Tylo, Dres and Duna flybys, eva reports from high and low orbits, and crew reports radioed in when i burned the engine and gained power. Reports are from high Minmus, High Sun, high and low Jool, low Laythe, low Pol, low Val, low Tylo, high and low Dres and high and low Duna. I also got the whole thing on video, tho i dread to edit that behemoth, the mission took a long time.

Thank you everyone who flew my plane and wrote critique, it's really appreciated. Dunno why people keep saying that my plane has too little fuel tank tho, when the challenge clearly states that it's not an issue. Besides, even 80 units of fuel will take you a long way if the distance is primary goal, i bet you can get to any point on the planet with that plane if you wish to.

Thank you Xeldrak for yet another very educational and entertaining challenge! Here's my entry, the KGBureau B. It's light, just over 4 tons at the start of the runway and very manouverable. It's really hard to stall tho or spin out of control, and the single engine setup makes it safe for high flying also, no worrying over an asymmetric jet engine flameout due to lack of intake air. It is also equipped with an ejection system for emergencies. craft can be downloaded here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47660163/KGBureau%20B.craft

all right i give up, this is what i ended up circularizing at, still way ahead of the apoapsis i got from jool slingshot: everything is stock except for Mechjeb for sanity reasons.

Most impressive, well done Mesklin bravo!

working on it also, just not sure if this can be right, MJ orbit info says Time to apoapsis 5604y 354d... it could be that my gravity slingshot from Jool was a bit too good heh =) Edit: the deep space listening station is still on its way, dunno if can wait that long tho. In the meantime i decided to launch second, identical rocket with another station, and took it on a lower orbit... it won't have enough fuel to circularize tho, somewhat elliptical orbit will have to do...

I voted for Giggleplex777's 2-Stage Lander mk2000 because i really really like the looks of the thing, and the tricks it can do, mainly the ability to upright itself in case of failed landing (which could happen a lot, even for more experienced spacemen)

i am fairly sure you sir are trolling and should be ignored by everyone. i know i will.

why won't you post your craft request in the craft exchange? E: my bad, you already did. apologies

Here's my first ever attempt at making a tutorial on Youtube and it's about spaceplanes. It's in 2 parts, part 1 is the build and part 2 for flying the thing. Please check it out and let me know what you think.