Hodo

Never mind I have succeeded in making one.

Finally did it, I have gone absolutely crazy. Here is a SSTO Spaceplane for the Real Solar System with RO plugin. 110km x 110km orbit, very little fuel left but it is the first SSTO spaceplane I have made for the RSS. Now that I know what I need I can finally get to the hard work and making them bigger and better.

Last few times I logged on there everything is in some asian language and everyone there is talking about New Vegas or something else.

I am running the RSS+DREC+FAR+RT2 and a few other mods listed in my sig, but is it in the Realism overhaul plugin? Everything in that thread kind of links me to the plugins I would need. Not really changing anything as far as I can tell.

What settings should I set my DREC to for the RSS scale?

Anyone build a Space plane SSTO in the RSS mod yet? I have been working on one, and I am running into fuel issues with RFs and the size of the aircraft.

Probably the Firespitter mod.

Never said I was going to recode the files, was asking. No need to get bent over it.

Sums up my KSP experience. But this is what is KSP to me.

So has anyone found a way to combine the Kethane scan with the maps for scansat? Because I am looking, after I downloaded the RSS mod my grid has gone away and quite frankly I got tired of seeing it anyway, I would rather see it on a SCANsat map report it makes a bit more sense that way. If anyone has any ideas on how to get the Kethane scanners to render their reports to the SCANsat map please tell me.

Thank you. I will test it out.

I say no, as a matter a fact I incourage people who want my designs to copy them to the best of their ability.

Not an expert of KSP, but I am an elitist and pretty close to an expert on SSTOs in FAR. But I am working on becoming more.

Probably not. Camlost, why did you rescale the B9 landing gear?

I was, and figured since I am trying new things I might as well try MJ instead of bashing it. So I am trying it. Right now I like KER for its smaller footprint, but parts of MJ are kind of nice too.

Ok that explains some of the air intake issues. I am going to install the latest update and test it out and see what changed and how it works. EDIT, one last thing... The downloaded patch has two Module manager files in it.

All the mods I currently use are in my sig. I think the only one that isn't in my sig is AYJ jet engine rebalance and maybe Mechjeb, which I recently started using for the information display and to finally give it a fair shake. I am not greatly impressed by it so far, but it isn't a bad program. But I haven't fully gotten used to it yet.

Just noticed there is a more updated version out, I will try that out tonight before I go and start fiddling around with cfgs.

The thing is, engines that are supposed to generate more thrust at higher speeds don't. Like the RAMJET engine starts to generate thrust at .3mach, but then peaks out at mach 1 then sharply dies before mach 2. Which is not at all how that engine works. The SABRE has the same problem, and the F100 gets to mach .9 before it starts to lose power and is a paper weight around mach 1.3. I can tell you now a F-15C can do a fair bit better than mach 1.3 with two of those engines. IMy test aircraft is the same weight as the F15C Eagle, and is roughly the same size, yet those two F100s which also power the F15C to mach 2+ barely get this aircraft over mach 1.5 at the same altitude.

Nassalt and Scott Manley. Nassalt, because he makes the best videos ever. I mean have you seen Kerbal?! All he makes is gold. And Scott Manley, because he breaks things down into the simplest terms that anybody can understand without sounding like a know it all.

I have learned to use the flight computer to prevent that from happening anymore.

I am not sure if I said it in my previous post but each style of supercharger is different in how it creates boost and when. A twin screw setup is very flat and controled and will go up with the RPM of the engine till it reaches its max gear limited speed. The Roots style is very much like the twinscrew but suffers from a much lower top end production of boost than the twin screw. The Centrifugal is very much like a turbo, and many WWII aircraft used this style of supercharger as it was the smallest most compact design but has a very sharp power curve. Which can be akin to the turbo lag of a turbocharged engine. On the topic of these engines, I feel I may have to alter the cfgs in this mod because after doing some more reading I confirmed what I had feared, the engines in this are outdated in specs. The current as of 1989 PW-F100-229 which is used by the F-15E and the F-16s now creates 80kn of dry thrust and nearly 130kn of thrust in afterburner. And the F119s create to little thrust also, they are listed at over 150kn of thrust in afterburner. I have also run into another issue. My test aircraft I mounted a SABRE S engine on it. I know they are not fully supported yet but I can repeat the same problem with the Turbojet/ramjet. I climb under the power of the two F100s to my test altitude of 10-15km ASL. I then level off to level flight, and accelerate to 300m/s or better on the F100s, engage the SABRE-S or the turbojet engine. They both create power as the aircraft accelerates till it hits mach 1.7-1.9. Then they begin to sharply drop off in power. So bad in fact that it begins to slow down the aircraft and that reduces the power created by those engines. I have tried switching over to closed cycle on the SABRE-S and using it as a rocket to accelerate passed mach 3, and then switch over to the jet mode again, and it goes from creating over 200kn of thrust to less than 10kn of thrust. I use a pair of divertless intakes on the sides of the body of the aircraft as a source for air for the engines. The airflow speed on inlet is over 600m/s when the ramjet or the SABRE is engaged in open cycle.

I can answer that part pretty easily as I deal with cars a lot. Turbos are nothing more than exhaust gas driven compressors. They can increase the air pressure inside the intake manifold to above ambiant pressure to maintain or increase power with a good air to fuel ratio (usually around 14.7:1). A supercharger works pretty much the sameway but is mechanically driven and often robs power from the engine because of the mechanical linkage to the engine to work the compressor blades. Granted it isn't a great deal of power loss compaired to the power gains. But superchargers have a much more straight power curve than a turbocharger. But you have several types of superchargers and really only one type of turbo. There are twin screw, centrifigual, and roots style superchargers. While the one type of turbocharger is the centrifigual style. In short, Turbos increase boost over atmospheric pressure based on exhaust speed. More exhaust = more power Superchargers increase boost over atmospheric pressure based on crankshaft speed and gearing. Faster the engine turns = more power.

Isn't voting over like 18 hours ago?

Not really a space plane challenge, more of a plane challenge.