Undescovered part Easter egg?!

[HafCoJoe]

I was reading through this thread about awesome aircraft when I read about the A-10 Warthog. In the middle of watching a video, I found

. Familiar anyone?

Although I'm sure this is probably a very common ladder design, I still find it cool.

Edited February 23, 2015 by Avera9eJoe

[Starwhip]

Yeah, I've seen that before.

It looks really similar in-game, too.

[dryer_lint]

Hey, that's pretty cool!

I guess it was based on that.

[DerpenWolf]

I knew I've seen the ladder somewhere else before! Very cool!

[Norpo]

Heck, the pattern is the exact same as well. (left, both, left, then right and left alternating)

[SkyRender]

That's actually a very standard design of ladder for fighter jets. The real version telescopes out extremely fast as compared to the KSP variant too, mostly because it's a passive telescoping mechanism (ie. gravity does all the work for getting it to extend).

[SelectHalfling0]

That's pretty cool. Never knew that is what fighter jet ladders looked like.

Nice Find.

[problemecium]

I wouldn't call it an "Easter egg" so much as one of several parts modeled off of some real-life thing. Likely SQUAD saw this or a similar airplane ladder and used it as a reference.

[RocketPilot573]

I think I remember seeing a post mentioning this loooooong ago, but I hardly remember so its good to raise let everything know!

[I_Killed_Jeb]

The ASAS also looks JUST like the gyro computer on Saturn Vs

[Renegrade]

Confirmed: combat aircraft made out of KSP parts!

Fairchild Republic is the 'partner'?

[BagelRabbit]

The most obscure part Easter egg that I know of has to be either:

1) On the little radial air intake, there's a label that says "WARNING: THIS DEVICE SUCKS."

or:

2) On the circuit boards on the 2.5m probe core, some of the integrated circuits are labeled things like "Thingamajig" and "Oscillotatotron."

Both of these things are barely visible with the highest quality textures, but they're there.

Oh, and on the four-person Mk2 passenger module, there's a hole in the back right window, and it says "KRU-K4B1N MK2" between the windows.

I should make a list of all the parts' words and phrases... there's a lot of stuff that isn't seen very often at all.

[GoSlash27]

I don't know of any other aircraft besides the A-10 that uses that style of boarding ladder. I think this is the original model for the KSP part.

Best,

-Slashy

[khyron42]

I just spent way too long looking through photo galleries of various fighter boarding ladders. I think you're right - no other aircraft seems to have that style installed and painted bright yellow. I'm impressed that no one's noticed before - I guess we don't have too many real world A-10 pilots or ground crew on these forums!

[cpast]

The F-15 also has an alternating-step ladder, as do the F-22 and the F-35. However, none of theirs look like the KSP ladder, so I'm pretty sure it's based on the A-10.

[I_Killed_Jeb]

I just spent way too long looking through photo galleries of various fighter boarding ladders. I think you're right - no other aircraft seems to have that style installed and painted bright yellow. I'm impressed that no one's noticed before - I guess we don't have too many real world A-10 pilots or ground crew on these forums!

It's been brought up several times in this forum

[KotDemopan]

I am starting to wonder why "Des" is becoming such a popular word on the forums...

"Why des adding "k" to a word make it kerbal?", "Undescovered"

I can be sure to expect the "My Face Slipped" excuse, though!