10 Fuel Challenge

[dec159]

10 Fuel Distance Challenge!

Welcome to the 10 fuel challenge. Brought to you by Hunter-Ariel Industries.

To compete in the challenge you must build a stock plane, having a maximum liquid fuel capacity of 10 units. You must fly your plane till it runs out of fuel (and land it... If you want.)

Submit a screenshot of your F3 screen making sure you have the resources tab open. If you want to, submit a .craft file for download aswell.

There are three categories to compete in. NCS (No Control Surface), Open and Modded.

Leaderboard

NCS:

1: GoSlash27: 4,335,756 m (10 Days Time!!!)

2: Bob_Saget54: 2,359,288 m (4:23.07 Time)

3: Batz_10K: 1,128,406 m (0:33.54 Time)

4: Tarantulae: 376,847 m (0:36.40 Time)

Open:

1: Bowfonz: 761,745 m (1:03.08 Time)

1: Me: 508,117 m (1:11.11 Time)

2: Foxter: 157,917 m (0:6.24 Time)

Modded:

(All times are Hour:Minute.Second)

My distance was: 142,237 m.

Download

Have fun guys!

Edited March 8, 2015 by dec159
Updating the Scoreboards, Hopefully I haven't forgotten anyone!

[ihtoit]

no fun in stock, this is an infiniglide challenge.

[Vivian_Science]

By 10 fuel do you mean all together? Or 10 fuel per type of fuel (as in liquid fuel, mono prop, ect.)?

[ttnarg]

Non-cheating crafts with infinite distance capability would be:

1) electric helicopter (I could not build one but people have)

2) light weight glider that can lift off at rover speeds glide for a distance land and then get more speed from electric wheels.

this would have to have 0 control surfaces to make sure it was not making use of the infiniglide bug.

[dec159]

10 all together I think. Otherwise it would be too easy.

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No. 1 would need a mod right? How do you make a stock helicopter? No. 2 makes sense though. I wish that everyone did not have to search for all the loopholes though.

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You don't have to do it. If you don't infiniglide then there is an actual challenge to it.

[cantab]

A general rule that the propulsion must be from an engine consuming liquid fuel, with or without oxidizer, would cover all bases. (Including banning the monopropellant thrusters.)

[ttnarg]

1) no there are stock helicopter, its 2 crafts, well one that been staged, you use wheels to hold the 2 parts together then spin one of them with more wheels:

2) sorry, you could ban taking off after landing or do a sub challenge based on how far you can go on a zero fuel Hop. I'll give this a go tonight.

Edit: or just ban powered wheels that fixes both problems.

Edited February 26, 2015 by ttnarg

[Foxster]

Only a slight improvement over the OP...

Craft file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l2dzfj9b8p3whsp/Light%20plane%201.craft?dl=0

[Norpo]

No. 1 would need a mod right? How do you make a stock helicopter?

Of course, that was a year ago, but I made my own version (sans.. a lot of craziness) and the principle seems to work the same, but it might be impossible in the next update (with new aerodynamics). Or easier, who knows?

[Tarantulae]

Sas and angled wings can make a sort of helicopter as well, somewhat hard to control, but would probably work for this challenge. Does the craft have to be manned?

[Tarantulae]

Here is my entry. Unfortunately the resources don't show the fuel, as it was damaged when i landed in the water. Almost made it westbound to the next continent though. Hopefully you will still accept as the toroidal fuel tank can only hold a maximum of 10 units fuel.

Edit: Here it is pre-takeoff

[dec159]

Sas and angled wings can make a sort of helicopter as well, somewhat hard to control, but would probably work for this challenge. Does the craft have to be manned?

Nope.

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Here is my entry. Unfortunately the resources don't show the fuel, as it was damaged when i landed in the water. Almost made it westbound to the next continent though. Hopefully you will still accept as the toroidal fuel tank can only hold a maximum of 10 units fuel.

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All is good. Nice job! You are in front! What was your flight time?

[Tarantulae]

You can see 36:41 from the splashdown. It took maybe another ~30 seconds to skip along the water to a stop.

[GoSlash27]

The problem is that it is too easy to infiniglide, even not trying to. The only way to avoid it is to ban control surfaces.

Best,

-Slashy

[Tarantulae]

My ship had no control surfaces

[GoSlash27]

My ship had no control surfaces

I saw that. A man after my own heart!

But somebody who uses control surfaces will beat your record even if they're not trying to infiniglide.

Best,

-Slashy

[dec159]

After reading the above comments I am going to add categories to this.

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You can see 36:41 from the splashdown. It took maybe another ~30 seconds to skip along the water to a stop.

Oh, ok

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My 2nd Attempt

508,117 m for the Open Category.

Download

This was the most boring flight I have ever done. 1hr, 11m, 11s flight time.

[GoSlash27]

haha I ran out of daylight and still had 2 km altitude left.

Luckily, I trimmed it out before the battery died, so it's a waiting game for it to end at this point.

Entry coming...

Best,

-Slashy

[GoSlash27]

Okay, here's my entry (no control surfaces):

http://wikisend.com/download/415872/tenglider.craft

I know there's room for improvement, but that was almost 2 hours! Good enough for me...

Best,

-Slashy

[dec159]

Nice work! I thought I would have longest time for a bit! Guess not! You are now infront overall!

[Tarantulae]

Luckily, I trimmed it out before the battery died

How would trimming it out help if there are no control surfaces after the battery dies?

[GoSlash27]

How would trimming it out help if there are no control surfaces after the battery dies?

Scratchin' mah head...

Good question! I don't know

It held a nice 15* nose up after the lights went out, so either the reaction wheels still work on a dead battery or else it happened to have the CoG in a convenient spot.

Best,

-Slashy

[Foxster]

Can I just check...is the difference between NCS and open whether your control pitch/roll/yaw with SAS or control surfaces?

[GoSlash27]

Can I just check...is the difference between NCS and open whether your control pitch/roll/yaw with SAS or control surfaces?

That's affirmative. If your craft has control surfaces on it, then it's in open class.

Best,

-Slashy

[Tarantulae]

Scratchin' mah head...

Good question! I don't know

It held a nice 15* nose up after the lights went out, so either the reaction wheels still work on a dead battery or else it happened to have the CoG in a convenient spot.

Best,

-Slashy

Well, its one thing to point the nose in a direction that it can hold in a glide such as somewhat noseup. If your CoG/CoL is dynamically stable then it should hold it. If you were in a dive or something when power died, then you'd hold in the dive. If your CoG/CoL is unstable, it'll slowly oscillate until it dives and rip itself apart.