GreenPower Electric Challenge ITS BACK!!!!

[GoSlash27]

Ghostbuzzer,

We're going to need a definition of "infinigliding", since any inclusion of control surfaces will cause some infinigliding effects.

In the meantime, I'll knock an entry together and hope it's acceptable.

Best,

-Slashy

[GoSlash27]

http://s52.photobucket.com/user/GoSlash27/slideshow/KSP/Foeton1

I figured I'd start with a single engine entry. No reaction wheels and as little control surface as possible. I also ran with fine controls to minimize any infinigliding.

No reaction wheels: 5 points

Max speed 46.1: 45 points

Mass: 1.82: 11 points

Time: 13:17 : 26 points

Xenon Master: 3 points

Green Power Elite: 10 points

Total: 100 points

Best,

-Slashy

[Torquimedes]

I simply couldn't resist building this as my first ion-powered craft ever. KerbalX link ( This is the 1000th craft on KerbalX! )

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No infiniglide: No control surfaces at all for aesthetic reasons.

No reaction wheels: +5 unless the command pod counts?

Maximum Speed: +60

Mass: +6

Time: +35

Xeon Master: +3

Aesthetics Master: +0-2 depending on judge's decision

Total score: 104 - 111 pending judgement.

Edited May 28, 2015 by Torquimedes

[GraviTykillz]

My entry: Icarus

VAB

Runway

Midflight: average speed

Landing Time

sooo,,

No reaction wheels +5

max speed = 50

Time equals =33

Total points - 88 {maybe,its late,worked all week}

Fun challenge!

[GoSlash27]

Today's objective was to see what I could accomplish using a single xenon tank.

Presenting the Foeton Salamander!

http://s52.photobucket.com/user/GoSlash27/slideshow/KSP/Foeton1/Salamander

Fully amphibious, tops out at over 70 m/sec and runs a respectable ET of 9:08.

As before, I ran it with minimal control surfaces, reaction wheel disabled, and fine control mode.

Points tally up to 142, plus any cool points you care to award.

Download link here

Best,

-Slashy

Edited April 11, 2015 by GoSlash27

[ghostbuzzer7]

First amphibious goes to GoSlash27. Im impressed myself.

[hoioh]

I present MinIon, the first flying, greenpower Unicycle.

Tried to do it without the added reaction wheel, but coudn't keep it upright.

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Scoring:

Speed 59.3m/s = 55 points

Time 13:33 = 25 points

Mass 1.7t = 13 points

Xenon master: 3 points

Greenpower Elite: 10 points

+anything you want to award for the Unicycle achievement.

Total: 106 points

[OdinYggd]

If you swapped out those batteries for Z-100s or Z-400s you would save a lot of mass. Same with the solar array and using OX-Stats instead. Unless you have an objection to using massless parts, some people do.

I used the larger parts with the intention of keeping my parts count down, since I am still used to flying using the power of potato batteries.

Also I was under the impression that there are no truely massless or dragless parts anymore, but perhaps that hasn't quite yet been fixed. I've been out of the loop for a good long while after all.

So tonight I'll make a few changes and see if I can do better. But that trick with the gigantor is really convenient for people using a lot of engines, since as long as you retract it before making sudden moves you can have a ton of power supply in a compact space.

[juzeris]

Oh, there are massless parts alright. And drag is a function of mass in stock. And the whole point of the many engines is to have a high TWR, which you don't want to go spoiling with the huge&heavy solar panels.

I've built another contraption, presenting the Iongren (download link), from Abstract Aerodynamics: 20% less parts, 60% less wacky, 240% more stable, 5% faster, 0% better piloting. It uses the inline cockpit though (which some entrants have successfully used before), which has slightly better stats.

It's now established I cannot properly land things, though I managed to properly set down on the runway with this one, and then simply ran out of braking space.

I did manage to come to a complete stop in the same ditch as my previous aircraft and conclude with the exploding within 06:46 from launch, though.

No SAS [5], Max speed at level flight a bit over 125 m/s [125], time 6:46 [52], total 182.

Also it is barely capable of producing 5G (in a dive from 2km height), not sure if that counts for the stunt award [2].

Flight photos:

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Edited April 14, 2015 by juzeris

[wossname]

I have just made a plane with 29 Ion engines and over 9000 solar panels (I didn't count them). It put a wheel on the island runway in 6 minutes 38 seconds. I will not submit it as I cannot get the bloody thing to stop without 10 sepratrons to act as brakes to make it stop.

In any case. I shall attempt to land Juzeris's latest plane. He can build great planes and I can land them. It seems that the reverse is not true

Watch this space.

[wossname]

Well, any crash you can walk away from ...

6:28 to a complete standstill. This is Juzeris' plane, or about 75% of it. Any credit to him please

http://i.imgur.com/MwHCisL.png

Edited April 15, 2015 by wossname

[Tetragon213]

Here's my 2 cents. I used a flag as an indicator of where to fly to.

My Ion Plane, called Ikaruga after my favorite game as a kid, made it in just over 9 minutes on 3 ion engines. Notice the 2 Z-400's on the bottom. My plane had in issue with getting light on the panels while pulling up, so they provided a little bit of juice while the light was not getting on the panels

^ The Ikaruga under construction.

^Here she is, the mighty Ikaruga, waiting to take off. I was waiting a little for the sun to rise a little to get more light on the panels.

^And here we are, taking off. I needed to line up the flag to get the shortest possible distance (Well, a few degrees to the right so I had time to correct my landing.)

^ Well, um.. Will this one crash into VAB? Please don't!

^ That was a close one!

^ Another shot of Ikaruga in flight. She's not doing too badly for speed, considering the fact she only has 6N of force! I got rid of the waypoint after correcting my heading.

^ 6 Km to go. "The seatbelt sign has been switched on. All passengers return to your seats and fasten your seatbelts. Cabin crew prepare for landing."

^ Overshot a little, nah I'm sure I can fix it on approach.

^ HIT THE BBBRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKEEESSSSSS!!!!!!

^ "Welcome to the Old Airfield. Thank you for choosing Kerbal Air."

^ Final max stats.

No reaction wheels: +5

Top speed 77m/s: +75

Mass of : +0

Time of 9:04 rounded up to 9:15: +43

Xeon Master (745 Xenon used): +3

Total Points: 5+75+0+43+3 =126

[Ion Man]

Simple sailglider design. Not much to add.

Time: 8:55

Speed: 68.7 m/s

Landing wasn't glorious, first try. Did this whole thing in 30 mins

No reaction wheels

Taildragger, only two landing gears

Weight: 2.7 tons

[juzeris]

6:28 to a complete standstill. This is Juzeris' plane, or about 75% of it. Any credit to him please

Well, we should at least share the credit. Thanks for trying out the plane.

[Starwhip]

Though my (Squad's? I don't know. It's the same model and a modified texture) ROUND-9 tank is allowed, I'm not sure it is balanced. I would not recommend its use.

Separate the entries, at the very least. I literally just eyeballed the amount of fuel it should have.

[GoSlash27]

Just goofing off. It barely flies, but I'll see if I can limp it to the island.

Thanks Starwhip!

-Slashy

[Starwhip]

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g13/GoSlash27/UncalledFor_zpslgp1otxq.jpg

Just goofing off. It barely flies, but I'll see if I can limp it to the island.

Thanks Starwhip!

-Slashy

What is that, half of a B-Wing fighter?

And what do you think of that tank? Reasonable amount of fuel?

[wossname]

I half-thought that they'd released KSP 1.0 already when I saw that silver round-8 tank. Nearly had a coronary!

[GoSlash27]

What is that, half of a B-Wing fighter?

And what do you think of that tank? Reasonable amount of fuel?

Starwhip,

I'm not planning on running that tank dry on this run, but I'm sure it's fine.

Best,

-Slashy

[sam.johnson841]

Is tweak scale and/or FAR allowed? FAR will remove any problems with infiglide.

I know it says stock only but FAR and tweak scale are pretty balanced IMO.

Sam

Edited April 18, 2015 by sam.johnson841
Added reasoning behind ignoring the stock only part

[ghostbuzzer7]

hm.... I presume it can be allowed. Make a craft and if you do way better than anyone else than I will block these mods. This an experiment.

[sam.johnson841]

yeh i think i will be 99% stock anyways, i just tried to scale up the ion engine, more thrust = faster i thought. Then i saw the electric requirements in the thousands per second...

[GoSlash27]

Sam Johnson,

FAR would definitely break the challenge, at least from the perspective of competition with stock entries. ion gliders operating in FAR have lower drag.

Ghostbuzzer,

Since the round-8 has been granted a reprieve, I won't bother continuing and documenting my "protest flight" using Starwhip's tank. Thanks to both of you for helping to save the round-8!

Best,

-Slashy

Edited April 18, 2015 by GoSlash27

[sam.johnson841]

I think your right, 0.5 mach in an ion glider is unlikely. Back to the soup aero for this

[wossname]

6:40 to a dead stop on the island runway with no damage Woohoo!

http://imgur.com/a/taaqB

This is such an awesome challenge. I hope people keep trying. I certainly will