A Last Hurrah for Stock Aero

[Norcalplanner]

Stock aero, your days are numbered. Although you had your quirks, we knew ye well. As a tribute to you and the sort of radial-staged silliness you put up with, please accept this final offering - 25,000 tons of the finest onion-staged SpaceY parts.

Farewell, stock aero.

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Edit: Because some people are misunderstanding my intent, the craft is the "last hurrah", using the book definition of a final, often valedictory (farewell) effort, production, or appearance. In other words, this is my last crazy craft in stock aero before 1.0 comes out. I've also added a wink icon above to make it a bit more clear.

Edited April 15, 2015 by Norcalplanner

[r4pt0r]

Im imagining a montage of some of the absurd things you can do with stock aero, set to the 'runners up' music from the show "America's Funniest Home Videos".

[Columbia]

Im imagining a montage of some of the absurd things you can do with stock aero, set to the 'runners up' music from the show "America's Funniest Home Videos".

Or maybe the Benny Hill theme.

Regardless, Goodbye, stock aerodynamics. You have fixed the hopes of many crazy Spaceplane and rocket engineers.

Here's an improptu death card: *the impossible contraptions work

Edited April 15, 2015 by Columbia

[Norcalplanner]

Or maybe the Benny Hill theme.

Regardless, Goodbye, stock aerodynamics. You have fixed the hopes of many crazy Spaceplane and rocket engineers.

Here's an improptu death card: *the impossible contraptions work

http://i.imgur.com/9WfuLgf.png

Very touching, Columbia. You moved me.

[Guest]

Old Aero deserves nothing but shame. It wasn't even a good placeholder. Good riddance, Old Aero, and good riddance to all the terrible threads trying to justify your existence. You will never have a place in our hearts.

[Columbia]

Well.. It's unfortunately not going to be known by most of the future community, how much fun we had with it and how absurd and limitless our spaceplanes and wide rockets could be. Guess we have to make the most of it in it's final days.

It is indeed sad to put an end to such limitless possibilities.

[MiniMatt]

Old Aero deserves nothing but shame. It wasn't even a good placeholder. Good riddance, Old Aero, and good riddance to all the terrible threads trying to justify your existence. You will never have a place in our hearts.

Something doesn't have to be any good to enjoy a place in our hearts Something can be downright awful, and we can be glad to see the back of it, yet still it retains a place in our affections - I speak as a former Citroen 2CV owner

[waterlubber]

At least we know someone will mod it back in. How hard can THAT be?

No more free Pea Soup...

[dryer_lint]

Maybe Ferram can get access to their old code and make it into a "lolaero" mod for us.

It would be the best plot twist ever. Actually, get regex to release the mod for an even better twist

[Renegrade]

Stock aero, your days are numbered. Although you had your quirks, we knew ye well. As a tribute to you and the sort of radial-staged silliness you put up with, please accept this final offering - 25,000 tons of the finest onion-staged SpaceY parts.

Actually, that rocket will work better under new aero than the old aero. The old air was equal parts lead, glue, and #lolfake.

That being said, sprinkling a few nosecones here and there would make it work even better.

[Red Iron Crown]

So long, old stock aero, it was fun knowing ya...

[r4pt0r]

so long, old stock aero, it was fun knowing ya...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61004449/ksp/0.90/tets/screenshot144.png

what in oblivion is that?!

[RabidMonkey]

what in oblivion is that?!

That is a thing of awesome beauty, whose like we shall never see again.

[Red Iron Crown]

what in oblivion is that?!

It's a totally viable and easy to fly "plane" I made for a challenge about FAR vs stock aero. The craft file is in there if you'd like to try it.

[BagelRabbit]

Alas.

One of the best things I ever did in Kerbal Space Program was build a bunch of flying cars:

Propelled upwards by many hidden control surfaces and wing bits, these automobiles were as cheaty as they were fun. I'll miss watching them take off and circle the KSC like glorious brick-birds.

*sniffle*

You will not be forgotten, tiny flying cars.

-Upsilon

[Tex]

*salutes* You had a good run, ol' Aero system. Out with the old and in with the new!

[Starhawk]

I'm definitely going to miss making orbit using only 30 m/s from chemical rockets.

But I can't wait to try flying spaceplanes in the new aero.

Happy landings!

[EtherDragon]

Keep posting pictures and I will make them into a Montage on SimGamerTV!

Set to appropriate royalty free music...

[RobotsAndSpaceships]

No. It doesn't even deserve to be remembered, it was so horrible.

[Van Disaster]

Under FAR you don't even have to have wings at all so there's always the possibility the new aero can be just as silly. A bit more logical, though.

Note I didn't say you could get away without a tail...

[viktor19]

It was a long time ago when I switched to FAR, so 'ye olde souposphere won't have a special memory in my heart. Mk1 Inline produces less drag than Mk1? Give me a ******* break. Maybe I sound rude, but remember that "getting to orbit is halfway to getting anywhere", so I think that good aero and thermodynamic model should follow up to already good orbital mechanics simulation.

[Sandworm]

Last Hurrah? Does anyone here actually believe that the new aero will be realistic, as in "Kerbal flight simulator"? It will have its own eccentricities and exploits. There will still be plenty of wacky games to play.

[Greenfire32]

Old Aero deserves nothing but shame. It wasn't even a good placeholder. Good riddance, Old Aero, and good riddance to all the terrible threads trying to justify your existence. You will never have a place in our hearts.

Speak for yourself.

[Norcalplanner]

Just because this seems to be spinning a bit off into the weeds -

"last hurrah" noun: a last effort, production, or appearance: a final often valedictory effort, production, or appearance <his unsuccessful Senate run was his last hurrah  R. W. Daly>

I'm not praising or condemning the attributes of stock aero - I'm just saying goodbye with a fitting finale.

[NFUN]

Last Hurrah? Does anyone here actually believe that the new aero will be realistic, as in "Kerbal flight simulator"? It will have its own eccentricities and exploits. There will still be plenty of wacky games to play.

I doubt it will have something so ridiculous as infinigliders or the souposphere. Old aero is horribly (but often entertainingly) unrealistic, and the new aero will probably be a huge improvement. It won't be simulator-level realism, but it will probably work roughly as it should, with most of the eccentricities being bugs or actual oddities of real life aerodynamics (Squad said that at least some supersonic effects will be added, for example).