Excalibur Exoatmospheric: Hyper Streak Unlimited Land Speed Record Car

[Excalibur]

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Excalibur Exoatmospheric Proudly Presents:

EE Hyper Streak Unlimited Land Speed Record Car

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We\'ve seen quite a few attempts at attaining the highest speed possible whilst in contact with the ground. We\'ve yet to see any evidence of any machine achieving over 500m/s (feel free to write to us if you know otherwise).

As a result Excalibur Exoatmospheric have developed the Hyper Streak. Not the most balanced Kerbal vehicle as it\'s primary propulsion system consists three RD-170 rocket engines fueled by C7\'s lightest one metre fuel tanks (750x0.9). However apart from this oversight not a single .cfg edit can be found, and all other aspects of the vehicle are balanced.

We also switched the Ground Interfacing Tackle (or G.I.T.) from Tosh\'s standard cart to Tiberion\'s landing gear parts due to stability issues. Good brakes too.

Due to this modification we soon realised that the vehicle could not handle anything but the smoothest bumps without launching itself skyward. This led us to seek a perfectly flat environment and we found that in the polar regions...

This led us to develop the Hyper Streak\'s pièce de résistance... the abilty to launch as a suborbital rocket, fly to landing as an aircraft before pursing the land speed record as a \'car.\' Due to around 2 hours of intensive testing the vehicle is very stable in all modes of flight... just be sure to make your landings with lots of turbine power, you may land nose-first at high velocity otherwise!

On the pad..

Separating second stage liquid boosters...

Gliding in before powered landing at the Southern ice cap...

Successful polar landing...

Conversion to LSR vehicle...

Ready to rock and roll...

Hard acceleration to top speed...

Final velocity before engine cut-off...

Jeb accidentally locked out the controls during testing of a new water speed record prototype based on the Hyper Streak. This resulted in the untrained occupants being launched straight up under full thrust. The following image was taken of the errant craft just after MECO...

Don\'t think we\'ll be seeing those poor saps again any time soon...

As I said this isn\'t necessarily a balanced vehicle, hence the \'unlimited land speed\' category.

Further development pending to break the 500m/s barrier. If anyone has beaten this figure without .cfg edits or ridiculous mods and have the pictures to prove it - please let us know!

Stay tuned.

[Elven_sword]

It\'s OP, you just need 88 mph to time warp! Amazing design, but what song were you listening to? Highway to Hell?

[Excalibur]

It\'s OP, you just need 88 mph to time warp! Amazing design, but what song were you listening to? Highway to Hell?

Damn, in that case I\'m going about 450m/s too fast! Was really surprised at how docile the thing was to control - not like most of my other creations!

Didn\'t have any music on at the time unfortunately. \'Highway to Hell\' would be fitting, though I think I\'d choose \'Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose\' off the top of my head.