[1.0.2] Land Speed Record!

[Commander Jebidiah]

Just to let anyone who enters know, i will be updating the leaderboards every 3-7 dqys depemding on how mqny entries there are.

[PCanas]

He is one of my friends and he told me they were from seperate flights.

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PCanus, whis name ive only just understood, and burnoutforzai on the leaderboard.

It's actually PCanAs. It's the initial of my first name and my last name

[WOLVSAid]

hey guys, here's my attempt, I made it with only 3 part and some parachutes

i got 558 M/S

[PCanas]

My chutes are not deploying instantly, like this last video, they slowly deploy, wich means if I try hard mode I'd have to stage the shutes at about halfway the runway. I'm using KSP v1.0.2. Is it normal or is there some problem? I noticed there are two timers in the description of the chutes, is that it?

[Soda Popinski]

Part Clipping? I found last time I did this, part clipping made it a little too easy.

Edit: I see the OP states no F12 menu.

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It was actually a load of srbs clipped everywhere.

Doesn't Part Clipping require the F12 menu?

[Soda Popinski]

Here's my entry. Hard mode. No part clipping.

628 m/s or Mach 1.85 in 5 seconds

Real kerbals don't use wheels (unless they're reaction wheels).

Edited May 24, 2015 by Soda Popinski

[Commander Jebidiah]

Burnoutforzai i would like to get your craft fil2eused on your entry.

P.S. Will update leaderboards tomorrow

[PCanas]

Burnoutforzai i would like to get your craft fil2eused on your entry.

P.S. Will update leaderboards tomorrow

Also, change my name in the leader board

[PCanas]

Another record: 962m/s, easy mode

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[Soda Popinski]

Looks like the OP is a bit busy, so here's my leader board compilation.

Hard Mode

1. juzeris 714
   
2. burnoutforzai 674
   
3. Soda Popinski 628
   
4. Quantumatt 622
   
5. kludermor 512
   
6. Sokol 56 483
   
7. Quantumatt 343
   
8. Kelderek 320
   

Easy mode

1. PCanas 962
   
2. PCanas 871
   
3. WOLVSAid 558
   
4. BSA 509
   
5. ghostbuzzer7 495
   

Edited August 31, 2015 by Soda Popinski

[kludermor]

I know this is an old post, but I just found this challenge and wanted to enter with my jet car. I miss more record braking challenges in KSP.

Standing on Runway ready for start

Jet engines warming up with brakes on (This image is not from the same run. Just showing the engine warm up procedure)

End of runway. All is intact and Jeb is looking Jebish.

Top speed at 512m/s and 10.4 G

I wanted this jet car to have wheels and be stable all the time.

[Soda Popinski]

I know this is an old post, but I just found this challenge and wanted to enter with my jet car. I miss more record braking challenges in KSP.

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I wanted this jet car to have wheels and be stable all the time.

Wow! No parachutes. Pretty cool.

[kludermor]

Wow! No parachutes. Pretty cool.

It did have parachutes, but they disappears when the craft comes to a complete stop.

8 drogue chutes and 4 regular.

Thanks for the update

[Whatevaaaaa]

Here is my podracer that makes 486m/s

All stock parts. Mods used are Kerbal Engineer and Remote Tech, both of which are irrelevant to the challenge

[Rayquaza]

I'd like to enter a contestant here in the easy mode. All stock parts, mod used was Kerbal Engineer.
I reached a top speed of 1109 m/s.

http://imgur.com/Hl67it1&9QFZOtk&LSNnk9U

Edited May 10, 2016 by Rayquaza
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[AV8R]

469m/s, hard mode.

 

 

Edited May 22, 2016 by AV8R

[tseitsei89]

This is not for 1.1 but I don't think new challenge is necessary. We can just continue this one.

 

So... I have a new top entry for the Hard division. 728m/s

Here it is:

Instructions on how to drive it are on the description texts of the pictures.

 

That took a c**pload of sepratrons carefully placed to different radii and many test "flights" to optimize accelerating and braking distances

[tseitsei89]

Slightly modified version of the craft (no airbrakes and chutes + longer burn from the sepratrons) reaches ~1050m/s for the easy category.

Will post screenshots later

[willdabeast]

i just got second place in the easy land speed record and i have the proof

 

Edited June 9, 2016 by willdabeast

[willdabeast]

now how do i send pictures

 

[willdabeast]

wait we can use cheets

 

[willdabeast]

680 m\s GO ME!