What is your favorite stock engine?

[eddiew]

Rapier.

How else am I gonna get my hotols off the ground?

[The_Rocketeer]

My second entry here, for the lols:

Unity 5.

[Mikki]

I like the "Puff" monoprop minithingy. Its somehow real small and has a poor plume in stock but the noise is great. Reminds me to a noise certain coffeemachines use to do... well... Cappuchino... yes. Sorry but i wonder why nobody mentioned it until now.

[Jett_Quasar]

I like to use ALL of the different engines on my craft, it makes each design unique and allows the flight dynamics to be different for each build. My favorite would have to be the Reliant engines because they have the old-school rocket engine look.

JR

Edit: I tend to design my starships like space planes so I'd like an option to make the rocket engines behave like Rapiers - not air breathing, but from a fuel flow perspective. I like how the

Rapiers will pull fuel from all tanks at once: it helps with fuel balancing and saves on fuel lines.

Edited October 12, 2015 by Jolly_Roger

[peachoftree]

Definitely the rapier, it is just so useful on spaceplanes, and the gimbal ain't bad either

[Teilnehmer]

Dawn, Ant, and Nerv.

(2.5 m and 3.125 m are not my favorite diameters.)

Edited October 13, 2015 by Teilnehmer

[Champ]

I tend to design my starships like space planes so I'd like an option to make the rocket engines behave like Rapiers - not air breathing, but from a fuel flow perspective. I like how the

Rapiers will pull fuel from all tanks at once: it helps with fuel balancing and saves on fuel lines.

I have never used it, but i think that's what the mod TAC Fuel balancer does

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

How can you pick just one, they all serve different functions. I use almost all of them.

Yup, me too. I cant make up my mind.

[timandy1]

909 by far, you can get more then 4,000 delta V with just one of them.

[SpacedCowboy]

I had a hot love affair with the 48-7s . Used it for landers mostly in different combinations. Then she got the heck nerfed out of her so,,, the honeymoon was over.

[Bioman222]

The Rhino. Stupidly efficient and powerful, making it versatile as a first stage engine and/or an upper stage engine.

[SlithyTove]

Has got to be the Rhino.

Because usually, if I am using that it means I am about to build something massive, absurd, impractical, and a boatload of fun.

Ahem...

[PineCone]

I personally like the Terrier.

[DMSP]

Probably the 48-7S "Spark"

[Empiro]

The 909 is probably one of my most commonly used engines. Light, efficient, and more than enough thrust to land crew and science equipment on most of the moons in the system.

For launchers, Skipper is definitely one of my favorites -- I always felt it's been overlooked, but every new version of the game seems to make it slightly better, and it's now one of the best engines in the game if you pair it with some SRBs for that initial kick.

[Overfloater]

Poodle. It looks cool

[The_Rocketeer]

Has got to be the Rhino.

Because usually, if I am using that it means I am about to build something massive, absurd, impractical, and a boatload of fun.

Ahem...

http://i.imgur.com/ZnpYDcr.jpg

You realise in this example you have 90% Mammoth and only 10% Rhino?

[Norcalplanner]

Skipper was the best in 0.25, back when it had an Isp of 320 / 370. In 1.0.4, it's a 3-way tie between the Mainsail, Poodle, and Terrier.

[Skalou]

The BACC "Thumper" Solid Fuel Booster (or the bigger one for bigger charges but i prefer the style of the thumper)

[SlithyTove]

You realise in this example you have 90% Mammoth and only 10% Rhino?

Sure, but the Rhino's do 99.999% of the burn time.

The mammoths are just to get the thing into orbit.

[322997am]

The MAMMOTH. It is so much thrust and more boosters is better.

[RocketBlam]

I guess I'll go outside the mainstream and say the Swivel. Yes it has less thrust than the ltv-30, and weighs more, but it has thrust vectoring. Trying to control a rocket high in the atmosphere (or space) without vectoring is no fun.

I also use the Skipper a lot though.

[The_Rocketeer]

Trying to control a rocket high in the atmosphere (or space) without vectoring is no fun.

Are you kidding?! The only place vectoring is really useful is during ascent or landing, when you actually need some forceful steering input to avoid straying. Once you're in/near vacuum even the really feeble torque of a small pod or probe core can keep you on target, and line you up too as long as you're patient.

[wadedidit]

Aerospike with a nifty setup to make a decoupled work underneath it.

[jman508]

my favorite has got to be the Rapier.