1.0.5 is out!!!!! post your fist craft here.

[Wjolcz]

VROOOOM!

[KerrMü]

VROOOOAAAAM!

[gmiddlemass]

Mini Jet

Jeb's Jet Pack

[inigma]

I can't really speak for other people but I've got the feeling those guys & gals with the green bars all filled up, they don't just copy stuff ;-)

No, we reverse engineer and mercilessly steal other people's ideas to make best things even better.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

No, we reverse engineer and mercilessly steal other people's ideas to make best things even better.

Don't forget "Inspiration"

[FlipNascar]

Eh.. I broke mine already. It doesn't fly. One engine gets "occluded"... As soon as you throttle up. Don't have the patience today... Probably intake related or something. A problem for tomorrow.

I just started randomly adding parts and this is what I ended up with... No idea what it's supposed to be or do.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

Subs are so much fun!

[Rune]

I can see we are having fun. That's nice, I am having a blast too!

Rune. Now if only I could actually focus on something....

[Keith_Bones]

I've been experimenting with seaborne craft in the hopes of attempting the circumnavigation challenge, this is my current prototype.

I'm using the now-hollow structural fuselage as pontoons to keep the engines out of the water, which has let me hit 70 m/s. Interestingly, the wheels being deployed doesn't seem to affect anything, which means that either they don't have any drag in the water, or they always have drag.

Getting it to turn without Rapid Unplanned Disassemblyâ„¢ is still an issue, and other various work to be done, but it's promising.

[luizopiloto]

It's not finished yet... but you will have a general idea of what it is...

[More Boosters]

Probably the most useless thing I ever built:

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

http://i.imgur.com/jIuh5JD.png

Awwwwwww! :3

Man that's beautiful.

It's not finished yet... but you will have a general idea of what it is...

http://i.imgur.com/vf9r3OM.jpg

Why those tiles though?

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

Probably the most useless thing I ever built:

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

http://i.imgur.com/jIuh5JD.png

Now we just need some transparent aluminum.

[Aegeas]

I think my U-boat has become sentient and has a sense of self preservation. After numerous attempts to keep it from capsizing, I grew tired of its tricks and decided to end it once and for all by bombing it with my P-26. I guess the Peashooter is really my first 1.0.5 craft, since it performed as well as it could against the evil power of the dive capable U-boat.

http://i.imgur.com/dvYoT7m.png

Even with those stupid outrigger floats, the damn thing won't stay upright!

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

I'm sorry, boat, but I have to end you. You've gone mad, you'll destroy us all!!! VENGEANCE!!!!!

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

No Target? What... the hell? Where did it go?

http://i.imgur.com/p78CrbP.jpg

Yeah... It definitely isn't there... Skynet is active!

http://i.imgur.com/D8VI79j.png

Very well, if I can;t kill the monster, I will kill the forge from whence he came!!!

http://i.imgur.com/r04zWnt.png

Damn. They make these things tough as nails, don't they?

I've gone from listening to the triumphant German marching songs to somber Russian dirges. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go sit in a corner and cry...

Hopefully 1.0.5 is going better for you guys.

Something that might save you some heartache so you don't have to redesign your whole boat is to just adjust the fuel capacity of the lower fuel tanks by editing the craft file.

I played around with this on previous versions of kerbal (not sure if it works the same in 1.0.5) but fuel its self seemed to be denser than water so the more you added to your craft eventually it would sink.

There is no limit to how much fuel a tank can hold, and you could always lower the capacity of other tanks to preserve the same net fuel amount.

Just find the resource section for the relevant tank and adjust it. A tip to easily find a desired tank is to adjust its fuel to an odd amount before saving it then search for that amount.

    RESOURCE
    {
        name = LiquidFuel
        amount = 100000
        maxAmount = 100000
        flowState = True
        isTweakable = True
        hideFlow = False
        flowMode = Both
    }

Above is an example of a section in the craft file you will need to edit. Notice this tank will hold 100,000 liquid fuel. The craft is still 100% stock in that the dry weight of the tank is the same and the game calculates the extra mass of the increased amount of fuel.

Also if you want edit a LOX tank to be only LF then a method I found that works is to set the amount and maxAmount of oxidizer to 0 and then set isTweakable to False.

[Wesreidau]

North Krussian F-86 Sabre

Service Ceiling:

11,000 meters

Cruising Speed:

400 knots at 5,000 meters (200 m/s)

Maximum Speed:

570 knots (285 m/s)

Powerplant:

J73-GE-3 (40kN, made by clipping 2x Junos together)

Landing System:

Tricycle

Fuel Capacity:

130 units internal, 230 units with drop tanks

Armament:

2 x 75 ore-unit dumb bombs, machine guns

Edited November 11, 2015 by Wesreidau

[selfish_meme]

I've been experimenting with seaborne craft in the hopes of attempting the circumnavigation challenge, this is my current prototype.

http://i.imgur.com/kPcWTW2.png

I'm using the now-hollow structural fuselage as pontoons to keep the engines out of the water, which has let me hit 70 m/s. Interestingly, the wheels being deployed doesn't seem to affect anything, which means that either they don't have any drag in the water, or they always have drag.

Getting it to turn without Rapid Unplanned Disassemblyâ„¢ is still an issue, and other various work to be done, but it's promising.

Hydrofoils work too

[ScriptKitt3h]

I'll have to try making a submarine now, but my first 1.0.5 craft is this 'lil hypersonic arrowhead-style jet (I nicknamed it the Afterburner Overdrive), capable of reaching suborbital space off a straight 45 degree AOA from the runway, or alternatively exploding in the atmosphere from heating. Take your pick.

The new inline diverter-less intake seems kinda powerful for high-speed aircraft, at least on smaller ones like the jet above.

[War Eagle 1]

I do here by declare to be the first to make a militarized sub

[Giggleplex777]

I made a couple little planes:

Man, I love these new lil' parts.

[Bubbadevlin]

First SSTM with the new 1.5m converter and small drills!, and i have to say, it is fairly easy to use!

[War Eagle 1]

Fear the Mako

[Mr. Speed]

just a little experiment with the thrust reversal on the jet engines.

[jrolson]

Built my first stock shuttle and made it to orbit! Well, mostly stock... had to make the STS boosters bigger with Tweakscale.

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Edited November 11, 2015 by jrolson

[problemecium]

This is literally and absolutely seriously the first thing I built, a tiny UAV using the new tiny engine and fuselage. I called it the "Chi Bee" xD

The thing behind it is just a contraption to help get a Kerbal on the pad next to it for size comparison.

[Alchemist]

Erika

Exploration-Reconnaissance ISRU Kerbal Aircraft

You can probably guess where I'm going to toss this craft.

[gag09]

my attempt at building a large seaplane/ cargo aircraft.