Do you think Aero Brakes need more heat tolerance now?

[fireblade274]

Landing gears heat tolerance is 2.7k. Aero brakes, who's purpose is to create more friction in the air, only have 1.2k heat tolerance. Before 1.0.5 I didn't have issues with them burning up, but now I do under the same conditions. It seems reasonable to increase the heat tolerance to at least 2k (i think 2.6-7 would be great) or we should add another kind of aero brake part that maybe weighs slightly more then the original but can withstand more heat or has build in ablators.

Edited November 10, 2015 by fireblade274

[NathanKell]

"only" 1200K is 1700 degrees Fahrenheit, FYI. Pretty high tolerance I'd say. Airbrake tolerance has been normalized with the other "airliner" wing parts.

[More Boosters]

"only" 1200K is 1700 degrees Fahrenheit, FYI. Pretty high tolerance I'd say. Airbrake tolerance has been normalized with the other "airliner" wing parts.

They are supposed to be fighter jet-rated though.

[NathanKell]

Yes. Tell me the last time you saw a fighter jet going Mach 4.

[Gaarst]

Also, there is a reason why real supersonic (and hypersonic) crafts don't use huge panels sticking out of the craft at a 90° angle to slow down when going at Mach whatever; can you guess it ?

[Pthigrivi]

Yeah I'll admit I had fun abusing air-brakes to help during re-entry, buuuuutt maybe not the most realistic solution haha.

[adsii1970]

I just made bigger surface areas that toggle. Using Infernal Robotics, it was easy to put those grey 4x4 panels in such a way as to create lots of drag...

[Snark]

Glad to hear that airbrakes have been nerfed. They were incredibly overpowered. Airbrakes are supposed to be for landing airplanes, they're not an orbital reentry tool. There's a good reason why spacecraft IRL don't use them.

The pre-1.0.5 airbrakes were too easy to abuse.

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