11/20/2015 Space Craft Friday - The Very Late Edition

[Azimech]

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I totally forgot but here it is. All stock, all tested. If I had something to say, don't take it personal and see it as positive encouragement :)

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Who are you to decide this, I hear you asking, and here's the answer: No one. I am official in any way, shape, or form. If you're unhappy with my decision, we can work something out. This is just my opinion, since there's no objective way to judge "Quality" of crafts.

If anyone feels that their craft is missed because of any kind of time-zone difference, or any kind of difference in when spacecraft fridays is put up, tell me.
If your craft is really good and was made before, and someone posts in it within that week, then it will be considered. Just to clarify, I am not encouraging necros for the sake of bumping your craft.
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[B][SIZE=4]Convair Sea Dart - Mad Rocket Scientist[/SIZE][/B]

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The second I saw this one I liked it, mainly because I like delta's, I like Convair products and a delta sea plane was such an improbable entity I had to try it. Flies great! Great looks! Easy to land too, but won't take off from water with full tanks and that's why it was uploaded with only one quarter filled. Stacking the Juno's is a great way to overcome their static performance.



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Seaplane Experimental S-EX 1 - selfish meme[/SIZE][/CENTER]
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Another sea plane, I like this one because of it's looks as well and the fantastic STOL capability - it nearly takes off at 25 m/s - from the tarmac.


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[CENTER][SIZE=4][B]Transforming Shuttle - stardog573[/B][/SIZE]

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I really like the concept on this one. It's very kerbal because in this form it wouldn't make it in real life, and that's a compliment. I managed to get it into orbit, dock the rear and ... crashed it because the little amount of liqued fuel left wasn't routed to the rapiers and the CoM was such that a nose up descent wasn't possible. So I like the concept although I'm not sure about the payload fraction - more than a simple satellite is probably not possible at this time, and it needs just a little more work.

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[CENTER][SIZE=4][B]Scott Manley class - zekes[/B][/SIZE][/CENTER]

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Inspiring and mysterious, like the best designs from the late nineties in titles like Descent Freespace. I tried it and ... couldn't do anything with it except hyperedit it to space, my slideshow prevented me from really testing it but I think it's obviously a good ship. Love the detail and looks, and another design which will really start it's popular community life after 1.1.

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[CENTER][B][SIZE=4]Pride of Veere - FlipNascar[/SIZE][/B][/CENTER]

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I really like the looks of this one and I never tried a hydrofoil before so I had to. I love the little detail, the arched back and the big rear which almost looks like a modern sports car. Well deserved, if a little fragile (took me 4 times to get it into the water in one piece).

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I tested a lot more but these certainly had something. I used a number of criteria, from low part count to high, from purely aesthetic to purely functional, and this week these felt above standard. Thanks for reading, have a nice week and until the next SCF! Edited November 23, 2015 by Azimech

[ghostbuzzer7]

Late you say? :sticktongue:
Nonsense, only 2 days late! :)
Great pics and the description.
I was going to say a joke: Looks like Azimech want's to keep his reputation of being on every SPF since he could'nt do it :wink:
Well that's ones in the trash can now.

Edit:
Oh yeah..... rep+

[FlipNascar]

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I really like the looks of this one and I never tried a hydrofoil before so I had to. I love the little detail, the arched back and the big rear which almost looks like a modern sports car. Well deserved, if a little fragile (took me 4 times to get it into the water in one piece).
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Thanks for the feature, yeah she don't like highspeeds and entering... Guess I should have mentioned that. I put it in the water at no more than 4 or 5m/s... I'll add that to the notes, so thank you.

[Majorjim!]

You didn't add any links to the craft.
The rest are good. The transforming shuttle was cool!

Thanks for doing this Azi. Edited November 23, 2015 by Majorjim
gumpy jim

[Azimech]

Ah, I'll put some links to the craft files later. Now in a rush, a bunch of people are waiting for my WW2 Warships mod (hyperactive sweating behind the soaked keyboard).

[pTrevTrevs]

You should have edited the SCF logo to have the word "Friday" crossed out and replaced with "Monday", but other than that, it's a good selection.

[Redshift OTF]

I do love the Scott Manley class of ship by Zeke. So awe inspiring. Personally I love big builds that look cool, even if the physics won't allow them to be practical. Perhaps with 64 bit and multi-threaded physics it could happen one day.

BTW, I didn't know you could stack Juno's. Don't they occlude themselves?

[pTrevTrevs]

Here, it took me less than two minutes in MS Paint.
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[Mad Rocket Scientist]

Nice! Thanks for doing this, and for the feature! +rep

[Azimech]

Thanks for the effort, pTrevTrevs!

[selfish_meme]

Thanks for the feature Azimech! Well done to all the other featured builders!