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Hello everyone! I'm UpsilonAerospace.

Now, over the years, I've had some astoundingly awful ideas about craft. I suppose I need to showcase some of these bad ideas, because their results are often... in-ter-esting. So here goes nothing:

Upsilon's Bad Ideas!
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Idea #1
Premise: Y'know, I've been having too much fun with the tiny 0.625m jet engines. Why don't I create the smallest plane possible using the largest engine possible? Instead of putting the engine at the back of the plane (or even at the front), I'll build the plane around a Goliath engine. It'll be fun, and stuff! After some careful deliberation, I randomly slapped parts together in the hope that the result would be marginally successful. The result?

The BTF-1!
[big turbo-fan 1]

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Build time: 20 Minutes
Partcount: 17(!)
Mass: 9.7t (of which roughly half is the engine)
Crew: 1

The BTF-1 can reach speeds of up to 500 m/s in level flight before the engine overheats and explodes. Weirdly, its stall speed is unusually low: the plane can take off at a scant 35 m/s or so. Because of the incredible efficiency of the turbojet engine, this aircraft can fly across entire continents without needing to refuel. In other words, the BTF-1 is better than any other plane I've built in 1.0.5, in spite of it being deliberately constructed in a stupid way. I really need to rethink my design process.

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Successful!
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So I'll be posting other ideas here in the future. Many of them will probably be quite bad compared to this one, but hopefully they'll serve as an inspiration for what not to build.

Thanks for stopping by!

-Upsilon

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7 hours ago, Inignot12 said:

Love it!

Hope we seem more bad ideas soon! 

 

2 hours ago, Mad Rocket Scientist said:

Looks great!  I can't wait to see what else you'll make!

Thanks, you two! I'm currently working on the converse of this idea: making the largest plane possible with a single Juno engine. Current size is 6.3 x 34.3 x 23.3 m, though I'm sure I can make it bigger. It's made completely out of wings and stalls at about 15 m/s. :rolleyes:

In all seriousness, I feel like this'll be a fun thread to maintain. The number of bad ideas I have is simply staggering, and most of them either work gloriously or fail spectacularly, both of which are exceedingly fun to watch...

-Upsilon

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I'm too lazy to post everything about my latest project tonight, so let me just present a Teaser Image!

This is, once again, my take on the Largest Plane Possible using the Smallest Engine Possible. This one worked better than expected too... though let's just say it's underpowered enough to take four minutes to go from 0 m/s to 100 m/s in level flight. Fun stuff!

This plane is large enough to almost land around the helipad on the VAB, by the way. What a great time to be an engineer!

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...hopefully, I'll get around to posting more tomorrow. :)

-Upsilon

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19 hours ago, UpsilonAerospace said:

I'm too lazy to post everything about my latest project tonight, so let me just present a Teaser Image!

This is, once again, my take on the Largest Plane Possible using the Smallest Engine Possible. This one worked better than expected too... though let's just say it's underpowered enough to take four minutes to go from 0 m/s to 100 m/s in level flight. Fun stuff!

This plane is large enough to almost land around the helipad on the VAB, by the way. What a great time to be an engineer!

gnaJ3o7.jpg

...hopefully, I'll get around to posting more tomorrow. :)

-Upsilon

When it sits around the VAB, it really sits around the VAB.

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On 11/30/2015, 11:22:18, UpsilonAerospace said:
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Hello everyone! I'm UpsilonAerospace.

Now, over the years, I've had some astoundingly awful ideas about craft. I suppose I need to showcase some of these bad ideas, because their results are often... in-ter-esting. So here goes nothing:

Upsilon's Bad Ideas!
~~~

Idea #1
Premise: Y'know, I've been having too much fun with the tiny 0.625m jet engines. Why don't I create the smallest plane possible using the largest engine possible? Instead of putting the engine at the back of the plane (or even at the front), I'll build the plane around a Goliath engine. It'll be fun, and stuff! After some careful deliberation, I randomly slapped parts together in the hope that the result would be marginally successful. The result?

The BTF-1!
[big turbo-fan 1]

4fxVGfK.jpg
yz48LG4.jpg

~~~

Build time: 20 Minutes
Partcount: 17(!)
Mass: 9.7t (of which roughly half is the engine)
Crew: 1

The BTF-1 can reach speeds of up to 500 m/s in level flight before the engine overheats and explodes. Weirdly, its stall speed is unusually low: the plane can take off at a scant 35 m/s or so. Because of the incredible efficiency of the turbojet engine, this aircraft can fly across entire continents without needing to refuel. In other words, the BTF-1 is better than any other plane I've built in 1.0.5, in spite of it being deliberately constructed in a stupid way. I really need to rethink my design process.

Overall Status
Successful!
~~~

So I'll be posting other ideas here in the future. Many of them will probably be quite bad compared to this one, but hopefully they'll serve as an inspiration for what not to build.

Thanks for stopping by!

-Upsilon

 

 

I beleive this counts as a Voomula n. A craft that you threw together in half an hour that for some reason performs better than the Bombuxle you spent 7 hours designing, from The Meaning of Fupp http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/127945-the-meaning-of-fupp/

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I know Hanukkah is over, but have this Bad Idea anyway!

With everyone gearing up for a KSP Christmas, I wanted to try something a little... different. So I made the most absurd Hanukkah-inspired plane possible!

So the plane is shaped like a Star of David, complete with the traditional blue color (like on Israel's flag). It has a menorah-like back end, with a single shamash (the 'helper candle,' in this case the Wheesley) at the rear and eight other candles (the Juno engines) at the same level. This means that this plane would be considered a kosher menorah if jet engines count as candles. I don't know if they do though.

This plane doesn't fly very well at all, but the very fact that it can fly makes it a better design than I had anticipated...

Here's an image for you:

UWxhwGG.png

...is the image coming through for you guys? It just says I've taken a wrong turn. Hopefully this will resolve itself soon. [Edit: Nope, not resolved yet. Here's a direct link: http://i.imgur.com/UWxhwGG.png]

Anyways, more Absurd Ideas coming soon.

-Upsilon

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37 minutes ago, UpsilonAerospace said:

I know Hanukkah is over, but have this Bad Idea anyway!

So I made the most absurd Hanukkah-inspired plane possible!

So the plane is shaped like a Star of David, complete with the traditional blue color (like on Israel's flag). It has a menorah-like back end, with a single shamash (the 'helper candle,' in this case the Wheesley) at the rear and eight other candles (the Juno engines) at the same level. This means that this plane would be considered a kosher menorah if jet engines count as candles. I don't know if they do though.

-Upsilon

A) just missed it by 3 days but dont mind that

B ) i LOVE it so much *sheds a single tear* i never thought of making this myself (and as a israeli and a jewish person i am ashamed of that)

i salute you mate and i wish you a merry holiday season! 

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7 hours ago, UpsilonAerospace said:

I know Hanukkah is over, but have this Bad Idea anyway!

With everyone gearing up for a KSP Christmas, I wanted to try something a little... different. So I made the most absurd Hanukkah-inspired plane possible!

So the plane is shaped like a Star of David, complete with the traditional blue color (like on Israel's flag). It has a menorah-like back end, with a single shamash (the 'helper candle,' in this case the Wheesley) at the rear and eight other candles (the Juno engines) at the same level. This means that this plane would be considered a kosher menorah if jet engines count as candles. I don't know if they do though.

This plane doesn't fly very well at all, but the very fact that it can fly makes it a better design than I had anticipated...

Here's an image for you:

...is the image coming through for you guys? It just says I've taken a wrong turn. Hopefully this will resolve itself soon. [Edit: Nope, not resolved yet. Here's a direct link: http://i.imgur.com/UWxhwGG.png]

Anyways, more Absurd Ideas coming soon.

-Upsilon

That's fantastic! As a fellow member of the tribe I do aprove! :D

 

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As the Christmas Holidays draw near, I don't have nearly the amount of stuff to do as I did earlier. So let me show off my latest creations!

First off:

Fly a Moai!

Yes, I made a replica of Easter Island's most famous inhabitants. And it flies. It's actually well-balanced, has parachutes if you don't want to land it with the two Juno jet engines, and has a surprisingly low part-count (21 parts). It adds atmosphere to any Kerbal tiki party, and at only 1.9 tons without fuel, you can take that tiki party anywhere in the Solar System!

Here, have a video:

(Sorry for the low resolution. Curse you, Large Video Format!)</grumble>

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Next up, I present to you the BB-8 droid I actually showcased in another thread!

BB-8!

Now, even though some people got their BB-8's to roll, I think mine was probably the most accurate-looking to come out yet. That being said, it can't do much. A single Juno jet engine on the back (sensing a trend here?) can propel it to speeds of nearly 15 m/s on level ground, but the moment the BB-8 encounters an incline at high speeds, the results are... er... impressive. Nevertheless, I liked some of the things I did with this guy. It has a mere 40 parts, it's difficult to tell how it moves if you don't examine it closely, and it uses some parts in unconventional ways (the head-body connection, for example, is made out of a barely-visible Vector engine).

Have a picture!

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...and, if you so choose, have a video as well!

(Yes, I did just use the above image as the thumbnail for the video. Sorry.)

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And I'll end off the showcase today with a smashing version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, possibly the best reindeer ever constructed in KSP. :)

Rudolph!

Rudolph is one of the craft I'm proudest of this holiday season. He's made out of a bunch of really interesting parts (his legs are Vernor RCS ports; his famous nose is a Surface Scanning Module). He VTOLs better than you would expect a reindeer to fly (which isn't really saying much, actually). Rudolph only weighs 2.7t fueled and has a partcount of just 50 parts. Perhaps best of all, though, this version of Rudolph seems to have a real spunk, a real personality, and I really enjoy that in craft like these.

Behold, yet another picture!

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...and my sincere apologies for continuing to plug my YouTube channel, but I suppose I must include this video as well, for those who want to see it.

...and even though the video thumbnail was taken on a completely different flight of Rudolph, the two images still look exactly the same. Ah well.

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Anyway, that's all for now. Let me know which of these three craft you liked the most, I suppose! Also, I'll try to post craft regularly in the future, instead of the "wait-for-a-little-while-and-then-dump-everything" method that I seem to have fallen into.

Thanks, and see you later!

-Upsilon

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After much careful deliberation on what to do next with the big turbofans, I slapped two of them onto the front of a slightly larger craft. After a few seconds debating where to put the wings, I eventually decided that I didn't need any: the thing would have enough musclepower to get into the air just fine without 'em. All it needed were parachutes for the landing.

The result is surprisingly good-looking, not very flight-worthy, and most definitely a bad idea.

Here, have a picture!

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...and, if you still doubt the validity of this design (Oh, ye of little faith!), here's a video as well.

As always, yet more insane ideas are coming soon... so stay tuned!

-Upsilon

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