Acceleration in atmosphere question.

[Villageidiot]

7 minutes ago, Fearless Son said:

Yeah, I used to decrease their output a lot in early career mode to get the most delta-v out of them, but I tend not to do that much these days.  Mostly because I find I want to maximize thrust from them to get my TWR up right off the pad, and if I have to scale their thrust down a bit it means I am using too many for my weight and should take some off.  

Turns out you can have too many boosters.

Blasphemy! Jeb is very disappointed in you. 

[maccollo]

On 2016-01-07 at 8:29 PM, mellester said:

not exceeding terminal vel is kind of hard. with a TWR of 1.8 you quickly exceed that velocity quickly . My designs give me a delta v of around 3500 m/s into a 100km orbit.

So I go faster than Vt usually. Anybody using designs with TWR higher than 2.2

What are you trying to launch?
This rocket, with a pad TWR of 2.75, doesn't pass terminal velocity, though it does get close once or twice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2xHU1YTqOg

And that is a tiny stub. When you get to larger rockets lowering the TWR isn't even a consideration, though it is still somewhat interesting to see how close I get to terminal velocity to see if significant gains can be made by making it more aerodynamic.

[mellester]

1 hour ago, maccollo said:

What are you trying to launch?
This rocket, with a pad TWR of 2.75, doesn't pass terminal velocity, though it does get close once or twice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2xHU1YTqOg

And that is a tiny stub. When you get to larger rockets lowering the TWR isn't even a consideration, though it is still somewhat interesting to see how close I get to terminal velocity to see if significant gains can be made by making it more aerodynamic.

I probably have a old table for Terminal vel values because that vid shows values higher than I thought terminal velocity was.