Reversed reverse engine

[Sir_Robert]

8 minutes ago, Triop said:

Hahaha...

Not what I had in mind...

This is..: Fly forward, reverse engine and then fly backwards.

Nice idea for a challenge perhaps ?

I recall there was once a challenge with rockets starting off flipped upside down (that is, main engines pointing up). Kindoff in the same spirit

[Triop]

Well, I made this, but it doesn't fly yet.

 

It goes back and forward though

The file is here if you want to make it fly...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sycfpv4mxxxxf4p/YOYO.craft?dl=0

press 1 to reverse both engines

Edit: I guess it also needs a 2nd reversed cockpit to fly such a thing...I love this, great fun !

Edited February 26, 2016 by Triop

[Triop]

LOL, It flies !

File:https://www.dropbox.com/s/xpc72kbxvffpqjj/YOYO%201.craft?dl=0

Forwards and backwards !

Press 1 to reverse engines

Take 2 pilots and switch them or steering is gonna be

 

 

[Fearless Son]

That design reminds me of something... 

[Triop]

21 minutes ago, Fearless Son said:

That design reminds me of something... 

OMK

Anyway, it's a challenge now:

 

[Evanitis]

5 minutes ago, Triop said:

Anyway, it's a challenge now:

Mehh. Makes me want to build an SSTO that can get to orbit in two directions. I wonder if more than two is possible..

[Triop]

1 minute ago, Evanitis said:

Mehh. Makes me want to build an SSTO that can get to orbit in two directions. I wonder if more than two is possible..

Mehh...My SSTO can get to orbit in ANY direction. Why ?

[Sir_Robert]

2 minutes ago, Evanitis said:

Mehh. Makes me want to build an SSTO that can get to orbit in two directions. I wonder if more than two is possible..

Don't forget to make it VTOL

[Triop]

1 minute ago, Sir_Robert said:

Don't forget to make it VTOL

Thinking hard about that....conclusion: Looping aircraft.

[Evanitis]

Just now, Triop said:

Mehh...My SSTO can get to orbit in ANY direction. Why ?

You know what I meant... without turning. For fun.

Just now, Sir_Robert said:

Don't forget to make it VTOL

That sounds like cheating. Though ironically, indeed the gears feel to be the most complicated part of the mental design I have.

[Khorso]

So I made this back when the new engine modes came out. Thought it was a fun MiG-esque plane.

Very flyable, very fun.

-Khorso

[Overland]

i made a skycrawler light semi helicopter with a KAX radial engine once...

it need need wings but generally putted around at 30ms with takeoff at 10

 

Add a few canards.. Flew like a dream..even auto leveled turns

 

Challenge..stock helicopter VSTOL using a radial attachment point and a reversed engine?

 

Edited February 27, 2016 by Overland

[sal_vager]

I'll just put this here..

@Warzouz there are some mini intakes on size0 fuel tanks clipped inside.

[Warzouz]

@sal_vager, where is the air intake in you plane ? The front par doesn't seem to be a precooler.

[Overland]

I can now confirm that Helijets sorta-copters  do indeed work nice theyre fiddly to get right with the balence of center of mass vs manuverability vs fuel but once you got that perfected, they fly just like the one I built with kax

full throttle to take off, a little bit of 2m/s forward speed to unstick from the runway (odd?) and she floats into the sky without a care.. able to roll happily if theres enough height. manuver like a bee around a flower and land at nearly zero or walking speed

top speed around 60ms

best flown with a joystick but easy enough without, she autocenters with turning easily enough.. like the KAX version I find theyre best designed a little nose heavy and 2 clicks of trim generally straightens it out at low speed.. leveling naturally around 30

Edited February 27, 2016 by Overland

[Nightshift83]

1 hour ago, Overland said:

I can now confirm that Helijets sorta-copters  do indeed work nice theyre fiddly to get right with the balence of center of mass vs manuverability vs fuel but once you got that perfected, they fly just like the one I built with kax

full throttle to take off, a little bit of 2m/s forward speed to unstick from the runway (odd?) and she floats into the sky without a care.. able to roll happily if theres enough height. manuver like a bee around a flower and land at nearly zero or walking speed

top speed around 60ms

best flown with a joystick but easy enough without, she autocenters with turning easily enough.. like the KAX version I find theyre best designed a little nose heavy and 2 clicks of trim generally straightens it out at low speed.. leveling naturally around 30

Never get tired of the way the Kerbals look - maybe because mine are shut off for performance reason or or too busy avoiding inevitable doom.. (sometimes I see real people that have the same expression, than I think 'oh look at you little cutie - better watch your step or you gonna hit that wall with 1,4 m/s' !).. um.. nice plane by the way

Edited February 27, 2016 by Nightshift83
it just came over me