Pallas & Hyperion. Titan class stock cargo seaplanes

[Azimech]

 

77 Industries presents:

Titan class

 

 

These giants are for anyone in need of transporting huge and/or heavy objects.

 

TCCS Pallas

Album comes with a short story.

 

 

Atypical because the CoL is ahead of the CoM. This helps taking off from water. It's also the reason the engines are on top of the wing, they tend to push the nose down. It also helps when landing on water, use 30% throttle and switch to reverse when the loading ramp starts hitting the water. Very easy to fly, take off and land, never loss of control. It has enough pitch authority to handle a wide range of CoM shift.
When on the ground you'll see the landing gear assembly bend through the landing pods. It's not pretty but it's intentional. Better bend than break.
Loading/unloading cargo: keep the landing gear near the loading ramp down. Raise the rest of the gear. After raising, retract the rear gear with AG5.

Stats:LxWxH: 75x61x25
Mass with tanks full: 291 tons.
Max loaded take-off mass from water: 404 tons.
Ground with 114 tons cargo:
Minimum landing speed: 40 m/s.
Minimum take off speed: 43 m/s.
Ground with 228 tons cargo:
Minimum landing speed: 60 m/s.
Minimum take off speed: 65 m/s.
Water with 114 tons cargo:
Max descent rate when hitting water: 2.5 m/s.
Will climb unloaded, full tanks with throttle at 24%!


see 77I- TCCS Pallas on KerbalX.com
 

TCCS Hyperion: work in progress, check back later.

 

 

 

Edited March 3, 2016 by Azimech

[Redshift OTF]

That is one awesome transport seaplane! I think the boat is even better though.

 

[Azimech]

16 minutes ago, Redshift OTF said:

That is one awesome transport seaplane! I think the boat is even better though.

 

Yeah the plane is not pretty but neither is a Super Guppy ;-)

The yacht can be found here: https://kerbalx.com/Azimech/77-Maritime---SY1-Mintaka

[Redshift OTF]

I've played around with using open cargo bays as structures before but I never thought of using 6 Mk2 bays in a config like that so good job. Looking at them I am wondering if you could put panelling around the outside of them to smooth it off.

It's a lot of extra parts though.

Edited March 3, 2016 by Redshift OTF

[Azimech]

True ... we'll see what 1.1 will bring. It can still look good though, here's an 8x symmetry interplanetary transport I built in Jan. 2015:

 

[Redshift OTF]

Looks more like a planetary assimilator. XD That last picture is epic.

[The Optimist]

Makes this rig look small!

[Andiron]

So nice ! Remind me of some airplanes from the movie Porco Rosso like this "Federation Airplane"

[Columbia]

Amazing! Though I wonder how your computer does not burn from flying two ships (which have 426 parts) together.

I think I'm going to be using this a lot. Nice work!

[Azimech]

12 minutes ago, Columbia said:

Amazing! Though I wonder how your computer does not burn from flying two ships (which have 426 parts) together.

I think I'm going to be using this a lot. Nice work!

Actually it's Pallas and the pre-release Hyperion flying together. I'm aiming for a part count of around 300 for Hyperion.

Pallas flying with Mintaka on board ... part count of more than 700. Yeah, that was slow.

 

Edited March 6, 2016 by Azimech

[Spacetraindriver]

Its, ITS,  SO BEUTILFUL!