Nighttime // Planes thread

[Triop]

[KerbonautInTraining]

I figured out the best way to view this thread is by turning on negative colors and cranking up the brightness on my phone... 

Come to think of it, I think instrument flying in Kerbal Space Program would be an interesting challenge. 

[swjr-swis]

Night time brings out the pretty in explosions...

 

And sometimes it's good for hiding your intentions...

[Choice // SLOTH Airlines]

11 hours ago, Triop said:

Nice plane! ;-)

7 hours ago, KerbonautInTraining said:

I figured out the best way to view this thread is by turning on negative colors and cranking up the brightness on my phone... 

Come to think of it, I think instrument flying in Kerbal Space Program would be an interesting challenge. 

That is a really interesting challenge yes. Would make it a bit more realistic and challenging

4 hours ago, swjr-swis said:

Night time brings out the pretty in explosions...

 

And sometimes it's good for hiding your intentions...

True! Nice pictures :-)

Edited April 12, 2016 by Choice // SLOTH Airlines
Typo

[Triop]

[Matuchkin]

On 30/03/2016 at 11:09 AM, Choice // SLOTH Airlines said:

Was flying my 'S-10 Slotherminate' today

I am compelled by the grandiose power of Bush to like every A-10 Thunderbolt analogy there is. If I pass my 25 point limit, I wait through the night. 

[Choice // SLOTH Airlines]

9 hours ago, Matuchkin said:

I am compelled by the grandiose power of Bush to like every A-10 Thunderbolt analogy there is. If I pass my 25 point limit, I wait through the night. 

Heh

10 hours ago, Triop said:

Nice!! :-)

[Frank_G]

On 24. März 2016 at 8:22 PM, Rune said:

It is kind of a plane. And it fits for nighttime photo ops!

 

Rune. Older than sin, tough.

Is that a weather balloon?

[Scientia1423]

Stearwing D45 attempting to do an orbit.

Still in the atmosphere, but we don't make it to space...

Coming in for a splashdown.

Final results: I still need to get the ascent trajectory perfect where all the jet fuel is emptied and I'm going at over 1k/s then start burning all the rockets afterwards. It's really difficult to get this craft into space because even if you're slightly off, you never have enough fuel to get into space which is a nuisance. I moved this craft to 1.1 from 1.0.5 since this craft didn't appear in the latest versions.

[SpannerMonkey(smce)]

While not quite an aircraft, they're definitely flying and it is night ( and it's not likely you'll see another . Sorry it's so dark.

And only dark due to altitude, and so you know what your looking at

 

[Van Disaster]

Most of those are going back a while... I don't usually take screencaps at night for obvious reasons - it can be quite hard to know if something is at night or just "I am very high". I have a large bunch of the latter, of course...

[iamonfire]

Just some photos I thought looked neat.

[Van Disaster]

Far out

Hot night

Coming down easy.

[Castille7]

Here is one from eight months ago...

 

Galaxy Myth

 

[Matuchkin]

On 16/05/2016 at 4:02 PM, Frank_G said:

Is that a weather balloon?

Weather balloons are not known to look like this:

[Frank_G]

4 hours ago, Matuchkin said:

Weather balloons are not known to look like this......

You might be wrong

Edited June 3, 2016 by Frank_G

[Slam_Jones]

Does these count?  I usually avoid night screenshots due to difficulty seeing the subject at hand, but here's a few I think should fit the theme here:

[Colonel Cbplayer]

On 3/25/2016 at 3:22 PM, Rune said:

It is kind of a plane. And it fits for nighttime photo ops!

 

Rune. Older than sin, tough.

"Are you my mommy?"

[Rune]

2 minutes ago, cbplayer2012 said:

"Are you my mommy?"

Considering the versions, more like grandma, but hey, I see the family resemblance!

 

Rune. Moar 'weather balloons'!

[Castille7]

1 minute ago, Rune said:

Considering the versions, more like grandma, but hey, I see the family resemblance!

 

Rune. Moar 'weather balloons'!

 

@Rune & @cdplayer2012 Now you are making me want to fly these! Do you have some files to share?

[Colonel Cbplayer]

1 minute ago, castille7 said:

 

@Rune & @cdplayer2012 Now you are making me want to fly these! Do you have some files to share?

it is a screenshot from long ago, the files are long lost. How ever I am rebuilding it right now and would be done in like 2 hours tops

[Colonel Cbplayer]

36 minutes ago, castille7 said:

 

@Rune & @cbplayer2012 Now you are making me want to fly these! Do you have some files to share?

Actually I lie, it took me like 30 minutes but here it is https://www.dropbox.com/s/ta5kdwzfjkwfmzt/1 UFO.craft?dl=0

This thing is actually pretty agile, but it has a slow roll rate

 

Edited June 4, 2016 by cbplayer2012

[Castille7]

41 minutes ago, cbplayer2012 said:

Actually I lie, it took me like 30 minutes but here it is https://www.dropbox.com/s/ta5kdwzfjkwfmzt/1 UFO.craft?dl=0

This thing is actually pretty agile, but it has a slow roll rate

 

Nice! thank you, but I do like the original breathers I think they look better, I will swap them out. Looks like fun, I'm going flying! see ya! ...........awe man I don't have dropbox on this computer, I'll get it...... Just found out Dropbox will allow you to download the file without downloading their app!....cool...going fly that baby Weather Ballon (UFO). Update....Just as I expected, incredible handling and lots of fun!

Edited June 4, 2016 by castille7
Don't have dropbox

[Colonel Cbplayer]

Here is a night time battle

 

[swjr-swis]

On 3/25/2016 at 8:22 PM, Rune said:

It is kind of a plane. And it fits for nighttime photo ops!

Your design, Rune?

It prompted me to try make something similar in 1.1.2. Obligatory nighttime pics for this thread:

Craft file included.