Eve Escaper

[gilflo]

Hey guys

I built an odd machine, a mix between a nuclear plane and a rocket to reach orbit. I hyper edited it on Eve.

The nuclear engines of the plane brings up the whole thing at 13000m where the rocket is released. The top of the rocket can reach a 110 kms orbit.

Eve escaper can also be used to fly over Eve and is able to land.

I got some idea to de-orbit the thing and descent on retrograde protected by tons of ablator.

What I do not know is if it will support the transition between retrograde and prograde, once under 13000m.

This thing is "fragile" and very tricky to pilot. I only pilot it through pilot assistant because it looks like you are always on the top of a pin when flying under 5000m over Eve.

Landing must be a kiss if you do not want to destroy the 200T ship. I made some test flights and managed to land it near the sea.

You can sea that on a vid, take off is touchy - i used bank 0 on Pilot assistant and the gear suffered on landing, due to braking, but did not break. Since that I did some improvement.

Take off is much better, don't need to jump on Bank 0, and landing seems better with a pair of chutes.

 

 

 

 

Edited March 24, 2016 by gilflo

[Guest]

Wow, that thing is huge!

[gilflo]

Just 196T, no so big.

It use the nuclear jet engines from Atmic Age by Porkjet