Exploring eve with my 205T Atomic plane

[gilflo]

After  desorbiting and landing to Eve with the Atomic plane "Eve Escaper", Jedediah is exploring Eve flying SW.

See here desorbiting and landing to Eve: 

First landing at 2300m, plant a flag then leave, searching for ocean

Approaching to land at 3500m

With the six big Torch engines from Atomic Age with Extendable cooling system, the plane can fly indefinitely.....

Repacking chutes

The plane is very strong and can support bouncing up to 20m when landing and touch down up to 10m/s. The trick is to stay on wheel once on ground without turning or rolling right or left.

Leaving for the 4th flight

Approaching 5000m summit for landing on top

Landed at 5000m, the plane is kneeled to allow jeb to get down to plant a flag and repack chutes

Taking off to try landing on higher point

High g load turn towards highest point

Short final

Bouncing landing to 13m

On ground

Take off heading south for ocean

Front part of Eve Escaper is Rocket system able to reach orbit when launch by plane at 14kms. Plane is destructed during process

[Wallygator]

This is pretty cool!

Only one thing... Desorbiting?  Is that what I do on a hot day in Rome after finishing my iced dessert?  ;-)  (Sorry could not hold myself back - all in good fun)

What mods?

Seriously, nicely done.Well done sir!

Edited May 1, 2016 by Wallygator

[gilflo]

De-orbiting, should I say!! sorry english is not my native language, but you guessed that yet !

This is a prototype

Mods: SpaceY for rocket engines and some strong Ejectatrons 5big sepatron) to eject the 60T shield used for Reentry, Atomic age for Nuclear plane engines, Heat management for Cooling system, Adjustable landing gear for gears, Real chutes for chutes, Tweakscale for engine scaling, Modular rocket system for some small vernors decouplers but I could have tweak scaled stock decouplers, RCS build aids to balance the monster, Magic Smoke industry Used to rotate shield to protect the the braking booster when aerobraking after Eve  orbit interception, pilot assistant to help during long cruise and for some tricky landing...SpaceY for launcher tanks and engines

All sciences stuff is optional. Speed brakes, cooling systems, science stuffs, ladders, all is ejectable when taking off to launch the rocket at 14000m

Lithobrake exploration Technologies can help for next ship with very long ladders, so that we won't need to kneel the plane to get out. That's luxury version!

The launcher launched the Eve Escaper with its return shuttle on its back. Total weight 5500T. I hope the return shuttle will support Kerbin reentry. Emergency plan is to launch one of my cargo SSTO to pick up the small capsule and land it on Kerbin....

I forgot B9 aerospace procedural wings for the wings, tails and flight controls. I love this mod!!

Edited May 1, 2016 by gilflo

[Wallygator]

Excellent!

Very nice indeed!

I need one of these to rescue three Kerbals from the depths of Eve.;)

[gilflo]

I need to complete my test flight, join the shuttle in orbit around Eve, fly back to Kerbin and I'll share it to KerbalX

But if you want it know I can leave it on dropbox. it's running in 1.0.5, not in 1.1.2. I can also leave it with the shield and mounted on the launcher, but it's a total 750 pieces ship, so your computer should lag a bit ....

I need adjustable landing gear mod to be update to run it on 1.1.2. Stock gear does not fit such a monster. It's not possible to align them correctly on 3 axes.

Edited May 2, 2016 by gilflo

[Wallygator]

No problem.  I might just reference your pics as a source of inspiration to build my own contraption and see how it goes. Worse case scenario is that three Kerbals radio Kerbin for more supplies ;-)

[gilflo]

Leaving now for the sea in the south

Take off and turn left heading 190°

Cruising at 6400m we can time warp 3 when flight is stabilized.

See the sea just at the equator.

During descent I cut the 6 atomic engines. The plane glide around 140m/s and descending speed (Vario) is 70m/s

over the sea, looking for a spot to land

We are going to see how is the land in the cape just in front

Breaking to land in line with the sand structure on the ground. We will turn 90° right to align.

Turning on final

Aligned on final

Touch down, chutes deployed

I don to know why but it is impossible to repack the chutes, so next landing without chutes, not a problem but landing run is longer, the most difficult in landing run being to control the roll....

Edited May 2, 2016 by gilflo