Kerbal airliner

[Captisaac21198]

Your challenge is to create an aircraft and try to get as far a distance as possible. But wait! there\'s more. You will also try to 'Carry passengers' using the structural fuselage.

Rules- Plane must be stock, one stage (no boosters), must stay in atmosphere, Must take off from runway (just no vertical rockets)

scoring- Scoring is simple. Distance over ground x Passengers carried (for one structural Fuselage = 1 Passenger)

extra points---

rockets only = 500

below 8,000 meters = 1000

successful landing = 1500

Good luck

Leader board---

[Nooblet68]

I do feel the first two items on the \'extra points\' are a bit redundant. Using rockets only seems a slight bit selective, and doesn\'t really balance out the fact that rocket engines won\'t equal the efficiency of turbojets, and the \'above 10 000m\' is almost a must to maximise distance. It\'s not that hard to achieve.

[Vostok]

The bonus should be \'below a certain altitude\' since aircraft are a lot less efficient lower down, as the drag greatly reduces speed.

[Captisaac21198]

The bonus should be \'below a certain altitude\' since aircraft are a lot less efficient lower down, as the drag greatly reduces speed.

I hadn\'t thought off that, i will change it

[Captisaac21198]

I do feel the first two items on the \'extra points\' are a bit redundant. Using rockets only seems a slight bit selective, and doesn\'t really balance out the fact that rocket engines won\'t equal the efficiency of turbojets, and the \'above 10 000m\' is almost a must to maximise distance. It\'s not that hard to achieve.

That\'s the point off the rockets only, they are inefficient. It makes it slightly more difficult

[Hammaneggs]

If you look on Kurtjmac\'s video on youtube, I think he is the winner at the moment.

[Nooblet68]

If you look on Kurtjmac\'s video on youtube, I think he is the winner at the moment.

I highly doubt. I\'ve seen people go 1/4 the way around Kerbin with these parameters, whilst KurtJMac only really does space ventures.

[funfight22]

Kurt flew to the north pole..., in atmo with a spaceplane.

[Nooblet68]

Kurt flew to the north pole..., in atmo with a spaceplane.

Oh. Okay. I have seen that before, but...

I\'ll be trying to circumnavigate half of Kerbin then.

EDIT: Actually, I do have a craft that can fly forever. It\'s called \'The Magic Turbine\'.