EVERYONE SHOULD TRY DOING LOOPS IN ROCKETS WHILE TRYING TO GET INTO ORBIT

[Soap]

Its really fun and amazing, and everyone should try it! Honestly, it's kind of hard but hey! Bob's face will bring you joy!

 

[joshudson]

Hey man. I've got rockets that don't make it into orbit if you don't do a loop.

[Rocket In My Pocket]

10 hours ago, joshudson said:

Hey man. I've got rockets that don't make it into orbit if you don't do a loop.

I lol'ed.

I've had a few of those myself.

[Superfluous J]

Pfft. My rockets do flips and loops without me even trying.

[monstah]

Oh, great. I thought I was the only one still crapping out my launches after thousands of hours of play...

[adsii1970]

4 minutes ago, monstah said:

Oh, great. I thought I was the only one still crapping out my launches after thousands of hours of play...

Nope, every once in a while I will still send up a contraption of extreme Kerbal abuse! I had one a while back that not only looped, but it spun as it did it...

[Geonovast]

I've had a few launches that tumbled and rolled so much I would just quit fighting it.  Instead I'd just gun the throttle while the engines happened to be pointing in the right-ish direction, then kill it for the rest of the roll.

Of course the best shuttle reentry I've had resulted in the thing tumbling for at least 20 km.  Only one to ever actually land in one piece.

[monstah]

1 minute ago, Geonovast said:

I'd just gun the throttle while the engines happened to be pointing in the right-ish direction, then kill it for the rest of the roll.

IMO that's the best way to try and recover, actually.

[adsii1970]

2 minutes ago, Geonovast said:

I've had a few launches that tumbled and rolled so much I would just quit fighting it.  Instead I'd just gun the throttle while the engines happened to be pointing in the right-ish direction, then kill it for the rest of the roll.

Of course the best shuttle reentry I've had resulted in the thing tumbling for at least 20 km.  Only one to ever actually land in one piece.

 

Just now, monstah said:

IMO that's the best way to try and recover, actually.

Hehehe... and so glad to hear that about reentry. That's my method, too...

[DAL59]

50% of my rockets spin around once before going up again.  

[Haruspex]

On ‎10‎/‎23‎/‎2017 at 7:44 PM, Soap said:

Its really fun and amazing, and everyone should try it! Honestly, it's kind of hard but hey! Bob's face will bring you joy!

 

No, thank you! If one of my pet thundersticks starts doing *that* again it just means that not enough flappy things were glued to the bottom! (also, that a random underling at VAB must be fired).

Edited October 24, 2017 by Haruspex

[joshudson]

5 hours ago, Haruspex said:

not enough flappy things

Low-part-count challenges for the win.

[G'th]

Watney said no barrel rolls Martinez.

[Urses]

On 24.10.2017 at 3:45 PM, monstah said:

Oh, great. I thought I was the only one still crapping out my launches after thousands of hours of play...

It's not crapping...

It's kerbal way for space

Now when i think about... lastly i build some 40k-salto for the win beasts...

Edited October 26, 2017 by Urses

[Vanamonde]

I have done this many times, though never intentionally. 

[captinjoehenry]

Oh yeah one of my older save had a great tourist rocket but it would always flip like crazy during the burn to orbit but it would work every time.  I called it the tourist tumble XD

[big bear]

What would be a challenge is NASA launching something taking account of real physics and doing some spins and making it into orbit.. although, would freak everyone out and probably get a few people fired but then again they can take it to tell their kids one day eh? "i flipped a rocked into orbit, i got fired for it"