kerbiloid Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 Probably, already was here. Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Il-40, the descendant of Il-2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 While T-14 Armata may look not so much Kerbal, but actually it is, and this makes me enjoy it kerbally. Spoiler 1. A crewless turret, like in BDArmory. No need in imagining a gunner inside. 2. A sensor mini-turret on top, like in some BDArmory turrets. 3. All crew inside the signle cabin. No need in moving them or have two different interiors for the hull and the turret. 4a. A toilet in the cabin. So, they can sit there endlessly, like the Kerbals do. 4b. But they still appreciate Snacks. 5. A flying drone can be launched from it. As well, we can do this in KSP. 6. The Weapon Manager placement is unknown but probably on the turret. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted December 30, 2021 Author Share Posted December 30, 2021 (edited) Scania Aerobus 1986. This one is from the hermanos from Argentina. They essentially took a single aisle airliner cabin and shoved wheels on it. As we do on KSP!! (Yep, there's a 14" CRT TV there , over what I think it's the "galley"!!) (in pt-br, sorry) https://diariodotransporte.com.br/2017/01/15/historia-aerobus-o-aviao-sem-asas-da-argentina/ — — post edit — — A article in castelhaño with better pictures! https://www.revistacolectibondi.com.ar/2020/11/10/bigdatabus-scania-k112-galactico-bus-bala/ Edited December 30, 2021 by Lisias moar links Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Meanwhile I'm here cooing over the appearance of the Ka-26 family. The entire rear two thirds of the fuselage are detachable in case of need for a cropdusting module or misbehaving passengers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 We know about drop tanks for planes. How about a disposable wing? A Hawker Hurricane(yes it's a bi-plane Hurricane), there you could drop the top wing. Benefit is shorter takeoff and faster climb rate. You could then ditch the wing and you have an fast Hurricane. I assume you would keep the top wing unless you got into an fight, as I understand the wing had an parachute and was supposed to be reusable. The Soviet also tried with this but made an bottom wing who could be folded up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted January 3, 2022 Author Share Posted January 3, 2022 The Flying Pinto. (to bad it ended in tragedy - but…) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 17 hours ago, Lisias said: The Flying Pinto. (to bad it ended in tragedy - but…) Broke: whining about no flying cars Woke: ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 I could reference a certain DeLorean. Or a spacefaring Winnebago… But oh yeah, this thread is for real life contraptions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted January 5, 2022 Author Share Posted January 5, 2022 Bisnovat Mk1. Source: http://www.aviastar.org/air/russia/bisnovat_sk-1.php Source: https://www.armedconflicts.com/Bisnovat-SK-1-t43529 I don't have the slightest idea how in hell the pilot would see the runway on landing - but, again, 90% of my KSP airplanes have the same problem so…. Artistical Rendering: Source: https://www.scalemates.com/pt/kits/prop-and-jet-7229-bisnovat-sk-1--1048675 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 5 hours ago, Lisias said: I don't have the slightest idea how in hell the pilot would see the runway on landing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_St._Louis Spoiler (I have no idea, where did they take the LED indicator in 1927...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 8 hours ago, kerbiloid said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_St._Louis Hide contents (I have no idea, where did they take the LED indicator in 1927...) Never noticed before, the SoSL predates the development of the NACA cowling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 (edited) Frigate upper stage. (From the Lavochkin's bureau, the designer of Luna, Mars, and Venus crafts). Spoiler The flesh and blood of KSP. 1. Clipping parts? Meh, watch it irl. All tanks intersect each other in 3d. 2. Simple models, easy graphics? Forget it, that's for weaklings. Several tens of intersecting spheres, make you lazy CPU work. And a torus, of course. Real men don't use wear cylinders. 3. When you have not enough spheres, what should you do? Right. Just add more spheres. 4. Decoupling parts? That's how it works. Why not stick the nozzle through the toroidal tank and drop this tank in flight? It's just a one more decoupler and a "Space" press. 5. One could say "not enough struts". But it's a single part. Thus the craft on this picture doesn't require 300+ parts, so it makes it KSP-friendly. Spoiler 6. It's universal. You can stick it into everything, like in a spacecraft construction game. Spoiler Edited January 11, 2022 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 On 1/6/2022 at 2:22 AM, Lisias said: I don't have the slightest idea how in hell the pilot would see the runway on landing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 And three arrow lamps and buttons like in SB, to let the navigator advise the pilot where to steer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 (edited) F-117 Spoiler Based on its shape, designed by beginning KSP modders with Elite background. low-poligon rough intersection no face adjustment solid color texture (actually, no texture, just a gray rectangle assigned as a texture to every face) single pilot (just one interior seat, and they got tired to place the props) a lot of artifacts sticking out, just look at the very nose (clean the model? never heard about it) fins just extended normally from the fuselage instead of proper attachment the whole shape, equally appropriate for the KSP and the Oolite mods. *** B-2 The next of their models, v 0.2 of the mod. Spoiler Finally they have learnt the smoothing, but stuck with the rear edge of the wings and failed them, making a saw (cleaning the model after removing a vertex? never heard about it). The fins have been removed, because they had no idea how to extend them from the curved fuselage without making them look like dog ears. As the aerodynamics was anyway poor, and they got used to pilot carefully, so they decided to not have any fins at all, because they do everything by pitch & roll. Two pilot seats ahve been created. The pilot seat was cloned, and the two seats were symmetrically shifted aside, to avoid the epic with the props placing. *** Now they declare the v 0.3 release, with B-21 added. Spoiler Nothing is known for sure, but rumors say that they just set the rescaleFactor to shrink the model, because the previous one was not matching the stock hangar because originally they optimistically designed the B-2 model as a strategic plane with payload three times greater that it can carry in KSP. Edited January 12, 2022 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicTech Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 4 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: Based on its shape, designed by beginning KSP modders with Elite background. I love this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted January 12, 2022 Author Share Posted January 12, 2022 57 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: Nothing is known for sure, but rumors say that they just set the rescaleFactor to shrink the model, because the previous one was not matching the stock hangar because originally they optimistically designed the B-2 model as a strategic plane with payload three times greater that it can carry in KSP. Danm, Dude! TweakScale being used by the Pentagon was supposed to be a secret!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicTech Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 10 minutes ago, Lisias said: Danm, Dude! TweakScale being used by the Pentagon was supposed to be a secret!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheintochter Rheintochter und Rheinbote. When you first time discovered the symmetry button in VAB and can't stop playing with it. Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 https://ru-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Р-39_(танк)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru Not the tank itself is Kerbal, but the process of its development. Quote CreationEdit In 1947, they began to develop a light amphibious tank, which received the unofficial name PT-20 , and a floating armored personnel carrier based on it <....> buoyancycollected by special floats made of aluminum alloy filled with light filler. They were supposed to hang outside. This was a very strange decision, since it was planned that the floats would be transported to the crossing point by off-road trucks behind the tanks. In addition, the installation of the floats itself was accompanied by great difficulties, and in combat conditions , under fire, air raid , or, if necessary, a lightning throw became impossible. Understanding this, the decision was made in the USSR Ministry of Transport Engineering to abandon mounted floats. This greatly changed the technical characteristics of the tank. Now he had to stay on the water only due to his own buoyancy. <...> TestsEdit The first tests showed that the tank was not only unable to perform combat missions, but could not even swim normally. The weight distribution of the car was calculated incorrectly, because of which the tank dived strongly astern. But if this problem was somehow solved by temporarily installing those same removable floats on the stern, and sheets of steel were welded in front, then the lack of lateral stability and low buoyancy could not be corrected. In addition, the speed on the water was far from the calculated one. If the creators counted on 15 km / h, then it was only 7. At the same time, rivers had to be overcome. There, due to the current, the speed could become very low, or even negative. Attracted shipbuilders . They said that it is necessary to increase the diameter of the propellersup to 600 mm. But such screws simply would not fit in the tunnels of the bottom of the tank. Then they decided to make them collapsible and take them outside. Lower on water and raise on land. But such an arrangement required additional protection for the propellers . A month later, a second sample was collected. It was improved by equipping it with propellers outside the hull, and also shifted the axis of rotation of the tower by 240 mm towards the bow to reduce the trim . But tests showed that the tank only got worse. The maximum speed afloat did not increase, but remained the same, but the movement of the car on land due to the removal of the propellers turned out to be very difficult. In addition, due to the large distance between the first and second road wheels , the caterpillar was constantly dropped. As a result, samples of the R-39 tank were found not to meet the specified characteristics, and the project was curtailed. There was a proposal to test samples with further refinement, and conduct another test in a year, but such a proposal was rejected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 Junkers G-28. Passengers on the same cabin as the navigator, passengers on the wings, passengers everywhere!!! The best pictures I found, however, are from this video below: Spoiler And here another one with the history of the thing (and moar pictures!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Yesterday's XKCD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted January 16, 2022 Author Share Posted January 16, 2022 NYC's M-497 "Black Beetle" Turbojet Train. Oh the Kerbal Way!!! Source: https://www.american-rails.com/m-497.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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