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Spoot Knight

Spoot Knight

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With updates I remade my Spoot Force One craft (Renaming it SC-01 Harbinger) to accomidate for the new fuel feeding system. The engines no longer gimbal by default on C7 2.15 and the use of a different vertical stabilizer on the ventral section reduces its maneuverability. It seems to be able to handle about six and a half - seven minutes of full burn, though when enough fuel is drained it begins to force the craft to point up. CaptainSlug\'s radial parachute and TiberDyne ASAS is still used.

Other reason the craft had to be remade was its service duration was cut by 1/3rd of what it normally was - as previously mentioned in the remade .craft the time is 6:30 - 7:00, what the old .craft became was 2:15.

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Spoot Knight

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May as well go about with a set of screens displaying the flight I just did of my revised SC-01 Harbinger. Beautiful flight it was, ground distance of about 620Km at an altitude of 20Km at speeds between 1,000 - 1,100m/s (Just above mach three!).

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Upon takeoff I immediately began to edge the craft heading west at a vertical pitch of 30 degrees, with throttle at 50%, maintaining pitch and trottle until reaching (Just under) 20Km.

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From this point the center engine is disabled from spending its fuel at approximately 00:04:30 MET, altitude and pitch is revised when necessary to keep vertical speed as low as possible.

You can also see the Mun descending into the horizon.

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As before the TiberDyne ASAS does an admirable job at keeping the craft pointed where I want it without jerky automated control. There\'s a lot of distance between the coastlines from this flight path.

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The fuel lines are necessary to direct fuel flow so the wing-mounted engines remain active after the center engine is disabled. Without the lines, the center engine remains active while the wing-mounted engines are disabled - this is undesirable obviously as it means 2/3rds of the thrust is gone rather than the 1/3rd it displays now.

About a full minute later the rest of the fuel was spent, meaning the SC-01 Harbinger held constant thrust for 12 minutes.

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Clearing the ocean, there was now land available to land in, however the path had to be altered to facing north as it had the largest flat plain. At an altitude of 150m and airspeed of 45m/s, the radial parachutes were deployed to allow its landing with the lack of deployable landing gear. This has also shown to be the least damaging parachute-assisted glide ever as only the two ventral stabilizers were damaged from the landing. The rest of the craft, being completely intact, would then be easily repaired and refueled for another sortie.

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Adding spoiler tags for ease of reading.

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