Kerbal Air Combat

[CombatWombat]

Launch yourself and another vehicle. Split off, come around, and ram it. Stock parts preferred.

[Tim_Barrett]

Too bad we can't control objects easily after ejection, because then we could make a realistic multiplayer simulation.

[Niarro]

What if we fire and hit said flying thing with a kerbal missile? XD

[Sordid]

What if we fire and hit said flying thing with a kerbal missile? XD

That's what I'm thinking. Kamikaze is all well and good, but a true master would shoot the target down with a missile launched from his own craft.

[Cannon_Fodder]

There is a Stock SRB only orbit and safe return no parachute challenge. That plane gives me all kinds of ideas for return vehicle.

EDIT: Never mind, those tiny wiglets provide NO lift.

[CombatWombat]

The lift provided by winglets is really very broken (but I'm sure this is known and being worked on). On landing approach, I have managed to go to 90 degrees angle of attack. And it didn't stall. So that plane will 'fly' down to about 10 m/s with its nose pointed vertical. Of course it still explodes instantly upon touching the runway.

I tried firing rockets from it, but anything slung underneath makes it unflyable. A completely different design might work though.

And I'm a bit worried over the behavior of parts that have separated from the main craft. I've been able to build planes that can glide by themselves (using fins and/or radial decouplers on the top to create positive pitching moment, to keep the nose up). This works as long as the active capsule is there. If you duplicate the entire thing, but now separate it so that it's on its own, it will just go into a sort of parabolic dive.

Furthermore, SAS modules that are jettisoned no longer function. I think if they are 'on' at the time of jettison, they should remain active *for the stage they are attached to*. I think these fixes are necessary for 're-usable parts' for more traditional rockets as the game progresses.

[Spiz102]

If you modded an SRB to allow it to fire when already detached you could mount it on the nose of your craft and use a LES to pull it clear..... although you would have to mod the command pod to allow a 1m decoupler to be attached to the nose