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Cryocasm

Cryocasm

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Aero-brakes come in forms of wing flaps and slats, though they don't "increase" drag, rather push the weight of the aircraft down towards it's rear gears...

An airbrake would actually be a pair of control surfaces, stacked vertically. The B-2 stealth bomber exhibits this behavior: its speedbrakes (airbrakes) are parallel before deploying into a V shape, therefore not introducing any vertical forces on the aircraft, only strict horizontal drag. Fighter jets reduce this to a big panel which is hydraulically forced into the wind simply because they have enough thrust to recover from dangerous situations, and they require the high-yield of these airbrakes, one must notice that the airbrake on, say the Su-27 Flanker, is top mounted, which makes it usable as a spoiler during landing.

The principle difference between a fighter jet and a commercial aircraft lies within their operative nature: one is meant to fly in unpredictable conditions and environments (enemy tactics etc), while the other is meant to fly on standard routes with only weather as its main "opponent", and enough research and training has been conducted to reduce or eliminate the effects of weather on an aircraft (commercial airplanes weigh in at +200 tons dry).

Aerodynamics interested me a for period of time a few years ago, and they are a very easily applied branch of physics, all you need to do is think logically and imagine airflows.

A much, much more difficult branch of physics is theoretical physics.

KSP gives a nice and simple approach to astrophysics, which helps make it a lot more understandable (although currently orbital mechanics are in the foreground with rocketry, while things like Lagrange points are excluded (due to the game mechanical complication, which is fine).

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Your knowledge of aircraft and aerodynamics keeps astounding me, dear Cryo...

And I actually didn't know that about the B-2...

Astrophysics has always been something of a draw on me, really... Along with orbital mechanics... Lagrange points do stumble me, bright as I am, though...

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Gonna throw these out:

Retractable gear for fighter jets a la F-16 / F-104 / what have you.

Opening and closing canopy.

Crew eject.

Conformal bomb or missle bays, with variation of stock connector, or maybe use the recently offerred Sparrow missle by Elesyan Empire: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/35065-0-20-Elysian-Empire-Advanced-research-Division-0-0-01-A-World-War-K-Mod

The LAZOR crowd will want the flexibility of using their weapons too.

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I'd like to see an animated bussard hydrogen ram scoop.

It would be folded up at launch, and then animate as it extended its pylons. The pylons would form a funnel shape, kind of like the ribs of an umbrella but forming a cone rather than an umbrella shape. Once extended the pylons would form a magnetic funnel to guide hydrogen/solar wind into the ramscoop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet

http://i44.tinypic.com/348redx.png

http://www.xenology.info/Xeno/Figures/17.3A.gif

EDIT: oh yeah, the purpose for this sort of thing wouldn't be as a single drive system, but as a kethane-style collector for various materials. One use would be to feed hydrogen into an anti-matter factory.

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kevin_nightwolf

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ahh another blender artist :)

i have been using blender since 2005 myself :)

keep going on the good work :)

i really like how the program have evolved. it is really great for pretty much anything and it does the same job as other softwares such as autocad :) (wich is a paid software)

if ya need any hellp. just message me :P

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How about remote tech compatible communication dishes, and some solar panels that look like these:

Sirius Satellite

In a broader scope, how about a pack dedicated entirely to solar panels based of of real design (complex ones, like Cloudsat's, Optus C's, and the Sirius panels), as well as remote tech compatible dishes that have a long ranges and some that are omnidirectional.

Thanks for the considerations,

Astrofox

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DennyTX

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How about a few Real-Life engines? (With no tankbutt) They'd present a big challenge because of their intricate layouts. Here are some suggestions:

http://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets_2/Diverse/U.S._Rocket_engines/AJ-10-118K.jpg

AJ-10-118K

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Common_Extensible_Cryogenic_Engine.jpg

Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine

http://www.rocket.com/files/aerojet/images/media/rs27a1.jpg

RS-27A

Let me know what you think :)

Cheers, CP

Would love a good looking part like this http://i.imgur.com/b3NE4Fyh.png?1

Are you talking about something like following?

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or

kAd3an4l.png

well, could somebody identify this out?

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