Kerbin Circumnavigation Challenge - Reloaded [New Rules Once More]

[Jean Deaux]

Got mine done

Picture at Takeoff

And a perfect landing

[Zipmafia]

Here is my entry. I landed on the runway, but it didn't want to stay there. Nothing broken, but a hairy landing it was.

[Wooks]

This is my entry: A quadruple west / east circumnavigation (4 times, new record), landing on the runway with my ship "Lance 5", basically a large tube of liquid fuel with wings, with a cluster of 3 turbo jets set to action groups.

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Edited November 6, 2014 by Wooks

[BrainiacBlue]

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Kerbals of all ages.. I present my entry for the challenge. I call it the Winged Aircraft of Non-Groundness or WANG for short

http://i.imgur.com/KrGhWpC.png - Results

http://i.imgur.com/4LeAAaZ.png - About to land

http://i.imgur.com/WNLBId1.png - Jornie Kerman standing proud and slightly concerned that the craft is rolling forwards

I claim my place on the roll of honour!

Edited November 6, 2014 by BrainiacBlue

[Wooks]

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Kerbals of all ages.. I present my entry for the challenge. I call it the Winged Aircraft of Non-Groundness or WANG for short

Cool! I like your wang. No, wait, that sounded wrong.

[kahlzun]

dammit, did a whole circumnavigation eastwards, screenied the whole thing, and recovered the craft at the end without getting that vital F3 shot...

EDIT: Then again, neither did the previous guy. NVM, Here is Circus 1:

(For the record, my altitude peaked at 23451m)

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Edited November 6, 2014 by kahlzun

[Wooks]

I made an animated gif of my 4 times circumnavigation, working on a full video.

[zhollett]

Finally got around to completing this one.

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[Thunderous Echo]

Wait a second!

I think you need to revise the rules again.

The use of this exploit could reduce the distance that you need to fly your plane from 3769911 meters(assuming the plane is at sea level) to up to 2665729 meters, a decrease in distance traveled of 70.7 percent.

Or, if you travel in a straight line to the north pole and back:

That would decrease it to 1884956 meters, only 50 percent of the conventional distance.

Edited November 7, 2014 by Thunderous Echo

[Fleskhjerta14577]

Wait a second!

http://i.imgur.com/TkIbami.png

I think you need to revise the rules again.

The use of this exploit could reduce the distance that you need to fly your plane from 3769911 meters(assuming the plane is at sea level) to up to 2665729 meters, a decrease in distance traveled of 70.7 percent.

Or, if you travel in a straight line to the north pole and back:

http://i.imgur.com/gKD8gW0.png

That would decrease it to 1884956 meters, only 50 percent of the conventional distance.

Well, that ruins what my entry was.

[VincentS]

Bob made it around Kerbin. And he got it on tape :

(no mod, second design -- first one was short on fuel, added one tank). I used both in-game (x4) and video editor (x20) fast-forward to make the video under 3 minutes. I had to throttle down to conserve fuel and made an unpowered landing with not even a fuel unit left.

[nicky4096]

did it with enough fuel for a double circumnavigation, but im too lazy

took me 11 planes and over 20 flights to do this!

was lots of fun

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[nicky4096]

cut my time down to 39mins 49 sec but broke some wings at the end of the runway.

DAMMIT!

8 more hours of designing and flying planes to come...

[SRiley77]

My humble submission for this challenge

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Edited November 30, 2014 by SRiley77

[nicky4096]

nice one SRiley. i might retry this later, i have a really fast plane but because it is so tight on fuel i have to fly it with a vertical climb and a constant altitude of over 24950m, and keep going 25002m.

[CocoDaPuf]

I figured I'd pull the rockets off one of my spaceplanes and give it a go.

Here's my entry:

Edited December 2, 2014 by CocoDaPuf

[nicky4096]

nice. cant believe you did that in full-blown career mode...

[CocoDaPuf]

nice. cant believe you did that in full-blown career mode...

Well you know, that's really the biggest benefit to using reusable aircrafts, fuel is cheap. I fly a bunch of missions in career mode without any contracts to fulfil, as long as you're using spaceplanes (and not crashing them) it's like every mission is free.

[hoioh]

I was doing something for the Kadvent calendar and remembered this thread, so I rebuilt my plane to be all stock and no MechJeb (for flying anyway, I used it for about 5 seconds in the hangar to show off the specs) and flew it around the globe. One needs to be seriously bored to do this by the way (which I most thoroughly am on a sidenote).

Anyway, here goes the KCP-MK1 around the globe on jet fuel only:

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[ejudedude13]

My turn........ Doing it now. Attempting a low altitude plane that is hypersonic and uses turbojets. Also, the faster i go, the more efficient i am.... Its harder than it looks.

Edited December 13, 2014 by ejudedude13

[Sigma88]

I would like to know if all these ways of completing the challenge are accepted:

1- From east to west

2- From west to east

3- Polar: KSC > northpole > southpole > KSC

4- Polar: KSC > southpole > northpole > KSC

5- Any of the above, but on foot

[Right]

Circumnavigated west to east in this fish-like jet. All stock, no pluggins used. Thank goodness for time warp.

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Had to revert like 3 times from blowing the cieling cap haha

[GeneralMDBK]

Made it around without a hitch.

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Edited February 2, 2015 by GeneralMDBK

[Styles2304]

Figured I'd give this a shot with my SR-71. I saw that plugins are banned but it said it was a bit lax . . . is using TAC Fuel Balancer accepted?

[Flixxbeatz]

oh my god, too many entries to review. LOL gotta go each of them first

Figured I'd give this a shot with my SR-71. I saw that plugins are banned but it said it was a bit lax . . . is using TAC Fuel Balancer accepted?

from the frontpage:

-Any kinds of plugins (no matter what the use is) are NOT allowed. (Rule a bit 'laxed now, since I have accepted entries with Kerbal Alarm Clock and Crew Manifest, so any future entries using those plugins will now be added. The All-plugin ban are STILL in effect, though)