High speed, Low altitude Plane Challenge

[Hodo]

Oh ho, you really asked the wrong person for this! I really doubt anyone else will be able to get any faster than this; if they can I'm sure I can push it to at least 1500 m/s.

Very nearly passed the altitude limit.

http://i.imgur.com/2CeYvlg.jpg

Arise from the dead!!!!

All Hallows Eve was last night.

[Alooohaaa]

Challenge accepted my dear Kerbonaut lets have some fun... May the greener win

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First try now lets push those boundaries in a form of competition

[mitel]

I see you and raise 300m/s! With one engine no less!

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/KDr6LhZ.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/3iGj2Bp.jpg[/IMG]

And with one RAPIER, no less!

This thing is actually incredibly hard to fly. It accelerates so quickly that you basically have 40 seconds to get to a good altitude and hold it till the nosecone blows up. It only has pitch control as well, cause yaw and roll were causing nasty oscillaitions that were killin my speed, man!
It's essentially the Top Fuel Dragster of aircraft. Have fun beating/copying it!

[BitPoet]

I just got one in the 1400s as well, didn't think to screen cap it.

A few problems appear at speed:  The first is altitude control.  Keeping it under any specific altitude is more luck than anything.  The second is that your aerodynamic nosecone, which you need to go that fast, blows up, dropping your speed.

Roll issues also appear, but they can be mostly mitigated by taking an elevon and turning it on its side.

Craft is basically:  nosecone, your choice of probe bodies, engine pre-cooler (both intake air and fuel, and it's light!), a FL-T100 fuel tank, a rapier, some wings and elevons to keep the thing in the air.

You'll also need a few seperatrons and a launch stabilizer to get it in the air.

 

edit: radiators do fix the overheating problem, but I think the airbreathing rapier runs out of power at ~1400m/s

Edited February 2, 2016 by BitPoet
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[ihtoit]

yep, RAPIER engines don't generate power, you need an RTG to fix that issue.

[Kerbin vonKerbal]

My attempt... I couldn't get a single m/s over 1,141 meaning I didn't quite beat the record, but matched it with Aloha above me. But here's my craft. Her name is "REALLY FAST". 

 

 

The elevation aspect of the challenge didn't become a problem until about 1,000m/s. That's when the nose would start forcing itself up, but until then I could hold steady and it wouldn't raise at all. There's 8 Whiplashes mounted to the jet in total. Good luck anyone else who tries. 

 

 

 

 

[AquaAlmond Productions]

Here's my submission. The plane's name is the SB-2 Albatross self-proclaimed fastest plane in KSP capable of reaching speeds of above 2800 M/S at altitudes of under 30,000 meters.

Here is my submission, it reached 1385 M/S @ 1801 meters

Check out the original air speed run where it reached 2710 M/S on my channel!

Channel link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMahyasjKNXy3hZU3IxPsUA

 

[Spudrotuskutarsu]

The Dumbelbee x2

1400m/s @ 1930m

 

 

[Pds314]

On 5/19/2013 at 10:39 PM, Ekku Zakku said:

Omg, I never thought to use fuel from those tiny probe tanks! XD time for me to try again!

 

On 11/19/2014 at 9:00 AM, nicky4096 said:

just got to 440 m/s!

 

On 11/1/2015 at 9:04 AM, AeroArchonite_ said:

Oh ho, you really asked the wrong person for this! I really doubt anyone else will be able to get any faster than this; if they can I'm sure I can push it to at least 1500 m/s.

 

 

Just pointing out that this thread went for 18 months with no posts... and got necro'd... Over a year ago.

And got Necro'd, 3 months ago.

Please. For the sake of continuity, a mod needs to lock this thread. It isn't worth keeping alive.

For reference, EVERY SINGLE spaceplane part (besides one particularly weird winglet) has been overhauled since the creation of this thread, as well as aerodynamics, thermodynamics, and structural physics.

Edited February 17, 2016 by Pds314

[selfish_meme]

10 hours ago, Pds314 said:

 

 

 

 

Just pointing out that this thread went for 18 months with no posts... and got necro'd... Over a year ago.

And got Necro'd, 3 months ago.

Please. For the sake of continuity, a mod needs to lock this thread. It isn't worth keeping alive.

For reference, EVERY SINGLE spaceplane part (besides one particularly weird winglet) has been overhauled since the creation of this thread, as well as aerodynamics, thermodynamics, and structural physics.

Did you report, nothing will get done without reporting it