Mazlem Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Here's my entry for the stock manned True Maching Bird club. I got Bonneville up to 2338m/s on it's return run, coming back into the atmosphere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Arn1e Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Right, here is my entry for the Maching Machine Club (Manned, MachJeb):Going fast:Results: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyhawk Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Alright, I guess I'll bring back the Stock Unmanned Exploitational Category. I present to you my newest creation, the Hawk. It's very prone to accidental suborbital hops, and even escaping Kerbin's SOI. The highest speed overland while in Kerbin's SOI was 8,401 m/s. The highest solar orbit speed I achieved was 190,735 m/s, or somewhere in the realm of mach 560. Javascript is disabled. View full albumI imagine that we should probably judge by speeds on Kerbin, as the solar orbit speed was actually the result of what on Kerbin would have been a slower flight than the other Mach 24 flight. It's your choice, but I feel that the solar orbit speeds are not truly indicative of the actual speed of the craft, and instead luck of the draw when flying out of Kerbin's SOI. I'd like to then enter my Mach 24 8,401 m/s speed of the Hawk into the Stock unmanned exploitational category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambisinister Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Alright, I guess I'll bring back the Stock Unmanned Exploitational Category. I present to you my newest creation, the Hawk. It's very prone to accidental suborbital hops, and even escaping Kerbin's SOI. The highest speed overland while in Kerbin's SOI was 8,401 m/s. The highest solar orbit speed I achieved was 190,735 m/s, or somewhere in the realm of mach 560. http://imgur.com/a/HZroMI imagine that we should probably judge by speeds on Kerbin, as the solar orbit speed was actually the result of what on Kerbin would have been a slower flight than the other Mach 24 flight. It's your choice, but I feel that the solar orbit speeds are not truly indicative of the actual speed of the craft, and instead luck of the draw when flying out of Kerbin's SOI. I'd like to then enter my Mach 24 8,401 m/s speed of the Hawk into the Stock unmanned exploitational category.How does the Hawk work? That's actually pretty impressive despite exploits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyhawk Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 It's effectively a probe core with a solar panel on the front and a ton of small control surfaces on the back. By spamming the up and do buttons it flaps it's way to ridiculous velocities. After a few of these were created for the last leaderboard, we were given the 'Stock Unmanned Exploitational' category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peadar1987 Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 I've got a .23 FAR version, top speed of 2,032 m/s. I'm using a few mods, like clouds, chatterer, Kerbal alarm clock, and KER, but none that should affect the performance apart from FAR.So, for your appreciation, the SUSA 4:Turns out, while she's perfectly capable of a powered landing, her glide profile is atrocious. Mus remember to make sure she has fuel for landing next time, or at least a 'chute! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discus Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Hi Guys,after some hours building and testing on many different planes i came to the result that ~2378 m/s seems to be the limit for ,,normal constructions,,.To beat this mark i came up with a spaceplane named ,,TRB 1,,This plane is manned only use liquide fuel! All ruels are observed and no modds or machjab were used.This was my first record try with this plane and it ends at 2508,4 m/s !The concept behind this plane made even higher speeds easy possible. kind regards discus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discus Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 (edited) .......... Edited April 2, 2014 by discus double post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godefroi Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 So, was my attempt disqualified for some reason, or is the leaderboard simply unmaintained? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyhawk Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 So, was my attempt disqualified for some reason, or is the leaderboard simply unmaintained?This challenge generally goes unmaintained for a while, until the creator looks at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesbiotic Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 (edited) after some hours building and testing on many different planes i came to the result that ~2378 m/s seems to be the limit for ,,normal constructions,,.I'm pretty sure your plane will be disqualified for being decoupler powered, see; (http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/39947-From-the-launchpad-to-the-Mun-in-13-seconds) but I just wanted to challenge what you said hereSince it's been like a month since my entry I've decided to share the prototype design I was holding onto the past few weeks while waiting for someone to beat my recordHere's the results from the run I did todayOrithiya SuperRunway beauty picRunway moving picFlight pic 1Flight pic 2 (at speed)Flight log2418 m/s top speed! Mach 7+ and breaks the 2400 m/s "wall" 100% stock, 100% single turbojet powered, and nothing is modified. Edited April 2, 2014 by Lesbiotic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discus Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Ok looks like iam wrong with 2378... give me some time to beat it...(without any decoupler (are you sure that you dont use hack grafity or infinite fuel?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hodo Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 I've got a .23 FAR version, top speed of 2,032 m/s.So, for your appreciation, the SUSA 4:http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/yy142/peadar1987/screenshot28.pngGood looking craft there, I can help you make it faster. Lose some of the intakes, you don't need to airhog intake spam with FAR, all it does is create excess drag. And I would strongly suggest updating your FAR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Arcana Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 (edited) I apparently won't enter my most recent flight; it used part clipping only for the airhog intakes, but here it is anyway Edited April 5, 2014 by CombustibleSanic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace_Warbringer Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 (edited) My Machingbird challenger. the "Thrust Exercise"stock .23 with FAR. no parts clipping or such.Clean image on RunwayThis was originally going to be a spaceplane but while fooling around with the balancing act I noticed something. those tanks were emptied for the challenge but left in place.In flight, KSP in background upper right.LudaCRist SpeEd!!!End flight shot. Note what the craft is doing. @_@Edit for pics not coming up. Edited April 16, 2014 by Ace_Warbringer bloody pics didnt come up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingtj44 Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 I pretty much did this just for the LOL's but actually got surprising results My K-71 Stealth Bomber had a highest speed over land of 2,135 m/s. I know this hardly competes with the other entries, but keep in mind this craft was built to deliver a payload and have a long range, not to fly extremely fast that's just a bonus.On the runway...Ascending to its pathetic service ceiling of 25,000 meters when compared to the other entries.Speeding up.The payload bay of the bomber. As you can tell, certainly not built for speed.Main cockpit view.Successful landing with fuel to spare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingtj44 Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 (edited) OK now for my serious entry, the V Sabre, named such because of its distinctive experimental "V" shaped wing design. I was able to get it up to 2,367 m/s,putting me in the top 5 speeds of the leaderboard Also I apologize ahead of time because during and after my little space trip during the flight, it became night time so pictures were not that good.RunwayTaking off!Ascending into the heavens...Whoops...accidentally jumped into space Falling too low into the atmosphere and beginning to lose speed. Topped at 2,367 m/s. The rest of the flight was me pretty much wasting fuel trying to regain altitude. Flight log shot. I started slowing down again after I had fought really hard to stay at altitude, hence my complete lack of fuel. Edited June 2, 2014 by Kingtj44 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrike42 Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Aw, it's over? What a shame. I'd broken my hand and couldn't fly for months. Pity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz66boy Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) Here goes:The cleverly named "Untitled Space Craft"Stock, manned, 2355 m/sOh, and it looks like a plane Ground:Flight:Fastest I got:Note: I did eva the guy in space, but no monoprop was used. Edited July 14, 2014 by buzz66boy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendl Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) Well here's my first attempt, I'll be improving later This was manned, stock, pretty much as vanilla as it gets.https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6t2w7905c268yv7/AAAl_Cx4NWDGwdB1Ro743rb6a Edited July 14, 2014 by Bendl broken links Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrade Jenkens Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 I wasn't attempting the challenge but this seems to be an unmanned contender: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidparks21 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 At these speeds, who even needs wings, they just slow you down. Sure takeoff is interesting, straight down the runway to about 100m/s, then go wildly squiggly doing everything kerbanly possible to point the right end towards the sky. After that it's smooth sailing.2325m/s was the final number before I ran out of gas.Javascript is disabled. View full album Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lego8_bit Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 is it ok that I upload I video of my challenge entry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lego8_bit Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 how many parts are on that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravaar Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 (edited) My simple first entry, will tinker with it and improve its speed100% Stock, No MODS at all, No Clipping, No stacking of intakes (just a lot of scoops), Didn't break 37,000 meters altitudeJavascript is disabled. View full albumFinal speed 2227 m/s over land Edited October 7, 2014 by Gravaar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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