RobotsAndSpaceships Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) Built an Ares 1 replica. Edited February 18, 2015 by RobotsAndSpaceships Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellblazer Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) I just wanted to see how it would look up in space with the reflective metal. I think I found my new capsule. Thank you FASA! Edited February 18, 2015 by hellblazer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flixxbeatz Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Spent the past 3 hours building SSTOs (none of which even reached orbit), launching, and testing stuff. Also missions.Station construction.Built, tested, and perfected the Dunecrawler, the successor of Mobile Munbase. Ready to roll!Touchdown North Pole!BONUS: I've just made Jeb's dream come true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbootie Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Returned 3 Kerbs from Duna mission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallygator Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 I was cleaning up my Imgur files and deleting everything that has now become obsolete due to crashed saves... and I came upon this and it made me laughI was attempting to document a full scale Duna mission to retrieve maximum science points. Could have been fun, but sadly .90 broke the save.Still, I laugh at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capi3101 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Did a number of missions over the weekend. Pulled three spaceplane flights on Valentine's Day proper, one to recover Pantemone Kerman from orbit and two to deliver Barn Owl probes to LKO, with mostly successful landings afterwards (first Barn Owl flight didn't land level and I wound up tearing up a wing). Fulfilled a number of contracts, enough to upgrade the Runway to Level 3 at long last. I still need to upgrade my SPH, Tracking Station and R&D to Level 3, but that's it at this point.Probably the biggest thing I did this weekend was successfully complete the mission of the Vampire Bat 7; Jeb and Bob made a successful Mun landing, collected a bunch of science and headed back to Kerbin to rendezvous with the launch and retrieval plane, making the rendezvous with 9 m/s remaining. The re-docking mechanism worked as designed and the plane successfully brought the craft back to KSC. I do need to reinforce the undercarriage if I intend to use the craft again; she landed intact but was awful wobbly on takeoff and landing. Nevertheless, it was overall a great success - Mun and back, 500 science, all parts recovered, total mission cost was √3,500 (the cost of fuel). No, that's not a typo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogoob Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 This looks ridiculous but it works!!Mostly due to the tiny vertical stabilizer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingPete Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Launched my first proper spaceplane payload I had a probe contract come up, so rather than send it by rocket as I'd done before, I modified my SSTO slightly by simply replacing the passenger cabin and docking port with a cargo bay, and carried the probe inside it. There were a couple of small issues, such as the probe's probe core being mounted the wrong way up, and the two radial engines apparently being at a very slight angle which resulted in an uncontrolled rotation when firing. But the launch was successful, and Billy-Boblong returned safely for full launch vehicle recovery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motokid600 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 I just wanted to see how it would look up in space with the reflective metal. I think I found my new capsule. Thank you FASA!http://i.imgur.com/AsxPBGh.pngWow that looks superb. What is the tank on the side? That FASA as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus738 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 My Eve mission finally makes it to Eve.SteamshotSteamshot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiziz Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 So I finally got around to get Frederik and Meldas to mün. Had to do a few attempts at landing, seems I brought just enough fuel. Don't yet know if I can make orbit with whats left though. Thats for another day.Imgur seems to be down for maintanance right now, so I'll post the pics tomorrow when I get home from work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[email protected] Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) most of the time works as intended, and then there's this:http://giant.gfycat.com/MatureConcernedHarpseal.gifI love how the Capsule doesn't even move. I keep watching this over and over, mesmerized...Bill: "Did you feel something?"Jeb: Shrugs, looks at controls "All systems nominal."Both stare silently as cargo bay goes floating by. Edited February 16, 2015 by [email protected] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redd Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Bill: "Did you feel something?"Jeb: Shrugs, looks at controls "All systems nominal."Both stare silently as cargo bay goes floating by.This is strangely relevant to the screenshot I was about to post. In my case, Jeb, Bill and Bob were looking at the pretty fireworks, apparently not realizing it's their own ship that exploded into bits. This ship explodes each time I load it cause: a clipped part, and I even know which one. I just don't know how to solve it. Sucky part is that if I spam timewarp it'll load just fine, but I can't decouple the clipped part during timewarp and when returning to 1x speed it explodes. There goes my entire Jool mission Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IllicitMedic Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) Just doing some science on the Mun with current tech level. Edited February 16, 2015 by IllicitMedic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percyPrune Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Given all the discussion elsewhere, I thought I had better test to see if FAR was working properly.Below, I have just deliberately stalled the Tiger Moth-alike and gone into a tail slide. After taking the pic I pushed the rudder over, flipped it and dropped a few hundred metres nose down to regain flying speed before pulling out. (Test= passed)At the other end of the scale, size-wise, I took the Comet airliner out for a circuit of the bay. Climbing steadily at just over cruising power while executing a banked turn on the second circuit over the island. (Test= passed)Thanks to careful trimming, you will see that both planes fly hands off without Autostab/SAS, just using stick and throttle. I do sometimes put the SAS on when landing the Comet, but only because I am still flying with keyboard and I can't make more than 2 control inputs simultaneously!Mind you, these are both based on real-life aircraft. Not many pics survive of my attempts at aircraft design.Not many aircraft survive either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowZone Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 I experimented with rover cranes. From minimal to maximum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake9039 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 I made a life-like fj-1 "Hawk" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconiator Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Pretty routine refueling mission to refuel my station, so I won't post about that. what I did do though is discover that if I have a lot of fuel and don't use it all (I still need a little bit to de-orbit), I can actually land the thing for re-use. And even then, Mechjeb can spazz out on me. when it did that this time, I had to abort the landing and do it myself.I also recorded the whole thing: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
problemecium Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Today marks the rather un-momentous day I returned to KSP from a short break (I finally got to play Skyrim), so I did some mundane "Science data from space around..." missions and started preparing an asteroid redirect mission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacobT11 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Built an interesting ship with the TCA mod. It flies like a pig and eats through fuel, but just the fact that it can even get off the ground makes me so happy. Javascript is disabled. View full album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I thought it'd be fun to make a plane as sort of a "last hurrah" for KSP's old aerodynamic system. I'm not sure if FAR models ground effects. I know KSP doesn't, but this thing has so much lift and is so gentle you can pretty much scrape the ocean with confidence. I'm actually fairly certain it'd fly using FAR so I'll be saving the craft for another install.Javascript is disabled. View full album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellblazer Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Wow that looks superb. What is the tank on the side? That FASA as well?I believe so. They hold oxidizer and liquid fuel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theoderich Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 This looks ridiculous but it works!!http://i.imgur.com/EaZh9nw.pngMostly due to the tiny vertical stabilizer.I just had something similar build, but smaller, only 1.25m tanks on the side, but 6, 4 of which are just fuel and get ejected when empty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axelord FTW Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 (edited) I thought it'd be fun to make a plane as sort of a "last hurrah" for KSP's old aerodynamic system. I'm not sure if FAR models ground effects. I know KSP doesn't, but this thing has so much lift and is so gentle you can pretty much scrape the ocean with confidence. I'm actually fairly certain it'd fly using FAR so I'll be saving the craft for another install.http://imgur.com/a/grwXuIt's has a certain je ne sais quoi. A faint smell of vodka and squatting emanate from my PC as I view this. I am having naughty thoughts about tracksuits too, what's going on!I wonder how fair Ferram's Better Buoyancy would handle it actually skimming the water. Edited February 17, 2015 by Axelord FTW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiew Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Embraced B9 for heavy cargo lifting (orange tank + 2.5m monoprop in the bay).Rejoice at the 85 parts including cargo! Soooo much smoother to fly than a 150 part MK3 stock craft... Design needs refinement, don't like the canards, but it worked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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