SM Aeronautics Release Thread

[SasquatchM]

Added SM Bussard Ramjet

[MR4Y]

Perhaps a common scramjet engine could be added?

[Catsceo]

To be honest I have no idea. I have been unable to recreate this bug myself. I am wondering if it is actually a math error somewhere as there are only 10 "units" of thorium in the engine.

Yeah, the fuel disappears in an instant. It really sucks because I like using your engine for my interplanetary voyages, but using it in 0.20 is so annoying. I still have the old version of the FFR before the xenon injector. I'll test it and see how it goes.

[MR4Y]

One thing I'm still not getting.

The FFR uses all it's fuel in two burns at full speed while in vaccum. I'm not sure how to make it last more than that.

Also, with some clever enginering, a space plane with two PDE engines can produce enough thrust to escape Kerbin's SOI. I tested yesterday and acheived a maximum speed of more than 4000 m/s.

Edited June 5, 2013 by MR4Y

[BigFatStupidHead]

Good to see all the stuff in one place, and updated. I like the SM-S enough that I had replaced the stock aeronautics with it.

[MR4Y]

More testing with PDEs. Using the exact same plane as before, it had enough thrust to leave Kerbol's SOI.

[MR4Y]

And here's the offender thingy. The Point Blank:

Orbiting...

...I mean, leaving Kerbin's SOI:

A little more thrust and we can leave Kerbol's SOI as well:

Reentering. Yes, the plane has enough fuel, air and thrust to return from that escape trajectory:

And disaster, cause I tried to land the plane going backwards:

The results:

[SasquatchM]

One thing I'm still not getting.

The FFR uses all it's fuel in two burns at full speed while in vaccum. I'm not sure how to make it last more than that.

Also, with some clever enginering, a space plane with two PDE engines can produce enough thrust to escape Kerbin's SOI. I tested yesterday and acheived a maximum speed of more than 4000 m/s.

The rear-mount PDEs I made more or less for that purpose. I thought they would be fun to use for silliness like space-superiority fighters and whatnot. The radial mounts are a bit more balanced

[MR4Y]

The rear-mount PDEs I made more or less for that purpose. I thought they would be fun to use for silliness like space-superiority fighters and whatnot. The radial mounts are a bit more balanced

I belive this could be used as a true space plane with a few more tweaks and more air. One extra compressed air tank and the ability to disable fuel crossfeed with action groups might make it able to go to moons and perhaps planets.

[SasquatchM]

I landed a plane on the Mun when was first playing with these engines. I am considering making a docking ring with long range engines and fuel reserves for transport.

[MR4Y]

Also, on the FFR thing, I had an issue where decoupling the stage before it while activating it at the same time makes all the fuel burn out at once.

[SasquatchM]

I'm going to poke around at the FFRs a bit more soon. I really am thinking it is a math error over 500000 isp compared to an average of 330 or so makes for way more decimal points

[SasquatchM]

So it turns out excited hydrogen actually emits a pink glow. Should I update the BRJ to reflect this?

[Mekan1k]

Sure. Actually, could you set the download up so that there is a choice, between the blue and pink glows? (I don't really like pink)

[Scotius]

Pink? Gah, no! Make it purple'ish at least. Or reddish glow. No one says kerbal hydrogene is exactly the same as ours

[MR4Y]

I personally don't mind the flare color, as long as the engine work, xD

I'm yet to test the Bussard Ramjet

[localSol]

Pink sounds cool to me, I like these unique engines.

[Kerbal01]

Can you tone down the heat production in the next release of the PDE's? I don't want them exploding during a high speed run.

[MR4Y]

Can you tone down the heat production in the next release of the PDE's? I don't want them exploding during a high speed run.

I don't think you even need to use them at 100% throttle. I can easily go past 4 Km/s with just two.

[SasquatchM]

All you have to do is strut them to something else, 2 struts will definitely do it, and heat shouldn't be an issue

[MR4Y]

Is the FFR working properly now?

[SasquatchM]

Added Ducted Fan VTOL Engine.

Still playing with numbers with the FFR. Sadly I still have not been able to recreate the fuel bug.

[wasmic]

I just had the FFR bug, too. Maybe make thorium weigh 1/1000 of what it does now, and make it contain 1000 times as much thorium? And also make thorium only make a one thousandth of the FFRAccelerant that it does now.

EDIT: I made this really nice ISA MapSat probe for mapping the Mün, powered by an FFR, but I had to give up. Thrice in a row, the FFR had the bug before completing the LKO→Mün transfer.

Edited June 13, 2013 by wasmic

[SasquatchM]

Updated resource cfg and part cfg on the FFR to hopefully eliminate the vanishing fuel bug

[Scotius]

Yay. Thank you SM. Will test it after getting back home. Do you have any plans for another advanced engine?