Why did we build it when we didn't use it???

[Mars Rover]

Hello Community-Members,

new day, new Challenge!!

Every start I see the runway near the Space Center and think 'Hey why did they build it, because i never use it'

My Challenge is to land on the runway by using the C7-Parts. When it\'s too easy make one Orbit and land.

I want an Video of the SUCCESSFULLY landing

NO VERTICAL PARACHUTE LANDINGS

PARACHUTES TO MAKE YOUR AIRCRAFT SLOWER ARE ALLOWED

[Sordid]

[Volt]

Much more difficult with 0.11 than with previous versions, especially with all the buggy behaviour in stalling and lack of any soft ground at the moment.

[comradephil]

Nah, easy enough, I\'ve made landings with some behemoth planes without shutes, sadly, my computer doesn\'t like fraps and KSP running together

[Zeroignite]

Better challenge: use the top of the VAB as a helipad.

[Cannon_Fodder]

A lot of people use the runway right now. Normally in combination with the C7 flight pack.

In future editions the runway will be more useful, have proper markings, and possibly have horizontal take off options.

My completely uneducated guess is after .12 and the moon that hopefully the runway and horizontal take off (and 'pick-a-pod') will be started for .13

[comradephil]

I can\'t wait for runways on the moon

[boolybooly]

I can\'t wait for runways on the moon

My immediate reaction to that was *cool idea* but then it struck me, what use would a runway be on a mune without an atmosphere ? 8)

It would have to be VTOL, but you could use RCS as the gravity should be much lower.

I want one of the

from UFO.

[comradephil]

It was rather more of a joke than a real suggestion

A runway on mars or the kerbal equivalent of it might be interesting though. flying in an atmosphere a third as thick or whatever.

[frenchie16]

My immediate reaction to that was *cool idea* but then it struck me, what use would a runway be on a mune without an atmosphere ? 8)

Well, because there\'s no atmosphere on the moon, you could accelerate horizontally directly to orbital velocities, assuming you have enough thrust/a long enough runway. Based on my understanding of the Oberth effect, a horizontal takeoff might actually be the most efficient way to leave the Mün\'s surface?

(On a mostly-unrelated note, you\'ll be able to do things like enter a lünar(?) orbit that just barely misses the surface. That should be fun.)

[boolybooly]

It was rather more of a joke than a real suggestion

Yahaha! You say that now...!! ;P

Would a friction generating collision on a tangent to the surface be sufficient to land though I wonder?

[DYJ]

If we had shock absorbing landing gear yes, most likely. With the current rigid ones I\'m afraid that most moon landing would result in a bounce putting you back into space.

[Sordid]

On a mostly-unrelated note, you\'ll be able to do things like enter a lünar(?) orbit that just barely misses the surface. That should be fun.

Oh, oh! There absolutely MUST be a rock arch on the moon. Challenge: Orbit through the rock arch!

I\'m so going to pester Harvester with this idea. ;P

[boolybooly]

If we had shock absorbing landing gear yes, most likely. With the current rigid ones I\'m afraid that most moon landing would result in a bounce putting you back into space.

Needs a runway made of a pile of dust and a snow plough for landing gear.

[frenchie16]

Oh, oh! There absolutely MUST be a rock arch on the moon. Challenge: Orbit through the rock arch!

I\'m so going to pester Harvester with this idea. ;P

…oh my goodness. 8)

If there isn\'t, it will certainly call for a custom 'giant lunar arch' part which must be landed on the moon in some kind of ungodly megarocket and THEN orbited through…

[Herra Tohtori]

If there isn\'t, it will certainly call for a custom 'giant lunar arch' part which must be landed on the moon in some kind of ungodly megarocket and THEN orbited through…

THIS IS KERBAL 8)

[RangerDanger75]

and 'pick-a-pod' will be started for .13

Harv said the option to choose different command modules has already been coded for 0.12