Infiniglider Weight Lifting!

[kahlzun]

Hi all!

I'm sure all the players who have been around a while have heard of the Infiniglider glitch, where you put a lot of control surfaces on a plane and they generate thrust. If you haven't heard of it before, here's a video from Danny2462:

My challenge to the group is to build an infiniglider that lifts the largest mass.

To clarify: No fuel is allowed to be burnt at any part of the flight: solid, liquid, rcs, xenon. All no-nos.

You can mount engines if you wish for the extra mass, but you will need to show full fuel in your screenshots to prove it wasn't activated.

Also, all wings, winglets, canards and control surfaces must be stock. Basically anything with a 'lift' value.

You also can't use the Hooligan airship or anything of that sort.

To class as 'flight' for the purposes of this challenge, you must exceed 5000m ASL.

I'm not attaching my own attempt because a: I suck at doing these, and b: We all know this is a 'possible' challenge, I don't really need to prove it

Good luck!

LEADERBOARD:

1: 56.91T Mrbowdn

2: 22.57T JetPulse

3: 00.31T Tavert

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Edited July 6, 2013 by kahlzun

[Bioman222]

I have had my own problems with this glitch. Like landing.

Here's an example:

[SkyRender]

Well, it won't be winning any awards, but this infiniglider DOES work.

Though it can't really get much higher than this practically speaking... Still, a good start to the challenge.

[tavert]

Here's my most capable infiniglider (so far - haven't built many yet). Enough to lift an ant engine and an oscar-B way out into space.

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[The Lone Wolfling]

One thing to note: you can view the mass of the current craft in the map view now.

Also, large RCS tanks are probably the best weights.

I'm currently making a fresh copy of KSP, and then I'll try this.

[JetPulse]

ok, I'll bite... here's one I threw together in about 30 minutes. 22.57t for mass. It's not gonna get to space, but it flies well enough. It can do about 200 m/s near the ground.

[Mrbowdn]

Heres one

[kahlzun]

Wow, thats really good Mrbowdn, i didnt think we would get anywhere close to that!

That's enough mass to launch a reasonable IP stage!

[Mach56]

tavert's craft mass is actually is 0.31t. If you look down at Vessel Info next to the navball you will see what his/her craft weights at launch.

[kahlzun]

tavert's craft mass is actually is 0.31t. If you look down at Vessel Info next to the navball you will see what his/her craft weights at launch.

Well spotted, thanks for that!

I'm not sure how I mucked that one up :S