Ocean Surface Speed Record.

[GroundHOG2010]

I am already having trouble getting it in the water. :\'(

[Herra Tohtori]

I have reached temporary 246 m/s with SRB\'s using a design called Kingfisher Mk.I, but sustained speed is only about 180 m/s. Need to find some way to reduce drag (or, more likely, increase thrust).

I expect to see some improvements with optimizing the design further. I\'ll post screenshots at some point.

EDIT: 278 m/s...

However I am unsure if I\'m using the latest version of C-7 flight pack.

[Asmosdeus]

Dude post it. I don\'t care if its sustained or not, just the max reached speed.

[Herra Tohtori]

Very well, here\'s the current benchmark at 313 m/s (1,126.8 km/h, or 700.16 mph). Name of the vehicle: Kingfisher Mk.IV

Getting close to Mach 1... assuming, of course, that Kerbin\'s atmosphere is air and has NTP conditions at sea level. :

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[Gojira]

save please

pleasepleasepleaseplease

[Herra Tohtori]

Worry not, it\'s saved.

Here\'s the .craft file, should anyone be interested in trying it...

The hardest part is getting her to water intact. It requires very precise flying - wings must be level, yaw attitude close to neutral, and pitch should be around 24 degrees. Vertical speed should be less than 1 m/s. Approach and touchdown speed is 87-88 m/s.

It is a tricky plane to fly with all those SRB\'s bolted on the fuselage... Many Kerbals died to bring us this information.

Also, my findings suggest that the C-7 landing gear part is so durable that crash tolerance is, at this time, not a factor (though, again, I am unsure if that remains so in the latest C-7 - my installation may or may not be outdated).

The challenge here is two-fold:

1. To get the vehicle in water intact

2. To have as high a thrust/drag ratio as possible.

Weight is less of a concern here because the craft is supported by water. Therefore I went with a fairly long fuselage providing good pitch stability while in the water, tall hydrogear structure with wide prongs to provide roll stability, and as much thrust as I could pack on it while still keeping it capable of landing on the water without losing parts.

My next target is breaching Mach 1 (terran standard), or 340.29 m/s.

[Asmosdeus]

Oh my god...

That\'s just... wow. Will update the leaderboard!

[Newe6000]

I dont see what TB is carying on about. People seem to be doing perfectly fine.

[JupiterII]

I dont see what TB is carying on about. People seem to be doing perfectly fine.

Maybe he\'s a Tellarite

[Asmosdeus]

I dont see what TB is carying on about. People seem to be doing perfectly fine.

We\'ve almost gotten a boat to break the sound barrier, we\'re doing pretty good.

[HarvesteR]

Whoa, and here I was thinking it would be impossible to move in water faster than about 10m/s. Goes to show you should never underestimate the inventiveness of players, and the importance of emergent game design.

Nicely done!

Cheers

[Nooblet68]

Whoa, and here I was thinking it would be impossible to move in water faster than about 10m/s. Goes to show you should never underestimate the inventiveness of players, and the importance of emergent game design.

Nicely done!

Cheers

To be honest, it wouldn\'t really be possible without mods.

Luckily we have such an amazing modding community.

[CarolRawley]

Very well, here\'s the current benchmark at 313 m/s (1,126.8 km/h, or 700.16 mph). Name of the vehicle: Kingfisher Mk.IV

Getting close to Mach 1... assuming, of course, that Kerbin\'s atmosphere is air and has NTP conditions at sea level. :

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It\'s... beautiful. ^.^

[dbellmo2]

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That\'s Kerbal

[Tosh]

Hors concours:

Speed of 518 m/s has been achieved when crash-testing new amphibious landing gear. Gear has done pretty well

This cannot be considered as a \'speed record\' though because non-C7 parts were used.

[Asmosdeus]

I\'ll add your landing gear to the acceptable mods! I\'ll have to make a separate leader board...

[Tosh]

I\'ll add your landing gear to the acceptable mods! I\'ll have to make a separate leader board...

Well, then name that leaderboard \'damn cheaters\'. This is absolutely cheatin\' gear. It can land anything, anywhere and at any horizontal speed

P.S. Anyway \'518\' result should not be included even in the \'cheatin\' board\'. I\'ve used engines from Silisko Edition.

[tribal636]

After like 6 hours of trial and error I was able to get 231.9.

[Eissesh]

Here is my attemp...well, I know it\'s fair, but I just don\'t like to attach that enormous amount of wheels toguether, I feel like I\'m cheating, using some kind of weird bug of C7\'s pack, xD It\'s way too unrealistic for me. So, this is my ship, I didn\'t reach such a high speed, but I\'m proud of it ^^

[RedDwarfIV]

This is what happened to my Storm Petrel spaceplane when it hit water:

Here\'s it in orbit:

And yours survived it?

[Spoot Knight]

Out of curiosity.

This is what happened to my Storm Petrel spaceplane when it hit water:

Independence War 2?

[foamyesque]

Hah, that boat of Herra\'s is hilarious. My own hydrofoil speed record is around 230m/s, dunno if I still have the save around.

People need to learn to not take Tim seriously. He\'s wrong a lot more often than he\'s right.

EDIT: I\'ve gotten up to 305m/s now. Getting the last 10 is gonna be tricky though.