[Showcase] Post your failed projects!

[Entelin]

We probably have all made something that just didn't work out in the end, or didn't succeed in doing what we were designing it to do. Post those things here!

[Entelin]

Here's one of mine. I was experimenting with heavy asparagus designs, and trying to get as much DV as I could. In this attempt I was trying to make it such that I could drop the tanks separate from the engines, therefore saving on mass by not having engines around that were not doing anything part of the time. This one did sometimes fly ok, but all the structural bits negated any gains that might have been gotten from the engines.

Edited August 22, 2013 by Entelin

[Captain Sierra]

Here's one of mine. I was experimenting with heavy asparagus designs, and trying to get as much DV as I could. In this attempt I was trying to make it such that I could drop the tanks separate from the engines, therefore saving on mass by not having engines around that were not doing anything part of the time. This one did sometimes fly ok, but all the structural bits negated any gains that might have been gotten from the engines.

Img appears to be broken.

EDIT: WTF?! When I quote it, it works! What! Why!

[Entelin]

I had to swap the picture, the first one I posted was incorrect, you probably loaded the page while the link was pointing to a deleted image.

[rryy]

I don't have pics of it, but I can list them:

SSTOs (I just suck at making them. They can get into orbit, and that's it)

A Duna mining base (Too much testing went into it before I realized it was way too complex)

A Gilly base (Thought this would be a good idea because it was easier than Duna. I even got a rover and a probe there before it was cancelled)

A bunch of "cool-looking" aircraft that just didn't work.

[Giggleplex777]

That was as high as it got.

[Captain Sierra]

Yay, I am not the only one who has cluster mounted those little probe engines and actually launched something!!!!

My Javelin mk 0 launcher uses that. The earlier version of the mk 0 ended in . . . uh . . . torque pitch leading to rapid unplanned lithobreaking.

[Captain Sierra]

Other major failure of me: broke 2 rovers on Eve for various reasons. 1 was failure to hook up the KAS whinches and that meant rover dropped like a rock on skycrane decoupling.

[Sirine]

Mine was land on Eve, and the rocket can't even take-off...TWR not enought!

Follow by unable to lift off to Lower Eve Orbit...well, after 2 weeks. I finally made it.!

[astropapi1]

...TWR not enough!

Engineer Redux is your friend.

[Sirine]

Engineer Redux is your friend.

Thanks. Noted, will use it someday.