The satisfaction of successful flight

[gslarmour]

I've been toying around with hyper-sonic planes recently and have finally settled on a pretty stable design. As soon as my circumnavigation test-flight is complete, I'll upload some photos.

Getting to the satisfaction part, there's a giggle moment when you hit 35km at 1900m/s with both engines chugging along nicely when you look out of the cockpit and see the rotation of the planet beneath you because you are travelling at just shy of Mach 6. The look on Jeb's face, of course, helps this feeling.

Just thought I'd share in my delight.

Just over 4000km flown.

Edited November 12, 2013 by gslarmour

[Whackjob]

I know that feeling well. I get the same thing when I manage to take something around a million tons and actually manage to shove it into orbit without giant chunks shearing off.

[Sirrobert]

A yes, I know that feeling. Just now I managed to get my Moho transfer stage into orbit, with 300 deltaV to spare. Sounds like alot, but when I want the droptanks to stay on I can't rely on Mechjeb to calculate deltaV for me. So it was a frustrating mess of constandly almost getting it, than trying again, than throwing the 3th Kerbal out of the cockpit, than repeat the same thing. Over and over and over. Next on the list: 5 launches to refuel the damn thing. Than dock it to the lander. Than send up the engines.