Add back radial Mk16 Parachutes!

[Daddy Cecil]

Hi,

I've been playing since .18, and got inspired by KurtJMac's KSP series. In an episode, I saw him attaching Mk16 parachutes (the little ones) to a lander. I wanted to do the same. But I couldn't do it for some reason. Now I have a bit of a dilemma. I want a detachable escape tower for the Mk1 pod, and the current radial parachutes look obnoxious for such a small pod. If the Mk16 unradialability was an accident, or even intentional, I would love to see it back.

[DisarmingBaton5]

I always turn on part clipping and put an octagonal strut inside a mk16 chute. Looks surprisingly nice during reentry and descent.

That said, radial mk16 chutes were nice, and I might like to see them back. My first reliable, capable orbiters were called "Kerpupines" due to the spiky look of 3x chutes around the top (front? nose? bow?) of the pod. That was in 0.17.

[SunJumper]

AFAIK, the radial parachutes have the same mass as the little inline ones, too.

[Daddy Cecil]

Yeh, but they look rather ridiculous strapped onto the Mk1 pod, no?