totm june 2018 Work-in-Progress [WIP] Design Thread

[andrew123]

Ohio Class SSBN.

Missiles installed, work on revised outer hull is resumed. The length of the submarine is insane, and I lengthened it after taking the picture.

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[Comrade Jenkens]

Still ironing out the kinks but the Gn-24 is almost finished. I decided that its going to act as a mothership / cargo hauler rather than a military ship.

It packs an roughly 12,000 dV and then a further 3000 on the ion drives alone!

[ArcticX9]

This is the Kaze, a high speed transport craft designed for carrying space probes to altitude before launching them.

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It's a bit finicky during high speed turns and landings are generally frightening as it tends to veer off course and roll over when landing at higher speeds.

[xoknight]

[SHaFT7]

Make sure you weld those pieces

[xoknight]

Well, 300 struts later I got it to support it's own weight and move. Now I just need to add the other chassis and a humongous gun.... another +1500 parts...

[Mareczex333]

Designing suspension for a car

[iClarion]

Designing suspension for a car

What technique did you use to create that effect? It's amazing! How does it perform against regular suspension in a hairpin turn? Or flipping up on a hard stop? On the Mun?

There's so much potential for realistic experiments with a concept like that! Good stuff!

[Mareczex333]

What technique did you use to create that effect? It's amazing! How does it perform against regular suspension in a hairpin turn? Or flipping up on a hard stop? On the Mun?

There's so much potential for realistic experiments with a concept like that! Good stuff!

It's only design for suspension. It will help to make wheels more surviveable.

There are many ways to elimante sharp turn flips

[problemecium]

For those who care, I present the planned successor to the Kerbatar and Kerbatar 2 (yet to be named):

This is before the various landers, deployable probes, escape pods, engines, and other modules are attached. It's constructed in segments, each to be launched individually and joined with the others in orbit.

[Darth Lazarus]

sadly i had not the time to work on my KSP ships ... *sadface* but i got something new,

first of all, teh stock heatshild. i use this technic for mostly all of my 3man command pods now: a TR-XL stack seperator, turnd by 180 degree, and a Rockomax Brand Adapater 02 as "heatshild" (no garante on reentry )

for my Kerpollo i designed a housing for teh shild ontop of teh service module (similar things on my Orion work-a-like)

and you can see that i equiped the command pod with reenrty-controll RCS on top. bound to an actiongroup so that they are deactivated until reenrty. and yes i like to roleplay my missions

pictures:

on a sidenote: LSAM

[xoknight]

1300 parts in, game crashed once already

[Darth Lazarus]

who needs SLS or Ares V when you can have Jupiter?

[ScriptKitt3h]

So, I've been testing a fun little (well, technically average-sized) pulse jet (LV-909s clipped into basic jets) fighter.

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However, it seems to want to violently explode upon decelerating from it's uber-high cruising speed, with a small battery in the nose breaking loose and shaking the fuel tanks to bits.

Back to the drawing board...

[Nik_601]

And here's my XF-85 Goblin

[ZodiaK]

ooooooooh!

[Jetenginestar]

If I don't bump into too much structural problems, this 747-400 could possibly carry 200-300 Passengers.

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Regarding about the An-225 Mockup, I will convert it into an An-124 because a full scale 225 is way too long.

Edited August 19, 2014 by Jetenginestar

[Vagani]

If I don't bump into too much structural problems, this 747-400 could possibly carry 200-300 Passengers.

http://imgur.com/a/ijdyY

Regarding about the An-225 Mockup, I will convert it into an An-124 because a full scale 225 is way too long.

That looks amazing

[Nik_601]

If I don't bump into too much structural problems, this 747-400 could possibly carry 200-300 Passengers.

http://imgur.com/a/ijdyY

Regarding about the An-225 Mockup, I will convert it into an An-124 because a full scale 225 is way too long.

Holy Kraken, that thing's incredible.. I want to see how it will fly

[Ravenchant]

~snip~

...wow. That's big. You will probably need more than two engines for that monster

On topic, I'm expanding my SSTO fleet and just managed to get this one into a stable orbit. It needs a few tweaks before releasing, though.

EDIT: I managed to make it look a bit sleeker and drop the canards. Pretty sure this is my least awful plane design so far.

Edited August 19, 2014 by Ravenchant

[Ravenchant]

Sorry for spamming this thread..anyway, the plane from my previous post is almost done. I added a working (kinda) cargo bay and better RCS placement. Will put up a download link tomorrow

Here is a pic of the Bogatyr 2-7C, the current iteration, flaring on landing after delivering its 3 ton payload to a 200km orbit. I daresay it looks sleek

[Giggleplex777]

I decided to build bigger aircraft for a change.

This one's very stable and can fly without SAS.

[Rune]

Indeed it does, Ravenchant, indeed it does. I presume that cargo bay uses landing gears to open?

Rune. They are the latest rage! Do one before they become stock!

[Ravenchant]

I presume that cargo bay uses landing gears to open?

Er...no, it's slightly more banal. The top section has its own probe core, battery, RCS and is connected with a jr. docking port. Once the payload is unloaded, you can "fly" it back to its place

[Rune]

The soon-to-happen-I-hope announced introduction of stock cargo bays is definitely not going to stop me using the newfound Klaw trick.

Rune. Isn't this the best thing since sliced bread?