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

[Guest]

Jesu! How many parts is that so far?

Too much for Rune lel

[soulreaver1981]

Jesu! How many parts is that so far?

880 parts after strutting

[Majorjim!]

lol majorjim that photo is a pledge or a memorial?

Just trying to promote the 'save the gold tank' movement.

[soulreaver1981]

huuuu guy's i think it growing

i remove the 2 kerbodyne s3 tanks for the pic.

the look really smal in the plane lol

now over a 1000 parts

Edited April 15, 2015 by soulreaver1981

[Spartwo]

Returned to the struggle with this SSTO after a month, have grown a hatred for cargo bays.

Rather than the brute force approach of before I've tried for a more airhoggy design.

It's the same but slimmer.

Mk9

9

It's only working now!

[Slam_Jones]

Tried to make a propeller-powered plane, and, after several iterations, ended up with this:

I've since changed up the propeller so that it's thinner and longer (and overall looks more like a real propeller).

The propeller turns, but only due to the wind passing over it. The power comes from the four Tweakscaled jet engines just behind the prop.

Originally, they were attached to the prop, so that the smoke would twist and create artistic spiral patterns, but it was very inefficient and bumpy.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

716 Parts of Koviet empire glory:

[fenya]

Docking in the air

So far everything breaks, explodes, etc.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

Docking in the air

So far everything breaks, explodes, etc.

I have one word for you: Not the klaw (Actually, that's three words) Docking ports work better for vessel to vessel docking.

[Redshift OTF]

Trying my hand at a Mk 3 Skylon. I'm not sure whether to expand the cargo bay by 50% or not. Would that be better?

[xoknight]

Trying my hand at a Mk 3 Skylon. I'm not sure whether to expand the cargo bay by 50% or not. Would that be better?

http://i.imgur.com/mbjTdg2.jpg

Lift to weight ratio, keep that in mind, you're probably going to need to clip more wings in the wings or the fuselage. I do think the cargo bay should be a tad bigger though

[Guest]

Mk3 single stage cargo spaceship (FAR), probably calling it "Old Bertha"

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Ion plane for Duna exploration (FAR)

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Duna buggy

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A fast SSTO that is good at acrobatics almost finished (FAR too)

Edited April 18, 2015 by RevanCorana

[Zucal]

Trying my hand at a Mk 3 Skylon. I'm not sure whether to expand the cargo bay by 50% or not. Would that be better?

That is a s-e-x-y plane, dude. Nice job!

Energia is almost complete, release tomorrow. Not sure what to do next, any ideas?

[Roflcopterkklol]

A new SSTO i have designed, in the final testeing stages now.

[soulreaver1981]

building a dropship on twich right now the copit is looking real cool, if i do say zo my self

[KotDemopan]

Happy 300 pages! This thread!

[Roflcopterkklol]

And it only grows bigger haha, finsihed White Lightning mk5, its up on the exchange now if anyone wants to download it

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/115988-White-lightning-mk5-SSTMun?p=1846225#post1846225

Edited April 19, 2015 by Roflcopterkklol

[RocketPilot573]

Hey all, I need some ideas on improving this prop. It's one of those .625 meter reaction wheel driving things. Unfortunately this plane cant quite fly for a number of reasons. I can't get the prop turning fast enough to get above 20 m/s without it glitching through the bearing. Is there any parts that happen to be any better at holding it together? The usual landing gears are far too huge to fit in this design.

Adding more wings to the plane is pointless at that just makes an infiniglider.

BTW I'm spinning it clockwise (as seen from the front of the plane looking back).

EDIT: Also is there anything I can do to the wing part of the prop to increase thrust (like angle the wings a certain way)?

Edited April 20, 2015 by RocketPilot573

[Guest Space Cowboy]

huuuu guy's i think it growing

http://i.imgur.com/n1O32zR.png

i remove the 2 kerbodyne s3 tanks for the pic.

the look really smal in the plane lol

now over a 1000 parts

Soulreaver YOU'RE DOING IT RIGHT finish it

[eorin]

[xoknight]

http://i.imgur.com/YTqH0rt.jpg

Oh that's beautiful, plz this is the first plane I WANT to download.

[soulreaver1981]

still working on my dropship and still looking cool i think

[Jetenginestar]

EDIT: Also is there anything I can do to the wing part of the prop to increase thrust (like angle the wings a certain way)?

We my old research says that the optimum angle is 25 degrees, although I'm not sure how much have changed since then...

Is there any parts that happen to be any better at holding it together? The usual landing gears are far too huge to fit in this design.

Not sure if this thread helps, there are some small bearings designed by other players...

[eorin]

Hey all, I need some ideas on improving this prop. It's one of those .625 meter reaction wheel driving things. Unfortunately this plane cant quite fly for a number of reasons. I can't get the prop turning fast enough to get above 20 m/s without it glitching through the bearing. Is there any parts that happen to be any better at holding it together? The usual landing gears are far too huge to fit in this design.

http://i.imgur.com/GR2hkmj.jpg

Adding more wings to the plane is pointless at that just makes an infiniglider.

http://i.imgur.com/i6RV6rJ.jpg

BTW I'm spinning it clockwise (as seen from the front of the plane looking back).

EDIT: Also is there anything I can do to the wing part of the prop to increase thrust (like angle the wings a certain way)?

i think your problem is the type of control surfaces used as propeller, you are using the smallest one with a very low lift power, so when you move them they produce low raw power. You can try others surfaces with more lift power, or try to clip 2 small surfaces togeter to double the lift power. Done this you should notice a consistent improvement of performance. Btw, yes, changing the angle of the surfaces can help too.

[soulreaver1981]

i have to go to work and i dont want to