Mignear Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 Something very quickly put together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantomic Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 gots a bit of a problem of the feline variety, it may get floats in a bit and become a F3F-3S Wildcatfish (real thing, actual name). doing about 85 m/s and my first set of working flaps, allowing take off at 24 m/s and landing at 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Servo Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Someone requested a MiG-19ST for reasons that I can only assume are related to War Thunder's newest planes. The AA-2 Atoll missiles are faithfully represented, (to the extent that one can faithfully represent an air-to-air missile in stock KSP...), as are many of the bits and greebles of the MiG-19 This is somehow a fairly draggy craft, but with two panthers, it can punch right up to the Mach 1 - 1.2 range of the proper deal, all while handling reasonably well in all phases of flight (except for on landing when the wheels hit the ground. More experimentation will fix that) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantomic Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 What's a wildcat without a carrier afterall? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thingymajigy Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 just some preliminary design work dunno what for yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castille7 Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 2 hours ago, Thingymajigy said: just some preliminary design work dunno what for yet Looks awesome man, maybe it's going to a future LKO Space Station of mine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levelord Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 (edited) I've begun picking up KSP after a long absence. Naturally I wanted to try to bring up my VTOL SSTO class of aircraft back into my roster. The current test craft has been field tested on Kerbin for eventual Laythe deployment. It has VTOL capability in atmosphere and is mainly used for landing on water surfaces as well as land. As a bonus, I've re-developed the interplanetary transfer ring to fit the new aircraft. I've solved the docking alignment issues by adding 2 docking ports to ensure the craft is aligned along the Z axis. Edited May 14, 2019 by Levelord Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow dream Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 On 5/14/2019 at 11:44 PM, Levelord said: It has VTOL capability in atmosphere and is mainly used for landing on water surfaces as well as land. Your craft seems to have slight imbalance in your fuel setup, but you seem to have great control over it. I stopped building VTOLs because I had issues with balancing. How do you focus on building with CoM shifts? RWs only have so much power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levelord Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Shadow dream said: Your craft seems to have slight imbalance in your fuel setup, but you seem to have great control over it. I stopped building VTOLs because I had issues with balancing. How do you focus on building with CoM shifts? RWs only have so much power. All of the fuel tanks drain equally into all engines. That's how I set up the craft, so no matter how much fuel is drained, the CoM remains the same. As for the balance, some of the engines have their maximum thrust pre-adjusted in the aircraft hangar to come in line with the other engines. You're right that the RWs are weak engines, and there are actually just enough of those packed into the service bays to lift the aircraft off the ground. it rises at a comfortably slow pace of 5m/s 0.1m/s which is actually a good thing for control. Edited May 16, 2019 by Levelord Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 WIP: WIPPED: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturmhauke Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 5 hours ago, Shadow dream said: Your craft seems to have slight imbalance in your fuel setup, but you seem to have great control over it. I stopped building VTOLs because I had issues with balancing. How do you focus on building with CoM shifts? RWs only have so much power. I use RCS Build Aid to check the CoM over time. There's even a readout to tell you the x, y, and z offsets of dry CoM vs. wet CoM, if you want to get super nitpicky about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow dream Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 15 hours ago, sturmhauke said: I use RCS Build Aid to check the CoM over time. There's even a readout to tell you the x, y, and z offsets of dry CoM vs. wet CoM, if you want to get super nitpicky about it. Yep, super nitpicky is what I learned to be when building my own Space Shuttle. I love it but the paaaiiinnn of balancing .... :-) VTOLs are easier in that regard. I use to build them with MK2 parts, so I place a cargo bay as root, then 4 tanks arround it. (I just noticed Levelord clipped a tank into that NERV as well). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturmhauke Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 Both STS and Buran style shuttles have large, two dimensional shifts in CoM over time - it's just inherent in the design. STS style is slightly easier to deal with in my opinion. Easier still is to do it Dreamchaser style, with a small return vehicle on top of a more traditional rocket stack, or just abandon realism altogether and use kerbally side boosters and such, which is what most of us have been doing lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 UBERWIPPED Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantomic Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 my first real wip post in a while, i got asked to do the A-36 so im gonna do that, just needs the rest of the cockpit and armament Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mignear Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 Prepared myself with something that will finally be complete once the Breaking Ground DLC comes in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulgur Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 (edited) Built a rover which is very safe and not at all explodey. It actually looks like a car! Could probably be fine-tuned a little but I put it on KerbalX anyway. Edit: Wow, Triop liked one of my posts! I am honoured! Edited May 18, 2019 by fulgur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 Doing some tests. Here is a video from my town, yes, we look odd... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbadevlin Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 Basically finished the update to my stock 1:1 Apollo Lunar Module. With all of the new parts the update ended up being a complete redesign. The only part left on it is that I am waiting for the new DLC so that i can articulate the landing legs (I didnt want to try and build custom hinges when the robotics parts are so soon). The craft ended up having still a stupidly high part count of ~600, despite the entire redesign and newer parts/building methods. This is also the first step of my planned update to a certain past project that I hopefully can get done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david50517 Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 Cargo Craft Download link: https://kerbalx.com/BlackRockStar/Cargo-Craft Cargo Craft 1 Download link: https://kerbalx.com/BlackRockStar/Cargo-Craft-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 Working on a new ride: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 (edited) New ride WIP Edit: First test ride: Edited May 19, 2019 by Triop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 (edited) Working on the new Break Dance, Testing if the cars will hit, they don't. 4 of these will be placed on the platform, this is just a test. I wish . . . Update: Update 2: Edited May 21, 2019 by Triop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 WIPPED Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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