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This is a building block for my mining kit. A surface exploration drone bike, used to spot precisely which placement is the best for mining.

38 parts complete, It's powered by a 48-7s and can go up to 120m/s on Duna's hills

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LF only SSTO :P

+1. Do some aerospiky winged goodness, that should actually work quite well this version. Maybe even HTOL? I've wanted to do it myself, but you know, full plate and all that.

Rune. Like the drawings in the sci-fi of the olden days!

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+1. Do some aerospiky winged goodness, that should actually work quite well this version. Maybe even HTOL? I've wanted to do it myself, but you know, full plate and all that.

Rune. Like the drawings in the sci-fi of the olden days!

What's a HTOL?

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A delicate fight for balance....

Give it a try if you want, it turns well: https://www./?npm81t3e30ym7hp

But wouldn't it have crappy range?

Also, can someone recommend something for me to build?

The range is 3min at full throttle (99lf / 121ox) but you don't need much time to reach high speeds since it's very lightweight.

Only thick atmosphere drag would reduce the range dramatically.

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What's a HTOL?

Horizontal Take-Off and Landing. The opposite of VTOL. But I think I read you wrong, I thought you said LFO-only SSTO.

Rune. Hence why my post makes no sense. :blush:

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Horizontal Take-Off and Landing. The opposite of VTOL. But I think I read you wrong, I thought you said LFO-only SSTO.

Rune. Hence why my post makes no sense. :blush:

Hmmm, I'm guessing most SSTOs nowadays just arrive empty in orbit and have to get with a fuel station or a tanker to get into any interplanetary mission, yes?

Hence why an LF only SSTO is quite the go, all the LF space you need for efficient LV-Ns :D

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+1. Do some aerospiky winged goodness, that should actually work quite well this version. Maybe even HTOL? I've wanted to do it myself, but you know, full plate and all that.

Rune. Like the drawings in the sci-fi of the olden days!

LF only SSTO :P

Yes, good to have a focus for once.

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what's a htol?

DON'T GOOGLE IT!

I needed a bigger drydock.

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So I made a bigger Drydock.

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And thanks to the miracles of the last few versions of KSP it's 100 parts less.

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doesn't matter now because the .craft is corrupted.

Shoot..... Too much save-reloading? Or did the game crash at the wrong time?

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LOL! Great minds misread alike.

Rune. Rock on!

Seems so xD

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I made a cargo door because I didn't like leaving a giant hole in the floor. Takes up some extra room, but what am I going to put in there anyways? A rover? The ship is on wheels!

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Added some decoration, and then got to work on the jet boosters. This ship can't make it to orbit on it's own due to lack of thrust (sea level), but maybe if the jets can lift it to around 15 km altitude. And yes, that is 36 turbojets (the boosters cost 300k), which produce an amazing stationary thrust of 1.000001 TwR (6480 Kn).

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My work is continuing for new unlimited range SSTO "Rolling stone" (with field refueling system on board), time for Dune landing testing. It was very big surprise for me: horizontal landing on Dune is very easy now, 3 times from 4 my tries were successful.

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My work is continuing for new unlimited range SSTO "Rolling stone" (with field refueling system on board), time for Dune landing testing. It was very big surprise for me: horizontal landing on Dune is very easy now, 3 times from 4 my tries were successful.

http://i.imgur.com/yGDLa5Nh.png?1

http://i.imgur.com/QPX0aedh.png

http://i.imgur.com/OtQ7Urzh.png

http://i.imgur.com/015mvKGh.png

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

http://i.imgur.com/s7PvKx4.png?1

I really like how you did the cockpit :D

Tell me, what's the powerplant of this beauty?

Given out too much rep, and now 24 hours delay :(

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