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Ker-Flow-Full Small Fuel Carrier


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Kodger looked over the top of his paper at Kanley, who was playing with the factory\'s ancient AmSparkz 464 computer they used to design pipes, the younger Kerbal was making odd noises.

'You look happy, what\'re you doing?'

'Making rockets' replied Kanley, not looking away from the screen.

'You know that old things only good for pipes, pipes is simple, you have two open ends and you joins them together'

Kanley grinned 'I found a new command, it makes copies of stuff so you can makes more of em!'

'Let\'s see' said Kodger, getting up, he was a paper and pencil Kerbal at heart, and didn\'t hold with newfangled technology, even if it was over 20 years old.

'Look I can make new bits same as the old bits! And it\'s so easy!'

At first Kodger couldn\'t figure out what he was seeing, the picture seemed to move glacially slow and there were fuel tanks everywhere, as well as lots of thin yellow lines.

'Those pipes?'

'Yeah!'

'There\'s a lot of em boy'

'I likes pipes!'

'Yes I can see that, not healthy, a boy liking pipes like that, should be out talking to girls like when I was a lad'

'Pipes is better!'

Kodger sighed, which quickly turned into a whistle as he caught sight of the projected lift of Kanleys tinkering.

'Well won\'t you look at that, you might have something here Kanley'

'It\'s not finished, it needs more pipes'

Kodger, laying a hand on Kanleys shoulder, said 'It\'s fine lad, I\'ll get the boss, He\'s going to want to see this'

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I made a 9 tank Munar lander, time for something slightly bigger.

Based on my High Altitude Test vehicle, the K-F-F fuel carrier takes the big stack of boosters and daisychain fuel system and gives it a purpose....

Heavy duty delivery to Munar orbit.

Without a satellite or other big thing to lift, I went for getting fuel tanks to the moon, not just a handful of empties but 14 full fuel tanks.

Thats 35 Kilo\'s, thats a lot of liquid.

This, unsurprisingly, is a heavy ship, and has a lot of thrust, without the payload it\'d really perform but loaded down like it is you\'ll not be making any quick changes in pitch, also its a good idea to line her up for orbital maneuvers before you need it, she\'ll turn on one SAS but it takes time.

The SAS, incidentally, blocks the flow of fuel from the payload to the rocket, so there\'s no way to drain them, and adding another pipe might mess up the staging so be careful.

It\'s also an idea to leave RCS off until you release the payload, as it\'s your only way to get home.

Update: I removed the \'feet\' from the ship, they trigger a bug in the experimental versions, and they are not needed anyway.

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for some reason when i click on any-one of those i see this:

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