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gchristopher

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Isn't anyone going to have a go with an enclosed cargo ramp?

It's your challenge, maybe try it and post a demonstration before asking other people to do it?

interesting... but fail. The brief is to plant a flag in the tower. Also, the stipulation is in the OP, therefore it's a rule. End of. :)

Aww, don't be a meany-head. Kasuha didn't do the separate boat/rover thing, but nobody will want to do the challenge if you smack them down over details that really aren't central to the challenge of making an amphibious plane/boat/rover combination.

Okay, moving on!

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This is a 3-part craft: floatplane, air boat and rover.

The floatplane is all stock and uses empty Mk2 Fuselage as floats. (Empty ones have dramatically less drag and the same buoyancy.) It can land with payload, and take back off both empty and with the payload still attached. Keeping the stall speed well under 40 m/s helps with all that. I didn't fiddle enough with float position vs. center of mass so small radial rockets help get the nose up enough to launch from the water.

The boat is a basic hydrofoil with flat passenger decks and a rover bay. It's pretty stable in the water up to 50-60m/s. I wonder if adding some control surfaces might help stability at higher speeds? The boat can either be deployed after landing, as depicted above, or by airdrop with parachutes. Both work fine. It ended up being more amphibious than intended, just to make deploying the rover simpler. Retro rockets allow it to back up, but weren't used.

The rover has wheels. And rollbars and a spoiler, cause Jeb helped. KAS is used to reload the rover, because I'm not sure that driving on ramps and flat decks are feasible with stock 23.5.

So yep, flew over near the island, dropped off a boat, deployed a rover off the boat, planted a flag, put the rover back on the boat, and boated on back to KSC. Thanks ihtoit, that was fun!

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Kasuha

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interesting... but fail. The brief is to plant a flag in the tower. Also, the stipulation is in the OP, therefore it's a rule. End of. :)

The fail is that you don't insist on sticking to some rules which make sense (the rule which says that the airplane has to deploy the boat and return before the boat continues) and yet you insist on sticking to rules which are completely unrelated to the challenge which is "to demonstrate a combined air, sea and land incursion system". Does my ability to scale a few flights of stairs with EVA Kerbal help in any way to demonstrate abilities of the vehicle? No. It's just bureaucratic formality that you added to the challenge without a clear reason or explanation and insist on following.

I did not fail the challenge to "demonstrate a combined air, sea and land incursion system". My vehicle clearly has these capabilities. If you want to talk about fail, look at yourself.

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Yeah, this is one of those "learn what you're doing and do it again, better" sort of adventures.

In celebration of sirkut getting the excellent Infernal Robotics plugin working in 23.5, let's re-do this challenge faster, dangerouser and Kerbally-er. Seems to have made the wheel/deck problem I was having go away, too. Let's go VTOL, deploy the boat from a hover without landing or parachutes, and let's crank up the max speed on that boat to 145 m/s! What could possibly go wrong?

None of these ideas are original. I've seen other people do everything presented here at various points in other posts or videos. But they worked out nicely, put together into a VTOL plane, hydrofoil and rover.

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Here, I kinda did it. I had a little hiccup at the end and there was a bug where I couldn't control kerbals who had fallen out of external command seats. Also I was late for practice so I had to cut it off before the 24km boat ride home!

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Just saw the challenges on the forum for the first time, thought I'd give this one a go.

On the way to the drop off point with the vehicles.

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Dropping off the Boat with Jeep attached. Flew Drop-ship home afterwards.

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Verifying that I am 5km away from island.

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Dropping off Bill and Jeb (wasn't sure if everything would work the first time, didn't want to risk them).

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Landed Safely (really lucky shot)

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Landing on the Island.

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Parked at the tower

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Deploying an invisible Flag (appeared on top of the tower)

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On the way back, decided to use the boat to attempt a land-speed record (got to 180ms).

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Drone in the back, boat on the right, rover on the left.

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I accomplished the entire challenge with only one Kraken attack while reloading the amphibious transport craft.

(It spawned everything on the bottom of the ocean)

Hilarity and eternally bouncing parts followed.

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Edit: This was stock. May redo with mods.

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do we have to transport a fully made rover to the island? KAS allows you to put all the parts for a small rover built on a KAS container inside a couple containers, i was wondering if i could do a boat that takes the containers to the island, build the rover, drive and plant the flag, and then either disassemble the rover or just pull the whole thing back to the boat with a winch after.

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do we have to transport a fully made rover to the island? KAS allows you to put all the parts for a small rover built on a KAS container inside a couple containers, i was wondering if i could do a boat that takes the containers to the island, build the rover, drive and plant the flag, and then either disassemble the rover or just pull the whole thing back to the boat with a winch after.

interesting idea... try it! Beware the Kraken though, he likes to eat rovers made out of struts! Especially ones that stray too close to the water...

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Well, I'm going to need a complete redesign. I really wanted to have the cargo slide out the ramp, which meant I needed a very compact design. Unfortanutely, when getting underway in the drink, my jet engine ripped off. Hopefully next weekend, I'll have some better screens to show. Also, I built a new monster computer, including triple monitors, so you can right-click and "View Image" to see them in their full size glory, if you're so inclined.

Driving the amphibious rover into the plane:

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It even fits!

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Getting ready to take the plunge:

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Let's do this!

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Geronimo, mofo!

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It splashed down safely, but I could go no further.

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ihtoit

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that is some obscene resolution! Me want! :)

(I'm just in between paychecks right now, chasing up 15 grand that's owed me and the other guy's sodded off to Gambia, so what hope of me upgrading my overworked laptop anytime soon, eh? :( )

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