Flying Submarine!

[dbmorpher]

Challenge:Design and pilot a craft that is capable of going underwater and flying

Inspiration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_submarine

Rules:

Stock only to be fair

FAR allowed

No infiniglide

Part Clipping allowed

Helping mods such as Kerbal Engineer Redux allowed

Points

Total Score = Bonus Points * Sub Depth

Breakable -2 Use decouplers

No Man's Land -1 Use a probe body

Anti-Weldon +0.5 Use wings to lift craft

Albatross +0.5 Make your craft a vtol

Robur's Back +1 Have your kerbal survive

Autogyro +1.5 Do not use parachutes

Lightning-Proof +3 Have all of your ship completely intact

Master of the World +5 Have your craft reach mach 1 after going underwater

The Terror +8 Have your craft attain orbit after diving

Vernes' Hero +12 Land on the moon after submersion

My Submission:

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My Points:

(+1 Robur's Back)(319 Depth)= Total Score of 319

Leaderboard

1. sdj64

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FAR Leaderboard

1. Dbmorpher-Submarine 1-319

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Edited May 13, 2014 by dbmorpher

[dbmorpher]

Is no one doing this because it's too hard or too easy or is it just boring. I could do another example if you want? I just don't see why no one wants to attempt it.

[Cmdr. Arn1e]

It could just be that people are already busy with so many other challenges out there... I know I'm neglecting my own mini-SSTO spaceplane challene, amongst many others I want to try (or just complete) before I dedicate to any others... but that's just me personally, sure there are plenty of other reasons why people may not pick up on a challenge very quickly, and many of them revolve around the dreaded Real World! Sucks, but is the way it is

[breakthrough]

IIRC, FAR has a substantially lower Delta-V requirement to reach orbit so it cannot be fairly ranked in the same leaderboard with stock. Also, penalizing decouplers strikes me as silly because the only difference between exploding SRBs and decouplers is part count making it more a contest of CPU power than design. I'm not sure why your example entry doesn't qualify as a vtol either.

[dbmorpher]

A VTOL in my opinion is a craft that does not use parachutes or wheels to land. Because I used parachutes it didn't count.

Also srbs are much heavier than decouplers and are more unruly.

[sdj64]

If you want to know, I think the difficulty is a little above average for challenges here. Submarines are difficult to do in general because balancing in water is much more difficult than balancing in air or in space. Once you flip, there's no getting back. But if you can make a good submarine it's easy to score high in this challenge.

That said, I got an entry.

albatross +0.5

robur's back +1

autogyro +1.5

lightning-proof +3

master of the world +5

total: 11 * 919 meters = 10109 points.

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[dbmorpher]

Nice!

That puts you at number 1 for stock aerodynamics!