Kerbal Dynamics Showcase Division: Window Cleaners

[ihtoit]

The President's coming on an inspection tour, and the VAB is filthy! We need all hands on deck to build a gondola or something we can use to polish the corrugated rust wall panels.

THE CHALLENGE:

Build and demonstrate a rover-mounted cherrypicker platform or ladder system capable of reaching the VAB roof with one Kerbal, from any point on the ground around the VAB.

THE RULES:

- Design challenge, any structural part valid

- Platform base must be on the ground.

- Platform deck must be at least level with the VAB roof deck (the high one with the helipads) when deployed, but not necessarily with the helipads. Extra kudos for a platform with a reachover deck that can reach the helipads.

- Extra extra kudos for a platform that can *move* with the deck extended.

- OK, I'm relaxing the "rover mounted" stipulation for this one: you can build a scaffold but it *must* be built by a Kerbal.

[Koolkei]

mods allowed?

[ihtoit]

mods allowed?

yep, anything goes, but the bottom and the top of the platform must be at least the height of the VAB high deck and be physically connected

[Darren9]

I made it up to the helipad, had to use Quantum Struts for stability with the B9 8m hollow panel, and it can drive around when fully extended.