Dakitess Corporation - Waytogo : Homemade Space Shuttle with its launcher

[Dakitess]

Hey there, i'm back with a new video, give it a try, this is short !

This time, it is about my new spaceship, full stock as usual. I thought that the new ARM liquid booster could make an interresting body-fuselage, so there it is

The launch is a bit particular : you won't touch to anything else than the tweakable power of the main engine, which belong to the spaceship itself : tge gravity turn is given by the diffential in thrust and the non-aligned specific centers. It took a bit of time to configure and make it fit the different steps of ascension, but now this is fully reliable and kinda fun to use !

The landing by itself is a bit... Abrupt, since it was hard to take a good shot while manoeuvring. I decided for the record to lock a descent angle, but you can easily land smoothly while piloting and rounding the touchdown

I hope you'll enjoy the video, if you like it, don't forget to suscribe of course ! And as usual, do not hesitate to give me any feedback, advices, etc !

Edited July 13, 2014 by Dakitess
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[GusTurbo]

This is really awesome! Clever design -- I wouldn't have thought to use the new liquid booster like that. Also, nice video work.

[astropapi1]

Fantastic video, I must add.

[LvL]

Awesome! rep for you and a new subscriber

[Dakitess]

Thanks all ! Glad you liked it. Is the music / length okay ? Did you check my 3 other videos ?

Should I translate the YouTube description? I'm very new on YouTube and with the english speaking community, I want to do it well

[GusTurbo]

I liked the music and the length. I think it was good because it showed an entire mission. Your other videos are good, too.

[Koth]

This is excellent. Do you have the .craft file available please?

[Dakitess]

Wow i'm late, but here comes the craft !

https://mega.co.nz/#!bEAw1LbS!KtbYNoj_dB-Wu0HJQwLKCxBH9qceLjPr0puCGc-MFUg

Remember : the whole ascension, with gravity turn and so on, is given by the tweakable control on the shuttle engine. That is to say you'll need, before the launch, to right clic on the engine and keep the window. During the first step, you'll have to gently adjust power from initial (40% if I remember) to about 90% dependind on the curve you use to give. Then, the only "tricky" step is right before the end of the 2 lateral booster : bring back the engine to 50% and hit space to decouple the boosters. You should be fine

Last step is okay, just follow the necessity to reaugment power progressively. Take care, you'll probably need to reach 100% quickly as you get close to the end of the orange booster. Jettison before the end, this is more impressive and comfortable. As soos as you get the Shuttle and nothing else, everything is well centered, you can go 100%.

Maybe it sound hard like this or unreliable but this is not. This is far more reliable than using extra engines to adjust the pitch And you only have one parameter to control. Give it a try !