Anyone have a longer flight than me?

[xtoro]

By flight I mean IN ATMOSPHERE, not rockets... Currently doing a challenge on chasing the sun for as long as possible and I'm on day 2 now using solar power and electric engines. I did have to use Rapier engines just to catch up to the sun because I launched at night, and then once I caught up, I ditched them. A rule is you can't use batteries or engines that produce electricity.

Before launch

Catching up to the sunset

Caught up

Going to sleep now

Next morning

Sun is in the same position as last night

So far:

And the flight is still in progress. Note that one of the rules is that you can't go above 11,000 meters. Looking to see if anyone else has flown this long. And you know the rule, pics or it didn't happen

Edited September 24, 2014 by xtoro

[worir4]

Just wondering, did you just sit there?

[TimberWolffe]

No pics of it because it was a while ago but I had a flight with jets and so much fuel I managed to circumnavigate Kerbin

...twice

...before getting bored and slamming my plane into the ground at Mach 2.1

[xtoro]

Just wondering, did you just sit there?

Haha no, autopilot then alt-tab and did other stuff running another copy of ksp. Then went to bed and left the plane fly overnight. Its still flying now....

[xtoro]

@TimberWolffe nice, not sure how many times I've gone all the way around but its at least one that I saw... Figured i could calculate it by flight time but then realized that the planet is also spinning so I'm not sure... I figure I'm on my 2nd or 3rd go around...

[Coneshot]

My longest was over 22 hours with a double circumnavigation for the challenge: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/25884-Kerbin-Circumnavigation-Challenge-Reloaded-New-Rules-Once-More/page16?p=513822&viewfull=1#post513822

Edited September 25, 2014 by Coneshot

[Tw1]

I once made an infiniglider that managed to go for about a night or so on its own.

[Sky_walker]

I once managed to run photoshop and edit myself into 1234 hour flight.

[Roflcopterkklol]

I guess i could break out a mongrel and see how many times it will go around the planet.

Sub orbital super gliders count right?

Edit:

Alright im at cruising alt and speed ill let you know.

Edited September 25, 2014 by Roflcopterkklol

[Roflcopterkklol]

Alrighty officially i did 5 laps of kerbin back to the space center.

Lap 1

Lap 2 (Managed to bounce it into 80km sub orbits after the first lap)

lap 3

Lap 4

and lap 5 after landing

3 hours exactly to circumnavigate 5 times Beat that lol

[xtoro]

Well, first, I said longest, not furthest. Also, you didn't show the flight summary window to prove how far you went. You could just be SAYING that you did it 5 times, or 20 times, no proof...

Anyways... my latest

4 days, 5 hours, 22 minutes

7,561,074 meters, and all below 9000m altitude.

..... And still going!

[Roflcopterkklol]

Well, first, I said longest, not furthest. Also, you didn't show the flight summary window to prove how far you went. You could just be SAYING that you did it 5 times, or 20 times, no proof...

Anyways... my latest

4 days, 5 hours, 22 minutes

7,561,074 meters, and all below 9000m altitude.

http://i.imgur.com/kWE1d5J.png

..... And still going!

I suppose i could have just sat on the run way for 3 hours burning fuel, ill have to see if the quicksave from my 4th lap around is still there lol.

anywho i just wanted to see how fast you could do it with a plane after seeing this and thinking "gee thats a long time to get some results" haha

if you want to have a go at the speed challenge i started a thread for it, can make your own plane or i gave a download link for the mongrel, i do have faster planes i could share but i want that record.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/94663-Circumnavigation-challenge

[Roflcopterkklol]

Hmm interesting, Never actually used the flight log because my f1-12 do not work, cant seem to assign it to one of the number pad keys either.

Going to have to crash the plane into the ground to get the flight log.

wth this is rigged it only gives the flight data from when i landed to when i crashed i took off and crashed again.. hate ksp sometimes.

Edited September 25, 2014 by Roflcopterkklol

[xtoro]

Hmm interesting, Never actually used the flight log because my f1-12 do not work, cant seem to assign it to one of the number pad keys either.

Going to have to crash the plane into the ground to get the flight log.

wth this is rigged it only gives the flight data from when i landed to when i crashed i took off and crashed again.. hate ksp sometimes.

If your F1-F12 don't work, then how are you quickloading and quicksaving?

[The Destroyer]

I once, jet only, circumnavigated kerbin in 40 minutes. In real time...

[Roflcopterkklol]

If your F1-F12 don't work, then how are you quickloading and quicksaving?

have them assigned to + and -, idk why my function keys wont work, is an old used up keyboard, only still use it because of world of warcraft, dem g1-20 keys