First to land on the Mun with jet engines?

[daboomafoo]

I was seeing how wast i could go with air breathing jet engines and i started to go to higher altitudes and my engines just never stopped... they had like 4kn of thrust each but they were still running so I did the only reasonable thing to do. Land it on the Mun. There were 4 structural intakes and two ram intakes with 3 turbojets.Has anyone else done this?

[CalculusWarrior]

How were you still getting air at that altitude? Did you have infinite fuel on?

[LABHOUSE]

I have but that was because I forgot to undo infinite fuel from testing something.

[meve12]

Shame. I thought we'd discovered something to give Flowerchild an aneurysm.

[jfull]

Well, something is very broken if you managed to do that.

are you using any mods?

[hanifnoor]

engines and i started to go to higher altitudes and my engines just never stopped... they had like 4kn of thrust each but they were still running so I did the only reasonable thing to do. Land it on the Mun. There were 4 structural intakes and two ram intakes with 3 turbojets.Has anyone else done

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hanif

[worir4]

I have but that was because I forgot to undo infinite fuel from testing something.

Wait, you are not the OP ?

[Levelord]

daboomafoo

Join Date: Nov 2014

Posts: 1

Makes extraordinary claim.

Yeah, I'm not buying this post.

[nine_iron]

I'm not buying this post.

I will sell it to you for $56, cash only

[Tex_NL]

Seasoned players will know this bold claim can only be based on one of three things:

1: Modded parts.

2: Bugged game.

3: Cheat menu (infinite fuel)

If the game is running like it should this simply is not possible without mods or cheats.

[Miro Beero]

I do not accept your accomplishment. Your image has your jet over Kerbin

;-)

-Joking.

[katateochi]

yeah, as other have said, infinite fuel most likely.

A long way back, I did manage an interplanetary transfer to Duna using just air breathing engines. BUT that was with an old version of the B9 VTOL engines and there was a bug that meant their thrust didn't tail off as the air got thinner (that's been fixed for quite a while now). It was still a darn hard transfer, pitched down at about 25 degrees to remain in the upper atmo while at the same time raising the Ap so it fell way passed a Duna intercept. After many attempts I timed it so that once the engines finally cut out the last bit of Kerbins atmo pulled me back into a Duna intercept and the (very small) craft parachuted to a landing. It was a transfer that didn't ever complete an orbit, but as I said, only possible because of a bug in the engines.

With current stock parts the best I've managed is raising my Ap to around 100km and on such a wide orbit that the force of a loud sneeze is enough to complete the orbit.

[Red Iron Crown]

It's theoretically possible that the screenshot in the OP is legit without using infinite fuel. Due to the way KSP handles resources, each intake can store a small quantity of intake air. If you use the jets to blast your Ap out of atmo, shut off the engines, let the intake air gauge fill, then close the intakes, your ship will carry that air into vacuum where it can be consumed by the jets in a brief burst of thrust.

Exploiting this behavior can also allow a craft to achieve >70km Pe orbit using jets only. Landing on the Mun is a bit of a stretch though, the ship would need a pile of intakes and perform all burns when the vessel is traveling less than 2400m/s surface velocity.

[Richy teh space man]

I think it's odd that they say they landed on the Mun but the screen shot is nowhere near that..

[timsfitz]

Thought he meant Rapiers. Guess he was just cheating.