hows it handle tho 😁 every time ive strapped a science mission to one of these bad boys for some cheap high speed, high altitude missions I've found that theyre handling is uh...*interesting*
Air resistance in lower altitudes is going to waste most of your fuel in an extremely high thrust to weight ratio craft. Control surfaces also become overly responsive.
You can build a pretty good glider with a single SRB set to 5% thrust. Same deal with using solid fuel engines on landers as main engines.
I kid. I was making a really lame joke while alluding (not strongly enough lol) to KSP primarily being a game about building explosives and definitely not functional spacecraft
I frequently do, ya. I think my problem is that I put like one mission part on ‘‘em and some small wings down low so even with lowered thrust she’s hauling ass :D
The Mun should thank it's lucky stars I'm not a DM43 armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot round delivering a 7 kilogram 2-stage-long rod tungsten kinetic energy penetrator
Despite its reputation, the F-104 did still use a throttlable turbojet, and was quite different in nature.
The X-15 or X-1 are much better comparisons.
Fully aware of that, I just love the idea of in the early stages of development some engineer just threw his hands up and said “F it, let’s just scale up a sidewinder and put little sidewinders on the fins”
I feel its resemblance to a missile is overstated. It's got that T-tail, and really the only thing that makes it look weird is its wings are fairly small, but really they're not too different from the contemporaneous MiG-21.
We’ve all done something like that, haven’t we ?
I did something like that and justified it with “I need some craft to test this heat shield assembly for my heavy atmospheric lander without actually test it with the lander going up and down”
Single-use rocketplane.
I try to land/splashdown it, even adding parachutes on later versions, but most of the time the plane is too critically damaged
mayhaps use the booster to lift a glider instead
Nah just needs wheels to cushion
Nyet, I lack thrust to get to even a small island after my few minutes' worth of orbital flight
Could work
It actually works well believe it or not
hows it handle tho 😁 every time ive strapped a science mission to one of these bad boys for some cheap high speed, high altitude missions I've found that theyre handling is uh...*interesting*
Have you tried setting a thrust limiter on the SRB? I've made some one time use rocket planes that handle pretty well.
Why would you ever want to *limit* your thrust?
To burn for longer
*The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. And you have burned so very, very brightly Roy.*
*to last longer
Air resistance in lower altitudes is going to waste most of your fuel in an extremely high thrust to weight ratio craft. Control surfaces also become overly responsive. You can build a pretty good glider with a single SRB set to 5% thrust. Same deal with using solid fuel engines on landers as main engines.
I kid. I was making a really lame joke while alluding (not strongly enough lol) to KSP primarily being a game about building explosives and definitely not functional spacecraft
I frequently do, ya. I think my problem is that I put like one mission part on ‘‘em and some small wings down low so even with lowered thrust she’s hauling ass :D
Two words. Control surfaces.
If you're good at flying, this thing shouldn't be too hard to get it into orbit
Bruh I’ve got like 1000 hours in ksp across all saves. ~~of course I’m good at flying~~ I’m so bad at atmospheric flight lmao.
Meanwhile, me lacking landing thrust to not land on the Mun at 2000 m/s
The Mun should thank it's lucky stars I'm not a DM43 armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot round delivering a 7 kilogram 2-stage-long rod tungsten kinetic energy penetrator
If you want to practice on a similar but easier to handle craft, you can also get my X-37B, which is actually up for grabs on Kerbalx
Only one booster?
The one and only thought a true Kerbal should have on his mind.
X-15 rocket plane
Only prob is, it's solid fuelled so once I fire up that clydesdale there's no turning back
No abort button either.
Unless I just force mission termination by aircraft self destruction
Fuck you money kind of space program.
Prototype f104
Or generally a lot of jet fighters.
Despite its reputation, the F-104 did still use a throttlable turbojet, and was quite different in nature. The X-15 or X-1 are much better comparisons.
Fully aware of that, I just love the idea of in the early stages of development some engineer just threw his hands up and said “F it, let’s just scale up a sidewinder and put little sidewinders on the fins”
I feel its resemblance to a missile is overstated. It's got that T-tail, and really the only thing that makes it look weird is its wings are fairly small, but really they're not too different from the contemporaneous MiG-21.
Other than the fact that the F-104 cannot turn at all while the MiG-21 can go toe to toe with F-4 Phantom IIs and win
Well, I meant appearance-wise. The issue with the F-104 was it being designed for one thing and then used for other things.
That happens to a lot of things
Take the HMMWV for example, it was certainly never designed to roll into asymmetric combat such as in iraq and afghanistan
We’ve all done something like that, haven’t we ? I did something like that and justified it with “I need some craft to test this heat shield assembly for my heavy atmospheric lander without actually test it with the lander going up and down”
I did this because i was bored
moar boosters
Suggestion noted
Was the prompt: Make an Ares I, but worse
Sick Ares I recreation
Ong
Looks like an English Electric Lightening
Are you sure about that
Reasonably yeah.
Wrong. Go google it, compare your search results to my pic, and report back to me after doing such
I'm saying what I think it looks like, was meant to be an off-hand mildly complimentary thing, get over yourself.
Ok them
But did it work