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<packbart>
"I suggest putting one or two R.A.P.I.E.Rs upside-down as low as you can -- they will lower your CoM. If it gets below the ground, it will prevent thr rover from flipping in nearly all cases." - huh. that's a trick.
<packbart>
I rarely use these engines but I remember that thei CoM is offset far from the part because it's supposed to have a long hidden turbine
<darsie>
.
<darsie>
In the front is a compressor, then comes the combustion chamber, then the turbine.
<packbart>
the part only models the nozzle, though, does it?
<Mat2ch>
that shouldn't work. But the turbine might be strong enough to pull in the air from behind ;)
<packbart>
"Intake air collected varies proportionally with speed and inversely with altitude. Intakes cause the same amount of drag whether open or closed." - well, it doesn't say that they need to point forward :)
<darsie>
I though dihedral would stabilize an aircraft, but it doesn't work here.
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<Mat2ch>
The clouds from orbit look weird. But I don't know how they usually look.
<Mat2ch>
Otherwise very neat!
<Mat2ch>
I love the forest.
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<packbart>
yeah, the cloudy cottage cheese is a bit odd
<SporkWitch>
they definitely look worse from orbit than while flying in atmo; i think they'd benefit from just turning them off once you reach a certain altitude and use a different method that's both easier and looks better; no need to do volumetric clouds while in orbit
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<Guest60800>
Hm?
<sandbox>
?
<darsie>
.
<darsie>
Alarm, a guest is heer.
<darsie>
here
<darsie>
raptop:
<darsie>
packbart:
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<darsie>
another guest
<darsie>
gone
<darsie>
hi Guest60800
<Guest60800>
hello there
<darsie>
Guest60800: You can get a nickname that's easier for us to type and distinguish by typing /nick Massimilla
Guest60800 is now known as Massimilla
<darsie>
hi Massimilla
<darsie>
:)
<Massimilla>
Hello there
<darsie>
I circumnavigated Kerbin in 44 minutes with this shocking airplane: http://0x0.st/HzBc.png
<packbart>
just a Rapier on a shock cone?
<darsie>
kinda
<darsie>
There's a half full fuel tank, too.
<darsie>
In the cargo bay is a battery, an okto2 and a small RW.
<Massimilla>
Rapiers are much more efficient for high-altitude aircrafts
<darsie>
0.02 LF/s
<SporkWitch>
i only used them on one flight, but they definitely devoured fuel, even in air-breathing mode
<darsie>
I stayed subsonic at low altitudes.
<darsie>
This one is called fast 3. 1720 m/s cruise speed.
<darsie>
There's significant centripetal force.
<darsie>
Can we see how much air we have?
<darsie>
If you don't fly high enough when going fast, the shock cone can explode.
<darsie>
Or maybe it's because you can fly faster when there's a bit more air.
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<packbart>
you might just exceed its temperature rating
<darsie>
exactly
<packbart>
so, put a heatshield in front of it ;)
<darsie>
hehe
<darsie>
I tried a radiator, but then realized I jsut need to go higher.
<darsie>
Maybe I could be faster with a radiator and going a bit lower.
<X>
I always thought you can go faster higher up.... is it a lack of air for the intake that makes you faster lower?
<raptop>
some sort of tradeoff in terms of intake air, speed, and drag
<packbart>
the engines lose thrust above a certain altitude, too
<darsie>
It's more air that makes you go faster.
<darsie>
Because your enigen gets more thrust.
<raptop>
uh, at least for the subsonic engines, thrust is greatest at sea level
<raptop>
though yeah, there's also the velocity curve
<darsie>
X: Deep down in the atmosphere drag dominates.
<darsie>
But you get most thrust there. And most fuel consumption.
<darsie>
Enough thrust for VTOL.
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<XXCoder>
;mission
<LunchBot>
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to return Jebediah from the surface of the Mun. All space center personnel suddenly start speaking Finnish.
<XXCoder>
I broke physics so hard it bent all their brains
<Althego>
hehe
<raptop>
The real reason for space exploration: finally getting enough distance from the other kerbals
<Althego>
the finnish speaking kerbals
<XXCoder>
lol
<darsie>
I played the sound from the Astronaut Complex and it wasn't forward Spanish. It sounded reverse.
<Althego>
as it should be
<darsie>
But I read Kerbals speak reverse Spanish.
<darsie>
So reversing Kerbal should be Spanish.
<XXCoder>
is it on sentance basis or word basis?
<Althego>
yes. and you said you heard reverse
<darsie>
I reversed Kerbal and it didn't sound like forward Spanish.
<XXCoder>
ie is it "it is cool" in reverse (looc si ti) or word based (ti si looc)
<darsie>
I don't speak Spanish.
<XXCoder>
well yeah im just bringing up a possibilty :)
<raptop>
Hrm, how different is es-MX from es-ES?
<darsie>
It was like 'tea' reversed is aet.
<raptop>
(...or I guess es-US)
<darsie>
The laughing was weird, too.
<packbart>
I'm more used to the Chatterer clips and they're heavily mangled sounds from NASA and russian signal archives
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