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[Glloyd]

Well, that went fucking great.

Takes 2 days to land on kerbin, speed up time. I press the timewarp x1 button within time, but because the game likes slowly decreasing the speed, I crashed into kerbin.

OK, I'll load up a quicksave. 'Lolnope. The quicksave will simply cause everything in the solar system to disappear. ENJOY!'

Spend about and hour and a half getting to minmus, only to have the game throw it in my face.

Exact same thing happened a couple days ago for me, with Minmus as well. It's annoying as hell.

[da_nang]

My Jool probe met the Hell Kraken. Again.

What did I ever do to you, eldritch abomination?

[Aseaheru]

I wonder if Jeb survived getting returned from orbit when I was away... Looked like a spashdown too.

[BFEL]

Well update on that sexy, sexy compound flyer.

Contrary to what someone suggested, the six turbojets work fine once they are in fact actual turbojets instead of rockets disguised as turbojets.
There was a small issue with the center of lift but that was fixed very quickly.

Unfortunately, I did not reach orbit, probably due to my horrendously terrible flight skills. The main jets, once they got air deprived, utterly flipped their shit...and also the plane. It continued flipping for a long, long time. I had detached those troublesome flight ruiners as quickly as possible, but to no avail.

By the time I regained control of the craft, we were WAY too far back in the atmosphere for the atomic engines to do anything constructive.

However, I can attest that air-dropping the miniplane from a similar-to-orbital-position IS just as satisfying and completely badass as I had hoped.
Even managed to get it all the way back to the KSP runway and land it. Granted said landing was very awkward and a bit too fast...and sideways, but the kerbal survived!

Overall, tweaking is DEFINATELY needed for this to be the craft I want it to be, but hey, the premise is at least sound.

[Glloyd]

My Jool probe met the Hell Kraken. Again.

What did I ever do to you, eldritch abomination?

I keep getting it when I land planes and disembark the pilot. It's annoying as hell.

[BigD145]

I love big rovers. Reminds me of my old Falinesti design. What's the top speed and climbing angle on that rover?

5 m/s or so max speed on Mun. I did not try much climbing. It's certainly heavy due to plating.

11 m/s on Kerbin.

[BFEL]

I love big rovers. Reminds me of my old Falinesti design. What's the top speed and climbing angle on that rover?

5 m/s or so max speed on Mun. I did not try much climbing. It's certainly heavy due to plating.

Clearly you must air drop it and see how much survives.

[BigD145]

I love big rovers. Reminds me of my old Falinesti design. What's the top speed and climbing angle on that rover?

5 m/s or so max speed on Mun. I did not try much climbing. It's certainly heavy due to plating.

Clearly you must air drop it and see how much survives.

50000 m up. It landed on its wheels at 116 m/s.

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[Girlinhat]

Did you even add parachutes?

Also: Kerbals survived, design is a success!

[BigD145]

Did you even add parachutes?

Also: Kerbals survived, design is a success!

Why would I add parachutes?

[Girlinhat]

In that case, very safe landing, considering anyone survived.

Try again with chutes this time?  You need to make a Duna hot-drop.

[Aseaheru]

Well, the ship survived.

Except the science modules fell off.
Atleast nothing exploded.

Like the next launch did...

[alway]

Well, my Mission Controller funds have been negative since the disastrous second launch, in which I didn't have enough parachutes to slow the craft, and the third launch, which succeeded, but I forgot to click finish mission. Good thing this is government funded SCIENCE because it isn't really turning a profit yet.

[BFEL]

In that case, very safe landing, considering anyone survived.

Try again with chutes this time?  You need to make a Duna hot-drop.

Frankly his design looks like it would survive a hot-drop into the sun. Very sturdy.

[sluissa]

Managed to get a couple of unmanned orbiters around Duna and Eve. I think it's about time I start planning something major, construction wise. Interplanetary is the goal and modular, reusable and upgradable is the plan.