![]() ![]() Kerbal Skunkwerks engineers are laboring all day and all night to solve this problem. The Thunderbird airframe clearly weighs too much to achieve orbit reliably with only its onboard mass and onboard fuel. He will only be charged 25% of the replacement cost of the engine. In thanks for Bobgar's quick thinking to save the payload from almost certain destruction: Īside from some superficial scraping, the only damage to the airframe was the complete destruction of the centerline Turbojet. Rescuers took this photo of Bobgar posing proudly on the tail of his craft. Thunderbird 2B touched down in an open field miles from any civilization. However, it did stay together, which is a plus.Ī quick thinking and highly environmentally conscious Bobgar (as well as conscious of the fact that damaged equipment comes out of his salary - Pathat's widow will be indebted to the Kerbal state for the remainder of her natural life), wanting to save the wildlife of the area he was parachuting into from radioactive doom should his LV-N powerplants be damaged, engaged the RCS systems and attempted to force the craft to a less steep angle. The craft's parachute distribution proved to still be somewhat suboptimal, and therefore it descended in an anomalous tail-first manner. ![]() The steepest dive Bobgar was willing to commit to was not enough to keep speeds up.Īs the airframe began to plummet once altitude passed 1000m, Bobgar reached for the conveniently placed yellow handle labeled "OHFUCKMEGODDAMMIT" and pulled. This led to the inevitable no-fuel flameout at about 1800m. However, worries about controllability with so little fuel left in the forward tank led to the use of a very shallow approach angle, with relatively high throttle requriements. However, it quickly became apparent that there wasn't enough fuel to reach that area.Īfter a quick turn southward, Bobgar was able to locate a promising looking plain. The search for a safe landing site commenced.Īt first the most promising area appeared to be a bowl-like depression over a ridgeline near some small mountains. Miraculously, the craft made a controlled reentry - though all remaining fuel had to be pumped forward with great haste when she threatened to tumble. However, due to an absence of useful abort airfields on Kerbin (this is a HUGE oversight) and the high velocities already achieved, a return to the KSC runway would not be possible the decision to abort to "anywhere that isn't water" was made. Some manner of error was made at some point during ascent (analysis does not reveal any single point of failure) and the flight ended up not having enough Delta-V to achieve orbit once it cleared the atmosphere. I miss the days when one could land on Jool instead of falling into a nearplane-clipped black abyss.įollowing the demise of Pathat, the rebuilt Thunderbird 2B airframe (now with exclusive Even More Safety® technology), now captained by Chief Test Pilot Bobgar was dispatched on an additional mission - to deploy three small, experimental commsats (intended to give the Thunderbird mobile mission control center planetary-scale reach) into Kerbin orbit. (Possibly same with Kerbol, but I've never tried that.) They don't really "die" technically, but they become spaghettified monstrosities. I think they're silly on flying craft unless it's for an Eve ascent or a Jool ascent, and even said: You can dump one into Jool. The next machine I build (one of these days) is going to have a high clock CPU just to address that said: Not many people have travelled that fast without an enclosure and lived to tell the tale-a U2 pilot did, though, when his plane broke up around him at 70+ thousand feet.įor some reason, people like chairs, probably because it saves around a ton of mass. That could help, but the main bottleneck in KSP is its godawful single-threaded ancient physics engine. Good thing I just got a nifty new video card. I would be okay with a tiny nerf as long as they upped the TWR on some of the other engines to said: I think I am going to have to give this game a try, it looks like my kind of fun. Oh, it's about as broken as the LV-N and the KR-2L, just in different ways. ![]() Seems like we're all making series of craft these said: I'm assuming the 48-7S is due for a nerfing because DAMN. ![]()
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