Me and my friend accidentally managed to get it so stable, that aircraft and spacecraft no longer twitch left to right. It's so fluent you could call it official multiplayer.
Really cool video as always! However one small issue I found, the bloodhound plans to use liquid hydrogen peroxide as its oxidizer in its hybrid rocket engine. It's not using it as monopropellant.
Great little video. We studied the Bloodhound car in a programming module at uni actually; working out the optimal time to engage the rocket/parachute to achieve the goal of 1000mph for one mile without putting the driver under so much acceleration that he would pass out and die.
Bryce Peters Withered Bonnie well, I studied engineering at uni - not medicine - so I don't really know the effects of high gees on the human body and you may indeed be right. The supervisor more or less said "don't exceed this number", and that's what we tried to do. Though from the Bloodhound website it seems that their situation is a bit unusual. I'd give this a read if you're interested: www.bloodhoundssc.com/project/adventure/physiological-effects
I think your supervisor didn't want to exceed a certain amount of gs because like scott said, it is quite a lot of strain on the wheels, as well as all other mechanical parts. In the end though, you may be right. A certain amount of gs could make the pilot die, but not directly from g load itself.
Bryce Peters well, the piece on their website states that going from a position of very high acceleration to very high deceleration (when the parachute is deployed) has its own unique challenges (with blood flow etc.) which may cause a 'greyout'. Like I said, check out the link for the details.
You see... if you where Scott Manley everyone would be very excited. I fell sorry for you. Good to see someone that (i dont know the fitting word even in my native language, sorry).
great video as always, scott. although i believe that the bloodhound rocket engine is a htp hybrid engine that uses the exhaust to light a rubber solid fuel, like a rocket afterburner?
i found that with the biggest wheels you can get to about 90 m/s by steering from side to side as fast as you can while still going forward( that is when only using the motor in the wheels and no other engines).
As soon as I saw the thumbnail I knew that was a Bloodhound SSC. I remember first seeing the Bloodhound in the Guinness Book of records a few years ago. Nice Job!
I'm totally making one of these but I had an idea while watching the video, I'll be adding wings or possibly a large spoiler to my rocket car but having them tilted far down so that the air current sweeps over them, negating lift and also widening the area of the vehicle so that it doesn't topple over or wiggle around as easily, hopefully it works well
Scott, i recently tried this exact project, as i was studying it at University. I found that if you adjust the traction from auto to manual, you could completely stop that oscillation in the fuselage. Maybe you stumble upon this later into the video, but so far you are still being plagued with the wobbling!!
I had a chance to spend some time with Buckeye Current and some of the other LSR vehicles at Bonneville a few years ago. They were all on the ragged, bleeding edge of engineering it was amazing to watch the teams work and talk with them about what it takes to reach those speeds.
I'm so glad this update changed wheel mechanics. Ive been trying to perfect my rocket cars, and lander/rovers for a long time, but the wheels always end up breaking. Thanks for the video, I didn't know about the changes.
I hope one day that kerbal space program adds the ability to set up remote launch platforms, runways and assembly bays. That would add so much to this game.
Now there's an interesting challenge - trying to escape minmus with a car and only allowed to use cheats to get to minmus and not manipulate the gravity
2019, Bugatti just broke the 300mph barrier in their Chiron SS. While they gave the car a slight HP bump over the standard Chiron, the most crucial development was the tires due to the friction that builds up at those speeds. The Bloodhound on the other hand has to worry about friction AND about 50k g's of centrifugal force, so the wheels are a forged aluminum zinc alloy. I guess the kerbal wheels are actually pretty forgiving!
They aren't using the parachutes, after Thrust SSC had a double failure. The two parachutes on Bloodhound are just there in the event of an air-brake failure. There are only wheel brakes on one end too due to stability reasons
that rocking left and right is what REAL Bonneville salt flat cars do... as the rear wiggles out, the air will push on that side, making it straight again.
you must watch the hris harris video on it. the coolest things about it is that the v8 engine (which is just a fuel pump.. aswell as having its own fuel pump) has to have the intake air intercooled BEFORE it goes into the supercharger....after which it gets intercooled again obviously. the engineering into the smallest things is just immense. also the wheels just spinning in free air (not supporting 12 tons of car) when soinning at 10000rpm or 100mph raise from room temperature to something like 100*c just from the air friction.
It would be nice to see some references along the way, so that we can see how fast it actually goes. The speedometer isn't enough and the clouds are to high.
I'm all in for high speeds heating up wheels and temperature breaking them and the addition of superrsonic wheels that withstands higher temperatures. also I'm curious about the dangers of engine burnout for a car like that. I imagine that the slightest loss of power may force the entire thing to flip
Scott Manley yeah but I mean in case of uneven loss of power, if a engine stops before another engine, how much torque it will generate ? I hope not very much
Well, at 1000 mph they should see aprox 1.77 Bars (2.77 Bars absolute) of ram pressure in the intake of the gas turbine engine, and it beeing on top, if you effectively clog that (like a shut down engine) the area of the intake eyeballed to about 0.3 m² would result in a eyeballed force of roughly 5300 kg applied at that area, so if anyone knows the CG of the car and some other measures the nose up torque can be calculated... I'm prettey shure the Bloodhound guys have had this in mind tho to prevent a nose up condition, since the FADEC unit of the gas turbine engine might shut it down if abnormal operation occurs, which is not unlikely as the engine they are using (EJ200 of a EF Typhoon) was never designed or ment to operate at 2.77 Bars absolute, with the higher inlet temps that would give in the much more dense and already higher ambient conditions of ground level.
Incase anybody is wondering the Bloodhound actually uses a hybrid rocket with hydrogen peroxide as it's oxidizer (which is first fed through a catalyst mesh to turn it into super heated steam and oxygen) and HTPB (basically rubber) as it's fuel grain.
sometimes i wish there's a mod for KSP that rings a sonic boom whenever you hit mach 1. It doesn't have to be really realistic/scientific, just for the sake of satisfaction that you've broke the sound barrier
Would be nice if you listed the mods you using in the video description. This is useful to those of us who would like to know how to get similar experience (including audio-visuals).
I think with this design you might have better luck using the prograde SAS setting instead of stability assist, as well as disabling the gimbal on the engines.
you'd have to fire the rocket at apogee to circularise your orbit, but otherwise yes. There are many RL asteroids where you could achieve escape velocity with a running jump!
Hey Scott. I thought the rocket was a hybrid rocket that used a solid fuel and HTP as the oxidiser? Wouldn't a solid rocket booster have been a closer match?
An small idea for the next stream if you don't have a backlog of them for that: a vanilla Spaceplane which can return from Eve? Payload for getting there can be a mining module to refuel it because it'd already take more than enough fuel just to get the thing there xD Maybe also some fueltanks which can be left in orbit for landing. As far as vanilla goes: just mainly vanilla, so no overkill parts like from Interstellar but Mechjeb and procedural wings would be ok. Or rather, make the challenge to use as few mod parts as possible, that's probably more reasonable.
So, has anyone figured out a way to build a surface to Munar / Minar orbit railgun yet? Passive projectile, active rail. You would have to stay focused on the payload though, of course. The interesting part, is timing a firing so that a collector station passes through an intercept with said payload.
Hey Scott! Can you try launching a rover from Minmus to Eve using the hack gravity method that you showcased at the end? You managed to get escape velocity, but can you fine-tune it and manage to land on (or at least hit) Eve or any other planet?
new to this channel i love all of the ksp simulations but details do matter when engineering im sure you would agree the actual bloodhound vehicle does not have one single wheel in the front it has 2 it provides way more stability i could go on. just my opinion
scott. i wanted to know if it is possible to make an Expandable Hexagon station. like a Space station that grows and expands with newer sections like living quarters, Science sections, etc. like a Honeycomb Grid or something that just becomes one large Hexagon as it grows.
the wiggle is most of the times from controll surfaces.. the weels get a imbalance in friction then start to roll and your controll surface is to slow in the reaction so it overcompensates on each wiggle.. so that it cant cool down.. just reduce the authorithy of the controll surface to around 30% and it should be fine
.because i don't have the bleacher engine i used a booster and.... you are right XD first run and one of the back weels got riped off at about 250 m/s when i started the afterburner... no wiggle at all.. i turned off steering of the weels same issue then i reduced the friction and got wiggle.. then i reduces the control surface and it got a bit better but not really noticeable.. then got rid od the friction control and had a liftoff at 521.1 m/s well i never drove that fast in kerbal till now.. so thanks for the new experience. but still.. my aircraft's and rocket launch wiggle are most of the time the flaps.. or i forgot the struts hmm i think tomorrow i test how far i can get with a bit of downforce and i guess a mod for that engine thx for the reply and for all the good vids
2:24 Scott, wasn't the fuel pump system V8 engine taken from Cosworth? As in the entry-level engine that was supplied to F1 teams. And it was 750bhp as well.
I have to nitpick at 7:10 , sorry Scott! The rocket engine in the Bloodhound is hybrid, not monopropellant, running solid HTPB as fuel and high-test peroxide as oxidizer. :)
They changed it to hybrid from monopropellant. When Scott uploaded this video they intended to use monopropellant, but later they decided to switch to hybrid because the development of their monopropellant engine took too long.
Next goals: achieving orbital speeds while still on the surface of various planets and moons. Minmus: Easy Mun: Medium Tylo: Hard Kerbin: Very Hard Eve: Insane I'm sure cheats will be necessary for the bigger ones, and the ones with atmosphere...
Today I found out that they are using the same brakes on the bloodhound as what anybody who owns a bike will have and also that they are planning on not using a parachute
Have you tried disabling the engine gimbal? (Or perhaps even the SAS.) I have wobbling problems in space because of the gimbal tie to SAS. Sorry to hear you perhaps recovering from being sick.
*Flipping uncontrollably in the air*
"I'm Scott Manley, fly safe"
PandaDerp space air!
Add multiplayer to KSP and all suddenly you might have an F1 racing league with home made cars.
There was a multiplayer mod available that *mostly* worked a couple of versions back in case you're interested in that.
yup, look up DMP. it kinda works but is glitchy af
Me and my friend accidentally managed to get it so stable, that aircraft and spacecraft no longer twitch left to right. It's so fluent you could call it official multiplayer.
whoa, what is this black magic?
James Ward Don't know, we thought the mod was broken because it ran so well, but, of course, we were only joking.
Just so no one else has to google it. 669 m/s = 1497 mph
In reality I have more rocket fuel than the bloodhound
In reality, you have taught me more about physics than my first year at university, where I took physics. Well done! Always love your videos! :)
I just rounded it to 666m/s to me. Haha.
+Dylan Wood shows that you go to school for the paper and to UA-cam for the actual knowledge xP
+BloodyRain2k totally man, get my actual education from UA-cam! :P
*hweels*
I find that intriguing.
cool whip
Hweat thins
mor like hougheels
Feernt hweel
3:48
I think the next Kerbal series should be career mode but with 3x gravity
i like that idea
Kerbal Space Program, but with engine failures. TO THE MOD PAGES!
Joseph Anthony ooooh that'd be cool! :D pls Scott do this
press alt+f12 and chose cheats and there you can configure gravity from 0.1 to 10
I would much prefer something more realistic. Like one tenth of the funding, so reusability becomes the key :D
Really cool video as always! However one small issue I found, the bloodhound plans to use liquid hydrogen peroxide as its oxidizer in its hybrid rocket engine. It's not using it as monopropellant.
Great little video. We studied the Bloodhound car in a programming module at uni actually; working out the optimal time to engage the rocket/parachute to achieve the goal of 1000mph for one mile without putting the driver under so much acceleration that he would pass out and die.
The max g load before you die is 100. I doubt the bloodhound will get past 5 g's.
Bryce Peters Withered Bonnie well, I studied engineering at uni - not medicine - so I don't really know the effects of high gees on the human body and you may indeed be right. The supervisor more or less said "don't exceed this number", and that's what we tried to do.
Though from the Bloodhound website it seems that their situation is a bit unusual. I'd give this a read if you're interested:
www.bloodhoundssc.com/project/adventure/physiological-effects
I think your supervisor didn't want to exceed a certain amount of gs because like scott said, it is quite a lot of strain on the wheels, as well as all other mechanical parts. In the end though, you may be right. A certain amount of gs could make the pilot die, but not directly from g load itself.
Bryce Peters well, the piece on their website states that going from a position of very high acceleration to very high deceleration (when the parachute is deployed) has its own unique challenges (with blood flow etc.) which may cause a 'greyout'. Like I said, check out the link for the details.
Harry Flashman Makes sense, you probably would experience way more g's on decel than accel.
fun fact, my faculty at uni helped design parts of Bloodhound SSC :)
You see... if you where Scott Manley everyone would be very excited. I fell sorry for you. Good to see someone that (i dont know the fitting word even in my native language, sorry).
Wich language?
Swansea, represent! :D
Marcos Piazza Polish. You know that language from that country just next to Moscow as American people use to think.
Isn't it that country east to germany?
Let me correct you, sir: "I'm Scott Manley, drive save!"
I believe you have to be touching the ground for it to be 'driving'. 😉
No, I am pretty sure he is indicating you to gimbal the car thrusters just a bit more upwards judging that he is Scott Manley
I think the Bloodhound is using a hybrid motor, not monopropellant. Solid bit is HTPB.
Yeah I got that wrong, I knew they had HTP though.
great video as always, scott. although i believe that the bloodhound rocket engine is a htp hybrid engine that uses the exhaust to light a rubber solid fuel, like a rocket afterburner?
i found that with the biggest wheels you can get to about 90 m/s by steering from side to side as fast as you can while still going forward( that is when only using the motor in the wheels and no other engines).
As soon as I saw the thumbnail I knew that was a Bloodhound SSC. I remember first seeing the Bloodhound in the Guinness Book of records a few years ago. Nice Job!
Only started playing when it came to console, failed many things ( this included ) nice to watch n learn from a pro, ty Mr Manley
Okay, I tried to undesrstand your channel. I have no conclusion. But I like the Science-Game Combo. Keep up the good work Scott!
I'm totally making one of these but I had an idea while watching the video, I'll be adding wings or possibly a large spoiler to my rocket car but having them tilted far down so that the air current sweeps over them, negating lift and also widening the area of the vehicle so that it doesn't topple over or wiggle around as easily, hopefully it works well
Scott, i recently tried this exact project, as i was studying it at University. I found that if you adjust the traction from auto to manual, you could completely stop that oscillation in the fuselage. Maybe you stumble upon this later into the video, but so far you are still being plagued with the wobbling!!
I had a chance to spend some time with Buckeye Current and some of the other LSR vehicles at Bonneville a few years ago. They were all on the ragged, bleeding edge of engineering it was amazing to watch the teams work and talk with them about what it takes to reach those speeds.
Great vid Scottie. I could not keep mine stable above 400 m/s but then again I can not pilot any craft in KSP particularly well
when hwheels were originally introduced XD
I'm so glad this update changed wheel mechanics. Ive been trying to perfect my rocket cars, and lander/rovers for a long time, but the wheels always end up breaking.
Thanks for the video, I didn't know about the changes.
can you do more cockpit view? would look cool af when going a 1000 mph imo!
I hope one day that kerbal space program adds the ability to set up remote launch platforms, runways and assembly bays. That would add so much to this game.
Now there's an interesting challenge - trying to escape minmus with a car and only allowed to use cheats to get to minmus and not manipulate the gravity
Jack Mcslay or launch a car to a different planet from minmus.
Jack Mcslay too easy use rockects to push down gain speed then turn them off and ramp that hill.
I have seen someone do that with ion engines.
*_hweels_*
trying to scape is easy... going back to K is different...
Looks like the car from simpsons hit and run
Scott! You can fix the wobbliness by adding a bit of camber on the rear wheels (can't remember if it was positive or negative).
Anyone else notice that it topped at basically 666 m/s?
*scary music plays*
It's the Kraken
thats why its called the bloodhound amirite
M de Sa dont you mean leviathan?
terminal velocity
2019, Bugatti just broke the 300mph barrier in their Chiron SS. While they gave the car a slight HP bump over the standard Chiron, the most crucial development was the tires due to the friction that builds up at those speeds. The Bloodhound on the other hand has to worry about friction AND about 50k g's of centrifugal force, so the wheels are a forged aluminum zinc alloy. I guess the kerbal wheels are actually pretty forgiving!
"When hweels were first introduced" -Scott Manley 2016
I need more stuff like this. LSR stuff is the coolest to me!
wow! awesome idea Scott! thanks for the idea! now i won't be bored anymore!
I just realized that it is possible to DRIVE back to Kerbin using the technique you just used.
They aren't using the parachutes, after Thrust SSC had a double failure. The two parachutes on Bloodhound are just there in the event of an air-brake failure. There are only wheel brakes on one end too due to stability reasons
Yay Bloodhound. Just 3 days past the 19 year Thrust SSC record anniversary. The team are all lovely, dad was on the Thrust team
I would have enjoyed watching that car spin for a while longer... it's oddly satisfying lol
Nothing better than a KSP Scott Manley upload.
that rocking left and right is what REAL Bonneville salt flat cars do...
as the rear wiggles out, the air will push on that side, making it straight again.
5 years later and driving on grass still feels like driving on ice
wheels in ksp are a disaster
you must watch the hris harris video on it. the coolest things about it is that the v8 engine (which is just a fuel pump.. aswell as having its own fuel pump) has to have the intake air intercooled BEFORE it goes into the supercharger....after which it gets intercooled again obviously. the engineering into the smallest things is just immense.
also the wheels just spinning in free air (not supporting 12 tons of car) when soinning at 10000rpm or 100mph raise from room temperature to something like 100*c just from the air friction.
It would be nice to see some references along the way, so that we can see how fast it actually goes. The speedometer isn't enough and the clouds are to high.
The car went at nearly 2412km/h (670m/s or 1498.75mph), making it well over twice as fast as the real Bloodhound LSR.
Hmm.. strong wheels...
Rocket car launches on moons? Definitely makes it easier to land.
Only Jeb could do that , He's THE Kerbal .
Legend says that poor Kerbin is still spinning violently to this day!
Charlie Odom nah, that kerbal turned to jelly in the first 2 seconds
I'm all in for high speeds heating up wheels and temperature breaking them and the addition of superrsonic wheels that withstands higher temperatures.
also I'm curious about the dangers of engine burnout for a car like that. I imagine that the slightest loss of power may force the entire thing to flip
Well you saw at the end when I ran out of fuel that the thing just slowed down very quickly.
Scott Manley yeah but I mean in case of uneven loss of power, if a engine stops before another engine, how much torque it will generate ? I hope not very much
Well, at 1000 mph they should see aprox 1.77 Bars (2.77 Bars absolute) of ram pressure in the intake of the gas turbine engine, and it beeing on top, if you effectively clog that (like a shut down engine) the area of the intake eyeballed to about 0.3 m² would result in a eyeballed force of roughly 5300 kg applied at that area, so if anyone knows the CG of the car and some other measures the nose up torque can be calculated... I'm prettey shure the Bloodhound guys have had this in mind tho to prevent a nose up condition, since the FADEC unit of the gas turbine engine might shut it down if abnormal operation occurs, which is not unlikely as the engine they are using (EJ200 of a EF Typhoon) was never designed or ment to operate at 2.77 Bars absolute, with the higher inlet temps that would give in the much more dense and already higher ambient conditions of ground level.
Incase anybody is wondering the Bloodhound actually uses a hybrid rocket with hydrogen peroxide as it's oxidizer (which is first fed through a catalyst mesh to turn it into super heated steam and oxygen) and HTPB (basically rubber) as it's fuel grain.
Here I was wondering what the wheel friction setting was. Now, I know. Thanks Scott.
Lol'd at that Kerbal smiling like crazy all the time
sometimes i wish there's a mod for KSP that rings a sonic boom whenever you hit mach 1. It doesn't have to be really realistic/scientific, just for the sake of satisfaction that you've broke the sound barrier
"British Jet Car at 1000 mph"
Gonna run out of Britain real quick!
Wouldn't the Shock Wave cause Problems?
there are some scott manley references in the ksp loading screen i noticed like "flying safe" and "liking ike" in 1.2
Would be nice if you listed the mods you using in the video description. This is useful to those of us who would like to know how to get similar experience (including audio-visuals).
All the crashes makes me remember Richard Hammonds jetcar crash from Top Gear..
Interstellar quest 2! Please.
yes this pleaze
pleeeease uncle scott!
Wiktor Guzowski +
I think with this design you might have better luck using the prograde SAS setting instead of stability assist, as well as disabling the gimbal on the engines.
might try extending the fin. the latest iteration of the Bloodhound has a much larger vertical stabilizer than initially.
Wonder if you could use a rocket car + ramp in a low gravity to achieve orbit?
you'd have to fire the rocket at apogee to circularise your orbit, but otherwise yes. There are many RL asteroids where you could achieve escape velocity with a running jump!
Hey Scott. I thought the rocket was a hybrid rocket that used a solid fuel and HTP as the oxidiser? Wouldn't a solid rocket booster have been a closer match?
The rocket car went Mach 1.95, nearly MACH 2
I think the Devs need to put in some animation options of Kerbals throwing up. No way you don't lose your lunch spinning at those speeds.
greatest kerbal video ending ever :D
Legend has it that it's still rolling to this day...
An small idea for the next stream if you don't have a backlog of them for that: a vanilla Spaceplane which can return from Eve?
Payload for getting there can be a mining module to refuel it because it'd already take more than enough fuel just to get the thing there xD
Maybe also some fueltanks which can be left in orbit for landing.
As far as vanilla goes: just mainly vanilla, so no overkill parts like from Interstellar but Mechjeb and procedural wings would be ok.
Or rather, make the challenge to use as few mod parts as possible, that's probably more reasonable.
So, has anyone figured out a way to build a surface to Munar / Minar orbit railgun yet? Passive projectile, active rail. You would have to stay focused on the payload though, of course. The interesting part, is timing a firing so that a collector station passes through an intercept with said payload.
Valentina really seems to like it :-)
Hey Scott! Can you try launching a rover from Minmus to Eve using the hack gravity method that you showcased at the end?
You managed to get escape velocity, but can you fine-tune it and manage to land on (or at least hit) Eve or any other planet?
new to this channel i love all of the ksp simulations but details do matter when engineering im sure you would agree the actual bloodhound vehicle does not have one single wheel in the front it has 2 it provides way more stability i could go on. just my opinion
The wheels on the bloodhound will be spinning over 10,000 rpm at 1000mph!
scott. i wanted to know if it is possible to make an Expandable Hexagon station. like a Space station that grows and expands with newer sections like living quarters, Science sections, etc. like a Honeycomb Grid or something that just becomes one large Hexagon as it grows.
I think we're all hoping squad keeps wheels this way.
I mean, wheel damage can still be caused by impact speed anyways.
the wiggle is most of the times from controll surfaces.. the weels get a imbalance in friction then start to roll and your controll surface is to slow in the reaction so it overcompensates on each wiggle.. so that it cant cool down.. just reduce the authorithy of the controll surface to around 30% and it should be fine
The wiggle happens even if there's no control surfaces.
.because i don't have the bleacher engine i used a booster and.... you are right XD
first run and one of the back weels got riped off at about 250 m/s when i started the afterburner... no wiggle at all..
i turned off steering of the weels same issue
then i reduced the friction and got wiggle.. then i reduces the control surface and it got a bit better but not really noticeable.. then got rid od the friction control and had a liftoff at 521.1 m/s
well i never drove that fast in kerbal till now.. so thanks for the new experience. but still.. my aircraft's and rocket launch wiggle are most of the time the flaps.. or i forgot the struts
hmm i think tomorrow i test how far i can get with a bit of downforce and i guess a mod for that engine
thx for the reply and for all the good vids
Note that when you applying brake to the BloodHood car, you void the guaranty.
Legends says he's still rolling in outerspace...
2:24 Scott, wasn't the fuel pump system V8 engine taken from Cosworth? As in the entry-level engine that was supplied to F1 teams. And it was 750bhp as well.
10:58 Team Rocket is blasting off again!
Awesome video, Scott!
man...I really need to get videos of the stuff I build. I hope you don't mind me skimming a few ideas for craft builds.
2:54 we was about to fire up that rocket engine
the real car is using a hybrid which i guess can technically be called monoprop but not really the h2o2 is an oxidizer
Mach 2, impressive. Seemed like it was some barrier, speed was jumping between 665 and 670, not going over.
10:44 You should try to balance the planets gravity to make a stable orbit for the car ;P
And maybe even save it by de-accelerating.
Hweel, hwhile, now i want to hear him say cool whip
it looked like you were reaching terminal velocity at 665 m/s
I have to nitpick at 7:10 , sorry Scott!
The rocket engine in the Bloodhound is hybrid, not monopropellant, running solid HTPB as fuel and high-test peroxide as oxidizer. :)
They changed it to hybrid from monopropellant. When Scott uploaded this video they intended to use monopropellant, but later they decided to switch to hybrid because the development of their monopropellant engine took too long.
Now Im so tempted to get the game
Bloodhound isn't using a monoprop rocket engine - the hydrogen peroxide is the liquid oxidiser for a hybrid (solid fuel / liquid oxidiser) engine.
They originally intended to use a monoprop engine. They changed it after Scott uploaded his video.
I'm curious if they encounter problems with all the dust/sand hitting the vehicle at hyper sonic speeds, it would be like sandblasting the underbelly.
i spoke to the guy who made the V8 in the pub a couple of years ago
it is a good day when u drive a car into orbit
He went back to the future
If my math is correct, those rear wheels were travelling at 18000 rpm (assuming a 25 inch diameter). o_0
Next goals: achieving orbital speeds while still on the surface of various planets and moons.
Minmus: Easy
Mun: Medium
Tylo: Hard
Kerbin: Very Hard
Eve: Insane
I'm sure cheats will be necessary for the bigger ones, and the ones with atmosphere...
I saw bloodhound yesterday at newquay airport
Today I found out that they are using the same brakes on the bloodhound as what anybody who owns a bike will have and also that they are planning on not using a parachute
The kerbals are always happy
Should try pulling up that car. See if the gimbal was enough for takeoff.
Wouldn't it be a good a idea to first use the chemical rocket to push up to the sound barrier then use a scramjet to keep it going?
8:14
Illuminati CONFIRMED for 2 milliseconds-ish.
Have you tried disabling the engine gimbal? (Or perhaps even the SAS.) I have wobbling problems in space because of the gimbal tie to SAS.
Sorry to hear you perhaps recovering from being sick.
sky is beautiful