Nah his craft will just be so long it will reach the end of the course before he even starts it

Well fuck

You can actually turn down SRB thrust limiters low enough for the engines to last for 100x longer or more, of course you will get barely any thrust from that but it is still interesting.

With 8 and half minutes of thrust with starting twr of 0,4 for raw booster, i think its manageable, but it would have to be huge

you mean this guy? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hJNnapuHv8rTcXU.html&t

Challenge accepted! ( 99% Fail )

is it even possible?

I'm planning to do a 747 run

If i have ksp ima use starship for this lol

Done!

A while back I built a B-52 SSTO with a pretty sizable cargo bay... I'd have to check if it can carry 5000 units, but if it can, I might give this a go.

Update: it can indeed fit 5000 units of Liquid Fuel. It was a little fiddly, because of course Mk 3 fuel tanks don't fit in Mk 3 payload bays, but I was able to get it there with 12x 400 LF Mk 1 fuselages (4800 LF total) and 4x 50 LF Mk 0 fuselages (200 LF total). Whether it will have the endurance to get all the way across the course with this much dead weight, I'm not sure, but I can at least attempt the challenge. For added fun factor (and because at this point, what's a bit more mass) I'm going to try and complete the course with the 5000 units AND all the orbit-specific stuff like monopropellant, RCS thrusters, solar panels and airbrakes, etc. I'll let you know how I get on!

@@PoorFoxface good luck

@@PoorFoxface Looking forward to the results.

@@eriklindbergs5017 The run is up! I completed the course in just over 1hr 35m with the cargo, then dropped it like a bomb from ~1km up and flew back to the KSC on fumes. Originally I'd meant to put chutes on it, but I forgot, so the "delivery" wound up being directed by Michael Bay. Oops... Unfortunately KER's overlay made the liquid fuel readout mostly illegible, but if you look at the leftmost number when I drop the cargo you'll see that the remaining fuel drops from 8XXX to 3XXX.

TONIGHT: I fly a plane, Hammond eats a sandwich, and James organizes some spanners

@@BradleyWhistance 'ery noice

@@BradleyWhistance 'elcome to Bottom Gear mates

@@BradleyWhistance nice

@@BradleyWhistance i now realized that the title would be at its best if you named this video "Top G : The source of the River Kile".

I might do it but no promisses. My corvette can do it in a few hours

Minimal electrical prop, so you don't have to worry 'bout fuel

How about I do it in my Cessna Skyhawk (2-4 tons)

I can see it now. Somebody on a command chair, with a singleton electric propeller, a battery or two, and some solar panels (the fixed type on the wings, probably.) A probe core would be very similar in weight to the command chair-pilot combination, but the chair has comedic value. Flying lawnchairs, anyone?

I made a ssto using the uhhh, I forgot the name of them, but they smallest ones

He didn't indeed...

I would say that anything not expressly forbidden by the rules is permitted.

@@robinsuj ok I'm probably going to use the decoupler kraken drive to push me through this.

Sure!

After reading the doc I'll assume I'll just need to make a new class for such a type

Staging approaches would be great to see!

that is me

I want to try something related, and in very Bradley Whistance style. Not to mention it won't require halfway reasonable piloting skills. I fly most of my missions with MechJeb Smart A.S.S surface angle buttons...

Anything goes

Pretty sure it's outright encouraged, especially if you can do the whole thing on nothing but SRBs

I'm good

about 700 km

@@BradleyWhistance alright never mind, I do not think you want to watch a 50 hour video

@@olive6942 What were you going to do, have Jeb swim it? :P

@@f00flghter29 close I was going to have bill walk along the edge, and theme the entire thing like a big expedition.

Go I belive it is either in settings or the alt f12 menu

Do it!

check the document that brad linked in the description docs.google.com/document/d/1n1DZoXVe-PczuIJn88qsRPNEbmOzeW-Kqy5xGiwqwmA/edit#

Non-stock parts and cheats (unlimited fuel etc.). Launching your aircraft into the course at a high speed. Flying higher than 400m (now I’m wondering if it’s possible to skip the course while staying below 400m, maybe even go around the other half of the globe). I guess in-flight refueling (though that could be fun). Staging and part clipping is allowed. Cheating to the start of the course is allowed. Landing at the start or end is not required (-> don’t bother with landing gear). A pilot is not required.

@@Mike-oz4cv ahh, that clears everything. Thank You!!🙌🏼

if you can glide 700km then you can have a medal