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Jamesons first flight

(@potsmoke66)
Noble Member

Commander Jamesons first flight in his new Atomic X1 rocket.

Only manual controls, no retro thruster.

Is he able to made it to Gates Spaceport?

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Topic starter Posted : March 23, 2012 16:37
(@potsmoke66)
Noble Member

see how he made it, or perhaps how he failed?

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Topic starter Posted : March 24, 2012 00:57
(@zephyros)
Eminent Member

to be able to fly there without assistance and retro booster, you my good sir are awesome.

if you want a challenge try to fly to one the moon bases 😛 one word of caution, a bit of gravity, granted thats 4 words lol

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Posted : March 24, 2012 03:07
(@potsmoke66)
Noble Member

the ship (textured version)

[attachment=1136:Bildschirmfoto 2012-03-24 um 12.43.43.png]

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Topic starter Posted : March 24, 2012 03:40
(@walterar)
Prominent Member

In the absence of retrorockets, an anchor would be well. 💡 :mrgreen:

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Posted : March 24, 2012 05:42
(@Anonymous)
New Member

A Rocket!

Amazing, That can be a lot of fun to flight.

It stages would be possible... 🙂

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Posted : March 24, 2012 05:47
(@potsmoke66)
Noble Member

a slight mistake fuel consumption was is 10 times to high.

i made a test flight through hyperspace and managed to land, but had to divide the fuel consumption by 10 (thruster_fuel_use = 0.001,), else you can't accelerate above 100km/s and you ran already out of fuel.

still it's difficult and a speed above 500km/sec is not recommended, you will need some fuel to approach and land.

walterar, you will soon see how i throw the anchor.

now i have to edit the clips.

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Topic starter Posted : March 24, 2012 06:52
(@marcel)
Noble Member

Great flying, Commander! I managed to get the first version of that thing into something resembling an orbit, which was difficult enough for me! 😀

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Posted : March 24, 2012 07:13
(@potsmoke66)
Noble Member
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It stages would be possible...

stages...

yes,

but you can't let them drop after start, you need the most propellant to approach a spaceport in a system.

except you would like something like a saturn and fly only to the moon to do a rough landing.

you would have to drop them on the way to your destination and perhaps land with a capsule left 😉

but i guess "Atomic X1" is a recyclable rocket, it makes more sense for interstellar travel, it makes more sense after all.

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Topic starter Posted : March 24, 2012 12:21
(@potsmoke66)
Noble Member

here we go, commander jameson made it to ross154 and has survived 😉

shortened version

manual approach and landing with the "Atomic X1" vessel.

unfortunately i approach at the nightside, but i was happy to made it and didn't wan't to change my course. the clip runs at approx. 8x speed (starts and ends slower).

that might look long and boring, but try it yourself...

the updated ship as used in the clip, textured and naked version.

atomic1_3.zip

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Topic starter Posted : March 24, 2012 13:26
 Uxi
(@uxi)
Active Member

That's pretty cool! I would love to see a Saturn V, Shuttle STS, or Ares V. :sniff:

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Posted : March 27, 2012 19:52
(@potsmoke66)
Noble Member

i thought about such, really, but to have a rocket or a shuttle that is only useful to fly to orbit or the moon, didn't makes much sense in pioneer, imo.

there are games like orbiter who deserve that better.

but if you really like, i can fix up such a "candle" for you, models there will be hunderts to use for this guess.

i found one I really like to fly :mrgreen:

[attachment=1146:Bildschirmfoto 2012-03-31 um 13.19.40.png]

the "M-C 1001" (magic carpet 1001)

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Topic starter Posted : March 31, 2012 03:02
(@walterar)
Prominent Member

You can make a flying broom for my witches? 💡 😆

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Posted : March 31, 2012 08:47
(@potsmoke66)
Noble Member

"the devil's wife's the old mad witch and she's a ridin' me...

the devil's wife's the old mad witch, she used to ride a broom...

now every night she leaves the earth and rides me to the moon."

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Topic starter Posted : March 31, 2012 13:45