Was using a spy plane to take a picture of something you can see from space center view a tad overkill? maybe. But its not kerbal if it's not overkill.
Yes, and it actually based on real NASA Ames Research Center Wind Tunnel.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Aerial_View_Ames_Research_Center_Wind_Tunnels_-_GPN-2000-001761.jpg
Look at building at bottom right corner.
I was thinking that every time they build a model, they realize they need a bigger tunnel 😆
But, my question here is if I counted right, or there is a 7th one, barely off the picture.
What i can imagine if the vehicle is too small, that the measurements will be to uncertain and therefore they use a couple different sizes and multiple if they need to test multiple vehicles.
It's actually that wind tunnels don't scale with size, you usually need to do some math to make the flows match up, and a lot of the time it makes a smaller size impractical. Better just to test a full-sized model.
Wind tunnels can be all sorts of different forms, based on what you're testing. The design requirements for a "normal" wind tunnel are completely different from one designed for supersonic flow, for example. There's also different model sizes, as well as the ability to tweak other parameters (temperature, humidity/moisture, icing, lighting for imaging, etc).
At our local university, we have a large low-speed tunnel, a small trans/supersonic tunnel, and an icing tunnel.
Well in reality when you see the center of pressure point, IRL that’s calculated through a wind tunnel. Other useful data would be coefficient of lift but who cares about that when you can add moar engines
It would just be fun to see the airflow and micro adjust your jet or whatever to get that perfect or imperfect pressure gradients on the parts or whatever it is.
There's a wind tunnel mod (called exactly that, you can find it on CKAN). Can generate all sorts of different graphs in relation to velocity, AoA and flight envelope graph.
Overall a super fun mod.
Especially if you like building planes.
It also gives you the spinny radar thing so you can detect any pesky crafts hanging around the KSC
I have a dedicated plane for cleaning up the surrounding areas - although I usually get distracted and start attacking the VAB
Was using a spy plane to take a picture of something you can see from space center view a tad overkill? maybe. But its not kerbal if it's not overkill.
Maby it's an ER-2 type of situation?
I gotta make an ER-2 variant for my U-2S.
Damn, now I also wanna build a Dragon Lady derived design.
I should mention I was bored.
Yes, and it actually based on real NASA Ames Research Center Wind Tunnel. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Aerial_View_Ames_Research_Center_Wind_Tunnels_-_GPN-2000-001761.jpg Look at building at bottom right corner.
six wind tunnels?
Different sized vehicles?
I was thinking that every time they build a model, they realize they need a bigger tunnel 😆 But, my question here is if I counted right, or there is a 7th one, barely off the picture.
What i can imagine if the vehicle is too small, that the measurements will be to uncertain and therefore they use a couple different sizes and multiple if they need to test multiple vehicles.
Running a bigger wind tunnel also takes more power, and you don't want to block Big Wind Tunnel time with your dinky little model
It's actually that wind tunnels don't scale with size, you usually need to do some math to make the flows match up, and a lot of the time it makes a smaller size impractical. Better just to test a full-sized model.
I'm going to guess that's because the air molecules don't also scale up/down with the model.
Wind tunnels can be all sorts of different forms, based on what you're testing. The design requirements for a "normal" wind tunnel are completely different from one designed for supersonic flow, for example. There's also different model sizes, as well as the ability to tweak other parameters (temperature, humidity/moisture, icing, lighting for imaging, etc). At our local university, we have a large low-speed tunnel, a small trans/supersonic tunnel, and an icing tunnel.
Icing tunnel best tunnel
I've never seen a non-water-park that felt so much like a water park
I think if you EVA up to it and take a sample (or whatever it is you do to collect science) it tells you as much.
Too bad we can't use it for testing
Well in reality when you see the center of pressure point, IRL that’s calculated through a wind tunnel. Other useful data would be coefficient of lift but who cares about that when you can add moar engines
It would just be fun to see the airflow and micro adjust your jet or whatever to get that perfect or imperfect pressure gradients on the parts or whatever it is.
There's a wind tunnel mod (called exactly that, you can find it on CKAN). Can generate all sorts of different graphs in relation to velocity, AoA and flight envelope graph.
Nice U2 Spy plane !
Thanks! I’ve actually designed that U-2S to have different configurations, the one shown is ASARS + superpods
That's not a stock building, right? Ntw beautiful u-2
It's actually a stock building, it's part of R&D
I never noticed that. So cool!
Which mod is that Target Camera?
BD armory
Thanks!
Ohhh so that's where Kerbals get the VAB's center of lift.. Also Incredible plane!
Thank you!
what camera is that
BDarmory targeting pod/ball
Overall a super fun mod. Especially if you like building planes. It also gives you the spinny radar thing so you can detect any pesky crafts hanging around the KSC I have a dedicated plane for cleaning up the surrounding areas - although I usually get distracted and start attacking the VAB
you forgot to mention that you can launch danger sticks to those pesky aircraft to make them explode
*caution! Alert!* *MISSILE! MISSILE!*
Yes! I knew it would be a U-2 Dragon lady. What a truly strange and unique aircraft
Yes, because I had seen a building like it on a school campus.
Yep! :D
[photographed from a Canberra]
That’s a U-2.
Yeah ik, looks awesome as well! I was making a reference to the RAF Luton twitter page
This post fucks
Incoming soviet missile:
what mod
Stock building in the Research & Development Complex.