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You ever have one of those days when you thought, this is a pretty good day, but what it really needs is a flying boat? The Brikoleur has got you covered. The Long Umpire is a flying boat. It lands on water, and takes off from water. Land, too, but water is more fun. It won’t go to orbit, but why would you want to take a flying boat to orbit anyway? It’s a boat! That flies!
This is the passenger version. It takes 32. And a pilot. There’s also a handy cargo bay for cargo, in case the passengers need to pack their lunch, or their bicycle, or a rubber dinghy, or something. With a ramp, because it’s unlikely you could deliver anything much to water from above, besides which the engines get in the way of opening it that way. And there’s a ladder in case the pilot needs to go for a refreshing dip.
Anyway, to ditch, descend to 50 m, slow down to 100 m/s, cut engines, and set everything to straight and level. That’s it. If it makes you feel more comfortable, you can flare up a tiny bit at 4 m or so, but it’ll forgive you if you come down a bit nose first or a bit tail first.
To take off, hit full power, wiggle your wings to get the under-wing floats out of the water, keep your nose pointed at the horizon until you’re going around 55-60 m/s, then pull back. Easy!
Passenger version of the Long Umpire, built for the Kerbal Express Airlines challenge.
- Take-off speed from land under full fuel load: ca 65 m/s
- Ditching speed in water under full fuel load: ca 70 m/s
- Take-off speed from water under full fuel load: ca 80 m/s
- Passenger capacity: 32 + pilot
- Cargo capacity: small Mk 3 bay with ramp, tonnage not measured but should take a reasonable payload that fits in it
- Action groups: none
- Cruise: about 8000 m at full throttle feels about right, it’ll go at around 280 m/s
- Range: over 3000 km
A stock aircraft called Long Umpire P. Built with 105 of the finest parts, its root part is adapterSize2-Size1Slant.
Built in the SPH in KSP version 1.3.1.
Details
- Type: SPH
- Class: aircraft
- Part Count: 105
- Pure Stock
