Thus, these days planes routinely show 0.00 IntakeAir remaining on the resource line and still keep running on jets while gaining another 8-10km of altitude. This automatic system has such fine control that it can use tiny amounts of intake air too small to appear on the resource list. To be honest, the intake air line on the resource list is pretty much meaningless, mainly because back in the update that introduced the RAPIER engine, Squad also introduced a mechanism that automatically throttles down jet engines as the amount of intake air decreases with altitude (you used to have to do this manually) to postpone flameout for as long as possible. Highly recommended.Ĭurrently my space plane has four turbo jet engines and two RAPIER engines With 6 of the new “shock cone intakes†and 20 (I didn’t realize there were 20) of those new little square “structural intakesâ€ÂĪnd what the heck and does that air resource meter mean? Kerbal Flight Data also gives a % of air requirement filled figure, BTW, as well as other useful stuff. You can go a lot higher if you throttle back gradually as you climb, keeping the air requirement just below the flameout threshold.Īs you may gather from the preceding paragraph, it's as much about piloting as design. You can go a lot higher if you shut down as many engines as possible to concentrate the airflow into a single jet. You can go a lot higher if you keep your AoA minimised. You can go a lot higher if you level off and crank up the speed as high as you can before trying to climb too high. Intake effectiveness is a function of air density, AoA and speed. One intake per engine will get you to orbit just fine if you do it right. Unless you're running a dozen engines or more, you have more intakes than you need. Turbojets and RAPIERs handle the high & fast stuff. So does somebody know what these numbers actually mean?ĭo you mean turbojet or basic jet? The basic jets are only good for subsonic low altitude stuff they conk out at about Mach 1 / 20,000m. I have read the jet engines work up to about 30 km, mine sputter out at 23. 4 (not per sec) so I would need 14 shock cones for every turbojet? (I’m clearly misunderstanding that) 5.3 what? (I’ll guess liters because everything else is metric ) the new “shock cone intake†as in intake air of. The jumbo jet engine says it consumes 5.3701/sec of intake air. I’m trying to understand what the numbers mean.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |