DRAGON XL

[DeltaWing]

 

[TtTOtW]

You don't have drag on

 

[The Dark in the Light]

You don't have drag on

Just curious, how do you tell?

 

[TtTOtW]

Just curious, how do you tell?

He obviously has massive acceleration, and see how high his trajectory grows and he's not even neared 5km??? And yet he's perfectly stable. But his TWR is obviously through the roof! And he has to dump his 2nd stage with so much fuel? Even considering his landing, at that point he should at least have been nearly empty already. And anyone who does 450m/s before they reach 8km is flying in a vacuum. He throws off stage after stage with fuel left. REALLY???

 

[TtTOtW]

Drag would have eaten him alive

 

[TtTOtW]

He does 450 by 4500m. That is well before max q. He experiences no max q. Because there is no drag.

 

[TtTOtW]

And FIVE Titans per booster????? And that's not counting the main body...
Edit: Four. Still, same thing.

 

[The Dark in the Light]

And FIVE Titans per booster????? And that's not counting the main body...

Oh jesus, that's a lot. I tend to keep one per booster depending on how much I'm lifting.

 

[TtTOtW]

Now this is its true performance. Notice the difference in speed throughout. Identical rocket. Also notice at separation the two stages pull apart now. That is because of drag and mass differences. Something that did not happen in the first video.

Also, my landing sucks.

 

[TtTOtW]

The whole thing weighs 975t. It needs only 3 Titans in addition to those grasshoppers for a comfortable liftoff.

 

[lil’Mayo]

The whole thing weighs 975t. It needs only 3 Titans in addition to those grasshoppers for a comfortable liftoff.

My dude, you just owned him

 

[TtTOtW]

My dude, you just owned him

I just want to help him learn to do it properly He obviously does not know about the drag bug, or else he'd never put so many Titans on one sub-kiloton rocket.