Ways to launch a DGIV

[Woo482]

post how you launch your DGIV.
I launched mine with a Saturn 1b 1st stage with two titan 1st stages as boosters (I would post some pictures but I only just thought of posting a thread like this)

 

[Cobalt]

The old fashioned autopilot way. I'd like some new fun ways though, like make it a shuttle stack sort of thing.

 

[astrosammy]

I once attached it to an B-1

Maybe I find a screenshot of it.

 

[Woo482]

I will remake my saturn 1b stack with titan stg 1 boosters soon and post a picture

 

[Jarvitä]

-Riding on the Energia
-Riding on an SRB
-Fired with the HARP (in chicken mode, naturally)

 

[Woo482]

that sounds fun how many g's with the HARP ?

 

[Nickmick95]

Muzzle velocity: Only 7,000k :lol:

 

[Woo482]

only 13.95 g's ? my crew experience thousands of G's when i try and land on Saturn with them (I think I went to fast)

 

[stjimmy225]

on top of a titan, LEO in about 3 minutes and no chicken mode!gotta be careful about the heating though, up to 35km you gotta be vertical otherwise your toast!

 

[Woo482]

I have done something like that but I just used one titan stg 1 with fins out of the Velcro rockets addon

 

[Kaito]

Manual/Autopilot

I dont have all those fancy rockets and stuff (I better learn how to dock with ISS or get to the moon before i try that...)

 

[pete.dakota]

Old fashioned, manual, stick in hand to target orbit.

 

[Woo482]

and I forgot to mention I flew the rocket stack my self no auto pilots

 

[RisingFury]

I always fly everything manually. The only autopilots I use...ever are Pro and retro, level, + and - and kill rotation. Everything else always manually.

You've got about 15 minutes of controlling your craft to set you on course for the Moon. You really think I'm gonna put up an autopilot to watch my ship get to the moon itself?



Though I suppose the weirdest way to launch DGIV off the ground is by using the hover engines to lift yourself 0.5 meters, then stack the gear, reduce altitude to hover just a few cms over the runway and deploy the gear. That will shoot you about 300 meters high with a powerful rotation and it'll give you enough time to start the engines and if you're skilled enough, you'll point your DGIV up... if not, you're gonna crash

 

[ghostrunner01]

I? I just shove it in a HARP gun (available at orbithangar.com) and shoot