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Decided to test the new Legacy Touchdown Points add-on by flying the DGIV in Orbiter 2016 around Quebec City.
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But then I hit the water while attempting to fly under the Quebec and Pierre-Laporte Bridges and lost my engines and gears. :(
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EJECT!
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Yeah, not sure they survived their impact with the ground lol
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It finally stopped sliding there. That's some distance away o_O
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LordCroussette said:
Decided to test the new Legacy Touchdown Points add-on by flying the DGIV in Orbiter 2016 around Quebec City.
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But then I hit the water while attempting to fly under the Quebec and Pierre-Laporte Bridges and lost my engines and gears. :(
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EJECT!
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Yeah, not sure they survived their impact with the ground lol
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It finally stopped sliding there. That's some distance away o_O
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I haven't been there since 2017 gotta pay a visit1690680346131.png
 
n72.75 said:
I haven't been there since 2017 gotta pay a visitView attachment 34065
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Beautiful picture :)

And speaking of Quebec, I can't pass under the bridges with my Titanic :mad: (Well technically it is a retextured Britannic, but let's ignore that, shall we?)
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Had to turn around. Took the opportunity to take a screenshot from the POV of the picture.
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LordCroussette said:
And speaking of Quebec, I can't pass under the bridges with my Titanic :mad: (Well technically it is a retextured Britannic, but let's ignore that, shall we?)


Had to turn around. Took the opportunity to take a screenshot from the POV of the picture.
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I would say you need to raise the bridges there, according to OpenSeaMap, the bridges are 46m meter high above the water at high water... more than enough for the old Titanic (43m)

Today, the Titanic could even get to Montreal, but that was impossible in 1912, before the Saint Laurence River was dredged....
 
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A Blast from the Past
A modern Razzle Dazzle DeltaGlider is approaching a spinning space station, which was made for Orbiter in 2005.
The station was intended to be launched on a Delta IV Heavy, which was a modern launcher these days.

It keeps the spent upper stage as a counterweight after unfurling the artifical gravity habitat.
An inflatable tunnel connects the docking module to the habitat.

The rotational speed is 2.5 rpm, resulting in an artificial gravity of 3.4 m/s², which is about 1/3 of Earths gravity.
 
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Launch of SSM-81, which I did yesterday. The goal of the mission? Visit the Canadian Space Station. And, for the first time, I'm not going alone since my friend @Snax already launched a shuttle of his own there! 👀

Lift-off of Space Shuttle Concorde from LC-39B!
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The CSS is overtaking me on my way to space!
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In orbit.


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Concorde's arrival at the CSS. She is visible behind the tail of Snax's Amicitia from the station's cupola!
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And docked on Port #2!
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Amicitia and Concorde docked to the CSS.
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Urwumpe said:
Do you plan to add the wind shield and nose animation? A side door that opens would also be nice after landing... gets the same feel as a DG with opened cockpit....
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I didn't even know that existed on the XB-70. Would it be something similar to the animation of the Concorde?
Thanks for the information, I'll keep it in mind.

The first thing I want to accomplish is to make a .dll (and a .so on linux) that defines the 6 engines, an animation for the landing gear, and an animation for the folding wings (above mach 3). My knowledge is quite limited in terms of programming and mathematics. However I have been looking at the Orbiter SDK code samples (ShuttlePB, HST, etc.).

Soon I'm going to do an experiment of making a static vessel, without animations with the Holy Probe Luna 3, to see if I'm able to code a simple vessel on my own. And if I have questions (I'm sure they will) I'll make a thread to ask about coding.

As you advised, I'm watching tutorials on how to use GIT, it's a fantastic tool.
 
Matias Saibene said:
I didn't even know that existed on the XB-70. Would it be something similar to the animation of the Concorde?
Thanks for the information, I'll keep it in mind.
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There are some videos around that show it, it does the similar role as the nose droop of the Concorde, but the only thing that moves is the outer windshield and the ramp ahead of it.


Matias Saibene said:
The first thing I want to accomplish is to make a .dll (and a .so on linux) that defines the 6 engines, an animation for the landing gear, and an animation for the folding wings (above mach 3).
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The wing tips drop as soon as the XB-70 goes supersonic, but reach their maximum angle down at about Mach 3. The faster, the further down.
 
LordCroussette said:
Launch of SSM-81, which I did yesterday. The goal of the mission? Visit the Canadian Space Station. And, for the first time, I'm not going alone since my friend @Snax already launched a shuttle of his own there! 👀

Lift-off of Space Shuttle Concorde from LC-39B!
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The CSS is overtaking me on my way to space!
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In orbit.


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Concorde's arrival at the CSS. She is visible behind the tail of Snax's Amicitia from the station's cupola!
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And docked on Port #2!
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Amicitia and Concorde docked to the CSS.
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Ho I totally forgot to post my sortie !!

Soooo, OV-108 Amicitia on pad 39B for LGS-2 flight (my Space program is called LGS Aerospace Corporation) to the Canadian Space Station ! Launch azimuth is 28.45° with a MECO altitude of 350'000ft.
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Lift off of Amicitia, bringing science and belgian beer to the Canadian Space Station !
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MECO confirmed, OMS-2 already performed, PLBDs are opened and RMS/Ku Ant deployed. RInc if 0.08° and currently at 170 by 170 nautical miles of altitude, coasting toward the CSS now.
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And after a plane correction with an OMS burn, we now have a rendezvous point with the CSS. Passing above Incheon in South Korra 🇰🇷
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Now that a debut of SPEC33 is implemented, using ITEM1 to get the datas (taken from the StateVectorSoftware specified in the .scn file I guess ?).
Then using SPEC34 with the new inputs implemented as well (I was completely improvising at this point but I'm glad I figured out the bits for this flight)
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Burn in progress
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And burn is complete, I'm glas it worked. Tho I'm not exactly on the station's R-bar.
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A view of the CSS from the Shuttle aft station
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And now docking using the CCTVs only ! That is so cool !
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And docked ! At MET 001/18:37:19
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Amicitia is now unloaded and we'll stay there for two weeks before going back on the surface.
This is mission control "beep" 😋
 
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