Skydiver here! Done about 20 wingsuit jumps. Proximity flying is what you were referencing, and is usually done with a base jumper set up. It's also very dangerous! Skydiving itself is relatively safe, barring operator error!
Also, there are skysurfing boards. But those are very dangerous, provide no lift and only drag, and are dangerous due to the fact that you can easily give yourself a "horseshoe malfunction." That is, when you deploy your parachute, there is a chance the pilot chute can deploy between your legs like threading a needle. The results can very likely be entanglement with the chute (even if you cut your main chute away it can stay wrapped up) and subsequently death be rapid deceleration. Otherwise known as the "splat" effect.
drewnonstar I remember seeing those skysurfing boards when I was a little kid in the intro of the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers The movie! haha that's awesome that they really exist.
Scott Manley Impressive. Still waiting for a rocket assisted landing suit. That reminds me, you should make like a drop pod or rocket platform or something like that in KSP.
That was cheating. IMHO, you'd have to land on something not set up to provide a soft landing. If he didn't have those boxes, he would have had a pretty bad day.
Scott Manley - Says "fly safe" (Tries to land a surf board, from space, with no protection, in a miniature lake smaller than an inflatable family pool)
Stefan Spatz Benson, Arizona, blew warm wind through your hair My body flies the galaxy, my heart longs to be there Benson, Arizona, the same stars in the sky But they seemed so much kinder when we watched them, you and I...
I know that this Reply is over a year late but they are called Skegs and are much needed for control.I am glad that I ran across this one because I was born and raised in Hawaii. Love surfing! I am gonna try this one. especially since I am at 1.1.3 right now and got plenty of parts mods
This video truly accrues more evidence for my theory: Command Pods are actually hazardous components of a spacecraft. Kerbals survive better outside of them. Ergo, Command seats FTW :P
Watching Scott maneuvering through KSP's clunky crafting system with such elegance while it takes me half an hour to construct a bloody rover there's nothing left for me to do but to envy
DUDE! That was awesome. As an aside I have seen video of people jumping out of a plane with something that looked like a cross between a surf board and a snow board, it was sized in between and had places to shoehorn your feet into so you stayed on the board, at some point they pulled the cord for the chute and the board drops off their feet to dangle from a cord.
From an aerodynamic standpoint your skegs are in the right place but from a hydrodynamic standpoint they would make your board stiff as a.. well... board. The thruster has the twins roughly 6-8 inches forward of the single. I haven't a tri to measure because I drive a twin because I like the old school maneuverability - I have my own custom 6'4" design with a roundedpin tail and channel starting just aft of mid that progressively deepens as it goes aft, widening between the skegs and sloping down and away from the stringer and widening out to the rails so the stringer actually acts as the third skeg. It's a great design that I have used in 2ft beach breaks to 20ft Mexican hurricane to 6ft barreling Fiji tropical reef (double overhead hollow on the face because the water is only 2-3ft deep over the reef). I have been surfing for 40 years and have seen a lot of change in design and technique.
I was going to suggest dropping it from a big aircraft rather than launching from the ground, like with the X-15... but then you dropped it out of orbit instead, which was awesome. I like how the pilot looks super calm while crash landing into the swimming pool. What a quintessentially Kerbal moment. XD
You got the name right, but they're usually not angled and boards typically have eith one or three. They also aren't used for turning. Their function is to prevent yaw. The rails (the sides of the board) in conjunction with longitudinal weight transfers are what's used to turn.
Could be totally wrong but I thought water was totally uncompressible. Save for those hypothesized planets that are purely liquid and have cores of solid hot ice from the density of the water above it
Jon Deal You can compress everything. Some things are more compressible than others though. In the depths of the Mariana Trench the highest measured pressure was 1,086,000 Pascals making the density of water (at 277 K) 1048 kg/m³. Compare this with the density of water at 1 atm which is ~999.98 kg/m³.
If you switch off the angle snap while placing parts, it'll place them adjacent to the surface normal of the object you're attaching it to. Makes figuring out the orientation of the thing you're attaching a lot easier.
Thanks for building stuff like this! I have actually watched a lot of your interesting designs closely, as I'm ALWAYS afraid to overlap wing pieces and have parts clipping into each other because I assume it'll just make it explode. But like with the tail control surfaces you have overlapped here I see again that I can be much more liberal with constructing things than I allow myself to be. Keep up the Science and Gaming, thanks for the vids!
I was watching the video, and then this happened: 3:23 *Scott:* "My wife actually bought me a Hawaiian shirt, and I just thought it was cool-looking, it was kind of white and gold, and I thought 'oh, that's a pretty nice-looking shirt'. Only once I was sitting at the side of the pool did I notice that it actually was --" *Me:* "-- BLACK AND BLUE!!!" (Also, this was one of your most awesome videos ever, Scott.)
I've used parachutes (which, when grabbed by KAS, can still be right-clicked to deploy) to do an extreme exoatmospheric BASE jump, but I've never surfed down through re-entry!
Hey scott, i think all you have to do when your kerbals are "paralized/dead in seat" is switch objects because it counts as out of the chair, and the control comes from the probe core, not the Kerbal. (a theory correct me if im wrong)
"None of these have been fatal, they only left them paralyzed from the neck down." - Scott
"he is not dead, he is just... inanimate." brilliant, i have to remember this one :)
The good side of this is none of these things have been fatal, they've just left him paralysed from the neck down.
Scott is such an optimist
"He's only mostly dead"
That smallfighter could be worse...
he could be dead.
trisymphony Hes not dead its a trick......get an axe! and axe him a few questions! :p
Misterdazzling nice
My favourite quotes:
"Well he's not dead, he's just...inanimate."
"This thing actually flies rather well when it's flying forwards."
I like how the broken piece of surfboard flew away at the end.
Could make it into a slygif.
Dacino Hoihe
Or not...ffs.
Skydiver here! Done about 20 wingsuit jumps. Proximity flying is what you were referencing, and is usually done with a base jumper set up. It's also very dangerous! Skydiving itself is relatively safe, barring operator error!
Also, there are skysurfing boards. But those are very dangerous, provide no lift and only drag, and are dangerous due to the fact that you can easily give yourself a "horseshoe malfunction." That is, when you deploy your parachute, there is a chance the pilot chute can deploy between your legs like threading a needle. The results can very likely be entanglement with the chute (even if you cut your main chute away it can stay wrapped up) and subsequently death be rapid deceleration. Otherwise known as the "splat" effect.
drewnonstar I remember seeing those skysurfing boards when I was a little kid in the intro of the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers The movie! haha that's awesome that they really exist.
After hugging the mountain and gliding all the way back to KSC from orbit... we need a newly named Kerbal....
Korliss Kerman. (After Jeb Corliss)
Cg23sailor Or Gary Kerman - after Gary Connery - first person to land a wingsuit.
Scott Manley Wait, you said land a wing suit?!?!?!?
SlyTy98 ruclips.net/video/DEP8juRSBRo/видео.html
Scott Manley Impressive. Still waiting for a rocket assisted landing suit. That reminds me, you should make like a drop pod or rocket platform or something like that in KSP.
That was cheating. IMHO, you'd have to land on something not set up to provide a soft landing. If he didn't have those boxes, he would have had a pretty bad day.
"He's not dead, he's just... inanimate"
You copied trisymphony
@@lumbagouncle800 I think we all copied Scott
@@lumbagouncle800 are you an actual idiot? @Ur senpai said it first. trisymophony copied him
He's not dead, he's just.... inanimate.
Scott Manley-2015
Jurassick1546 *"Fly Safe~"* Hell yeah.
*PEEPEE*
You should totaly do this again with the Wii Balance Board!
"It's starting to shake a little bit, I wonder if there's any physicsless parts..."
*entire spine of surfboard is made of physicsless struts*
Scott Manley - Says "fly safe"
(Tries to land a surf board, from space, with no protection, in a miniature lake smaller than an inflatable family pool)
This is probably one of the coolest videos I have seen yet from KSP.
Totally reminds me of the Treasure planet movie, where the kid surfs through the canyons on his solar sail surfboard thingy. So badass
Scott is not the hero we need, nor deserve, but he surely is the hero we want.
Skip function is the best thing you added since the invention of the wheel
ProNerdPanda Some people ask to see the building, but I know you pros just like to see it crashing.
Heh, building is for nurds. The crashing is where it's at.
ProNerdPanda you have pro and nerd in your name not just pro
+ProNerdPanda is that a Scott Pilgrim avatar I see there?
Looks also like a homage to the final scene of John Carpenter's Dark Star ;)
Stefan Spatz I was wondering how long it would take for someone to make this reference.
I was thinking the same thing! All we need is a beach ball alien!
Stefan Spatz Benson, Arizona, blew warm wind through your hair
My body flies the galaxy, my heart longs to be there
Benson, Arizona, the same stars in the sky
But they seemed so much kinder when we watched them, you and I...
Stefan Spatz Haha, was about to make the same comment! :) I can hear the country song in my head! Still my favorite Carpenter film.
"Let's have some music in here, Boiler."
18:07 Watch the wing. o.e
I must go, my people need me!
flies a surfboard from space and halfway round the planet, only to crash it and almost completely destroy it in the ceo's swimming pool
During re-entry:
"WHYYYYY!? WHY WON'T I DIE!?"
"it was kinda white and gold, only once I was sitting by the side of the pool did I notice it was blue and black."
:OOOOOOO
soundslave stop if you want answers to the white and gold go to shi show
No! Not this fight again!
Luke Diggle
I just assumed it was just two dresses and someone was playing a prank. So I ignored that episode of sci show.
As soon as I heard Scott say white and gold I came down here for a comment like this xD
We only need ability to rename Kerbals and BAM!
WE GOT JAMES BOND SURFING FROM SPACE.
Simon Seal we have it.
+Simon Seal go in game files and you can name them
Scott makes a flying surfboard that flies better than most of my ships and spaceplanes
Hello, Scott Manley here. Today we're fucking physics.
Liam Evans lol
Did you just... lol your own joke..?
Tal Kornfeld no, I meant to add it to the end.
I want him to say this in a video XD
Wei Zhao exactly :D
I like at the very end, the surviving wing separates and flies off on its own, gliding in to the air.
I know that this Reply is over a year late but they are called Skegs and are much needed for control.I am glad that I ran across this one because I was born and raised in Hawaii. Love surfing! I am gonna try this one. especially since I am at 1.1.3 right now and got plenty of parts mods
This video truly accrues more evidence for my theory: Command Pods are actually hazardous components of a spacecraft. Kerbals survive better outside of them. Ergo, Command seats FTW :P
10:05 that guy working in his office looking out the window WTF is that :D
At 18:07 that wing is like: "I'm outta here!"
This is now one of my favourite videos of yours. Right up there with your old KerbalCon contribution
when you coast to the space center at the end it looks just like a desert skiff from return of the jedi
Everybody's suuuurfiiiin', surfin' Kerbal space. /beachboys
One of the more entertaining things I've watched someone do on this game. Definitely looks like a lot of fun flying that.
By far the most awesome thing I've seen this month. Bravo, good sir.
Danny2462 = Scott Manley confirmed
Same energy, different direction.
@@AssistantCoreAQI like what happens during reentry
Can you put this for download? I really wanna fly it... I made my own, but it's really unstable and wobbles a lot.
Dani Paunov it’s quite simple, probably less than 10 partsyou can build it
Did you build it yet?
Bodacious.
Dude, Scoot was so radical man, did you see how awesome his board was.
Major Missile
Hang six!
Nassault
*_TOTALLY GNARLY DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD_*
_I'm sorry._
Lithium No you're not.
Love your videos Nassault :3
That is quite literally my favorite thing I've ever seen in KSP. Particularly that first launch, and how much it behaved like a surfboard.
The film 'Dark Star' came to mind :)
Truly a breath of fresh air to watch and listen to your commentary.
Watching Scott maneuvering through KSP's clunky crafting system with such elegance while it takes me half an hour to construct a bloody rover there's nothing left for me to do but to envy
5:50 I swear I heard a cat meow. The first time I heard it, I thought it was my cat and started searching the room for him
Omg make a Green Goblin Glider with 2 jet engines
Joshua McLellan Something like this ruclips.net/video/BgXwdz9yZxY/видео.html
ya but it has to be a VTOL - and self propelled
you could use actives for the tips too
i dont mod games, so mine doesnt work so well
Now we just need to mass produce these hoverboards and the Back to the Future Prophecy will be fulfilled.
hans iI
18:09
" A true hero, surfing back from space,
I'm Scott Manley, fly safe."
That sounds pretty cool‼️🙂
It's an Aloha shirt Scott! Glad you got to visit our beautiful islands!
You should do the Hijacked plane rescue, but with a surfboard as the rescue craft...
An awesome video on a channel full of awesome videos. You are a true hero, sir.
amazing creation from the manliest if men, Scott Manley! keep up the fun videos!
Scott, you just made every Eureka 7 fan's dream come true.
DUDE! That was awesome. As an aside I have seen video of people jumping out of a plane with something that looked like a cross between a surf board and a snow board, it was sized in between and had places to shoehorn your feet into so you stayed on the board, at some point they pulled the cord for the chute and the board drops off their feet to dangle from a cord.
This reminded me of the air surfing in Eureka 7.
Somehow, I feel like this is the ultimate crossover between KSP, Eureka 7, and Dr. Strangelove...
erebus08 E7!
One of your funniest and most honest video since a long time!
thank you
Great video! Surfing down from orbit reminded me of one of the final scenes from the 1974 movie Dark Star.
"Back in control!"
*Flips over in victory, thus losing control*
"Nvm"
I feel like this is a valid first step for any space program.
Awesome experiment into the aerodynamics of KSP.
One of the coolest things I have ever seen in KSP! Keep up the good work.
So awesome!! Just needed the Hawaii Five-0 theme and you're all set!
I am simply amazed at how survivable this little craft is!
"we want this thing to be stable" he says, about to surf through atmospheric reentry.
A surfboard that can get beyond the atmosphere? Sign me up!
Welcome back Scott! Glad you came home safe!
From an aerodynamic standpoint your skegs are in the right place but from a hydrodynamic standpoint they would make your board stiff as a.. well... board. The thruster has the twins roughly 6-8 inches forward of the single. I haven't a tri to measure because I drive a twin because I like the old school maneuverability - I have my own custom 6'4" design with a roundedpin tail and channel starting just aft of mid that progressively deepens as it goes aft, widening between the skegs and sloping down and away from the stringer and widening out to the rails so the stringer actually acts as the third skeg. It's a great design that I have used in 2ft beach breaks to 20ft Mexican hurricane to 6ft barreling Fiji tropical reef (double overhead hollow on the face because the water is only 2-3ft deep over the reef). I have been surfing for 40 years and have seen a lot of change in design and technique.
He's like a leaf on the wind.
Jebadaiah is just shreddin'..... His board to pieces.
I was going to suggest dropping it from a big aircraft rather than launching from the ground, like with the X-15... but then you dropped it out of orbit instead, which was awesome. I like how the pilot looks super calm while crash landing into the swimming pool. What a quintessentially Kerbal moment. XD
remembers me on the classic movie "Dark Star"
You got the name right, but they're usually not angled and boards typically have eith one or three. They also aren't used for turning. Their function is to prevent yaw. The rails (the sides of the board) in conjunction with longitudinal weight transfers are what's used to turn.
Could be totally wrong but I thought water was totally uncompressible. Save for those hypothesized planets that are purely liquid and have cores of solid hot ice from the density of the water above it
Jon Deal you can compress it, but not by much, increasing the pressure by 1 atmosphere decreases the volume of water by about 0.0046%
Scott Manley love ya scot!
Platonically of course
I am soooo confused
Everything is compressible. Compress water sufficiently and you get funny kinds of ice that are far denser than Ice I (the ice we all know and hate)
Jon Deal You can compress everything. Some things are more compressible than others though.
In the depths of the Mariana Trench the highest measured pressure was 1,086,000 Pascals making the density of water (at 277 K) 1048 kg/m³. Compare this with the density of water at 1 atm which is ~999.98 kg/m³.
Great Video,Scott! You inspired me to create my own KSP surfboard! It actually "flies!"(glides)
If you switch off the angle snap while placing parts, it'll place them adjacent to the surface normal of the object you're attaching it to. Makes figuring out the orientation of the thing you're attaching a lot easier.
A new definition for Windsurfing!
Silver surfer Kerman is a herald of Kerblactus!
Thanks for building stuff like this! I have actually watched a lot of your interesting designs closely, as I'm ALWAYS afraid to overlap wing pieces and have parts clipping into each other because I assume it'll just make it explode. But like with the tail control surfaces you have overlapped here I see again that I can be much more liberal with constructing things than I allow myself to be.
Keep up the Science and Gaming, thanks for the vids!
You, sir, are a mad-man!
I love your videos.
It looks to function like the Kerbal equivalent of a wing-suit. Well discovered!
Probably my favorite thing I've seen someone make in KSP for awhile. I may have a stab at making one myself.
binging scott's old videos, very fun
I have enjoyed many of your videos.
This one is truly epic lol
They wanted to surf the World Wide Web... they couldn’t find a spider's web big enough so they surfed the World instead.
That is possibly one of the coolest things I've ever seen in KSP
Therapist: don't worry surfer Scott Manley cant hust you
surfer Scott Manley: flies a surfboard through atmospheric reentry
Ah, some ridge bashing in the mountains towards the end there! Great way to stay airborne if the wind is blowing against the ridge...
Let's go surfing now, every Kerbal's learning how!
This video reminds me of the ending of my favourite scifi B-movie...
This reminded me of the ref boards from the eureka 7 anime. If only jeb had a giant battle mech...
it amazes me how well that flew.
"He's not, dead, he's just paralyzed from the neck down." (CUTS ABRUPTLY TO COMMERCIAL)
Very much in the style of Darkstar. :P
i really want to see a part 2 cant get enough of this surfboard
u just invented a new kerbal sport
Im just readying my team for the air surfing championchips
*championships
Now I have a cheaty way for my career mode visual surveys. Thanks Scott!
I was watching the video, and then this happened:
3:23 *Scott:* "My wife actually bought me a Hawaiian shirt, and I just thought it was cool-looking, it was kind of white and gold, and I thought 'oh, that's a pretty nice-looking shirt'. Only once I was sitting at the side of the pool did I notice that it actually was --"
*Me:* "-- BLACK AND BLUE!!!"
(Also, this was one of your most awesome videos ever, Scott.)
"I am a leaf on the wind,
watch how I soar."
Hoban Washburne, pilot of the Serenity (from the Firefly series)
THAT WAS BRILLIANT XD. Love how u managed to get back to the space center hahaha
I've used parachutes (which, when grabbed by KAS, can still be right-clicked to deploy) to do an extreme exoatmospheric BASE jump, but I've never surfed down through re-entry!
Dude I def enjoy watching your videos man haha. Keep them coming
Hey scott, i think all you have to do when your kerbals are "paralized/dead in seat" is switch objects because it counts as out of the chair, and the control comes from the probe core, not the Kerbal. (a theory correct me if im wrong)
"They've just left him paralyzed from the neck down" *ford ad plays*