The real miracle here is the fact that not only did you get each part of the plane to fly, it flew perfectly with each addition to the plane w/o messing up the CoM/CoL ratio.
I clawed on to my first asteroid yesterday. Didn't do anything with it, I just cuddled with it for 107 days. I felt like I had beaten the game. Your video hurts me.
I can get into orbit perfectly fine (and circularize!). But from that point on my brain just doofs and realizes I have no more fuel. The best I have done is accidentally use 8 solid rocket boosters in orbit and get a fly-by of the Mun before orbiting the sun.
Make a video for a KSP reddit challenge entry on a whim in about 3 hours including craft build time and sloppy editing, get over half a million views. Spend hundreds and hundreds of hours building highly accurate recreations of battletech mechs which can walk with fluidity and stability in the unforgiving and inconsistent KSP physics engine, under their own control systems programmed using an absolutely niche language and running in a virtual operating system mod which in turn runs inside the KSP engine itself, culminating in a shot for shot recreation of the classic mechwarrior 2 cinematic intro... 15,000 views. Damn you, internet recommendation algorithms! Damn you to hell! Why must you make such a mockery of the apparently obvious concept of rewarding meritorious effort!?? Uh... I mean... uh.... thanks for your kind words of appreciation :)
You hear that clanging sound folks? No - that's not the sound of docking ports coming together, oh no! It's the sound of a MIGHTY PAIR OF SWINGING SOLID CAST IRON BALLS!!!!
I'm a little late to the party here, but for anyone interested in making their own mid air docking planes here are a couple tips that may help. First, place some angled surfaces (winglets, flat plates, etc) above and below the port on that will be on the autopiloted vehicle. The top one angle a bit up and the bottom one angle it down so that you make a sort of funnel into the docking port to guide in the section you will be piloting at that stage. Make sure these funnel pieces are reinforced enough to survive knocking into the section you are piloting. For a real life example of this check out some designs of midair refueling ports and connectors. One of the two sides of the connection is almost always some kind of funnel to catch the other side. Second, for sections that are very wobly in flight with overly fast roll rates, try reducing the control authority of the ailerons (in their right-click menu). You can do this in the hanger or in flight.
Okay RUclips algorithm. I don't know what crack you're smoking bringing this old video back to me after all this time. But I APPROVE. And *allmhuran?* Still rocking those iron clad cohones with your flying skill on this one. :) (Also - POWERFUL nostalgia for that old MK 1 streamlined cockpit - WHY did they ever get rid of that???? )
I also have no idea why this one got the attention, it was one of my shortest efforts both in terms of KSP time and in terms of video editing time! I am much happier with my mechs, but youtube is not XD
So far ive only used my plane creations to travel on the surface below 25m/s, for specific missions that needs tests at the surface. Even then it hardly works. And god forbid I try to go faster than 25m/s... then hit a bump. I take off for a second and see my impending doom
"Atmospheric Docking" is basically Aerial Refueling in real life, the only difference is that once the other plane is done, it disconnects with the aerial refueler
I know it's an old vid, but very well done! obviously you have skills at KSP, but te video itself has good timing, great editing, brilliant choice of when to speed up/ when not to, and comic delivery. Well done!
I can imagine just how much stress NASA astronauts go through, trying to ensure that the spacecraft docks properly, even aerial refueling looks hard enough, but compared to those two, this looks like the hardest of them all.
Yeah one time I was landing my mun lander but I did a landing burn too late and I didn’t slow down all the way for landing and when it landed I heard an explosion but the lander looked fine so I assumed it was wasn’t anything important until I saw the engine was what exploded. So now the lander is freaking stranded on the moon. But that was a while ago I did a rescue mission since then.
Thanks... I don't actually know why this one got so popular, I actually thought it was a bit dull, and it took very little time to make. I just pumped it out for a reddit challenge. I thought my mechs were much cooler, they took a LOT longer to build and program!
Brilliant work. It probably took a lot of days to make them functional!! Super awesome design, too! This aircraft somehow reminds me of that ship from Terra Cresta. Too bad they don't turn into Phoenix when all merged, if you know what i mean!
It's been tried and pop end up in a flat spin or just fall out in a series of rolls to try to relight the engine but in a flat spin all you can do is bail
Craft file drive.google.com/file/d/0B2m8Wm1qifJuY3BlUWxKMmZ1bzg/view
allmhuran FUCKING CHAMPION OF THE AIR.
+allmhuran Its stock ?
It is indeed.
may i ask what broke?
TutorialWard I never did find out
What a massive effort for basically no payoff. Well done, you truly embody the KSP spirit.
Hayden Lau Kerbal spirit
Yeeee
I’m so late but you sir made my crappy day a bit better
@@basesixty6739 and also mine
@@basesixty6739 Funnily enough, it made my day too. I've forgotten I had written this so I had a laugh before realizing it was my own comment.
this is why KSP needs multiplayer, this would be so cool having 5 different pilots all converge at the same time!
+8bitslime The wailing and gnashing of teeth would be all the more intense.
+8bitslime There is a multiplayer mod called DarkMultiplayer. Time warp is confusing but it could definitely work for something like this.
+Anonymous Psuedonym You'd havbe to have 5 beefy computers hooked up at LAN xD
+Anonymous Psuedonym it wouldn't work... there are delays and stuff that makes flying close to eachother very glitchy and duplicatey
I tried in DarkMultiplayerMod and the plane shaked the hell out of me.. so no docking >.
I wasn’t aware IKEA made aircraft.
underrated comment
IKEA
Ikear
IK *EA*
0,99 $ to unlock docking port
@@nurphurecarnium You mean 99$
Four planes take off
One plane lands
thats isnt the impressive part. Such was the loss rate of my early attempts at flying airplanes in ksp
That's like plane elimination round or VOLTRON
So three planes crashed?
Is it a bad news ? Or a good news?
That sounds more like a threat
The real miracle here is the fact that not only did you get each part of the plane to fly, it flew perfectly with each addition to the plane w/o messing up the CoM/CoL ratio.
Yeah
@@awhahoo four years late bud.
@@Floofytrex who tf asked
@@MenelBOT Why tf do you care?
@@Floofytrex What tf these guys doin here
"You know, for a wing you don't fly so good."
i died
I clawed on to my first asteroid yesterday. Didn't do anything with it, I just cuddled with it for 107 days. I felt like I had beaten the game. Your video hurts me.
i lold so hard
I feel so bad for you..... have you done a successful mun/minimus mission
Me too, I can barely get into orbit.
I have seen and asteroid...
I can get into orbit perfectly fine (and circularize!). But from that point on my brain just doofs and realizes I have no more fuel. The best I have done is accidentally use 8 solid rocket boosters in orbit and get a fly-by of the Mun before orbiting the sun.
For a game that's over 9 years old, it's still just as awesome today.
I just bought it after this video such a nice different game
He's even on ksp videos
@@AcornSmokes420 name of the game
It actually took several years for it to _get_ good. If anything it keeps getting better because even now, it has room for improvement.
@@rahulgawade4951 bruh its at the title of the video
The whole time I was picturing an F-16 or F-18 pilot scratching his head and thinking, "What's the big deal? I do this s**t five times a day."
CountArtha They attach their aircraft to other’s? XD I thought fighters came complete XD
Andrew Quinlan mid-air refuelling
Shit forgot that existed...
But still that's way easier than docking plane parts together.
Still pretty damn hard though.
mid air refueling ports do not have magnets.
Everything about this was incredible.
Make a video for a KSP reddit challenge entry on a whim in about 3 hours including craft build time and sloppy editing, get over half a million views.
Spend hundreds and hundreds of hours building highly accurate recreations of battletech mechs which can walk with fluidity and stability in the unforgiving and inconsistent KSP physics engine, under their own control systems programmed using an absolutely niche language and running in a virtual operating system mod which in turn runs inside the KSP engine itself, culminating in a shot for shot recreation of the classic mechwarrior 2 cinematic intro... 15,000 views.
Damn you, internet recommendation algorithms! Damn you to hell! Why must you make such a mockery of the apparently obvious concept of rewarding meritorious effort!??
Uh... I mean... uh.... thanks for your kind words of appreciation :)
this brings a whole new meaning to wing man
send this clip to manley, he'll go nuts.
Noah Goldberg i think i won't be able to sleep with all the noise from him fapping
Mieke De Lange Oooh, *THAT'S* what he meant by go 'Nuts'
Seriously, Scott Manley would go nuts seeing that
You hear that clanging sound folks?
No - that's not the sound of docking ports coming together, oh no!
It's the sound of a MIGHTY PAIR OF SWINGING SOLID CAST IRON BALLS!!!!
What the F**k?
Joe joe
Yes much
I'm a little late to the party here, but for anyone interested in making their own mid air docking planes here are a couple tips that may help. First, place some angled surfaces (winglets, flat plates, etc) above and below the port on that will be on the autopiloted vehicle. The top one angle a bit up and the bottom one angle it down so that you make a sort of funnel into the docking port to guide in the section you will be piloting at that stage. Make sure these funnel pieces are reinforced enough to survive knocking into the section you are piloting. For a real life example of this check out some designs of midair refueling ports and connectors. One of the two sides of the connection is almost always some kind of funnel to catch the other side. Second, for sections that are very wobly in flight with overly fast roll rates, try reducing the control authority of the ailerons (in their right-click menu). You can do this in the hanger or in flight.
Okay RUclips algorithm. I don't know what crack you're smoking bringing this old video back to me after all this time. But I APPROVE.
And *allmhuran?* Still rocking those iron clad cohones with your flying skill on this one. :)
(Also - POWERFUL nostalgia for that old MK 1 streamlined cockpit - WHY did they ever get rid of that???? )
I also have no idea why this one got the attention, it was one of my shortest efforts both in terms of KSP time and in terms of video editing time! I am much happier with my mechs, but youtube is not XD
0:47
For a brick, he flew pretty good
5:29 look at the kerbals in the bottom right
This is godlike!! Seriously. I have a huge hassle just trying to get my rovers to dock on the ground, when one is stationary. This is amazing :D
Me:Can barely make a functional plane that can take off
Me:*watches this video*
Me:Might as well go die
So far ive only used my plane creations to travel on the surface below 25m/s, for specific missions that needs tests at the surface. Even then it hardly works. And god forbid I try to go faster than 25m/s... then hit a bump. I take off for a second and see my impending doom
I am very appreciative of that 'ta-da' sound effect :P very nicely done, sir
I agree with the upmost honesty
Its been 6 yrs since i came back to this video
Dear god! That last second scared the living daylights out of me . . . some of us watch at loud volumes on a 5.1 surround system you know!
It takes me an hour to dock to a space station. Meanwhile this guy just casually assembled a plane mid flight in atmosphere.
The atmospheric docking was already VERY impressive.
But flying an assymetric plane? Mind blown.
now all we need is an epic fantasticar replica.
I dunno why this is recommended to me now but god ksp has come so far from back then. I remember watching this fairly recently after it came out lol
What do we learn from this folks? It's much easier to assmble stuff before using it.
"Atmospheric Docking" is basically Aerial Refueling in real life, the only difference is that once the other plane is done, it disconnects with the aerial refueler
You're a patient man, awesome work in both build and maneuvers.
FLY MY PRETTIES!
For some reason I imagined this comment being said in jacksepticeye’s voice
respect for patience
“SEEMS MUCH EASIER WHEN THE AIRFORCE DOES IT”
Atmospheric docking?
How about INTERSTELLAR DOCKING!?
That’s insane
basically the next step in evolution
"that's not possible!"
"No, its necessary"
@@GhalidiusTrident *Proceeds to spin the spacecraft and tries to match with the endurance*
4:08 "who da man?" *silence* "alright i'm never saying that again"
I understand that reference
I remember when the jet engines looked like that. Good times.
I kid you not, he flies a wing onto a plane. Funniest shit I've ever seen.
This is why KSP needs Multiplayer!
It'd be even more fun racing friends to space
That was remarkable. I needn't any adjectives, it was simply amazing.
Thanks :D A lot of new people seem to be watching this all of a sudden, even though it's super old!
Every few months this video makes it's way back to me.
Oh GOD this is *OLD* KSP! I remember those MK-1 cockpits, and those landing gears where part of the wheel was exposed when retracted!
Glorious isn't it? :D
You are one of the few people whose videos consistently impress me. Great work :)
:D
Fuckin' Magnets, how do they work?
dude that was crazy skill lol!
Bro just redefined the "flying wing".
this was a load of awesomeness.
very nice plane, very skilled docking, and nicely edited video.
Now hand over the craft file!
The thing about docking is that it takes so long and when you finally got it the feeling to so satisfying.
Impressive! Anyone who has tried to dock can truly appreciate the difficulty of what you have done.
Wow
This is the most impressive feat of KSP that I have ever seen! Bravo dude
*Zero X from Thunderbirds intensifies*
Also that fucking ending
I know it's an old vid, but very well done! obviously you have skills at KSP, but te video itself has good timing, great editing, brilliant choice of when to speed up/ when not to, and comic delivery. Well done!
Thanks :D
the wings docking looks like a man with parkinsons trying to assemble a lego set
I can imagine just how much stress NASA astronauts go through, trying to ensure that the spacecraft docks properly, even aerial refueling looks hard enough, but compared to those two, this looks like the hardest of them all.
Elon Musk: ahem . . . can i buy the project?
"what did i break?. meh probably nothing important" famous last words before it normaly dies.
the fact that you said voltron style and not power ranger style makes me happy.
You shoulda made an action group to undock all the nodes once you were done and send everyone into a beautiful spiraling Kolvoord Starburst!!!!
Fun fact: you have likely forgotten about this comment until now
@@thewitness8321 true! I don't even remember what the hell a Kolvood Starburst is
4:33 I LOVE how ksp players always say that the part that exploded wasn’t important XD
Yeah one time I was landing my mun lander but I did a landing burn too late and I didn’t slow down all the way for landing and when it landed I heard an explosion but the lander looked fine so I assumed it was wasn’t anything important until I saw the engine was what exploded. So now the lander is freaking stranded on the moon. But that was a while ago I did a rescue mission since then.
An engineer: our shuttle has decoupled on the runway, let's get it back into the hangar and reassemble it
A _kerbal:_ give me the controls
That has got to be one of the coolest KSP videos I've ever seen. Nice job man!
Ive watched alot of ksp vids and this has to be one of the best
Thanks... I don't actually know why this one got so popular, I actually thought it was a bit dull, and it took very little time to make. I just pumped it out for a reddit challenge. I thought my mechs were much cooler, they took a LOT longer to build and program!
@@allmhuran ill check them out!
Watching shuttles try to plow each other mid air was not something I thought i would see today
Thank you for reminding me of a time when the MCU was good.
This exists irl.
Mid air refueling?
Epix to refuel do the planes need to fly wings and attach them to a structure?
But in this video he is assembling a plane in mid air
@@BidiguiloChefao almost like that
Alot of jets do that
You cannot land a plane while refueling another plane at the same time. This is where this docking goes the extra mile
Fantastic video man! That baby when you missed the last wing had me laughing irl, well done :D
That gif is so useful so often
Cooper, this is no time for caution
5 years later and this is still brilliant
I can only imagine how mad I could get trying to attach these
i must say, that was impressive both in technical and piloting skills
"I'm sure it's nothing" said every person moments before disaster
Which is why iron man's suit used computer algorithms and autopilot, jeez man, this must have been hell on earth to make
I realized halfway through that I already saw this video. 6 years ago
I'm not sure what I was expecting, but this is way cooler.
The editing on this video is A+, I'm deceased
I really enjoy your videos
*I cant see how this could POSSIBLY go wrong*
Love the tie-fighter sound
It need the Interstellar theme
I'm another tree
NO ITS NECESSARY
Aw s**t 3:36
yeah this makes sense of aerodynamics around a plane would make docking hard
This is like air refuelling but in KSP and just connecting planes together
This is an aircraft masterpiece, it's so cool
Brilliant work. It probably took a lot of days to make them functional!! Super awesome design, too!
This aircraft somehow reminds me of that ship from Terra Cresta. Too bad they don't turn into Phoenix when all merged, if you know what i mean!
Everytime youtubes like you prove me...that after more then 300 h...i still have no idea how to play that game real...
this opens up the case for kerbal megazords.
Great job man that was amazing!
I feel so unworthy! This is AMAZING!!! Fantastic flying!!!
Bloody hell that was impressive. You have earned a like
Hugely impressive :D
I, for one, am impressed. Sweet flying!
most impressive thing i have seen in a while
**Interstellar Docking scene music starts playing**
This is where multiplayer would be fun
Might be a better idea to have the wing docking ports mounted vertically instead of horizontally?
It's been tried and pop end up in a flat spin or just fall out in a series of rolls to try to relight the engine but in a flat spin all you can do is bail
reminds me of an old thunderbirds episode, altough they didnt dock mid air...
still amazing, wished to see a much bigger ship docking mid air :P
Amazing
and i'm here still trying to make something which looks good and is functional at the same time
bro im going through some times this was a good thing to turn my brain off to and smoke to thanks man
allmhuran: I think I'm going to assemble a new plane.
*Interstellar docking music intensifies*
Flight ready out of the box. Some assembly required.