Reid is very smart, but I swear he's never seen an airplane. Edit: Years later and I'm still getting comments saying, "actually Reid is dumb." Warms the heart. /s

@danielp1412

2 жыл бұрын

true

@dannyboy1350

2 жыл бұрын

he is not smart he just spends alot of time on things that are ok'ish

@gdigrenadier8252

2 жыл бұрын

@@dannyboy1350 man if you saying he aint smart then that means you are the human equivalent of a goldfish

@dannyboy1350

2 жыл бұрын

@@gdigrenadier8252 tell me, what makes him smart

@gdigrenadier8252

2 жыл бұрын

@@dannyboy1350 hes able to make engines, trains, planes all kinds of damn things with games that didnt even have those sorts of 'features'

I'd recommend using autostrut for wobbliness, and making sure the Center of Mass is ahead of the Center of Lift when making aircrafts so they fly properly.

@ReidCaptain

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, I usually forget to check the center of mass on my first test

@erner_wisal

2 жыл бұрын

Misread as I'd recommend using astronaut for wobbliness

@bjboss1119

2 жыл бұрын

Just having the centre of lift behind centre of mass is not enough you will need testing to make sure the centre of drag is behind the centre of mass

@vincentvoncarnap2473

2 жыл бұрын

@@ReidCaptain Also consider with planes that when they brun fuel, the center of mass changes as well. i saw that happen quite a lot in this video when your plane just flipped over.

@DOOT_II

2 жыл бұрын

^

Wow, seems like the radiation from that many engines can even rip the bitrate in half

@ReidCaptain

2 жыл бұрын

It's some nasty stuff

@urbanarchitect74

9 ай бұрын

@@ReidCaptainhow much did it cost?

@Clan_skaven

11 күн бұрын

@@urbanarchitect74”four hundred thousand to fly the rocket, for 12 seconds”

Hey, about the tail moving up and down in the end, it is possible that it is your "keep stable" SAS acting up, it happens when you launch a rocket and it is a little bit unstable, the SAS actually makes that instability worse because it tries to compensate for every piece independently instead of the whole structure it seems, that problem also happens to me a lot

@ReidCaptain

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I turned it off intermittently and that seemed to solve the waving. Didn't want to get too into it since it was such a specific issue

@magica3526

2 жыл бұрын

no, it tries to stabilize your craft, but assumes it's rigid. If it's at all wobbly then the delay and distortion can't be accounted for. It's the opposite of what you're claiming

@danburrykerman6826

2 жыл бұрын

you can fix this with struts or autostrutting to root.

@labo3900

2 жыл бұрын

@@magica3526 ho alright thank you for the precision !

@wstoner2237

2 жыл бұрын

@@labo3900 lmao

My intuition is that something smaller would work a lot better here. Maybe the solution isn't just to add more thrusters, but to try and increase the effectiveness of the ones you have. That's what I'd do, anyway.

@scronchgoose7403

2 жыл бұрын

More thrusters means more “free mass” to work with. If you have one thruster, you only have x amount of weight you can add before overburdening it. This amount of mass is shortened further by the fuel and fuel containers to power it. By adding another thruster, you now have twice the free mass to work with, and you can have them both draw from a bigger fuel container, which has more efficient container mass:fuel mass. This effect keeps stacking. TLDR: moar powah

@noahtanzell4543

2 жыл бұрын

@@scronchgoose7403 in my own experience, with low power ssto's such as this, their is a certain critical point where adding more mass (fuel and thrusters) simply slows you down. So I do think he's right.

@jdwoods5790

2 жыл бұрын

@@scronchgoose7403 if you have less engines and more fuel then you’d get farther

@Tzizenorec

2 жыл бұрын

@@noahtanzell4543 This isn't an SSTO though. With multiple stages, you can add as much mass as you want and always benefit from it to some degree.

@Swagmaster07

3 күн бұрын

@@Tzizenorec He built a plane in the end, not the same as a Rocket, can usually have under 1 TWR, and having too many engines / things isn't that great, drag exists buddy. But honestly there is no point in this discussion, this was just a stupid little challenge, nobody would use Nuclear engines for their whole craft.

Just a heads-up dude. That wasn't orbit. That was a ballistic trajectory. Orbit is when it doesn't come back down. What you saw was your speedometer changing modes tracking your speed relative to the surface, to tracking your speed relative to the planet's centre of mass. Hence, surface speed and orbital speed. If you had a bit more juice you could have burned prograde at the top of your trajectory and you would have made it into orbit.

@magica3526

2 жыл бұрын

the navball switches to orbit mode at set height, where it no longer makes sense to take the planets rotation into account

@theneonbop

2 жыл бұрын

I think he knows this and just wanted to say he got into "orbit" because he thought he wouldn't be able to achieve actual orbit

@magica3526

2 жыл бұрын

@@theneonbop I wouldn't accuse him of intentionally lying but I see why you could think that

@DragonTecCo.

2 жыл бұрын

Shut.

@dannyboy1350

2 жыл бұрын

@@DragonTecCo. no you

Wait till he discovers that you can press shift while using the offset tool to move things super far away without the need for a physical connection

@michagrill9432

2 жыл бұрын

He seems new to KSP 🤔

@proxy3386

2 жыл бұрын

@@michagrill9432 yeah.. and I just feel like he just has no idea what he is doing the entire time.

@cameronl1859

2 жыл бұрын

@@proxy3386 Considering he thinks the Dawn engines are nuclear, I'd agree haha

@Tzizenorec

2 жыл бұрын

@@cameronl1859 I don't think he thinks the Dawn engines are nuclear. It's more that his initial goal was to get to space with "deep space" engines, but he named the video "nuclear engines" because that's what he ultimately wound up using.

the entire point of the dawn is to go slow, but be efficient about it

@ReidCaptain

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, making it the worst booster stage ever

@dannyboy1350

2 жыл бұрын

@@ReidCaptain well how do you plane on going interstellar glitchless

@rigel2112

2 жыл бұрын

@@ReidCaptain I only use em for keeping rovers planted on low gravity bodies.

Last video was an intercontinental balistic missile, now you are testing with nuclear power... I see where you are going and I dont know if I like it btw would it be possible to build a boat in ksp?

@ReidCaptain

2 жыл бұрын

Oooo a boat would be fun, I'll add it to my list!

@joeladams939

2 жыл бұрын

@@ReidCaptain yes

@jacobmiller3933

2 жыл бұрын

@@ReidCaptain make it an aircraft carrier and launch a plane from it

@keesvdb

2 жыл бұрын

Yes boats are possible as well as submarines

@Terminarch

2 жыл бұрын

Boats and submarines are possible.

Pull your gear up as soon as you leave the ground. The landing gear produces a fair amount of drag which your engines have to compete against

Fallout Spaceship.

@Superwazop

2 жыл бұрын

Fall out of the sky

@erikez0584

2 жыл бұрын

How he turn in nuclear engine

@samuelcaponi4516

2 жыл бұрын

*Jason Bright would like to know your location*

@snowboyz0825

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for mentioning that

@ethangbb

2 жыл бұрын

Project Orion could be a better example

Since you only managed to achieve a ballistic trajectory I think that I will try and do my own take on this challenge as it sounds pretty fun

he went down the spaceplane ssto rabbit hole

The issue with the nuclear engines is that they don’t have gimbal, so it’s insanely hard to control

@ReidCaptain

2 жыл бұрын

Very true, vectoring is generally so good I forget it's even there

@AspectDuck

2 жыл бұрын

@@ReidCaptain same lol

@RileyMarkley

2 жыл бұрын

@@ReidCaptain REaction wheels to the rescue

@rowbot5555

2 жыл бұрын

@@ReidCaptain you can use the action groups to make it control via thrust differentials, or you could use hinges to artificially gimbal it

@mkzhero

2 жыл бұрын

That's what reaction wheels, wings, and proper craft design are for.

Something I think would be fun would be to run a subscriber challenge competition in KSP. Like you set a task, you attempt it, your subscribers attempt it, then we see your attempt and also some of the submissions and see how different people approached it and who did the best.

Didn't see you checking the widgets in the video, but remember, center of mass just in front of the center of drag and your plane won't flip!

I remember Stratzenblitz75 doing something like this. Its interesting to see someone else’s take on the problem. You definitely need more struts though. Adding staging of some kind would also help considerably in increasing your delta-V.

Your issue is wing efficency. That is, the lighter a wing is loaded, the more efficent it is. Because ksp dont calculate down draft, its possible to just spam wings. A typical modern aircraft have a lift to draf ratio of 15-20. In ksp its easy to get over 50. Pretty much just spaming wings. This also alows it to fly slower, hence needing less engines and being able to carry more fuel. If you want to do it realistically, it should be one really long wing, like a sail plane with a single nuclear engine. Also, drop tanks is recomended. Its also way easier to take of with a aircraft with slower design speed. Also when lifting up, the aircraft should use the same CAS at diffrent altitudes. There is online tools to calculate it. Figure out the aircraft most efficent speed, then calculate the CAS at diffrent airspeeds and just keep to it. Having a fairly slow aircraft also helps put more energy into altitude than air resistance.

@bradley9856

2 жыл бұрын

This guy does maths

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

Indeed, I often end up building triwing plane, but the wings are inside each other and also inside the fuselage.

This is physically painful to watch

@proxy3386

2 жыл бұрын

As a experienced KSP player I agree.

@dylansimmons799

2 жыл бұрын

@@proxy3386 It's so hard to watch after playing hundreds of hours of it

@proxy3386

2 жыл бұрын

@@dylansimmons799 Yeah..

Your problem with the plane not taking off is because your main landing gear was WAY behind your CoG. You want those bad boys just behind your CoG to allow the plane to rotate around them. With your setup you are just compressing your gear, not rotating them. Also, your CoL was ahead of your CoG which is why it kept flipping after takeoff. Remember, if your center of gravity is too far ahead your plane flies poorly. If your Center of Lift is too far ahead, your plane only flies once.

Always love your content Reid. Keep it up!

This is one of the most hilarious things I have seen in a long time, thank you :)

I'm tempted to give this a shot, if I do I'm gonna use your stage setup, with a rocket launch sled, a space plane stage, and a rocket pod final.

There were so many things that made me go AAAAAAGHG as an experienced KSP player but hey it's ok

@proxy3386

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I am experienced as well and I can clearly tell this guy has no idea whatsoever about what they are doing.

@datb0013

2 жыл бұрын

Oh god yes. No wonder he was going slow he didn’t use nosecones at all

Love you vids bro! Ur so smart!

Hmmmm IT smells like 1970 america here

@ReidCaptain

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

Best youtuber I’ve seen in a long time

nice job, the game autoswitched the speed notation from relative to the surface to relative to earth itself aka orbital speed. you got on a suborbital trajectory with nuclear engines.

I've taken a nuclear ssto to the moon before so i knew this was possible, if you go with 5 or so of them and keep the craft as light as humanly possible it can work.

"It's Spinning So Fast That The Ion Engines Are Expanding" Struts And Autostruts:

Hey I think more videos weekly would be awesome because I love your videos and I love how you run your channel we just need more content it’s awesome

I would love more KSP

This is the first ksp video i ever watched

yes another KSP vid!

This is certainly one of the best parts of this game, where you can run experiments like a mad scientist.

just discovered your ksp vids, gotta say i like em a lot! anyways try getting to the mun without maneuver nodes

@ReidCaptain

2 жыл бұрын

I think I could even try getting to duna or something but the amount of save scumming would be wild

@Lord_Vertice

2 жыл бұрын

@@ReidCaptain I mean with enough Δv for constant course corrections and proper planning of transfer windows it shouldn't be too difficult as long as you can look at the map. Now, doing it _without_ the map would be a real challenge, but it should be possible with sufficient planning

"but stuff started exploding and that was kind of a problem" very much a KSP video, nice!

I've tried this challenge, it's why I ended up going with a space plane and go off the airstrip, helped me get into the air more reliably. Good in space travel for long periods of time cause low-no gravity, but gravity just makes it terrible.

i just love how the first few pods shaped like circles are called "pea pods"

its like some sort of nuclear death frisbee, i love it

Another issue with the big s delta wings is that they store fuel. If you were planning on having enough with the fuel tanks themselves, you could save a decent amount of weight by emptying the wings

@TotallyNoAim

Жыл бұрын

bro, the fuel is usable and you even have to put it in so they have it in. You get way more delta-v with fuel in the wings (m/s/weight)

You need to rescue the rest of your Kerbals!

Nerv nuclear engines are actually my go to for the transfer stage of basically all my rockets, they are extremely powerful in a vacuum.

@dydunyatv4286

Жыл бұрын

Juat 60 kn

This is the person that has all the games that you didn't know you wanted except you always wanted them

Those engines are great they use almost no fuel great for use in space

@ferretwithacathat292

Жыл бұрын

yes. they suck not in space. that's the chalenge

please make a space aircraft to use in other planets and travel around it

Spending the entire middle of the video just screaming "CENTER OF LIFT!" at the screen

2:48 I like how he said it is getting a little unstable As proceeds to rip the fabric of the Universe apart

The fall on the ion engine propeller test was so depresing

Advice for Reid, do the basics, wings and vertical and horizontal stabilizers then if the wings are huge compared to the plane make them smaller, some time less weight is better

It helps to enable center of mass and center of lift.

Playing KSP the right way Great video!

@proxy3386

2 жыл бұрын

Right way?

Remember to pull in your landing gear after takeoff :P

Move the wings back, and the delta wings looks very heavy

I was not ready for that cut at 9:21 😆

When it doubt.. You just gotta add more.

Didn't even know the game had rotors or helicopter physics!... I mean sure I know aerodynamics is a thing in the game, but didn't expect it to be down to that detail! Amazing!

The build of this plane looks like the XB-70, and it even works like one too!

ahhh the good ol kerbal way. Strap stuff together until it works and you have a giant mess (that works)

the kraken was literally playing with you lmao

Early gang! Love to see topics I enjoy in my free time.

" it gets a little unstable" Meanwhile, the creation: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Yesss, more ksp

Struts, better center of gravity vs center of lift, and less drag and more thrust to weight.

I like the launch system, sort of like a carrier launch system

You should experiment with Ground Effect in KSP.

At 9:26 I was amazed that this was a plane Nice video!

well that escalated quickly

The plane was just twerking in the end🤣

You vids are "AWESOME"

@SlingshotPhighting

2 жыл бұрын

*AWESOME*

@sierra7.

2 жыл бұрын

They are

also, to timewarp with physics still on by alt and then timewarp buttons

@proxy3386

2 жыл бұрын

*Out of atmosphere.

I watched this whole video while playing sinkrate warning

Since the first wobble im praying for the autostrut to be turned on

I like this man

matt lowne has a good series about ksp ssto plane design

I haven't seen a whole lot from KSP but I've never seen someone manage to make a glider

Gotta go into options and turn on autostrut.... Keeps the mean kraken away.

Ever thought of trying Space Engineers? Not sure what you could do in that, but I bet it'd be interesting to try. And if not, hopefully you still enjoy it.

@nikkiofthevalley

2 жыл бұрын

Clang would attack him so much. It would be incredibly annoying for him but hilarious for us

reminds me of a time i built a large airplane with a mixture of jets and nuclear engines... it took off ok and got up high, then SUDDENLY went into a spin. and crashed.

i recommend you use nose cones on flat parts

Wt absolute f is this build progression style? 😂 love it

Same thing happened to me when I went around New Years!

DUDE KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM 2 IS ALMOST READY TO LAUNCH ON STEAM

“its a BIT unsteady”

I was working on getting off of Eve and this might be the ticket.

Didn't know that xenon actually worked in-atmosphere.. Thanks.

Of you were to go for the helicopter desine then you should have tilted the thrusters down just a bit then it would have either floated down a bit slower or slowly gone up. And if you were to make the wings a bit longer they could direct more air.

@sancho0735

2 жыл бұрын

*if*

I love this

I wanted to know how you got other places to launch the rockets.

Hey so I have a little challenge can you make the cheapest way to send satellites into orbit but like the 2 stage is reusable ?

Next video: using only RCS engines to land on Eeloo!

watching it while doing time-warp on jool

Having center of lift behind center of mass helps alot thays why u keep flippin over

Offset the nerves engines into one another to get more thrust

Nukes aren't "awful". At least most places that aren't the surface of Kerbin. Once you're in space, the nuclear engines are in fact, quite legitimate. Think about it: most of the bodies in the Kerbol system are low-gravity, airless rocks. You can pretty easily make a Duna Lander with nothing but nukes! They actually save you a lot of play time by allowing for smaller and lighter interplanetary ships, and not having to waste time launching absolute monstrosities to LKO. Still a cool video though! Maybe work on your aerodynamics and try again? Your planes are flipping because they're not balanced well, have too much drag and no auto-struts. (I honestly don't know why they're not turned on by default) I HIGHLY recommend looking up old Scott Manley videos to improve!

Be careful your kerbals might come back with 11 toes

Can you do a train just a suggestion

the launchsite was rendered uninhabitable.

KSP Theorem: Any object that can generate any motion can get you into space, and beyond

If it werkz, it ain't stoopid." KSP Lead Rocket Scientist Kerbher Von Braun, 2022