who the hell walks at 26 m/s

@DoggedCrowd1

8 жыл бұрын

+Johny Mojo I don't know, maybe my mom, once she sees the electricity bill. she will be walking towards my room at 26 m/s

@PirateJake2000

5 жыл бұрын

Me when food is involved

@axsmith8857

5 жыл бұрын

That’s roughly 2.4 times faster than the fastest 100 m sprint

@animationspace8550

3 жыл бұрын

Scott Manley when the: the

@opacocastilla8238

Жыл бұрын

The pitbull named princess after seeing an unsupervised toddler

"Eventually tore the aircraft apart. Anyway, I'm Scott Manley. Fly safe" That is the strangest combination of words I have ever seen.

@MrNight-dg1ug

6 жыл бұрын

Birdplane *heard

@MrNight-dg1ug

6 жыл бұрын

Unless you had it at no volume and turned on captions

@N3bu14Gr4y

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrNight-dg1ug What if he was an owl or bat?

@MrNight-dg1ug

5 жыл бұрын

@@N3bu14Gr4y Light on a screen

@animationspace8550

3 жыл бұрын

@@N3bu14Gr4y do bats often rip metal photovoltaic flying wings to shreds?

yes, I have about 200x the pod's electrical needs factored into my design

finally scott is going green

@HolidayTheLeek

10 жыл бұрын

with radiation?

@alexshi8583

10 жыл бұрын

Holiday Miner WITHOUT RADIATION, grass cannot be green!

@Solderpro_1

10 жыл бұрын

lololololololololool XD

@Solderpro_1

10 жыл бұрын

grass is green

@alexshi8583

10 жыл бұрын

well without radiation there would be no grass.

meanwhile i'm crashing into myself with 480 parts, full wing solar panels, wingspan twice as big as this one, 20 ion engines and 20 batteries...

@IanMcCollumsor-tame

9 жыл бұрын

Meanwile, I am stuck in a really low dip aero break, ( 65 km kerbin)

@Pharozos

9 жыл бұрын

Ian McCollum Have you tried getting out and pushing?

@IanMcCollumsor-tame

9 жыл бұрын

I actually had near full fuel, but the rocket had a tencdancy to rip apart if you entered too steep. (Deadly re-entry and FAR)

@Pharozos

9 жыл бұрын

Ian McCollum I see. Good luck friend.

@IanMcCollumsor-tame

9 жыл бұрын

I landed it... Forgot wheels on the wings, but glided it down safe enough to keep my science... Lost the engine and a fuel tank though.

Hey Scott! Could you do an updated version of this? I think KSP has changed since then XD lol

@jamesr.2017

6 жыл бұрын

You think?

@conchshellchemist8963

5 жыл бұрын

yeah he won't have to have over a ton of undercarriage and can have actual propellers

@barathbotond1193

4 жыл бұрын

And since then

@hugowalker220

3 жыл бұрын

Hello, it's me from the future, it's been 8 years

Dear Scott, I love watching your videos and very often after watching them create my own versions of your creations.And after watching this video i made my own version of the solar powered aircraft and my own one at full whack managed to reach 102m/s and i felt this was pretty cool so i thought i would tell you, Thanks James

Another great video with informative commentary. Thank you.

WOW thanks so much for making all these .18 vids!! The version change is really what rekindled my passion for this game and your videos really help me out with finding all the uses for the new parts! :) Keep up the good work!

I want to thank you for making this video. This was the first video I saw of this game and I had to try it after I had seen this. Thanks again :)

I did something similar to this but it was much simpler. it consisted of 2 battery packs and xenon tanks, a mk.1 parachute at the front, obviously the ion engine in the back, 2 of the fancy pivoting winglets on the sides of the plane and 1 as a tail. the cockpit was the OKTO mk. 2 drone, 3 of the aerodynamic wheels and it had 6 solar panels. as long as the sun was up it could run at full capacity without burning out the engine, with about an hour of fuel. after 30 minutes at a steady incline it got to about 4km and it could probably glide just as long, it could reach relatively high speeds of about 110 m/s

that's an awesome design Scott and great performance for ION engines

Incredible! So darn impressed!

Scott because of you i have started playing Eve. tahnk you for getting me interested.

Duna is further from the sun so you need more solar panels, and the atmosphere is thinner. Eve is probably better even though the gravity is higher.

I have been watching your videos for like 4 days now and I realized, I'm not subscribed ._. So you have earned a subscriber and keep up the work, I love your creations!

Impressive build, Scott! Seeing as how you spoke about Helios, look up "Solar Impulse" if you haven't heard about it yet. It's a manned, solar-powered aircraft build by a Swiss team that flew for 26 hours, non-stop.

you upload these on a dime!

The probe capsule might be drawing some of the power. Either way, awesome vid!

Beautiful

here you see the wild baby scott ... beautiful isnt he

that was smart to use glider wings, its like a powered glider and basically the lift from the wings are doing all the work. very smart.

Scott, I don't know if anyone mentioned it, but I think the problem is that KSP is applying the normal logic for efficiency differences in atmosphere to the ion engine's electrical consumption (electricity is just fuel to KSP, after all), so it's consuming more power than it should. The "atmosphereCurve" parameter is in the part file (though I have no idea how it works), so that could explain your power loss. Also, I didn't know KSP had a trim feature; this will make flying so much easier...

Great design, at least you don't have to worry about crash landing.

This dudes baller! I get trivia with each video?! Hells yeah! :)

To get rid of the problem of the mass of the landing gear, i attached them to radial decouplers that just shot them off after takeoff or for a little boost to get off the ground. It works pretty well, you just have to be really really careful on landing.

You can download a mod from Kerbal space port but the website has been down for a few days. the mod has improved ion engines including 1.25m and 2.5m drives it also has hybrid engines that use rocket fuel and xenon gas. its called Ion Hybrid Pack

probe body consumes 0.01/sec Ion engines consume 12/sec each 38 panels * 0.75 = 28.5/sec that's an 18% margin for error. If your assertion were true then probe bodies wold lass about 2 seconds on their internal batteries.

That. Is. Cool. Nice Work

You can attach the gear to detachment points in order to jettison the landing gear after takeoff. You could even make a vehicle to run it down the runway with powered wheels.

Scott, I think I may have discovered something awesome. I built a slightly more sleek looking one than yours with extra length wings. I noticed something very strange about it - it gains a whole load of speed when you bank about 90 degrees and pull up. It allows you to climb in a helix shape, while gaining speed at the same time :)

I love this game! I bought a Alienware laptop to play this game as it used to lag like HELL on my old laptop! I suck at this game and hope one day that I could be as good as you Scott Manley

He's a very Manley super human, that much is clear.

Great design.

now THAT is a plane worthy of racing the sun

good job!

Ion refers to the fact the engine polarizes the atoms of the gas and ejects them at high speeds to create thrust, a polarized atom is called an ion. many gases can be used in this type of reaction but xenon is the most common for it thus its in the game

I made a similar one based off this video that dropped the landing gear after takeoff and used two parachutes to land, it was much lighter but you could only takeoff and land once.

Praise the Sun !

Wow the last line hit hard. Sounds like NASA met the kraken.

If you want lightweight landing gear, use the medium rover wheel (older brown one rather than the newer grey one). It weighs less and allows for taxiing on the ground. You just have a 60m/s limit for takeoffs and landings and dont want to come in too hard with them, doable though, I made a pretty big aircraft with B9 that could takeoff and land from the rover wheels fine and they do weigh less than the regular gear (not sure about drag though)

If you get one of the launch clamps ( I don't think that's the right phrase) and attach one to the rear of the aircraft, then raise it as high as you can, you can start off in a shallow dive to accelerate and remove the need to have undercarriage. I discovered this when making a Bell X-1 tribute with an SRB

There was an article on the 19 August at wired.co.uk about a solar drone, The Solara 50 and its looks amazing

It needs two things to fly: 1) Xenon gas 2) Sunlight You could potentially fly it in a way to maximize the amount of time you stay in sunlight, and add battery packs to help give you some extra time once the sunlight begins to fade, but you still have to carry enough xenon gas tanks to keep the engines running.

I am VERY interested in crafts of this manor, I mean it's just so so so soooo efficient. I mean i can see a design like this begin extremely helpful as a lightweight, fuel efficient, reusable means of bringing fuel to lower orbit space stations. considering Ion engines don't have the limitation of air breathing engines, reaching a low orbit on Ion thrust and aerodynamic perfection even though each plane might only be able to carry a tiny amount of fuel at a time.

I've had that same kind of thing happen to me. If you add a whole bunch of adjustable wings to a very light weight craft then hold down the W or S keys while on the runway, you will gain a lot of speed. I got a land speed of up to 600 m/s without any thrust, using just wings. Once you're in the air, rapidly pressing any of the directional keys will give it more speed. Once you have enough speed, tilt it upwards a little and make the craft roll. By rolling I am able to get up to 1000 m/s.

Dubwell, this is KSP. A game where parachutes can effectively slow a lander down from interplanetary speeds to 7m/s. Ion engine inaccuracies are among the least notable unrealistic parts of ksp, but game physics derps is a big part of why ksp is awesome.

I mainly try to put satelites in orbit... but I always end up with absolutely no fuel left and eventually my satelite crash... Maybe I should try that ION engine solution there for the next satelite! btw, thx for your videos :)

Check out Solar Impulse's HB-SIA and HB-SIB solar aircraft. Both are designed to be fully manned by a pilot in the cockpit. The HB-SIA has already flown across the united states and has proved to be able to fly at night. It has a huge glide radius (40:1) so it can glide for about 340m as well. Currently the HB-SIB is being built to fly around the world, and the best part is that with a pilot range of 1,800km it's entirely possible.

@Sty1a

10 жыл бұрын

wow thanks :D that is an awesome plane :D

To Reese Tame. You can get Kerbal Space Program for either PC or a Laptop. Once you have it it can be copied and transfered to other Computers. There is a free version and the full version for $27.00.

I second this statement.

I actually made one based on your design just now, using rover wheels instead to save weight. It works kind of okay, except the lift is so much that it breaks the back wheels on lift-off. xD

"Glide like a star" *said no scientist ever*

I think it will work even better! Duna has thinner atmosphere than Kerbin, so it will give you more sun power and the gravity is smaller too so speed would be bigger

I thought of that, too, but then I thought that maybe the three decouplers weighed too much for the plane to be able to take off. I seriously doubt he didn't consider it at least for a moment.

i challenge you to take that to orbit scott

I'm sure you could rig the undercarriage to separate once you're in the air. You could take that a step further and give it proper jets as a take-off booster and then the ions take over.... Time to experiment with this idea myself!!

My grandpa once said to me, "Your generation relies too much on technology." Then I said, "No, your generation relies too much on technology." And then I unplugged his life support.

@cginclude

8 жыл бұрын

XD

@adolfhipster5183

8 жыл бұрын

gr8

@jordan3012000

8 жыл бұрын

lol

@MrNight-dg1ug

6 жыл бұрын

That turned dark

@wardedthorn6523

6 жыл бұрын

Darned humans, trying to improve their lives by problem-solving! What do they think they are, creatures with self-preservation instincts?

INFINAGLIDE

lmfao at the beginning "you know walking might be faster than this thing"

This thing seriously does remind me of the helios, which broke apart.

Beautiful. Now if only it could get into space... With a kerbal.

if your a mad lad as scott manley, you can make ANYTHING to pizza rockets to a plane that transform into a rocket!

I cannot believe it took me this long to see someone make a T.I.E. craft...

@michaelanderson2166

10 жыл бұрын

Only true geeks will get the reference...

@Airleech300

9 жыл бұрын

Michael Anderson stfu

@destroyerjames3recordingks309

9 жыл бұрын

Twin Ion Engine? Reminds me of the TIE-Fighter!

With the modern version of Ion drives, this would be a fighter jet.

Scott, I am gonna do something in my KSP that involves this :), it involves this flying to space to get maximum electricity and return to the earth. I will at least have a few in case.

@jahanthegenie1261

9 жыл бұрын

Well the plane will land.

@jamesr.2017

6 жыл бұрын

Ion engines just aren't powerful enough.

Given how light it is, it could probably float on water (Given the electricals are protected) or be parachuted to the ground.

Awesome! I believe the real-life ion engines were used for a lunar probe, that took five years to get there from Earth orbit!

Wow thats pretty awesome think i'll try and do something like this :)

You could try disposable (dropped via stage separators) undercarriage sort of like the Me 163. You wouldn't be able to land intact, though.

Because of what TheOneYouDespise said, you cannot "recharge" Xenon gas. However, you can "refill" Xenon gas by making an refilling station IIRC.

You can download a free demo, it has a lot less but you can still make some good crafts

The next generation of Solar Impulse is a plane planned to fly around the world in 20-25 days! Also with incredible wingspan :)

Wow, that's sick. If you've done that, great job! Liftoff at 46.8 km/h XD

That dihedral hazard is also a danger with the U-2 spy plane.

"If walking is faster than his plane" you should be able to get the rest

improvements: 4 ion engines cover the entire top surface with a solar array a single, or dual undercarriage design electable solid boosters for takeoff

DAT PRO MOMENT

You could use decouplers to jetison the undergarriage as you liftoff.

Wow that is gigantic

Scott can you do a video on using celestial bodies to slingshot? I imagine with enough planning a person could slingshot to the Jool system (or anywhere) with very little fuel use. I was able to get to Duna with hardly any fuel use just using Mun, but that was accidental.

U-2 planes had a small gear on the front to land. Then they slowed down and were towed by trucks. Maybe he could drop the main gear and use a tiny one.

would be funny if you could get such a thing fast enough to always be in sunlight if you keep going in the same direction.

You probably need to add air intakes.

Scott Manley : Its free real estate Latest KSP Player : Are you sure about that? Me: I think not !!!

ah thanks for the clarification

Scott,Greenpeace need you.

I know it is an old video, and you probably already know this now, but what you meant to say was that you are raising or lowering the voltage to the engines. This change in voltage changes the current (Flow of electricity) to the engines.

I actually have a huge interest in ion thruster powered aircraft. My latest design can reach 50 k/s but it is unstable is flight and can crash the game :p but I like your design it has given me some revision ideas for my own

I tried that in 1.1.3. Acceleration was mainly because of the runway glitch. So it was much easier when this video was released.

Because batteries take up weight. Which means you need more lift to get it airborne, which means more thrust, which means more electric drain. It's best to keep things as light as possible.

Scott,you're awesome.What kind of job do you have anyway?

If you use the small probe motor wheels you can get a significantly lighter undercarriage.

cool plane

i made a solar powered jet. thanks for inspiring me

ion thruster are a real thing, but they are ineffective. they use magnetics and electricity to use mass to thrust you forwards, somewhat like convection.

this green plane is really interesting. good idea for sure, but until you get to the north pole or other targets, you will have grey hairs^^

Scott, you could cut out the undercarriage completely and just launch the thing from a structural crane

so theoritically you could fly this to the moon

Interestingly, right now Solar Impulse is try to fly around the globe with a manned aircraft with electric propellers.