Challenge: Make a plane which can go around Kerbin as fast as possible. Make one flight where you only go straight forward and eventually end up back at the runway. Do that as fast as possible. Size and crew doesn't matter.
That'd mean it would be an SSTO like vehicle. It would only circulurize at 50 km. The problem is that you can't make a plane go much faster then 1400 m/s at 30 km or it will disintegrate. But I'd love to see Matt try to go as fast as possible around kerbin. Edit: just did one in 42 minutes and 53 seconds. The mk 2 cockpit starts to overheat after a time at a high speed in the atmosphere. I'd guess it could probably be done under half an hour.
@Matt Lowe +Matt Lowe for future reference, use your inner engines. That way if there is ever a difference in thrust you don’t have a weird yawing effect or it is minimized. That’s a design feature that all planes have and it’s been in practice for years in the event of engine failures or engines with decreased performance
This is basically what I use KSP for. To build airplanes/Airliners. A good auto-pilot mod and you are ready to go, Jeb's Airlines ready to rock between the KSC and desert base.
one of the most important planes feature is how they look: "Un bel avion est un avion qui vole bien." M. Dassault. This sentance could be translated by "A beautiful plane is a plane who fly well" 👌
You never land front first, you land it last. The rear wheels should touch the runway first before the front wheels. That's why your aircraft bounces while you're landing.
Box wing designs are really smart, the quite often tend to be oval and Circular shaped, which means that wake turbulence is reduced, and also aero-dynamic forces are canceled out or made weaker by the fact that the forces are spread equally around the circular wing.
"Hello, this is your captain speaking. Several components of our plane just*BOOM* exploded. Everyone please remain calm*BOOM* WHAT IN TARNATION WAS THAT?!?" Cool plane otherwise, very great design!
Just realized by basically making a biplane, inverting the wings, and adding a reinforced joints between the wings, you can make a crummy 1900s biplane look like it came from 2020. Just saying British Airways is pretty good, and American Airlines is not bad, United is the one you need to watch out for :) BTW awesome video!
This inspired me to build a SSTO version which I orbited on first attempt. Flush with success I tried a first trip to Gilly, which looked beautiful as I sailed by with 0 d/v left. Mark II is now in Kerbin orbit with 4000 d/v spare.
I was able to make a closed wing SSTO and it was very stable until re-entry, I still have some issues to solve, but getting off the ground with a sizeable payload was at least doable.
3:35 One of the reasons Boeing countered the A380 with the 787. Also later this summer I'm going to get to walk around the Everett factory floor. Matt, if you want I can tell you all about it after I finish. If they let us I'll even take pictures for you to geek out about.
I truly regret taking a break from this channel for a couple months. I ran out of things to watch and came back here, and OH MY GOD I’ve been missing out!
The Hexagonal scanner (the white one i dont know is name) it rotates.. what if we mount it on a rotor or a rotating rotor which rotates in the opposite direction at the same opposite speed.. Will it appear to be stationary (not rotating? )
One thing I do to counter supersonic heating is to put a radiator panel or two on a medium sized craft. I think maybe one on each engine would work to cool down the plane during "reentry"
You actually don't need to consider vorticity in order to observe induced drag, it's a consequence of induced downwash after the wing in the airflow. Also, the box wing does not completely eliminate vortex drag, just reduces it.
Very nice plane! Loving it! A question though, @6:30, it seems like the ailerons on the lower wings and the canard are of wrong control orientation... or is it I am mistake?
If you play Joakim Karud’s Dreams as background music one more time my ears will actually explode, sending chunks of them flying out of the atmosphere, where the vacuum of space finally gives them peace and serenity since there’s no sound.
Can’t wait for the hotel and casino base! Would be cool if you turned the dessert airfield into a spaceport- maybe the transport to the base could be kind of spade odyssey-esq? As in multiple stops at orbital stations on the way to refuel etc.
In the semi-recent Thunderbids remake, Thunderbirds are Go, the most common design was just box-wing all the way. So presumably, by 2060, we'll have perfected the design! Go us!
Hew Matt, beautiful design as always. If you want to add some "realistic" tweaks to it, you should rotate the engines intake 180° so they face upward instead of downward. In this current design, it is very likely that the engines are sucking some of the boundary layer of the lower wind section. Something you definitely want to avoid if you want to increase your engine lifespan. Of course this is not really relevant for KSP, but that would be some interesting attention to details on this one. Plus it may look even cooler ! Cheers mate
11:27 And here we see the wild Gazelle in its natural habitat. An absolute beauty that one.
I've been on this channel for so long now, that I'm actually getting good at ksp by just watching
I agree with you
Jake Flade I’ve been here for a while too...
And I’m still trash.
Yeah, especially with space shuttles
latt mowne top tip from Matt lowne himself
Same
Challenge:
Make a plane which can go around Kerbin as fast as possible.
Make one flight where you only go straight forward and eventually end up back at the runway. Do that as fast as possible.
Size and crew doesn't matter.
That'd mean it would be an SSTO like vehicle. It would only circulurize at 50 km. The problem is that you can't make a plane go much faster then 1400 m/s at 30 km or it will disintegrate. But I'd love to see Matt try to go as fast as possible around kerbin.
Edit: just did one in 42 minutes and 53 seconds. The mk 2 cockpit starts to overheat after a time at a high speed in the atmosphere. I'd guess it could probably be done under half an hour.
If you go straight, you won't make a circle around the planet
also define plane. Rocket or an SSTO will go in something like 40 minutes.
Already did dat
Y DO I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE!?
Around Kerbin in 160 units of fuel: ua-cam.com/video/T9EXxu-41Fc/v-deo.html
@Matt Lowe +Matt Lowe for future reference, use your inner engines. That way if there is ever a difference in thrust you don’t have a weird yawing effect or it is minimized. That’s a design feature that all planes have and it’s been in practice for years in the event of engine failures or engines with decreased performance
9:09 Your airbrakes are exploding, DON’T PANIC!
This would be a pretty pathetic craft to take down the NWO. I’ve got several, *reusable*, hypersonic craft that are capable of leveling entire cities.
What a beast! :) I freaking love this thing!
Hi Marcus
Marcus House he could just use afterburning turbofans
Marcus House me to
that fanfiction was actually really hot
Minmus base
Hotel and Casino
Matt Speaking
How may I direct your call?
★★★★☆
Matt Lowne And that's unheard of
latt mowne heheh
Hello, this is Red_Five. I'm an aerospace engineering undergraduate student in Kerbinia Tech, and I would like to apply for a job in your company.
Great, will have a rocket to bring you here at 7:02 on the 13 of March
Can barely wait to see how the minmus hotel will be
It’s pretty wild man!
This is basically what I use KSP for. To build airplanes/Airliners. A good auto-pilot mod and you are ready to go, Jeb's Airlines ready to rock between the KSC and desert base.
I tried building a similar craft myself, but smaller. I'm really happy with how it turned out. Thanks for the inspiration!
Cool we like something different every now and then 😎
I wish the KSP community could be as big as it used to be, I'm sure loads more people would've loved this style of video
I love how informational these videos are, with such a great design as well! Beautiful aircraft!
This is one of the coolest plane designs in ksp I’ve ever seen, nice job Matt!
Yep im getting adicted to this channel this is too fun for me to watch
one of the most important planes feature is how they look:
"Un bel avion est un avion qui vole bien." M. Dassault.
This sentance could be translated by "A beautiful plane is a plane who fly well" 👌
You never land front first, you land it last. The rear wheels should touch the runway first before the front wheels. That's why your aircraft bounces while you're landing.
That landing is a perfect illustration of how a bounced landing doesn’t get better without adding power and executing a go around.
Box wing designs are really smart, the quite often tend to be oval and Circular shaped, which means that wake turbulence is reduced, and also aero-dynamic forces are canceled out or made weaker by the fact that the forces are spread equally around the circular wing.
Brillant design ! Thx for your your job !
I'd love to see commercial space flights in this series, so yeah, looking forward
11:19 nice little ryanair reference
next thing you know some guys in suits come to his door and say "we,re from boeing, you're coming with us"
Astonishing
Airplanes? YES PLEASE!
just imagining a jetliner landing like that in real life
9:04 as an American, that's a fair assessment of our air travel
I really like stuff like this because I feel you can be more creative with this type of aircraft
10:12 nice doppler effect ;) and cool plane btw
Nice you mentioned real engineering, I am subbed to him as well. It's a small world.
"Hello, this is your captain speaking. Several components of our plane just*BOOM* exploded. Everyone please remain calm*BOOM* WHAT IN TARNATION WAS THAT?!?"
Cool plane otherwise, very great design!
Matt: **looks at an orbital ssto**
Matt: "i like this"
.....
Matt: **Looks at box wing**
Matt: "But i think this is better"
This looks so nice! All it needs now is to be converted into a crew + cargo hybrid ssto
You could build a space station around minmus where the passengers change from the ssto to a separat lander, like a taxi
This plane's landing gave a new definition to 'Starhopper'
I created a “Box wing” aircraft in Simple planes because of this video. Great concept but I am NOT good at building.
The hotel and casino idea sounds so freaking cool man!
Just realized by basically making a biplane, inverting the wings, and adding a reinforced joints between the wings, you can make a crummy 1900s biplane look like it came from 2020.
Just saying British Airways is pretty good, and American Airlines is not bad, United is the one you need to watch out for :)
BTW awesome video!
excellent instructions
every day...
in every viewer...
in EVERY video!!!
I love the idea for the tourist base on Minmus! I can't wait to see the videos for it!
Will you be uploading many of your crafts to the steam workshop now?
kip doesn't have a steam workshop, unless they just released it
They just added it
I have no plans to
Matt Lowne can you do this one
This inspired me to build a SSTO version which I orbited on first attempt. Flush with success I tried a first trip to Gilly, which looked beautiful as I sailed by with 0 d/v left. Mark II is now in Kerbin orbit with 4000 d/v spare.
You should launch the flights to the hotel from the Desert Airfield. To make it easier you could land it on the grass beside the runway
I'm SUPER Hyped for the Minmus Base / Hotel and Casino!
Looking forward to those bases(Laythe and Minmus) that you are talking about in the video!
I was able to make a closed wing SSTO and it was very stable until re-entry, I still have some issues to solve, but getting off the ground with a sizeable payload was at least doable.
You need more subs!! Your amazing at this game!
Sounds like you turned on the vacuum when taking off for the dessert. Lol nice sound effects
"Minmus hotel and casino". Sounds a lot like a new album that just came out.. I like it
Double time educational videos. Is very good
Matt Airlines needs funding! Everyone donate to Matt's patreon so he can be better than the other airline businesses!
The thought of having an entire space program kept afloat through Patreon donations made me chuckle a little.
Thank you for the link to Real Engineering never watched them before, as well as for the entertainment.
Didn't know Ryanair had the budget for supersonic box-wing airliners, let alone pioneering the R&D!
I thought I was the only one that enjoyed building fast planes, most of the time I have more fun in the atmosphere than in space
3:35 One of the reasons Boeing countered the A380 with the 787. Also later this summer I'm going to get to walk around the Everett factory floor. Matt, if you want I can tell you all about it after I finish. If they let us I'll even take pictures for you to geek out about.
That g-force must be huge at the start! But as long as the Kerbals have fun:D
Well this is fresh out of the "box". help me.
looks great! cant wait to get KSP
!
That Laythe thing sounds amazing.
Well done, Matt!
The camera movement is so smooth 😗
It’s so cool!! I love how it looks! It looks so futuristic and uhh.. idk :)
9:17 are we not gonna talk about that airbrake that exploded mid flight
I truly regret taking a break from this channel for a couple months. I ran out of things to watch and came back here, and OH MY GOD I’ve been missing out!
11:19 RIDE EM COWBOY 🔥🔥🔥🤠🤠📫📫📫
Woah, A airliner! Nice!
Man it looks amazing.
The Hexagonal scanner (the white one i dont know is name) it rotates..
what if we mount it on a rotor or a rotating rotor which rotates in the opposite direction at the same opposite speed..
Will it appear to be stationary (not rotating? )
One thing I do to counter supersonic heating is to put a radiator panel or two on a medium sized craft. I think maybe one on each engine would work to cool down the plane during "reentry"
Suuuper saaaaaanic!!! I love super sonic passanger planes!! 😄😄😄
Love this.
Sounds like you're going to make the city ship Atlantis from Stargate Atlantis
I love your channel matt, definitely one of the best ! Great Airliner ;)
You should make more planes and drones man, theyre real fun
how do you easily get to the other side of the runway?
Awesome video👍
You actually don't need to consider vorticity in order to observe induced drag, it's a consequence of induced downwash after the wing in the airflow. Also, the box wing does not completely eliminate vortex drag, just reduces it.
Amazing video Matt!
One question, how did you get your plane to start on the other side of the runway? Or did you just land it there?
Thanks.
LOOKS AWESOME
Very nice plane! Loving it! A question though, @6:30, it seems like the ailerons on the lower wings and the canard are of wrong control orientation... or is it I am mistake?
Ahhh just what i need
Beautiful looking aircraft
The first joke is worth my subscription
If you play Joakim Karud’s Dreams as background music one more time my ears will actually explode, sending chunks of them flying out of the atmosphere, where the vacuum of space finally gives them peace and serenity since there’s no sound.
cool vid btw
Minmus hotel/casino?
HELL YEAH
This makes the plane I made from scratch look like a joke
Your comment is very vague, would "from scratch" not be a given in KSP, or rather... From presets?
Can’t wait for the hotel and casino base! Would be cool if you turned the dessert airfield into a spaceport- maybe the transport to the base could be kind of spade odyssey-esq? As in multiple stops at orbital stations on the way to refuel etc.
I geeked out when you mentioned Lockheed Martin cuz my older brother works there
Awsome! Now build a SSTO that uses a box as a wing
LOL your airbrakes at 9:14 Matt
Epic landing technique
High key so excited for the minus hotel if it happens
In the semi-recent Thunderbids remake, Thunderbirds are Go, the most common design was just box-wing all the way. So presumably, by 2060, we'll have perfected the design! Go us!
Hew Matt, beautiful design as always.
If you want to add some "realistic" tweaks to it, you should rotate the engines intake 180° so they face upward instead of downward.
In this current design, it is very likely that the engines are sucking some of the boundary layer of the lower wind section.
Something you definitely want to avoid if you want to increase your engine lifespan.
Of course this is not really relevant for KSP, but that would be some interesting attention to details on this one.
Plus it may look even cooler !
Cheers mate
I’m a little shook that there’s a desert airstrip what other random stuff is on this planet
Nice one as usual!
How did you find the desert base? I only know of the KSP and the airbase next to it on the island.
I love this kind of video, keep it up :)
jebediah: * is in plane *
plane: * is in FRICKING FLAMES *
jebediah: Nah, this is normal.
What’s it powered off?
Burritos?
X Aviation The fuel is in the static sucction things the engines are connected to. There's also fuel on the bottom.
It was a joke. -_-
I play KSP all the time.