Hi everyone! I know this isn't like my usual content, but I hope you all enjoy this voiceover. I've always wanted to go into more technical detail about how my crafts work and with the cancellation of my sigma entries I thought now would be a good time to try out this kind of video. Please let me know what you think! I want to make a lot more of more of these in the future.
@@bobsagget823 In fairness, that thing was no ordinary flywheel. I've _never_ seen a flywheel with such an... aerodynamic radial pickup system. I think that ion catapult burrowed into his heart and laid eggs in his brain.
In earlier versions of KSP people just stuck a ton of ram air things on the craft and they would provide a small engine enough air to keep going outside of the atmosphere.
Yeah, people would have rediculous contraptions where you had a million intakes, and you would drop engines when you came close to running out of intake air. Eventually you would have one engine, and a dozen or more intakes.
"Jet engines will be fine..." *waves hand* "NO, THEY WON'T! No thrust outside the atmosphere, no orbit!" "Catapults will be fine..." *waves hand again* "N--- what?"
Nice one mate. I certainly haven't seen anyone else do this sort of thing with jet engines. As usual, I suspect you are indeed the first to do this crazy sh#$%^%.
I've landed 60 Kerbals on Eeloo in a single mission... Launched an asteroid from the KSC into orbit.. and linked 5 asteroids together in a chain. I'm in awe of your abilities, sir.
I honestly didn't think you could top the Duna electric catapult, that was more than amazing. But here i am staring at a video of a double catapult. I'm honstly blown away
700 hours over many years of playing and I never even thought of anything like this lol hats off to you and I’m gonna subscribe, loved the way you presented and analyzed the info
Genuinely the most incredible thing I've ever seen in KSP. Sure, people build and launch impressive multi-planet landing missions, SSTOs that weigh the same as a small city, functional mechs, and intricate 100-1000 part replicas... but this is just pure engineering brilliance.
A Trebuchet can launch a 90kg projectile over 300 meters. This monstrosity with an arm radius of 90 meters can launch a payload over 900 meters per second into orbit. I like it.
On the console edition Facebook challenge to go to duna i ended up 20m/s short of being able to complete the burn back to kerbin. I did this exact thing and flung the lander shuttle toward the node and actually ended up getting an encounter i had to tweak it with jebs jet pack but the aerobrake was enough to capture.
A genius in my opinion is someone that thinks out of the box, that makes something no one has even projected before him. You, in this case, are a genius. Very well done mate. 👍
""At one o'clock the hawser was drawn in, the throttle opened, and to the accompaniment of the stertorous exhaust, the uncovered sidewheels began to quiver, then slowly to revolve. A hush fell on the spectators. . . . One honest countryman, after beholding the unaccountable object from the shore, ran home and told his wife he had ' seen the devil on his way to Albany in a sawmill.' " " well this contraption has centerwheel instead... it still strange to see that principle works to get to the orbit.
*Trying to come up with a new idea for a video* - Getting to orbit using only jet engines! - Wait, that's illegal - Or is it? *Vsauce music starts playing*
Wow. I never thought of using spin to launch something into orbit at altitude. Since it's impossible to go into orbit without a maneuver outside of the atmosphere, I thought there was no way to do it without rockets. Amazing!
Stratzen: It is impossible to orbit kerbin with ion engines alone. Bradley: (Orbit's with ions alone) Stratzen: hold my Juicy Juice. EDIT: Whoa thats the most amount of likes i've ever got.
this dude just created a water wheel for the air that also happens to be able to launch spacecraft into orbit. I wish every craft could launch like this
KSP doesn't handle high impact speeds very well due to its time-step size so I doubt this would work in stock. It might work with a slow motion mod though.
hey I just want you to know this is really cool and I think you did a really good job most people would not have thought about that storing potential energy like that is such a wacky but very innovative idea I'm happy you were able to get it to work this is just an example never give up there's always a way to do anything
You built a plane... That launches a catapult into the upper atmosphere... That launches a catapult into a suborbital trajectory... That launches a probe into orbit. I am in awe.
at first i was like "rapiers aren't jets, this doesn't count" but then I realized how you were doing this and i was like "okay, that's fucking clever" I'm impressed, well done.
I got to thinking about my time in Field Artillery... combining different propulsion components to extend the range of howitzers. The best the Army came up with to achieve an extended range was gunpowder charge, longer barrel, and rocket assisted projectiles. The Navy came up with a rail gun shooting a slug. I think we could take a page out of the nuclear testing playbook and use a small warhead to kick a manhole cover into space. I love the idea of a steel plate flying the cosmos waiting to slap an alien ship.
Two other ideas that might work but are probably impossible to pull off: 1. Fly up high enough to use a gravity assist from the mun to get into orbit. 2. Have a very long arm extending down into the atmosphere providing the necessary air flow, and when moving fast enough, decouple the intakes and the arm and the remaining part of the craft will be outside of the atmosphere.
You're a genius! I also believed that this is impossible due to the lack of thrust outside the atmosphere, but you are right, this is possible. And a big extra is that there is no KSP glitch used, this craft should be able to fly in real world... at least in theory. Note: you still fire some mass backwards outside the atmosphere (twice), which is a something similar to a rocket engine. :)
I once tried to do this in an older version of ksp. I noticed while watching Scott Manley's re-usable space program that intake air was considered a fuel and he had some left outside of the atmosphere. The culprits were closed air intakes. They do not "leak" air out of the system. back when ksp was just magic to me and I knew a lot less about it I immediately saw potential exploits. Jet engines had fuel efficiency a few multiples higher than the nuclear engines alongside good thrust power. So the potential for a deep space exploration revolution was filling my head. Unfortunately it turned out that jet engines physically only worked below a certain altitude. Disheartened but not defeated I tried taking an experimental craft to low moon orbit to test if the fuel efficiency would at least work for landings and low-orbit ejection burns for moons. Unfortunately this was not the case. Jet engines probably only work on kerbin and laythe. Regardless of if you have the air to power them. That seems rather boring to me.
Hi everyone! I know this isn't like my usual content, but I hope you all enjoy this voiceover. I've always wanted to go into more technical detail about how my crafts work and with the cancellation of my sigma entries I thought now would be a good time to try out this kind of video. Please let me know what you think! I want to make a lot more of more of these in the future.
voiceover is 10/10
Keep the voice over
I was sure that it is impossible. Genius solution!
NASA wants to know your location
I think your voiceover needs more bass 🤔
big science
Danny2462 Extremely big science
Catestrophically big science
*Spaghettified science*
Jet engines did this^
Its big science time
big science
Science time
"Non conventional"
This thing was designed before the laws that bind our realm were written.
Thats why I wonder how civilised he explained it all xD
brilliant. you couldn’t generate power past a certain point so you invented a battery
@@bobsagget823yes, but....both store energy so technically he isn't wrong
@@bobsagget823 In fairness, that thing was no ordinary flywheel. I've _never_ seen a flywheel with such an... aerodynamic radial pickup system. I think that ion catapult burrowed into his heart and laid eggs in his brain.
@@bobsagget823 Well that was just rude, also a flywheel is a kinetic battery. You silly goose.
@@bobsagget823 Which is a kinetic battery.
@@bobsagget823 kinetik battery
Absolutely stupendous. The most stylish delivery of pizza I've ever seen.
But, can he do that with tofu?
"The most stylish delivery of pizza I've ever seen."
Excuse me? ua-cam.com/video/0i6RUN9Akuo/v-deo.html
But does it come with complimentary Finnish polka?
Bradley Whistance now u need to orbit with only decouples
And you can save money on cooking the pizza! All the reentry heat can be used to cook the pizza in it's container!
friend: have you heard about the longest frisby throw it was 1333 feet
stratzenblitz75: hold my beer
Couldn’t you just throw a frisbee down a canyon?
@@arandomcommenter412 Pretty sure it only counts horizontal distance, not vertical
Next time: Orbiting Kerbin using only Jebs legs.
Wasnt it done in old version?
SWDennis got to the moon and back with two jumps
That was done long time ago. ua-cam.com/video/2HnkFFdV4IY/v-deo.html
orbiting kerbin using wishful thinking
Next time: travel to the mun using only ladder parts.
In earlier versions of KSP people just stuck a ton of ram air things on the craft and they would provide a small engine enough air to keep going outside of the atmosphere.
Yeah, people would have rediculous contraptions where you had a million intakes, and you would drop engines when you came close to running out of intake air. Eventually you would have one engine, and a dozen or more intakes.
Now get to Andromeda with just firecrackers.
and within an hour with no timewarping
LennyS And do it Apollo style, no SAS or RCS, and last, no map screen
The journey of a thousand light years starts with a single Joule...
J. J. Shank that's deep
LennyS forsenCD ✌️🏆 the 2 times
Flywheel mechanical battery propulsion. I like it!
I like the voiceover for this one, especially considering what an outside-the-box concept this craft is
Collecting energy inside the atmosphere through drag to use it later seems somewhat counter-intuitive, but it works out really well here.
Am I the only one that expected the voiceover to be German accented?
@@joelsmith3473 I was too, but I'm starting to think Stratzenblitz and Bradley Whistance are the same person.
its literally a backwards spin launcher
Nobody:
Stratzenblitz: G I A N T F L Y I N G W I N D M I L L C A T A P U L T
people never stop innovate
Wtf this is literally Spinlaunch
Y E E T
Someone get me the Rocinante!
(Reference to the expanse and, more importantly Don Quixote)
"Jet engines will be fine..." *waves hand*
"NO, THEY WON'T! No thrust outside the atmosphere, no orbit!"
"Catapults will be fine..." *waves hand again*
"N--- what?"
Trebuchet gang mad
ItS aCtUaLlY a TrEbUcHeT wHiCh Is ThE sUpErIoR sIeGe EnGiNe
@@actualperson1971 Yes.
Your Jedi mind tricks don't work on me
666 likes...
Well, if he disappears we know he's been drafted at DARPA for some insane secret project.
*m e t a l g e a r ? I T C A N T B E !*
Not sure how long they could keep their enormous flying space catapult secret tbh
@@asterozoan It only needs to be a secret long enough to nuke the aliens
@@mickeyfcsmbw now that is the face lol
"This fuel empty..."
"YEET!"
Literally
I assume the space race between Stratzenblitz and Bradley Whistance has begun!!!
The best part about that is how similar the two sound!
Begun? Its been on since the day Stratzenblitz was born *glares*
Georgie Athalla he went to Duna with only ion thrusters
@Georgie Athalla Ion plane
I wonder what will be the next insane craft. Place your bets.
This is some of the most ingenious engineering I've ever seen done in Kerbal Space Program
Nice one mate. I certainly haven't seen anyone else do this sort of thing with jet engines. As usual, I suspect you are indeed the first to do this crazy sh#$%^%.
I literally scrolled thru the comments to see if any of my other favourite UA-camr's had commented!!
The craft itself looks like something from a Final Fantasy game. Great work, love the out-of-the-box concept.
I've landed 60 Kerbals on Eeloo in a single mission... Launched an asteroid from the KSC into orbit.. and linked 5 asteroids together in a chain.
I'm in awe of your abilities, sir.
Okay, what...I would love to see your asteroid chain!
@@poisonedyoyo1 here ya go.
imgur.com/gallery/j1YrY
@@Pknuckles1804 daaaaamnnnn
@@Pknuckles1804 Wow!! I doubted you at first... You are a legend!!
Wow, that looks amazing
Im subscribing even though you have no videos
Yet
I... I have to... “I’ll try spinning, that’s a good trick!”
That legitimately blew my mind. Keep up the great work!
This craft was so epic even the Cleanup Crew didnt dislike
Like to dislike ration of 200... That is pretty good
The Cleanup crew is probably made of volunteer fans.
They get paid per pound removed from the end of the runway.
WAIIT WHAAATTTT????
You're too good at ksp, keep it up :D
yes
ua-cam.com/video/W4L2sIYR_3M/v-deo.html
I'm impressed by the drag-powered spinning wheel - it works basically like an anemometer, but I never would have expected that to work in KSP.
I honestly didn't think you could top the Duna electric catapult, that was more than amazing. But here i am staring at a video of a double catapult. I'm honstly blown away
I was expecting a gravity assist to "circularize" but this is way better. Brilliant!
700 hours over many years of playing and I never even thought of anything like this lol hats off to you and I’m gonna subscribe, loved the way you presented and analyzed the info
Genuinely the most incredible thing I've ever seen in KSP.
Sure, people build and launch impressive multi-planet landing missions, SSTOs that weigh the same as a small city, functional mechs, and intricate 100-1000 part replicas... but this is just pure engineering brilliance.
For some reason thought it was Bradley Whistance, really unusual video for you, but insane craft as always.
Yeah the voiceover style is like Bradley Whistance
@@iain3713 So is the voice itself it seems, just recorded with a better microphone. I'm starting to think they really ARE the same person.
A Trebuchet can launch a 90kg projectile over 300 meters.
This monstrosity with an arm radius of 90 meters can launch a payload over 900 meters per second into orbit.
I like it.
On the console edition Facebook challenge to go to duna i ended up 20m/s short of being able to complete the burn back to kerbin. I did this exact thing and flung the lander shuttle toward the node and actually ended up getting an encounter i had to tweak it with jebs jet pack but the aerobrake was enough to capture.
Cool
wow
Ludicrous Space Shuriken.
Which is now the name of your new band. This is non-negotiable.
"no reaction wheels" "builds a wheel that will be used for its reaction" I know its not the same thing but its still funny
A genius in my opinion is someone that thinks out of the box, that makes something no one has even projected before him. You, in this case, are a genius. Very well done mate. 👍
""At one o'clock the hawser was drawn in, the throttle opened, and
to the accompaniment of the stertorous exhaust, the
uncovered sidewheels began to quiver, then slowly to
revolve. A hush fell on the spectators.
. . . One honest countryman, after beholding
the unaccountable object from the shore, ran home and
told his wife he had ' seen the devil on his way to Albany
in a sawmill.' "
"
well this contraption has centerwheel instead... it still strange to see that principle works to get to the orbit.
Has to be the first and only video I've seen about someone using rotation to get into orbit in KSP. Super cool!!!
I...but...just...that's so genius, and yet so incredibly absurd. It's perfect. I can't wait to see what tricks you find and use next!
My first reaction: Holy Creativity Batman!
My second reaction: KSP (stock that is) needs rubber bands!
eventually you and brad will start sounding the same and i'll just give up and watch in awe.
Bradleyblitz whistance75
I'm convinced that they ARE the same person, he just uses a better microphone for this channel.
This is brilliant. You stored up power using the jet engines like a battery and discharged it at once to launch into orbit.
*Trying to come up with a new idea for a video*
- Getting to orbit using only jet engines!
- Wait, that's illegal
- Or is it?
*Vsauce music starts playing*
I'm impressed that contraption on the runway actually looks plausible
Omg, it's a giant fly wheel!
Edit: a *flying* fly wheel... 😁
its a giant flywheel-fly-wheel-wheel
You are so creative!! I never would have thought of that ingenious solution!!!
This brings me back to the air-hogging days.
I've been playing KSP for 6 years and this is 100% in my top 5 coolest things I've ever seen done in the game!
Wow. I never thought of using spin to launch something into orbit at altitude. Since it's impossible to go into orbit without a maneuver outside of the atmosphere, I thought there was no way to do it without rockets. Amazing!
Dude, you are crazy as always. Also nice format.
What an accomplishment! That, sir, was true Kerbal ingenuity. The Kerbals elect you to their Space Hall of Fame!
unironically the coolest thing I've seen in KSP
Stratzen: It is impossible to orbit kerbin with ion engines alone.
Bradley: (Orbit's with ions alone)
Stratzen: hold my Juicy Juice.
EDIT: Whoa thats the most amount of likes i've ever got.
Next thing you know, one of them will get into orbit with just ion engines without part clipping.
@@Some_Thing_Nick And from the bottom of the deepest point in the ocean :)
(Phil swift voice): How about a little more?!
Pathetic
This is the most unique design of a craft ever. No seriously I'd imagine some similar thing in any sci fi or fantasy concept outside KSP.
The worse thing is that with some genuine development this could be a real life possibility
I just found this channel today and I'm in awe. Every single video defies everything I know about KSP. I'm at a loss for words.
I love the outro, just a lonely roomba on the orbit, contemplating it's existance
The Jet Spinning Contraption or, Sending a Disk to Space
Stratzenblitz75 really be out here becoming KSP’s Sethbling.
idk why I thought it was so funny watching the payload get flung out by the spinning part, this is really awesome tho
A kinetic battery.
Amazing
This is the work of a mad man or a genius
The mad lad actually did it. The craziest KSP contraption I've ever seen.
0:31
But first, we need to talk about parallel universes
Music hits low keys
this dude just created a water wheel for the air that also happens to be able to launch spacecraft into orbit. I wish every craft could launch like this
Not sure whether this is insane, genius, or both. In any case, it was really fun to watch.
I’m wondering if someone already achieve this by making two jet-powered crafts colide at high speed above the atmosphere to gain the velocity needed 🤔
Not a lot of ksp youtuber focused on kinetic impact technics, that could be great !
KSP doesn't handle high impact speeds very well due to its time-step size so I doubt this would work in stock. It might work with a slow motion mod though.
the most ksp thing i've seen today! basically a non-reusable skyhook slingshot!
I love the idea of storing energy with rotation.
I don't know, this design looks familiar, can't remember where have i seen it...
Oh yeah, EVANGELION
Blood type: blue
Thank you all for watching? Naaah bro, its the other way round. We are honored to watch the greatness of your vids. Big fan here.
This is fantastic. It reminds me of Neal Stephenson's descriptions of his 'whip stations' from Seveneves or something.
I've never heard of KSP until now and wow-ee, I'm geekin' out.
my man straight up invented the first amusement ride to make it to space
hey I just want you to know this is really cool and I think you did a really good job most people would not have thought about that storing potential energy like that is such a wacky but very innovative idea I'm happy you were able to get it to work this is just an example never give up there's always a way to do anything
We've orbited using only jet engines...
We've orbited using only ion engines...
Time to orbit using only lf/ox rockets.
Henry Fleischer People have already done that with aerospikes. It's not actually that difficult.
You built a plane...
That launches a catapult into the upper atmosphere...
That launches a catapult into a suborbital trajectory...
That launches a probe into orbit.
I am in awe.
You, Sir, are certifiably insane enough to qualify as a kerbonaut in the Kerbal Space Program.
All you need is the one probe core in orbit. It can warp in pylons, gateways, and everything else you might need.
So I saw a post on the KSP subreddit about trebucheing into orbit from Scott Manley's Twitter. This takes it to the max
at first i was like "rapiers aren't jets, this doesn't count" but then I realized how you were doing this and i was like "okay, that's fucking clever"
I'm impressed, well done.
This level of creativity is what I was looking for! Subscribed. Love the non-linear thought.
Awesome. you made an advanced slingshot. Congrats. :)
Holy shit. And I thought my unmodded orbit-to-ground kerbal-killing missile was a feat to build. I am in awe.
I got to thinking about my time in Field Artillery... combining different propulsion components to extend the range of howitzers.
The best the Army came up with to achieve an extended range was gunpowder charge, longer barrel, and rocket assisted projectiles.
The Navy came up with a rail gun shooting a slug.
I think we could take a page out of the nuclear testing playbook and use a small warhead to kick a manhole cover into space.
I love the idea of a steel plate flying the cosmos waiting to slap an alien ship.
This is truly amazing! A Potential Energy storing mechanism
Brilliant, you basically made a flywheel to store energy to be used later. You have the mind of a real engineer!
You made a battery. I am astonished. This is amazing.
wow im very impressed. i was trying to do this on and off for a long time and never came close to a idea like yours. TY!
This video is the defining artistic statement for kerbalpunk
So impressive mate. One of the most creative uses of ksp ive seen. Good jeb!
1:41 you could reach a stable orbit given orbital velocities while in the atmosphere, by using a gravity assist off the Mun to circularize.
That was seriously impressing. Well done, sir.
Even after watching this with your explination... ...I don't know what just happend. You really know this game ...for sure!
I like that you make this, and when I want to go to the Mun I build something bigger than the Saturn V
Two other ideas that might work but are probably impossible to pull off:
1. Fly up high enough to use a gravity assist from the mun to get into orbit.
2. Have a very long arm extending down into the atmosphere providing the necessary air flow, and when moving fast enough, decouple the intakes and the arm and the remaining part of the craft will be outside of the atmosphere.
You're a genius! I also believed that this is impossible due to the lack of thrust outside the atmosphere, but you are right, this is possible. And a big extra is that there is no KSP glitch used, this craft should be able to fly in real world... at least in theory.
Note: you still fire some mass backwards outside the atmosphere (twice), which is a something similar to a rocket engine. :)
Cool! You’ve invented a flying pinwheel trebuchet! Weirdest/coolest aircraft ever!
Fantastic brain storm. I love it, and perhaps you really got something here.
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Outstanding solution!
I once tried to do this in an older version of ksp. I noticed while watching Scott Manley's re-usable space program that intake air was considered a fuel and he had some left outside of the atmosphere. The culprits were closed air intakes. They do not "leak" air out of the system. back when ksp was just magic to me and I knew a lot less about it I immediately saw potential exploits. Jet engines had fuel efficiency a few multiples higher than the nuclear engines alongside good thrust power. So the potential for a deep space exploration revolution was filling my head. Unfortunately it turned out that jet engines physically only worked below a certain altitude. Disheartened but not defeated I tried taking an experimental craft to low moon orbit to test if the fuel efficiency would at least work for landings and low-orbit ejection burns for moons. Unfortunately this was not the case. Jet engines probably only work on kerbin and laythe. Regardless of if you have the air to power them. That seems rather boring to me.
Keep on doing stuff like this and KSP1.8 or higher might come with animations of puking kerbals.