Engineering a 1000FT LONG PLANE in Kerbal Space Program 2! 

RCE: "do you not need tails on a plane? 5s later: puts plane into a death spin

Engineers in movies: **extremely intelligent and sensible all the time** Engineers in real life:

Matt, you can color individual parts. So if you want that third color, you can always just do a bit of *architecture* for it.

@Real Civil Engineer When in the Vab you can middle mouse click on a highlighted piece and the camera will move to that piece. Instead of reaching far away.

It's a true gift to be able to jump from one complex game to the next, keep rocking RCE.

I think you know what’s next Matt. Make a flying bridge in KSP 2 lol. I think this videos creation is a great proof of concept.

Watching RCE accidentally get a really good CoL position by accident only to immediately move it right back over the CoM hurt me in my tiny shrivelled green heart

May Mriya rest in peace, we miss you, you beautiful An-225 🥲 Thank you for the heart RCE, definitely an Engineer thing to do

If you click the little check list on the bottom of the VAB screen next to the wrench you'll get the Engineers Report which will show you the dimensions of your craft, it's Thrust to Weight ratio, and other useful info :)

Sadly, the Antonov An-225 was destroyed during the war.

Fun Fact: The front canards were what allowed the Concorde Rip-Off, the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 (Concorde-ski) to beat the Concorde to first flight. The complex wing design that allowed for such an aircraft to fly at lower speeds (takeoff & landing) took years for the Anglo-French team to think up. The Soviets slapped a pair of canards on it and called it a day. If it works, it works. Right? But that was pretty much all that worked properly, as everything else was held together with duct tape. But to their credit they only suffered 2 crashes (considering my previous sentence), the first due to pilot error in making extreme maneuvers during a Paris Airshow. Some say to avoid a Mirage jetfighter that was attempting to take pics of the canards which were pretty advanced at the time. While initial French reports denied the existence of the fighter, recent ones have admitted to it. Another theory was that the pilot was trying to show off, pulling moves the plane can't do.

As fun as it is to see the chaos and learning curve, it's nice to see, just every once in a while, when Matt absolutely nails it first try.

12:51 if you increase the Anisotropic filtering to x16 in the graphics options it'll fix that. Increasing the AO stops textures looking weird when you look at them at a very shallow angle.

Next we need to see the longest and widest plane. Not only is it long, but it is wide also. Love that this plane worked. Was fun to watch.

Wow you just made an air train. That's the pinnacle of advanced engineering.

11:01 - I laughed way too hard at "touching tips"

Was anyone else surprised that RCE was able to take off on his first try? I sure was. Lol

RCE: "I didn't expect this to work at all" Long-nosed plane: "Didn't I do it for you?"

It's kind of endearing that he hasn't figured out that he can move his camera everywhere but he just eyeballs placement from about 2 football fields away haha.

“Don’t push a spaghetti” *proceeds to keep the engines in the center of the noodle, still pushing half of the wet noodle*

Matt would be gladly hired by Ryanair due to his landing skills

"I don't want fuel tanks, I want cargo! Because they're completely hollow!" He did it. He figured out when everyone else knew all along

Will there be a tall plane? We need more episodes of "Person With a Degree Struggles to Understand How Planes Work"

5:56 it is like the javelin in “Revenge of the Nerds”. Made to accentuate Lamar’s limp wristed throwing style.

UK Space Agency regrets to inform you that the department ram by RCE has been disbanded. Chin up everyone.

He literally made a train fly😂| A real engineer!

“We have a wonky old nose” made me almost spit out my cereal 😂😂😂 I don’t even know why I was eating cereal past dinner

Control flaps at the front are called "canards" and they really help when you're having issues like you were (a flexible vessel that struggles to get the nose off the ground).

I think this immediately begs the question of what the smallest craft you can get into space would be.

I forgot the UK hasn’t done DST yet

Watching RCE build planes with near to none of understanding of aerodynamics is one of the most entretaining things ever. I end up in such thrill sitting and watching him crash over and over and thinking "will he finally do the right thing?" But he never does! And yet somehow he ends up having something that flies in the end in contradiction to all the conventions of flight. What did we learn?: making a missile-shaped (almost strong shape) plane works better than any fancy aerodynamics. FYI: It's not great to put the centre of lift exactly at the centre of mass, (unless you are building a missile of course). If CoM is in front of lift, you get much more stability (easier to control), but harder to lift off. If the CoM is behind lift, you get less stability, but easier takeoff and landing. Putting it in the middle just makes the aircraft rotate without affecting the direction of inertia, although the engines will eventually push you in the correct direction.

To help in landing I add a second set of ailerons to the wings. The outer set act as ailerons, the inner set act as flaps/air brakes. This allows for much slower approaches and less bouncy landings.

1000 feet? Damn that's what the strongest shapes length dreams to be

Very aerodynamic plane, but very Bendy

2:58 nooooooooo matt you architect that CoM was in the perfect spot

Got to love the madness. FYI the shuttle is 37m long with the cargo section making up about 60% of its length, so I'd say this plane comes in closer to 580m (1900ft).

This is honestly really cool. With this kind of size you could put an entire rocket in the cargo bay, and launch it after reaching max altitude.

Cannot wait for this game to release so I can play it

People: We're going to have flying cars in the future! Meanwhile the architects:

Trust me, I'm an engineer truly has new meaning for me now. I was afraid of planes before... I'm terrified now...

Did you increase the joint strength from settings, i need to know how i can recreate the bug you accidentally found in the land speed record video

You would think an engineer would know it would be smarter to place the wings/jets more towards the front so it's not pushing all that extra mass around and instead pulling it.

1:25 tip#1: there are fuel tanks that have only the fuel that use aircraft engines and in plus they have more of it so... that way it's more efficient! 4:32 best landing that Matt ever made 👏 5:06 tip#2: there are fuselage parts with 0 fuel and it is lighter than the fuel tank without fuel 10:30 "I didn't have to worry about the plane tails?" *5 seconds later* spiral carnage😂 So yeah you don't need the tail for long flights (so if it broke at low speed and high the pilots can manage to "land" the plane before losing control) 16:39 it looks like the flying fish or one of those things in Avatar that do same things as our flying fishes😂

I don't want to tell Schmachael how to their job, but here is a genuine suggestion for whenever Matt does genuine unintentional innuendo: In Scrubs, there's a cut to Christopher Turk doing a Fat Albert reaction to a joke. In one version of this, they start laughing, but stop when they notice the innuendo. They can be used frequently during these vids. I make the suggestion, because I see the occasional "That's what she said" insert, when Michael Scott is being baited by Jim in Todd Packer's presence. Michael makes his innuendo intentionally, whereas the Scrubs bit can be used for unintentional innuendo.

I’m starting to think you’re secretly an architect.

Day 44 of asking Matt to play SpaceFlight Simulator.

hey real pilot here who flew several second and third class experimental planes and did nearly a year long course that focused on critical failures and degradation of an aircraft in flight and to put it bluntly a simple aircraft doesnt need a tail if its ailerons or elevators are sufficient and it doesnt have a "nock pin" which is essentially where all the structural strength coverages at the tail A great example of this is a ww2 english Mosquito The plane was light for its size and its engines strong, and there are many example of Flak severing the tail completely but the large elevators and skilled pilots where enough to keep her in the air, rolling the plane with the ailerons could change direction Landing was hard obviously but not undoable However just like the video losing your tail, especially at very low or very high speed usually does result in a death spiral

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The plane you've tried to beat has been destroyed by russian soldiers last year in Ukraine, it would've been cool to see you actually acknowledge that, if possible

5:50 This plane can do it for you, when all it does is for you

This man's thought process everywhere.

RCE you can mouse wheel click on parts in the VAB to focus the camera around that part

Back in the old days one of my hacks to do struts without ruining aesthetics was to clip the VAB camera inside of the segment you want reinforced. Put struts radially between each connection on the inside where you can't see them. Technically that makes them 0 units long but it works, at least in KSP1. 👍

I had zero confidence this was gonna work, and this mad lad proves me wrong again. Legend.

Very nice landing at 4:33 decently smooth RCE!

The reason you were still able to fly after loosing your tail is because you had given wings pitch control earlier and still have pitch control after losing your tail. If you hadn’t don’t that then yes, you would have crashed pretty fast as loosing your tail would have also meant you lost your only form of pitch control. Since you didn’t have a vertical stab or rudder it was highly unlikely you would have been able to return to the base. Though a B-52 once lost its vertical stab and rudder but was still able to maintain controlled flight by using asymmetrical thrust via the 8 engines to yaw the aircraft in the direction they needed to go.

The first one looks like a hideously enlarged MiG-21 and I’m all for it

14:00 Matt officially turned KSP2 into a p_rno 😂

Matt: makes a grown up MiG21 with hood scoops🤣

welcome back to another episode of Matt doing anything except going to space in kerbal space program 2

We need a looping attempt with this plane!

Try engineering a plane like the P-38 Lightning, but with more fuselages, or whatever those tail thingies are called.

Matt as a pilot who studies aerospace engineering, I look at you like you look at architects

4:10 looks like a 3rd gen Mig to me…

Hey RCE! You were struggling with the landing gear when you mirrored the plane.. but you can just click any part with middle mouse to focus your camera on it ;) Makes building long/tall crafts SOOOO much easier

So to be fair planes don't necessarily need tail sections seeing things like the b2 spirit exist, they just need a super complicated triple redundant flight computer system to keep it in control.

Damn that bendy air serpent is actually a really unique plane design.

4:10 - doing a great Harrison Ford imitation there trying to land on the taxiway.

"We made a dragon!" That part had me in tears

Okay. Planes: pitch works better the further away the control surface is from the center of mass. Both other's arent usually that much of a concern. The further behind the center of lift is behind the center of mass, the more stable the plane becomes, if moving in that direction. More ksp question, I'd love to help (ksp addict and it sometimes hurts a little, but I love your vids!)

Man that plane just kept looking more and more like a borzoi for a while there

You gotta love how almost no matter what he builds, he somehow makes it into a snake at one point or another 😂😂😂

one little tip for building in KSP or KSP2. You can move the point of control (the cockpit in this case) around within the zone to increase the amount of build space behind it

They really need to add flaps in this game because without them it’s so hard to take off and land

6:02 looks like my hunched goofy ahh back in the morning

I can't believe I went through the whole video without a single strongest shape reference. And if you paint the final version green and yellow it would make a great Rayquaza.

Imagine being a customer on the plane getting from NY to ATL....sea sick 😫

Thats a wonderful peice of archetecht- i mean engineering

Suggestion, you could use a tall mid mounted spike or dorsal fin with struts attached to the front and back to provide some rigidity.

Never had faith until I saw that thing take off. Hilarious XD

thank God you finally added those control surfaces on the front, I was shouting at my monitor

Well done man, first not scuffed plane you've ever build

Lol....Me who has a passing / hobby knowledge of Aeronautical Engineering. "YOUR WINGS ARE TOO WIDE" xD Love the videos.

you havent been lied to, the plane does become a mushy piece of metal soup

this seemed like the perfect time to make a truss bridge out of struts all along the back to maintain rigidity. you could have had a flying truss bridge and you whiffed it

Hoooo yeah ! New video ! Continue like this, u r the best !

Definitely something that needs to be at Farnborough

Now I understand why I love this channel so much: Because I feel myself sympathetic with you. Even if you don't even know me, I feel like if we were friends and we were playing the games "together". I feel sincere with you.

Every man ever after securing stuff: "That's not going anywhere"

Click with middle mouse Button (presss mouse wheel in)on a part to Focus on it it should zoom you over (in VAB)

7:15 had me absolutely cackling. RCE evolved a snake with wings

reminds me of the fireflash from thunderbirds which had the main wings at the back and tiny canard wings at the front for stability but had almost nothing in the middle except a long tube for a body

11:01 if you put a smaller cockpit then put a hollow cargo part, it will just put the cockpit inside and you could move it to stick out or something (at east in ksp 1)

You can mitigate control surface wobble in SAS by limiting the deflection angle of control surfaces in parts manager

6:10 flying hotdog

Bro these plane dragon things are insane!

I think you can use shift + right click and drag to change where your camera is centered. I don't have KSP 2 but I have KSP 1 and it works there so I can't imagine they changed it. It should make things really long easier to do.

for stable flight you want your Center of Mass in front of you Center of lift. If its exactly the same it's the most efficient, but also right on the edge to become unstable.

'let me.... Do it for u' meme running through my head the whole time

I do have a suggestion if you want to use SAS without it violently moving the craft. Set wings to only roll, stabalizers to yaw and control surface to pitch. Then i havent gotten the perfect number yet but you have to also decrease the authority limiter to make it fly stable without over corrections.