KSP: Tiltwing VTOL Flying Base to LAYTHE! 

"i haven't flown many vertical takeoffs in this game" *Literally every conventional rocket*

**watching this while I’m building my first PC so I can play KSP at over 30FPS**

As soon as the Brits leave the EU, they start to colonize again. So typical.. :P

Here’s a challenge for you: Unlock the entire tech tree with only spaceplanes (that is once you get the parts to make a space plane)

If kerbals won't find life on laythe, they will make it

“Can I have a VTOL” “Only a faring full” *pulls out comically large faring

Matt: Goes to Laythe Me: Crashes to launch pad where the rocket lifted.

Welcome to KSP... A world where VTOL's are economically feasible...

It’s okay, Matt. We understand that you need to ask for these things, and that being a RU-vidr is a constant grind. So if you need to ask for likes and subscribes, that’s alright.

The reason why asking for likes get more is because most people forget to like and you asking reminds them

Okay Matt, hear me out: LAYTHE HELICARRIER

Technically, this is the LAYTHEst Matt Lowne video.

The watery world of lathe I whish I could go but I can’t get to minimus

matt: uploads tilt wing video hazardish: *sweats nervously*

Matt Lowne: flies a ginormous payload to Laythe with a little fuel tank!!! Me: struggling to get to the Mun with 5 Saturn Vs

Hey Matt, if you feel like the commentary is getting repetitive, you don’t have to talk about the mission. We’ve heard it before and if we haven’t we can check out the earlier videos. Instead, you should fill up the first half of the mission with just talking about whatever you want to talk about and then returning to commentary on the mission itself when you enter Laythe Orbit. You kind of already did this today by talking about RU-vid and such, but really it can just be whatever. You’re an interesting person to listen to, and I’d hate to see you be go through the same motions every episode. And hey, even if the commentary ends up being a massive failure, most people just like looking at the pretty spaceship anyway, so it can’t be that bad.

It bothers me a lot when you build these monstrous crafts but won't just add an experiment storage unit to them, so you have to *manually* get out and get every experiment by right-clicking. It makes sense to save some fuel by not including this part in a small vehicle but in this case (and a lot of other cases), it wouldn't make any difference whatsoever.

Anyone seen "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines"? Cause the way the vehicle was swinging in the air in the first vertical landing reminds me of the opening montage. Far better landing than I'd manage, probably.

Me not even able to fly a normal plane on Kerbin: ._.

What about a massive floating runway that you can land small planes on top of. Or just simply (thanks to comments) a Laythe aircraft carrier.

My house just started flying! I'm scared

Is there oil on Laythe?

“As of right now Laythe doesn’t have runways” Foreshadowing?

Go watch planet coaster you fools! Otherwise it will die

Matt: “I’m only human...” Me: “after all, I’m only human, after all don’t put your blame on me, don’t put your blame on me...”

I thought after that big monolouge of why he's asking for likes and stuff, he would finally bring back his "Whiskey Review"

Mmm, I like flying bases.

Fun fact, no one has actually watched the whole video yet.

Matt :I'm thinking of bringing back life on minus Everyone : yes 3 months later: nothing Everyone: well this is a interesting situation yah this sucks

Matt: uploads clump videos of life on laythe. Everyone: 0_0

8:00 Yes, The Saturn V had SRBs to separate the stages.

about the fuel transfer glitch, i dont know how the game exactly handles fuel transfer, but i therorize that it may do with the game maybe detecting one of the fuel tanks as not being one when transfering fuel.

I am simple man. I see Matt Lowne, I click.

"I went a bit American there"

If it helps with your self-awareness of your self-promotion I often just binge videos and at some point forget to like them even if i try. So don't think of it as telling people to like but remind folks like me to like the videos that we forget to like. Also I really like you style of crafts that you build.

finally more propeller driven planes matt why you don't use counter rotation propellers ? (this question is the reason i hate my self)

And i cant dock two crafts in orbit around kerbin.

15:14 "But, but you... You will! You will obey me!" And this is point where I finally looked up from my phone and liked the video. And then noticed that I somehow wasn't subscribed, and rectified the situation. Science. It works, kids.

I find that time warping a few times and closing the fuel transfer window fixes the bug, but still a hassle anyways

Why do you adjust throttle by tweaking the RPM of the motors? The V22 uses tweaking the AOA of the proprotor blades to control thrust. You can do this in the game by linking the throttle control action group with the control limiters in the blades. You'll find that doing this in the game will allow you to lift greater weights and achieve greater speeds. Trust me. It's better that way.

A really smart thing about the seaplane design is that if you control from the docking port on the top and click radial out, it makes you craft automatically level.

I love the commentary cos you never know where it’s going to go And I’ve got a feeling neither does matt

Just saying on the Engine plates, you can change it to have multiple nodes instead of just one in the middle. Use this when you're attaching all the "F-1" engines so that you get them perfectly in the right place.

Yes, the DLC robotic parts are very temperamental, the smallest parts are good for virtually nothing and you simply have to use the largest parts if you have any hope of maintaining joint stability in-flight.

Me: how can I keep my rocket from tipping over? Matt: *takes out comically large fairing"

17:45 I just don’t see how a square-wing like that could survive entry like that.

When a massive jet for another world is considered a 'light payload' you know you should just apply for nasa by now, damnit

You see, Matt is so smart that he turned the entire rant about self promotions into a self promotion

He has a space base, an ocean base, he’ll have a land base soon... I would love to see some kind of permanent air base, like a helicarrier

In relation to the "switching to horizontal loses altitude": adding an internediate mode where the engines are at a 45° angle can ease the transition, but Im sure you know that already ^-^

@Matt Lowne - when flying in vtol mode, use control from here on your upwards facing docking port to set your viewpoint straight up and then use SAS hold radial and SAS will hold the vtol in directly vertical position for you, then just make small left/right/backwards/forwards angle adjustments to fine tune your landing. On my vtols I set the control from here and the thrust vector pivot controls all on one action group so i can toggle quickly into vtol mode.

Matt: I couldn't understand what happens with the code when this glitch occurs every programmer including myself: neither can we

Let me guess - next we’re gonna have a surface colony and then a plane to get the people from the colony to the space station

Why does the craft count as debris in the craft file?

Hey Matt, have you thought of making a craft that goes from the surface of Laythe to the giant space station? You could make use of some drills to refuel it and have a resusable bus from your colony to the space station. I just thought that was a cool idea, love your videos!

pretty nice

"Can I load a payload onto this rocket?" "Only a fairing full" Both laugh.

Amazing video as always Matt!

I rly hope there will be a amphibious laythe speedboat Rover...

That was the most kerbal rocket I’ve ever seen lmao

*_PSA: KAL-1000 are bugged and lose tracks,_*_ install the _*_"Breaking Ground Mini mods"_*_ to fix the issue, it may not be advertised as a fix but installing the _*_"servo controller"_*_ and _*_"more servos"_*_ mods fixed it for me. I can now launch multiple KAL-1000 controlled craft, with no loss of tracks, no problems._

i was wondering how you were going to survive atmospheric entry but that seemed to work out ok. how well would this craft do entering duna or eve?

Thats not a glitch... i think you just didnt turn "Enable propellant crossfeed" on the decoupler on

Hey man ur ok u think to much about other stuff and if peeps watch ur vids!!! I watch a lot of ur stuff and u make good vids!!!

Great video but holy pixels, Batman! What happened to the resolution?

Bro Don't give up on planet coaster™ pls Boi I got you fam

Great video! I loved the (re)entry on laythe. It was an interesting seeing something like a bombardier turboprop screaming out of orbit! Watching the base fly around on laythe gave me anxiety as the alligator hinge let the wing/body wiggle SO much! I felt like the kraken was waiting just below the surface to strike the whole time you were flying about.

A lot of your issues with altitude loss when switching from vertical to horizontal flight would be resolved by greatly limiting the speed at which that wing hinge can close, you want to be moving forwards as the wing geometry begins to change.

i accidently clicked here when i was gonna click on discord

Ive been watching you for 8 months and i realised im not subbed yet. Thanks for reminding now im subbed!

I'm still baffled on how this guy didn't figure out that props always were complicated

Hello there. I really enjoy watching your videos. You speak very pleasantly and clearly, which helps me to improve my English and I like your inventions in KSP. My girlfriend and I do RU-vid too, and we don't like asking for subscriptions either. But it really makes a difference, you definitely won me over. :) Greetings from Germany and thank you for your work!

You should put your surface base in a stock dome. They look really cool.

Me looking at all the comments that I can't even land while I can't even get ksp: Very relatable

I just realized Matt when you transfer from Vtol you usually want to be going forward already, tilting if necessary so you catch the air sooner and have to worry about the drop less. It looked like you were starting from straight up. Yeah it does kinda show, "he said it right then" Cool craft still btw.

the transfer thing is due to the fuel tanks on the propellers not being connected via fuel pieces to the one you were transferring to, as it doesn't make sense for fuel to travel through the wings, does it? BTW, happened to me before with fuel and monopropellant, and took me a while to figure that out. I had my fuel on a separate girder piece, and it was just far enough to not be able to transfer. EDIT: This happened to me before the ESA update.. ok weird.

i was amazed when i managed to see another one of my craft in space even though we passed each other at insane speeds and were both stranded in space with no fuel left, and you are over here landing a VTOL onto a distant planet next to your submersible water base, my minds blown haha love watching your videos

The project is interesting, but I would assemble a spaceship on land, just like the film lost in space, and its modules would take it to the space where it would house the starship inside.

Hey so I have an idea I rarely watch ur planet coaster vid but if u can try and do a livestream of planet coaster I think the planet coaster group will appreciate it and dude did u hear the Xbox moar boosters came out a few days ago I finally got to pol and back !

Imagine if squad revealed that in canon laythes ocean was some sort of acid or carcinogenic substance, so many kerbals would be revealed to have serious injuries

I don't know why the entire wings had to be part of the VTOL, when it could have been just the engines. It feels really unnerving when your ship wobbles

You like glitches? Try playing this on an xbox. The estimated burn counter doesn’t even work, and that’s just the start. Lol.

Call of duty: VTOL inbound Laythe: this VTOL?? Call of duty: who's VTOL is that that's the wrong VTOL guys

saturn V had 8 SRB separator engines in the first stage, they were located in the conical shrouds for the outer 4 engines, there were 2 separator engines in each shroud

i love the "spider nest" being built around the vehicle

@Matt Lowne TIp when having the Fuel Bug make sure all the boxes are un-ticked and no fuel menu is open and then try again

I dont even play ksp anymore, i just love matts videos so much!

I looked it up and Matt is right, the Saturn V used SRBs for first stage separation and second stage separation as well

Matt Lowne! Thank you for your KSP videos. Looking to start my own channel soon cheers m8

I liked and subscribed specifically because you asked me to. Most of the time I don't really even think about those functions, I'm just watching the video and enjoying it. I'm actually glad you reminded me because your content is quite enjoyable!

Thank you for reminding me to like the video. Feeding the algorithm has become my favorite pass time.

Amazing, not really aerodynamic, but very interesting. Hopefully i will visit the moon someday (the cupola ofc, the rest is pretty aerodynamic)

I watch your vids quite a lot, but forgot to sub... just did that today because you just talked about it

What really frustrates me about your issues with the fuel transfer glitch is that I told you how to solve it, you thanked me for it and hearted the comment, and you immediately forgot about it. In the previous video you thanked someone from your discord for telling you how to fix it. What's the point of helping out if the help is just summarily forgotten or ignored?

Wait! You didn't bring the Breaking Ground Surface Experiments?!

You Work At NASA Right? WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT APOAPSIS?!?!?!

The fuel transfer glitch may be because you don't have crossfeed on your decoupler

Your commentary is delightful, as always.

Try saying fun very fast you will notice a rude world

431st comment! I guess that counts... great video Matt keep it up!