This is probably not that hard since there’s a bug in the game where you can use IntakeAir as a “fuel”. It produces thrust at zero fuel/electricity cost
Incredible work, I never realized the ISP of the puff was that bad and which makes it even more amazing that you managed to get this work at all! The VAB landings were really the icing on the cake.
I know Bill has a lot of lore surrounding him in the Bradley Whistance Cinematic Universe, but I thought I'd share my own Jeb-canon. Jebediah, despite being something of a psychopathic spacecraft engineer like Bill, is not *quite* as sanity-deprived as he is. Not only does he make for one of the best pilots in the KSC, but he's also the owner of a junkyard and spaceship parts manufacturing company... which *also* happens to have a bar & grill on the premises, since Jeb is quite fond of anything involving fire, smoke, and the possibility of explosions. Although he doesn't cook all his meals with rocket engines(as the kerosene-based ones give the food a disgusting flavor), the ones he does cook with rockets are powered by cryogenic hydrogen engines- which simply expel water vapor, of course, but are expensive to maintain and operate. They're used only on a special order basis. Bill and Jeb like to hang out at the bar and discuss why rockets are never big enough over a few finely-grilled giant snail steaks, and copious amounts of beer(which may or may not be 'repurposed' rocket fuel). They share crazy ideas and wacky theories about all kinds of things, and it's where Bill has gotten some of his most outlandish ideas from.
Fan theory: Kerbal biology is so hardy that their yeast produces beer that can be used as rocket fuel as well as kerbals being able to drink it and not die but still feel the effects. This would explain a lot about Jeb, the the ksp in general and why the hell they can pull off in situ mining absolutely everywhere
So I’ve been thinking about cooking with rocket engines. Kerosene ones are much too dirty, yeah - I don’t think you want your food smoked *that* much. Hydrogen storage is way expensive, but the middle ground, methane, is already what we use for household activities like heating or cooking (as natural gas.) Hypergolics and monopropellants would be too poisonous for humans to cook with, though Kerbals might have an easier time of that (plus with hypergolics you don’t have to reach in there with a lighter.) Ion engines will probably stop the food from rotting by sterilising it, but I don’t think you’ll have much luck cooking with them. Maybe they’ll get hot enough, like those electric stovetops? Solid rockets would probably be too inconvenient - can’t turn up or down the heat, and the burning chunks of fuel they expel probably aren’t good for the taste - though I’m sure some Kerbal chefs swear by them.
I'm a little disappointed the cargo plane wasn't still sitting on the VAB roof when the orbiter returned. Would've made for a hell of a tight landing, but with all that landing gear the cargo plane could probably have made a passable backstop for if the landing went too wrong.
Bradley, this is amazing. To this day, I have no idea how you manage to keep doing impossible things that I never even considered before like it was nothing. I'm finding myself missing the traditional format of The Odyssey by Bill, though. IDK, something about the classical music and the oddball narrative making commentary on real-world events. Will we ever see a return to this format?
“Some fully fleshed out rocket engines that run on monopropellant” I mean, it’s just the one, the Puff, and I’m not really sure it’s fully fleshed out either. You’d think there’d be some advantage to using it, when really the only thing it’s notable for is being physicsless (back in my day that was massless)
@@Tr0lliPop I suppose, but you would need to fly at a low speed for a long time to minimize drag losses. And it might be a good idea to test if the parachute works when the kerbal is shielded by a fairing or utility bay.
Ideas of mission: _Fly-by all planets and moons of the stock game with less than 1000 m/s of Delta-V from LKO _Fly at the highest altitude only with propellers ( personnaly I broke 22 800 m) Or make a video who learn advanced aerodynamics 🤩
Hey Brad, great video. Got a challenge for you as I've never seen you use the newer propellers/ducted fanblades: Build and fly an SSTO to Eve, Duna, Laythe and back to Kerbin using ONLY electric rotor propeller/fanblade power and ion propulsion (no decoupler or kraken drive shenanigans of course) I suppose you could call it the "No liquid fuel challenge"?
@(S)-Riley Dunn the problem is eve. I dont know if you could ever reach orbital speed with props and ions on layth. Maby if you had a nuclear engin, but I'm not sure.
Part of me feels like using a cargo plane to get to the top of the mountain is cheating, but another part of me knows that if anyone would consider it cheating, it would be you. But you did it anyway
How do you rotate the wings by such a tiny amount? I've tried rotating the wings myself, but even when holding shift they still rotate dramatically far...
My proudest moment in KSP was when I overshot the runway with a shuttle. I did a split-s and landed the other way on the runway. I immediately retired that version of the shuttle because it couldn't be topped.
The puff is also great to make a Messerschmitt Me-163 replica - it is just terrible enough to replicate the first rocket-plane‘s engine, with no more than a few minutes of powered flight and then gliding to a landing on skids (wheels were ditched on take-off). I uploaded one to steam
@bestPlayer_xu what????? This sounds absolutely fucking insane!!! Give me a link right now please. If he recorded this ofc. Would be AWESOME to see this
