We had some great entries for the challenge, but yours was a clear winner. I honestly didn't expect you to participate, but I'm really glad you did. You killed it!

You're in the Jool system so often these days, you might steal all it's moons kinetic energy and drop them straight into Jool.

Next: Drain Valves to and from Eve

I *HIGHLY* recommend you go back to Kerbin repeat the mission. You should be able to manage that, and it would be a hell of a flex.

I like how you can power ISRU off of fuel cells. You're using electricity to turn water into hydrogen and oxygen, and then burning them to make electricity, somehow making a net gain

Brad: Ore-powered SSTO Me: can't even Build/Fly an SSTO

You make this yet all my ssto is capable of is getting Jeb stuck in orbit

No one: Absolutely no one: Bradley: *I used the ore to collect the ore*

Dang, the challenge on stratz's discord has already been absolutely demolished by this submission! How could anyone else compete? We shall see

Next: Oar-powered SSTO

Brad is the best KSP pilot and KSP builder ever.

That circularization must be really good, for two announcements! :) Weird and cool mission, man! Fun to watch!

Later: grand tour 1 part

Just how much stuff did you clip in that fuselage? Also, as for where to go, I suggest Eeloo!

I think this started as a challenge on the forums, but it just required you to fly a plane for as long as possible. Regardless, I never thought I'd see something like this. Very cool!

Rule of thumb: vertical stabilizer needs to be at least as big as the diameter of the fuselage.

Why not the Mohole? It’s been fairly underrepresented, afaik

Q/Question: Does this Ore-Powered SSTO have refuelling capabilities?

Your videos are just incredible Bradley. Thanks so much for making them

>When you one-up everyone on Stratz's server Cheers Brad, impressive vid as always!

Nicely done! ✅

Next: doing a grand tour with all landings and moons without engines of control surfaces

Sadly the extreme part clipping really takes all the fun out of this for me.

What are the little purple diamonds occasionally coming out of the back of the plane?

Every video, Brad's runway gets lonnger

Please take it to Eelo and than Moho. That should turn this mission into gravity assist porn.

Made my Sunday morning with these wacky exercises in maximum efficiency! Thanks for the video :)

It would be funny if you somehow managed to take it out to Eeloo and then all the way back down to Moho, and then back to Kerbin. It would take about a millennia worth of fly-bys though.

Nice bumpy landing on Laythe!

Tylo.

What about a low pass of the sun or a flyby of every celestial body And for the landing what if you landed at the old ksc or at the hidden desert temple

I would never have thought of a design like this. I tip my hat to you sir

I think Pol would be a cool destination, also great video 👌

Take the mission to Duna! How does the ascent change when you cannot run the RAPIERS on air-breathing mode? Is it even possible?

consider a hydrofoil SSTO for maximising tons per rapier, put some control surfaces on robotic pistons, extend them into the water, and adjust their deploy until its just them in the water. There's a lot of water along the equator after all!

This guy could do a ssto in real solar system...

About pushing that 48t/rapier ratio, there's a lot of flat ground around the dessert launch complex; much more than at KSC. I think you could 'launch' there, taxi to the western hills, and have a very long takeoff run eastward. The flip side is there's no sea at the end, and it's not at the equator so you would get slightly less boost from the planet's rotation. Perhaps instead of reducing engines, you could reduce wing mass by using the extra space to reach a higher takeoff speed. The complex is good for Minmus missions. It's at a lattitude which corresponds to Minmus's orbital inclination. If you time it so that a line from the launch site through the center of Kerbin intersects Minmus orbit, you need little if any a plane change. At least, that's what I got from lining it up that way, launching rockets from the dessert launchpad, and steering for a 90 degree heading. Edit: I've got my first Laythe landing coming up. It wasn't really a planned mission. I was testing a new spaceplane, saw how much delta-v it had left, and as it was in my "test bin" save which doesn't have any other pending misssions, took it all the way there, ending up with little fuel left. Being fairly new to gravity assists, the only one I could get from Tylo put me into a retrograde suborbit, (if that's a word,) but it was such a narrow ellipse that I knew it would take little delta-v to reverse the direction at apoapsis. I was able to get a Laythe encounter with the same maneuver, and I hope aerobraking will do the rest.

loving the random MissingTexture blocks coming from the craft every so often. Why is that?

Damnit! He beat us again!

Out of all destinations I think this plane can go to Bop, Pol, Gilly, Ike or, possibly, Vall or Eeloo (as well as Mun and Minmus, of course). But personally I'd be really impressed if you can go to Duna.

If anybody moves a class I comet, it will either be this guy or stratzenblitz

11:09 Nani! Kansei Drifto?!

Next destinations: Eeloo and the moons of Kerbin

I hope Bradley's health is improving and he is staying safe.

bran whistance is a godamn angel

A year after I first watched it, I realise what an extra-big flex this video is: just adding a drill would make it so much easier! :) Also, I'm having trouble with roll stability which seems to be related to the vertical stabilizer too. It's so tempting to save a few kilos by skimping on it, isn't it? But even when I don't, things can get weird. I once fitted a tiny elevon behind a strake for the vertical stabilizer, and the long fixed strake played merry havoc with stability in turning. The plane oscillated in the yaw axis and I had no idea why until I turned on the aero visualization and saw that in a steep bank, the strake was alternately generating up-force and down-force.

Ah yes, a THERMONUCLEAR BOMB with WINGS.

Can you do a video on how you plan your gravity assists? they always seem so perfect and close and perfect and even more perfect

Amazing job, as usual. What's causing the pink square anomalies at low altitudes? Optional question: who is messaging you at 7:49 :P

Centripetal acceleration is not what is helping you, it's what is holding you. You want to use "centrifugal" in that sentence.

Great episode brad, I really appreciate your understanding of KSP I can’t wait to see the conclusion, I’m voting for Moho 🚀.

Make a rocket with a meteor inside. Then put alot of drills on it and make an infinite ore rocket.

Bradley Whistance: Intends to go to low kerbin orbit. Delta V left: Goes to Jool and beyond. This is an example of amazing engineering.

Part 2: Dres canyon

This man is insane

Bring back robotug

Land on the poles of Duna!

You’re probably not gonna see this/know by now, but even though 1 unit of ore converts to 1 unit of fuel, a unit of ore weighs 2x as much (if I recall correctly) as a unit of fuel/oxidizer Or maybe it was just different in that version

Dres would be a great challenge.

Go to Tylo with just closed cycle rapiers, you cant use anything else and no air breathing modes. Sounds like something you could do, and then back

What's with that pink square? I've been noticing it in my KSP install, too.

My dyslexic brain read *Oreo* powered SSTO. Was very disappointed.

This should be interesting

next: entire tech tree unlocked with a single rocket that consists of mystery goo, flea engines and a command pod.

I’d like to see moho

Okay hold up! I came here thinking this was "Oreo"-powered SSTO but no. The video is really good though!

If you add a drill you could go anywhere (except Eve Jool and Tylo) Go to Dres next

the speed of sound is decreasing the higher you go, but your point wasnt lost of course

what about a challenge where your community builds a rocket for you and you try to get the absolute max science out of it

it has been a while since we've seen dres

jesus christ that laythe landing

I spot "Brad.." in the video list, smile go and make coffee. I am now back, and ready to watch the video (still smiling.)

You could combine this with your advanced manouvres tutorial, and create a tutorial about how to set up multi grav assist routes, or just a single assist tutorial but in a more comprehensible fashion that ep.0. My choice of destination would be an atmosphereless planet or moon like Tylo to see how this preforms without the wings and rapiers

Next video: walking to orbit with only an EVA pack

What the heck are the pink squares?? This is the second video they’re in!

idk if it is possible but I suggest moho. The insane dv requirements as well as the natural temperature of moho would make it extremely challenging.

For some reason, your video didn't appear in my feed this time as it always should have.

Another of jool's moons. Maybe vall

we need campaign speedrun part 4

What an absurd idea, I love it! :D Did you consider swapping one RAPIER for a Panther? You'd lose 50-75m/s top speed but you'd have an engine that can generate electricity up til mach 3.5, 0.8t less dry mass, and a plane that has a significantly higher TWR at subsonic speeds likely saving you some wing mass as well.

Land on pol or bop than go to Ike

You sure that's right Bradley? The speed of sound increases with altitude? In the real world it decreases: the more dense the medium, the faster sound passes through it. I thought the reason air breathing engines struggled high up was that the air was thinner and so they couldn't get enough oxidiser but lower down they have to combat air resistance and high drag.

Hey brad. Been a sub for some time and love your channel. Have an idea. New campaign. Science or career. (Science may be easier). But start off ground zero. Research as much as possible to build a Whistance Wonder and only fly-by all the bodies. Not land. Then return to KSC in Bill’s usual fashion. The mission can only be the “maiden flight” for the KSC. is that possible??

TODAY IS A GOOD DAY.

Yes

*H O W I S T H I S M A N*

eloo then moho

would a biplane design have given you more lift and thus reduce the distance on the take-off

Meanwhile my SSTOs are still Single Stage to Ocean >

Moho, maybe?

moho then val

What's next, EVA propellant to orbit?

Eeloo and Moho

i have a somewhat hard time with SSTOs. sort of. well, i mean, i can make and fly basic ones that are super ordinary, but any time i do anything that doesnt look like a shuttle or regular plane, it seems to just not work well for me and its frustrating. lol.

Firstly, AWESOME VIDEO Secondly, please tell me what is the transfer window for the KEKKJ route, and the first instance at that.

dres

I can't believe it's an oversight that you've left the oxidizer topped up, even though you're only using liquid fuel in engines. Or is that a backup just in case you need an extra kick from the RAPIERs?

Back in your video about the 2.998 ton rocket to Duna and back from a couple years ago, I noticed that you arranged the craft in a way that the Kerbal was between 2 fuel tanks. How did you create that?

This is Interesting

next up: ssto with fuel ejectors