"Fly safe" seems to be a highly ironic closing statement approximately every fourth time.

Oh, how KSP has changed. Now the stock game's fairings are always player built.

you tell us to fly safe while your plane crashes and dies horribly ironic

Waiting for youtube to approve the last 2 episodes, youtube is broken for me right now.

Watching this after 1.0 announcement ... :)

Your rocket tipped over because it was bigger on top than on bottom. It's like an arrow, the fletching stabilize things because it creates drag at the back, so it naturally seeks to stay pointed forward. Your rocket has more drag in the front, it's like a backwards arrow, it's going to seek to turn around. This is actually a big problem with procedural fairings combined with Far, they tend to give the cargo too much room, creating wide upper stages that have a tendency to want to tip over. You exacerbated the problem heavily by throwing that wide thing on there. Your other rocket was stable because the drag from the side engines and wingtips counterbalanced that from the oversized fairing load.

two words to save the plane: right rudder

the first craft is obviously a Bolter round. Someone's bound to get it. :/

I come back to this in 2019 because this is what got me into playing KSP

"and that's possibly,...because,.....of many many things" - love it, very concise!!

that Pegasus plane is a total beast!

Got to love Scott. Video ends in horrific crash, "fly safe"

From what I saw looking online at the pegasus mission, they used both a B52 and a slightly modified Lockheed L1011 airliner. Either way, pretty neat stuff.

I think the final version of the game should include the ability to use custom fairings; just making them really expensive is all you'd need to do to make them balanced.

The days before fairings. What a hard time

Your videos generally have a good balance of gameplay and actual space chat, but I was a little disappointed you didn't talk about the world's only commercial plane launched space system. It's a marvel of engineering despite it having very specific mission scope.

"Fly safe," he says and his craft is bursting into flames! LOLOLOLOLOLOL Good show!

That's what I was wondering about too. Perhaps, when you go to the Weekly page, you enter some kind of time portal that takes you a few hours into the future. The portal's sole purpose being letting us watch kick ass Scott Manley videos before they're released. I'm fine with that.

Oh that's a mod, the exact mod escapes me at this time.

You're talking about the fairing factory. That was a separate web app that would create special fairings for you to use. This is a completely new mod that was just released. :)

I think one of the main reasons for planes yawing on the runway is the landing gear being angled. When the gear is pointing straight down it tends to be a lot more stable for me.

The custom fairing feature looks amazing!

The dropped rocket shooting off into the distance looks so awesome. heh Great job.

Wow. I wish kerbal space program had something like this normally. I hope the devs will consider something like this. This is seriously awesome.

The end of this video made me think, I'd love to see you take a shot at DCS. Whether you fail horribly or have success it would be really fun to watch!

They are the so called Lagrangian points. " The Lagrange points mark positions where the combined gravitational pull of the two large masses provides precisely the centripetal force required to orbit with them." There is quite a detailed explanation of Wikipedia! Sixty symbols also has a video explaining it quite well.

I don't know if the programmers are in the habit of adding aspects of mods to the base game, but I'd love to see them incorporate those fairings. Very cool feature.

I think that the decrease in stability when using the fairings is a result of the lower density of the upper end of the rocket. If there is a lot of empty space inside the fairing, then it would be like having a big solid balloon on top.

Scott: "Fly safe" while his ginormus aircraft is exploding against the surface of Kerbin... Is that safe in you eyes mr. Manley?

Not possible, because KSP only uses a 1 body system. You can fake L4 and L5 if you want, but they're not stable.

not to mention the additional drag of the fairings themselves since that gets added together too.

Wow this thing has come a long way, this looks pretty great now! Last I've heard of it (or maybe it was a predecessor?) it would generate parts for you to use, not adapt dynamically. This is just awesome, when did THAT happen and why did I miss it? But to be honest, I love the fairings in KW Rocketry. I do assume you've exaggerated how hard you think they are to use for dramatic effect (just turn on symmetry before snapping the top in place) ;) Also, thanks for all the great vids/entertainment!

why are your videos so addicting to watch?

KSP should have a Scott Kerman in there, you're a great promoter for this game, thanks for all the great video's :)

TFW You're friends with the guys behind KW Rocketry and you had no idea they were into KSP and had such a comprehensive mod.

Very cool mod. I would be surprised if something very similar, if not this exactly, made it into the base game at some point in the future.

fun fact, the airstrip at KSC isn't pointing exactly equitorial, yet you start at 90 degrees, so you always go off the runway if you don't turn right a bit... I should probably see if that's a known issue, actually.

Aw yiss! Scott is kerbaling again!

There's a new mod on the forum that lets you make solid boosters in a more modular fashion, maybe that would give you more control with the Pegasus launch :D

Hey Scott, this video was featured in KSP Weekly: KSP Mod Showcase.

its actually a real world phenomenon caused by the engines all rotating the fans in the same direction. happens on almost all aircraft.

While the plane is crashing in the background "I'm Scott Manley, fly safe!"

Scott, Just wanna say that I love your vids. Blue side up mate!

wow Scott you did a lot of videos i wonder how much time it takes you to upload video on youtube

Everyone has access, it's just not published yet

scott make sure you put the landing gears exactly 90' to the ground, otherways your plane just makes random turns at taking off or landing

love this addon makes my rockets look like they should

This is how fairings should be done in vanilla once reentry effects come into play.

No that's a Mythical Pegasus!

The good old days when I stacked monopropellant on top of SRBs thinking it is more fuel... still made it to orbit somehow.

The reason Pegasus is pulling to the left is because of B9 cockpit. I've noticed it on quite a few airplanes.

13:32 random decouple sound??

His kerbals survived the crash landing!

Because youtube is still trying to approve it.

Real Pegasus doesn't have doors, and the wings wouldn't fit anyway.

You can use these fairings to create an aerodynamic lifting body.

Hey Scott you should try the Simple Part Organizer mod. It's really helpful when you have a lots of mods.

i love pegasus its a cool launcher and it is reminiscent of SpaceShipone

Versions past 0.18 (I think) have hypersonic and reentry air effects. No actual reentry overheating, though. Yet. Ferram Aerospace Research makes them happen more often.

*many explosions* "well this is a good time to say fly safe"

If you want to use the solid fuel boosters.You can use vostok solid boosters.

"I'm Scott Manley - fly safe." - proceeds to crash his plane into the ground. :D Great video as usuall.

When the Kerbals all survive, it's a safe flight! :D

Actually, with Ferram Aerospace, assuming the fairings are labeled properly in their config, they will remove the drag from any part they are covering, as far as I can tell.

Scott, is it possible that the plane turns to the left during take-off due to the real world effect of maxing out your engine? I know that these were turbine engines and the real world effect is mainly associated with propeller planes.

The a-symmetrical liftoff with the Pegasus launcher might not be because of the plane design! Staging with throttle at full for jet/atmospheric engines doesn't work well (some fire slightly sooner, building thrust faster), try staging/activating them first, then throttling up.

it would be great if you put the mods that you have in each video on the description:)

when you said "im scott manley, fly safe" the first thing I thought was 'because I didn't' lol :D

B9 Aerospace. Pretty much essential for building SSTO Spaceplanes that don't eat my CPU.

you went out with flames

Yeah they looks much more pleasing.. Best addond ive seen thus far i gotta say. and its simple to use.

gophers and you are the fathers of youtube gaming

Go into map view, select the ship you want to switch to and click "Go to ship"

Hey Scott, may i recommend TouhouTorpedo's modular Multiwheels mod? it adds lots of fantastic wheels for larger aircraft, and could save a lot of parts for your Pegasus launch jet :)

Forgot things like "I'm going to cut my power" or "I'm not even going to bother trying to save this."

finally a good fairing mod!

If you mean how to duplicate parts in VAB or SPH press "alt+left click" to duplicate the part,if u mean symmetry then press "X" or click the yellow symmetry button on the bottom left.

You can switch between vehicles and active EVA's by pressing "[" and "]" ("[" cycles forward and "]" cycles backwards).

FYI, the 1.0 version of the mod you're using doesn't support FAR, but the mod author added the 1.1 update yesterday which does have FAR support.

Lol i hope ksp makes stock fairings, i love trying to build everything from stock because its challenging. For now , i just use the in game steel panels, works fine but looks a little funny :) awesome vid!

Now our ships can look even more phallic

nice, though i'm confused about how it's not working well with FAR - are the collision boxes off or something for each generated fairing?

scott, do you think the tendency for the plane to move to the left is something to do with the rotation of kerbin?

Scott, your Strugasky's front gear is attached at an angle. ;)

You landed that bad boy like a South Korean pilot.

In default KSP (with this mod) is there an advantage to using fairings in terms of fuel consumption/speed etc.

Every KSP space plane pulls to one side, scott. It's a fact, look it up.

"I'm Scott Manley, fly safe." as his plane gets destroyed by rolling the body across the terrain and his cockpit almost dies.

Wait, so how does Ferram Aerospace work without a mesh designed to simulate the aerodynamics model specifically? Does it use something like the lighting engine to test if something is aerodynamic or not? I think that's what deadly reentry uses. But if you can use any part you want from any mod pack, it must not have to have it's own specific type of model for aerodynamics. How do it work?

The tendency for your plane to veer is not a symmetry issue. Your rear landing gear are too far back, and as the fulcrum, they are taking too much weight, add more rear landing gear with the wheel's axis lining up, or move your gear to just behind CG, preferably both.

I prefer NovaPunch's fairings; they're a little more intuitive and flexible than the KW fairings and they look awesome when they decouple.

Have you seen pics of the new vab and sah? It's so realistic!

Love the launch plane!

For what ever reason i find planes like to turn left or right on a run way when they have symetrical wheels like that. when there is more of a tri-cycle style used they tend to be more stable. Not sure if its the case but changing the landing gear as such made the same plane design not turn during take off for me.

Scott don't think to hard why your plane move to the left during start. No matter what I build, the runway always pulls my craft to the left. Could be that the runway itself is uneven or something...

You launched a lightbulb x)

Scott, what do they use as a material for such fairings in real life? Titanium alloys? Or some composites?

A shame you didn't show the Procedural Fairings with very wide payloads. It can do that pretty well, it looks a bit odd, but works great :D

Do nose cones in KSP actually improve aerodynamics? Or are they just for aesthetics? I have always questioned using them encase they increase weight and don't actually do anything. An answer will be so helpful for me in designing rockets in KSP.

Let's see how well it actually beheeves