First we had space rockets Than we got airplanes and jets Now we have propelers... In 3 years we will have horses.

Matt made a plane that isn't an SSTO. There's a first time for everything.

Reboot "Life on Laythe!" Do it! Should be awesome. A propeller tutorial would be nice, too.

Are you using a joystick to fly? Your SSTO landings always look so dang smooth compared to the usual keyboard tapping method, lol.

Matt you can bind the motors to the throttle so that you have finer control over your speed. Love the vid!

Life on Laythe was actually the series that got me into this channel so I’d love to see it rebooted or continued in some way.

4:32 It's actually still called "re-entry" for some reason. For example, for landers landing on Mars, NASA still talks of "re-entry heating".

Grandchild of the P38 Lightning has been to university and takes its gap year on Eve.

Fly a stock propeller plane under the 2 bridges at the KSC and land it on the Heli Pad for them bonus points

Man... I gotta say, KSP is really becoming a masterpiece. I remember when they “released” it and it was just so buggy. But after that one update that was literally just “we fixed the game lmao” it has really just become great.

i think the Eve would be an awesome place for airships since the atmosphere is so dense

Why has he not sent a Kesla Koadster to space? Or at least make it into an SSTO

send one to duna. I dare you.

traditional "stock-props" will be remembered (someone without breaking grounds will still make them though)

I built an Eve plane myself the other day, it was a really fun mission and it flies great, and the propellers just look so cool! The re-entry was a mess as always as Eve’s atmosphere sucks SO MUCH, but I eventually made it on attempt 17. Unfortunately then I realised I’d forgotten the parachutes, which could’ve been a massive disaster, but luckily Eve’s atmosphere is good for slowing down, and when I was down to 400m/s I just decoupled everything which was instant and without a hitch, then dived down with the plane and simply flew to the ground and landed safely. It was totally unexpected, my original plan was a parachute landing but this was way more fun and very lucky that it worked. The main difference between our designs is that I had enough solar panels for constant flight, smaller engines to reduce power usage and keep similar speed, and an RTG to keep the probe core and reaction wheel running at night. I also used Axis and Action groups to have full control of all the main engine and propeller variables which helped a lot, plus triple the battery power. I also used a twin engine design though to avoid the torque and rolling issues that propellers tend to have.

17:00 Really nice shot of the plane flying away!

If you place larger landing gear as the mains and smaller landing gear as the tail-wheel you'll have an aircraft more suited for landing in rough terrain. It protects the propellers and provides a high angle of attack for approach that allows you to land extremely slowly. Food-for-thought.

Matt, what about a propeller powered plane with folding wings similar to those used on aircraft carriers? Something like that might fit better in a fairing/descent stage?

Imagine having propellers in Jupiter *mach 3*

I would like to point out due to the nature of how orbits work, any planet that is on a smaller orbit would be "behind Kerbin" just that ratio of Kerbin and Moho's orbits is large enough that it's so far behind that it's "ahead" so to speak. For those that don't know and I imagine most people here will, the smaller the orbit around a gravitational body, the faster the object moves, so if you're coming from a slower orbit trying to intercept a faster orbiting body you need to start your transfer before that body gets to you because it's moving faster. Moho is far enough in though that completes an orbit during the transfer, so you are actually launching with it behind you -250 ish degrees), it just orbits fast enough to come back around by the time you get there, creating the "it's ahead". So while technically it's Ahead of Kerbin angularly, it's actually behind from the orbital perspective. Likewise transferring to any body that is in a larger orbit around Kerbol, you leave with it ahead of you, because you're moving faster than the body you're intercepting. Just wanted to share the thought. When matt said Eve was the only exception my immediate thought was "well yes, and no at the same time." So there is a useless explanation to something that doesn't matter lol

Every time I see a video on Eve, I worry about my first Eve mission which is en route without any heat shields at all. The plan is to make the gentlest entry possible, using the rhino-powered transfer stage to kill off speed where necessary, then when its fuel is depleted, release the very light-weight and relatively large-winged solar drone plane to fly the rest of the way. The real problem is the worry which has slowly built up over the many months this mission has been en route; fast-forwarding interrupted while I work on other complex plans. It's not really a good way to play the game, although it is pretty cool to see a degree of busyness in the tracking station. Once, there were even enough vessels in the same place that the game's overwhelming sense of desolation and emptyness was diminished. It really felt like colonizing the star system had begun. :)

Playing the game the "right" way? I thought misusing components or building ridiculous large and oddly shaped crafts is the right way. However, I learned a new thing again. Wonderful.

I´ve been waiting YEARS for this! That´s the good stuff!

Now I want to see someone make a flying rover like the NASA planned Dragonfly mission to Titan in KSP. If your not aware of this mission, here's the scoop. NASA plans to send a flying drone to Titan somewhere around 2026, I think. The drone will have 8 rotors, a full suit of sensors and scientific instruments, be RTG powered, and is supposed to be about the size of the curiosity rover. Its basically a small car sized remote control camera drone. I believe the drone is expected to last for 2-3 years, baring any accidents or malfunctions. Because of Titans denser atmosphere, flying around is much more efficient than trying to navigate the rather rough and unpredictable ground conditions. Iv made unkerbaled electric rotor craft using mods that could do what Matt was doing here, basically gliders and planes, but I am horrible with planes in KSP and they take hours of trial and error to get right for me. VTOL craft are a hundred times worse and I try to avoid them like the plague to my sanity that they are.

I think the term "reentry" can be used in both occasions, because you reenter an atmosphere from the vacuum of space.

Gottu love the fact that you can slipstream/break the sound barrier/whatever using only a propeller plane.

'Discord their loved ones' Spoken like a true Gamer Matt!

Thank you, I've finally had an answer to how to use propeller planes after atleast 4 hours of trying to get them to work with the turboshaft. (all i had to do was deploy the props, yes i am dummy dum dum)

Matt, my dude, bind the prop speed to a KAL controller so you can control the power setting with one bar! You could also just bind it to the translation axis or something, but I’m assuming you didn’t do that for a reason!

hey matt, i have a challenge for you, Rescue a ship stranded in space and bring it back to kerbin. (note the rocket that's stuck in space is without a docking part)

Yay Matt Lowne video! I knew this video would come because I saw the video on your extra channel.

Nice! Man, I'm really gonna have to get my hands on this update!

Just a correciton that is NOT a turbopropeller. Turbo propeller is a TURBINE that makes a propeler move. This is a simple propeller plane as the propeler is directly into the engine.

Another way I discovered to bring heavy payloads on Eve is to build a lifting body with wing parts, kinda like the belly of a space shuttle. It works like a charm, no heat shield is even needed, works either if you are coming at orbital speed or slower. Just make sure to balance it right so it naturally keeps the lifting body towards the front or at an angle to slow down progressively, if necessary use ore container as balancing factor. I recently brang a big rover (drilling/ISRU) to refuel landed ships on Eve as a precursor to a crewed mission, it worked on the first try ! I of course added parachutes to the payload, and once detached, the lifting body was so well designed that it landed next to my payload intact ! (Eve atmosphere is so helping).

Y’know, you could have put a pilot in the front cockpit, (and maybe even another in the cockpit just behind it,) and the scientist and the engineer in the passenger module in the very back. That’s right. You had room for two more kerbals and you didn’t even know it. Oh yeah, great accomplishment by the way.

This was a great video. I had no idea they added props.

Ah my favorite television show: "Matt Lowne Plays Kerbal Space Program and Uploads the Footage to the Internet"

that end screen was the best end screen shot yet

Good job choosing the electric engines, you would have been really bummed out if you had flown the plane to eve only to figure out it requires intake air :D

"Stock" "DLC" *_WHAT MADMAN ARE YOU?!?!?!?!_*

I’m working on a Duna plane at the moment, it’s really difficult to pull off but after successfully managing an Eve plane and sending it all the way there I’ve been really interested in flying on Duna. I’ve found it requires much more micromanaging of the propeller angle (in my case using an axis group) then a plane on Kerbin, and 75* seems to work better than the typical 60* on Kerbin. Lift is also difficult, but I’ve found a biplane configuration works quite well. Unfortunately, so far simply getting enough atmosphere is really difficult since it’s so thin, even in the lowlands I’ve only been able to manage small hops at 40-50m/s with a maximum altitude of 20m and maximum distance of 500m. I think ducted fans may be the answer as propellers just don’t get enough air.

15:34 BUTTER LANDING! Swiss001: *heavy breathing*

Oooohhhh the part ten minutes in whe u opened up the parachute was soooo cool cuz outsid my house its raining and big rain drops are banging on the windows and there is wind so it sounds very immerssive

Matt, actually the engines don't guzzle up that much, you have to bind the torque to an axis group and manage consuption and torque, Also set the prop angles with throttle, you could even brake with it by doing reverse! The thing is, that it's art of trial and error

Kerbal Scientist: "Where we're going, we don't need nodes."

I'm all for a Life of lythe season 2

Woa no one has mentioned that he sent a p38 lightning to another planet

You can put those engine to action"throttle bar" so that you can control with throttle.

Everyone's always talking about the Lightning, whereas I find the P-61 Black Widow more visually appealing.

For rescuing your own vessels you should make a new name for it like the Roaring Thunders or something

I love the giant Laythe rocket idea.

You can just map rotor RPM to throttle using axis action groups...

cant wait for KSP 2 imaging what he can do then and with multiplayer well that speaks for itself

That taildragger undercarriage configuration is fresh

Oh man now i have to convince the wife i need more DLC

Matt, when you discussed putting either electric or fuel-powered motors, I have to say that traditional fuel-powered turboprops will not work on Eve, since they are airbreathing. They only work in oxygenated atmospheres, that is on Kerbin and on Laythe.

This is a perfect setup to another blunder birds build. Bonus points if you can recover the whole craft

I can imagine the guy at mission control freaking out and firing Matt for designing this stupid rocket while the plane spins in Eve’s atmosphere. Kinda like Door Monster’s KSP sketches.

I hate it when i see other people go to Eve like it’s nothing, because i can’t

the heat shields flip out because they're clipping and you're tumbling because the rear of the plane is facing forward which is where most of the drag is going to be since all of the symmetrical heat shields cancel each other's drag out

Matt: I don’t like leaving space junk everywhere. Also Matt: ‘leaves deployable science equipment on eve’

Bit late on the comment, maybe someone will read. Easy mode entry to Eve can be accomplished by putting the plane into a massive fairing at take off from Kerbin, and keep it in it. I put your plane into a fairing like this and was able to get to Eve surface first time

matt you made a plane on eve cool

Custom Axis # will actual act like throttles and play well with xbox triggers or just incrementally change the state of something whether be motors, pistons, or hinges.

13:10 Matt, you baffling baffoon! Why didn't you just bring an extra pilot kerbal? You still had 2 empty seats in the crew cabin!

Just Look at that Touchdown. Sooooo beautiful. :D

Yes please redo a colonization type series with 1.7.3

Roses are red Violets are blue I subscribed And so did you

DO A BOX-WING PROPELLER PLANE! PLEASE?

Dude yes please reboot life on laythe!

Discord their loved ones? What year is it? Zoom their loved ones!

You should make a helicopter base on laythe. Like a quad rotor to fly around and land on the small islands.

Propeller: spins Kerbal: Eve's ftom the cockpit on the front. Propeller: *is now a meatgrinder*

Man, use these props to build a mega drone from hell lol. That would be epic

You can make the motor speed or motor torque to throttle, it makes the controls much easier

I find myself watching more videos of KSP than actually playing the game. Am I alone?

Bradley: Laughs in 1085m/s propellers

Wow, first time Matt Kerman discards all the advanced technologies like rapiers and use propeller instead

Thanks for sharing this too me OrangeManGood.

Inspired by the P-38? Looked more like a Bronco to me Still tho, nice video

Should’ve put rockets on it. Use the probs to climb up as high as you can and then use rockets to get to Eve and then use props on Eve

so many awesome new ways to travel on planets.

Have you tried out the hinge joints for collapsible wings in normal fairings yet?

Matt do Life on Lythe Season 2 xD

Those propellers look powerful enough for an Eve stratolaunch vehicle...

5:00 looks kinda cool

I'd use the new rotating bits to make folding wings, which would make the whole heat shield mess easier to deal with, whilst also making the rocket thinner.

Idea: Hybrid rocket and propeller plane for reaching other planets and flying on them. If the atmospheres are too thin for propeller flight, then use the rockets for that.

The only thing I miss from these, are Piston Engines. The electric engines are weak and has no sound, and the Turboprops are mainly for helicopters. I really want to make a BF-109 G-2, and take it to Eve

I was about to say, "Matt's up early!", but then I remembered the time difference XD LOL!

nice video, as always

4:29 the words you're looking for is Entry, Descent, and Landing (a-la MRO Curiosity's EDL team at NASA JPL).

To land planes on Eve I use a burn above the atmosphere to slow down quite a bit below orbital speed and I find it pretty easy to glide down with large craft, not sure if you considered that.

Matt, do you have any idea on when the DLC will be available on console? I know the Making History pack is on console, but that's it. Please Kerbal Master, help me.

Me: Hasn’t played KSP in a while cause can’t build a propeller engine KSP: HEY GUESS WHAT!? UPDATE: PROPELLERS

Hahahaha. I love it! Discord: Chat for Kerbals!

I feel like you could've just made folding wings that would fit Inside of a fairing, which you could then dive into the atmosphere, deploy chutes, slow down your descent, then open the fairing and drop payload... Which would hopefully glide in a controllable manner, or at least good enough for you to be able to go from gliding straight down... Um... "Falling with style", to level flight

And will it be cool to make mobile boat/ submarine base?

Fun fact you can map the rotor to the main throttle

I did one on career mode and stock, 6 electric engines and tonnes of solar panels and it flies forever and (sort of) well!