I only realized this was playing in real-time about half-way through the video, it looks so sped up! Really nice flying, man.

People who play racing games: I memorised the Monaco track. Me: so there is this river...

Me: trying to create plane faster than 500m/s that is still maneuverable. Brad: easy-flying trough the canyon at 1500m/s and 69g.

10:46 he did really end the course with a 69 maximun G force. Thar's nice man, especially for the kerbal's spine

Trying to imagine the rooster tail put out by something moving mach 4 only 100 meters above the water...

Someone should submit a run with a thumper only craft as a meme

Imagine you are a dragonfly, peacefully minding your own business, stretching your wings in the calm morning air. You are a marvel of flight. You master the sky and no pray can escape you. You can hover in the air, fly smoothly backwards, up down left right, roll whatever with a smoothness and speed unrivalled in nature. Birds get you by surprise, not skill. With almost highway speed and pristine vision you stalk the riverbank of Kile. But then, thanks to your superhuman reaction you notice something on the horizon quickly approach you. A giant bird, much much faster than any before. The instant you notice it you scurry back to the river bank, hide in the reed. But you are too slow. It catches up to you, quickly. Just as you reach the protective reed stalks you see it turn, slowly arcing away from you. It's no longer heading toward you, you are safe. The big bird now has its back towards you, glowing purple menace. You can even feel its heat. Then all of a sudden it hits you. A gigantic shockwave, breaking your wings, your magnificent shell and everything tumbles. Water and bits of reed spray around you. Deathening, roaring thunder soars through everything you ever knew, ripping it apart. It tears into your flesh, blinding pain erupts everywhere. Almost as quickly as it began, the chaos and thunders subsides, leaves you dangling in the wind. Your ears are no more and everything hurts. You realize that you are dying. As you tumble toward the ground, your wings broken, your blood oozing through the cracks in your beautifull shell you catch a last glimpse of the bird that destroyed everything. Now, far away on the horizon, it disappeares behind a riverbend, its tail still glowing in fierce colours, fainter now. The world around you darkens as your heart makes its final beat.

Playing 'Summer' at the end of October? A... bold... choice.

Wow. Okay, how's this for ramping it up? Fly through the course, then the craft must reach orbit afterwards. I wonder if it's possible.

Ah, brings back vibes of the Odyssey by Bill. lovely

Casually doing it at two thirds of orbital speed

>Post a challenge >leave no chance of beating your score under some set of rules >stonks No, seriously, acheving that speed on a straight line without overheating (at this altitude) is kinda impressing, and you're making precise turns with it, also having tight fuel margain.

Idea: Hardcore Mode No higher than 150m No slower than 500m/s You have to stay over water, no going over the edges Maximum of 15G through the whole course

pulled 69 g's in the turn at 6:06, nice

For some reason when he said throw up a note i expected it to be a random musical note in the song, not a note saying what he did wrong

Now, that's what i call pod racing

Bob Ross didn't die, he just became a flight scientist.

Since you're using some mods (namely Flight Engineer Redux), you should've used Raster Prop Monitor as well. You could've set up some of the screens to help keep track of information as well as display it for the audience, such as having numerical Radar Altitude / ASL, larger digital Nav Ball, Digital Heading, Digital Maps, Active Biome Tracking, etc. Not to mention RPM just looks nice, lol.

Bradley Whistance: perfects the route to get the time below 10 minutes Stratzenblitz: discovers a heatshield-winged craft that makes any craft with regular wings obsolete also Stratzenblitz: this is similar to the Kraken drive, so it should be its own category You might want to update your doc in this regard

How about a watercraft speed challenge? Rules could be altitude can't go higher than 1 meter and a part of the craft must remain in the water at all times. How fast & far could it go before it breaks up?

G-force through first turn: 46 How to turn your feet into blood balloons.

Sometimes I can get my plane to take off. Your skill is awe inspiring.

Another well done video by you Brad

This looks so aerodynamic! I FUCKING LOVE IT!

So your dragster jet flying around at mach 4 at surface level was not a mono, not a bi, not a tri nor a quad, but a quint plane?

Hey brad whitstance I play ksp on a PlayStation4 (Enhanced edition, making history & breaking ground). Is there any way I can submit? Edit: how did this comment get a heart from the legend? Edit 2: aw he took it away :(

Absolutely love these videos

N Y O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O M

Beautiful background tracks

Looking at the g-force meter during the run was fairly terrifying. That craft design seems quite good, but as you point out, your flying could still do with some improvement.

Casually flies through canyon at Mach 4.

Nice run!

Speed

What kind of Joystick do you use (If any) ? Anyway amazing video as always !

Hey, Vivaldi's Summer from the Four Seasons. Nice.

I'm a racing gamer and that was some seriously impressive shit

I wonder how that challenge would be with g force limits turned on.

Kyle must be important if there’s a whole river named after him

NOW THIS IS POD RACING!!!

Me: casually strapping a bunch of Rapiers on the back and turning on infinite fuel

How do you evaluate drag and how design tweaks effect drag? Are there tools you suggest for this? Thanks

I'd submit, but I never have been able to make a plane that is stable enough to even turn freely in the lower atmosphere, even when I was playing regularly.

awesome :D now do it with kerbal G-limits.

Hey brad how in hell did that not overheat explain

Oh you made juice out of the kerbals pilot spine. Spinal Fluid always was my Favorite flavor

Should be able to do the Pad-Racing challenge by using the docking port trick to make the pods.

*P A R A C H U T E I N T A K E S*

I'm seeing this a year late for the challenge, and I have yet to build a working plane, but these "river runs" look like fun... I might just have to mess around with planes a bit

How did you not burn up at 100m at mach 4

Nice! Great piloting as well, how many attempts did it take to make the run with such precise and efficient turns?

69 G maximum acceleration? nice- oh, now 103 G in the victory loop. But Jeb stowed his helmet under the dashboard with his head still inside the helmet, which is not protocol. This is the longest I've watched a video in 1x speed since Dream's manhunt-finale final re-re-rematch grand finale.

If a maximum of 103 G-force doesn't mean crashing, I don't know what it is. Man, you technically crash into a wall of air.

Perhaps some supplementary rocket engines with high TWRs, such as the Vector (with its TWR of 23.87), or the lightweight Twitch (with its TWR of 19.34), would've helped in getting those supersonic jet engines back into the speeds where their TWR is optimal (which is Mach 3 for the Whiplash's optimal TWR of 21.90, and Mach 3.75 for the Rapier's optimal TWR of 23.74), after losing so much speed on those tighter turns (especially the sharp ones around 5:50)?

It looks like an ace pilot trying not to get detected by enemy radar and recon a enemy harbor

I am so confused on how this is kerbally possible. Great job!

I figure the fairing occlusion stops leading edge heating from blowing up your cockpit or wings, but how do you stop the engines from overheating? I've been trying to make planes that can hit mach 5 (1500 m/s, whichever comes first) near sea level, but so far I haven't been able to hold it for more than a few seconds before the engine explodes, and often they explode well before that point, usually around 1450 m/s.

Now do the same thing, but make it as far back as possible/

Every time I break into tight corners (from ~1500m/s -> ~1100m/s) the game would stutter... so I had to limit my craft to 1100m/s or it would feel awful to fly :( Anyone having similar issues? or should I upgrade my laptop now...

3:17 22 G's huh? Pilot is dead and his ghost is flying.

As awesome as this is, during one of the particularly bad turns after Wrong Way Fork, you briefly shot up to 275m, so that does cost you the sub-200 run.

man i love vivaldi!

It's insane how little fuel you had left when you finished the course!

Imagine all the fish killed by the sonic boom of that plane...

Note how at 6:37, Bradley cleverly banks his craft at an angle clearly designed to make the digital altimeter unreadable, making it impossible to determine whether he has broken the course ceiling. ;) (Analog altimer is right on the line.)

Bradley, can u make a video on how to use fairing occlusion? I can't seem to reduce the drag whenever I try :/

good ole 18Gs

by the way, do you fly with keyboard?

Star wars Pod racers pls

Can I have that .craft file to play around with? Would be nice to do some hypersonic aerobatics

Probably a stupid question, but why the whiplash engine?

My daughter wanted to enter the contest with a bicikle, but can't. Maybe next challenge?

Why use roll and pitch for turns instead of just having an absolute ton of yaw authority?

how to teleport to the beginning of the river with cheat commands(i want to race with friends in multiplayer)

I have a challenge for you. Get to space only with spark engines

Do you have part g-force limits on for this? The second I go into a turn above 700m/s my wings drop off.

Is Stratzen's newfangled heat-shield aerodynamics exploit allowed?

Make an ssto with only seperatrons

I wonder if anybody will do a blindfolded run

nice

Could you do a video on how to use a Taranis with KSP? Been trying for the better part of a year with some really mixed results.

We all love vivaldi

Why do you have 4050 energy?

do a live multiplayer race and use the music from chrono triggers race level

Your radar altitude was like 10 lol

why do the engines not overheat?

69 max g Nice.

Lol

yummy vivaldi

Mods?

I know it’s copyrighted but this video would be 100x better if you played “Danger Zone”

13th

This has nothing to do with the video, but that violin soloist was godawful. There's phrasing and then there's the butchering he was doing to that piece

Can you do it again but legit, no cheats