yoooo its the game breaker himself!!!!!!!

Thanks as always! Those turboprops were inspired by the ones from your Helicarrier video, by the way!

hi daddy

@@vanlaukaushow did u do them?

You know it's epic when Stratzenblitz75 comments.

Thank you so much for that! Looks like I'm starting to get somewhere with help of the almighty algorithms.

imagine if Russia had those rockets IRL 😅

You are right he has too few but at least w/ this craft he as got one more me

Ace Combat music is an instant sub from me.

​@@Howitzer9 indeed it is

Think it will as long as ksp2 doesn’t pull silly shit like no man’s sky

nah ksp 2 will completely overshadow it in 8 years

@@yournotgully if not longer lol.

@@yournotgully Let’s hope it’s more like two years lol. Although at this pace I’m loosing copium

Plane crazy is what got me into KSP, nice pfo

thanks a lot!

The Ace Combat music too

@@vanlaukaus amazing but does this use dlc?

@@vanlaukaus it fr felt like watching a scene of humanity entering space age

foreshadowing hard asf rn

Even looks like something that could be used in future Ace Combat game campaigns.

theres this other thing where this chinese guy recreated tianwen-1 in RSS using it. bequtiful video, you should check it out

Thanks a million and cheers! Trying my best here!

Olm

Eyy, thank you! Those fans were the trickiest part of the craft to work with, but, indeed, in the end it was worth it. Glad you enjoyed!

@@vanlaukaus because you said do not ask, now I am wondering about how you fixed it magnetically

@@vanlaukaus because you said do not ask, now I am wondering about how you fixed it magnetically

Thank you! More stuff is surely coming!

Some clips here are playing at over 200 times the speed.

glad that you enjoyed! sadly, there is a little trick here: the title and the preview say "stock parts SSTO" and not "stock SSTO" for a reason. to be more or less stable this craft needs the Kerbal Joint Reinforcement mod, which, obviously, makes stock wobbly joints much stronger.

@@vanlaukaus Ah I see, I was thinking it was done via autostrut or immense use of struts hidden somewhere. Well, KSP is a great game, but at some points, you need to help it if you want to make something as magnificent as this craft! Keep up the great work!

@@h.a.9880 indeed I will! While it uses KJR, though, it by no means abandons autostrut. In fact, I am pretty sure that every single part of it has both autostrut and rigid attachment turned on - but it is not enough on such a scale.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Exactly!

But can it land?

Surely coming!

Lmao I knew I had heard that music somewhere before 😂

Thanks a lot! I'm not sure how possible all of this is, but... noted.

It took about 1,5 months to make and finalize the design.

That's understandable. Properly recording those proved nearly impossible on this thing though, as you need to constantly see the GUI in order to more or less control this behemoth. Thank you nevertheless!

Eyy, finally some good engineering criticism! First of all, yeah, it is a rather goofy concept even compared to my other spaceplanes. Initially the idea of using massive liftfans was justified by a fact that I'll need, like, a lot of static lifting surfaces to make it fly as a normal plane at low speeds. Instead I decided to decrease the needed partcount by making said lifting surfaces move. It did backfire. Turned out that it is impossible to fly forward faster than 40 m/s with liftfans not locked, hence the need to stop and turn vertically mid-air, and from there questionable decisions started to build up like a snowball. Then there are also stock KSP limitations - and I'm really trying to make everything as stock as possible - so, say, I couldnt even use airbreathing engines to spin the liftfans as there are just no a/b engines powerful enough in stock game. Fortunately or unfortunately, this project has a lot of such compromises. The vacuum engines were indeed specified for, well, vacuum. KSP may not model the entirety of nozzle physics, but those engines have ridiculously small ISP and thrust under atmospheric pressure. This, however, drastically changes in space. And yeah, all the lifting surfaces ended up being needed only for return - and indeed, it is able to glide more or less adequately. Afterall, I'm not disappointed with this thing, as a) it looks more Kerbal than anything I've recently made and b) it compensates the absolute lack of common sense in its design with an ungodly amount of style points. Afterall, we're in KSP, are we not?

@@vanlaukaus That's fantastic. I think I enjoyed your response more than the original video. Fascinating to hear that you started out with engineering based ideas and then when they didn't pan out due to Kerbal simulation limits, you Kerbal'd through and added the pivot and vertical ascent.