A Mission to Eve Using ONLY PLANES !? ( Modded KSP 1 ) Aircraft Only: Ep 6

In this episode we're using a plane to launch a plane to space, that THEN launches ANOTHER plane to explore Eve in Modded KSP 1! THIS IS PEAK AIRCRAFT ONLY!! (I totally haven't lost my mind building planes) Not to mention that the final plane is a VTOL, Variable Geometry Wing, Contra rotating prop monstrosity!
Craft Files and Modpack HERE!: / discord
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Mod list:
Visual: Scatterer, EVE (blackrack patreon version), Parallax, Waterfall (stock configs), TUFX (ballistocfox's "cold hdr" config), Outer Planets VO, OPM Parallax, Distant Object Enhancement, Pood's Deep Star Map Skybox, Planetshine, HUDreplacer with Ztheme, TURD, Lazypainter
Parts: Near Future Tech( Aeronautics, Construction, Electrical, Exploration, IVA Props, Launch Vehicles, Propulsion, Solar) Far Future Tech, HullcamVDS Continued, Kerbal Engineer Redux
Everything else in alphabetical order:
Advanced Fly-By-Wire (Windows), ASET Consolidated Avionics/Props Pack, Astrogator, BetterTimeWarpContinued, Camera Tools continued, Chatterer, Contract Pack: Bases and Stations Reborn, Contract Pack: Tourism Plus, Custom Asteroids (Kuiper belt analog for OPM), Custom Asteroids (stockalike config), Custom Barn Kit, DE_IVAExtension, Extraplanetary Launchpads, Extreme Plane Contracts, FreeIva, Hide Empty Tech Tree Nodes, Kcalbeloh System, Kerbal Konstructs, Kerbin Side GAP, Kerbin Side Remastered, Kerbin Side Remastered - The Life Aquatic, Kerbin Side Remastered GAP, KSC Harbor, Minor Planet Sampling, Minor Planets Expansion, Outer Planets Mod, Planes With Purposes, PlanetShine, , Probe Control Room Recontrolled, RasterPropMonitor, REPOSoftTech-Agencies, Reviva, Through The Eyes of a Kerbal, TooManyOrbits, Trajectories, Vessel Viewer Continued, Warp Everywhere, Water Launch Sites, Waterfall Core, WaypointManager
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[@radufieroiu4725]

Going to eve before kerbin to duna is crazy

[@TheEpicDragonCat]

Eve is easier if you don’t return from the surface.

[@tieguy5438]

makes sense given the challenge though, duna aircraft are pretty awful

[@smooneychad]

Maybe Duna next? (after making a good bit of money on contracts to pay for the mission)

[@radufieroiu4725]

@@smooneychad For duna try a osprey style Vtol plz

[@tieguy5438]

@@smooneychad well the only other planets with atmospheres are Laythe and Jool...

[@spyraks]

Wanting to make a simple propeller plane and ending up with a complex tiltrotor is peak aerospace engineer.

[@treywernicke9694]

Been anxiously awaiting episodes since the beginning of the series. Keep it up!

[@smooneychad]

Thanks so much!! This will go straight toward making these videos even better! More on the way as always :D

[@Monn69420]

Seems like next weeks episode is gonna include a lot of mining, and missions. Cant wait for that.

[@Prince_Slimey]

Yay another aircraft only

[@Charles-7]

it be wild if you get a plane flying into jool's atmosphere later on, then back out of it.

[@ThatBoiOnLaythe]

4:54 PLANECEPTION!

[@jennydrexler9200]

Fr

[@eekee6034]

It's great when something really cool has a purpose, like that tiny swing-wing VTOL. And the swing-wings have multiple purposes! I've heard setting SAS to radial-out helps with landing VTOLs. People build a 2nd control point into KSP helicopters for that purpose, but the little VTOL doesn't need another. This morning, I saw matroshka rockets. This evening, matroshka planes. 😂The rocket was an SSTO designed to launch huge space station arms -- 55m long & 130t. Its payload bay was a cylinder all the way down the center. The ideal test payload, a bit longer and heavier to give some margin, was another rocket. Nice naming scheme. Eve is an easy place to design planes for. My little Eve Bee has tiny props which just-about worked on Kerbin, but they're fine on Eve. Its wings, conversely, are pro'ly larger than they need to be, but it works so that doesn't matter. In-person, you get to see it over a longer time in which you're looking around however you like. I found a large & fairly flat part of Eve's surface was around 1km altitude. Fun to play and fun to watch! :D

[@jennydrexler9200]

That is the longest comment ever XD

[@eekee6034]

@@jennydrexler9200 Nah, I've written longer XD

[@curious_ksp_]

Skillz

[@Whetfaartz1]

the maneuver nodes on astrogator are more for getting the initial lineup and then you tweak it yourself to get the encounter that you want.

[@thelastwooter]

This is a really cool series. I struggle with spaceplanes but I kinda want to do my own version of this run now. Keep it up man.

[@TheCanterlonian]

i would love to see an entire playthrough just in iva using raster prop monitor, that would be awesome as heck 😁

[@justdark863]

I believe ReStock has a patch that adds a version of landing legs without springs, might be useful to prevent sliding in the future

[@smooneychad]

That sounds really handy!

[@Ram_the_protogen]

21:24 this is a conrolled spin

[@Activenter]

letss gooooooooo

[@Bruh.723]

The black plane looks awesome since it looks so similar to a SR-17

[@canarylolz351]

stil highlight of my sunday

[@witchofengineering]

Trajectories is good when you're actually properly maintaining an angle. I've managed to write a whole KOS script that takes my shuttle (that has no atmo propulsion) all the way from orbit to terminal guidance on the runway line with it and land a space shuttle in RO with the help of MechJeb to maintain the planned trajectory, both of those things extremely difficult to straight up impossible without Tr.

[@smooneychad]

Yeah that's definitely my fault for not having an actually reentry angle to hold (other than dead prograde) rather than Trajectories fault. That's truly impressive work with the shuttle though, wow!

[@witchofengineering]

@@smooneychad Thank you! Well, if you're flying manually (counting AA FBW as manually too), maintaining a constant angle for Tr to work properly is probably more work than it's worth if you already have a good instinct on how the planes will fly, so I understand that their kinda useless for you, but it's not their fault.

[@Fireheart318]

I love the way the three landing legs look when retracted! It’s like it’s got a bit of equipment slung over its shoulder or something! And the silver & black on the second plane reminds me of my old LRv1 Javelin in Destiny 1. It was just a “common” quality ship, but it looked better than every other ship in the game!

[@Prince_Slimey]

21:39 I thought you said it was controlled😅

[@TheTripleAce3]

Could've used a mach 18 contract at the end there to squeeze out some extra cash.

[@xGrimWolfex]

Love the series! Keep it up!

[@guesswho2778]

i would like to see some sort of mission flown entirely in that probe control room, that looked really cool.

[@smooneychad]

The question is: special episode of this series, or dedicated video/mission? 🤔

[@guesswho2778]

@@smooneychad maybe just start with one mission and see if people like it first.

[@FlyoutAerospace]

Ive been waiting all week for this

[@tieguy5438]

that's a really nice naming convention. all my planes are named *scrungus*.

[@Officer_duh]

Mine are all named “D.U.H. #” and then a nickname

[@codypowers9805]

I love the designs of each of the aircrafts, their all really amazing

[@LouieNJ]

Really enjoying your channel and this series.

[@smooneychad]

Thanks for checking it out! :D

[@BjjjStorm]

Lets gooooo! Loving the series! Keep up the good work, your videos are awesome! :)

[@smooneychad]

Thanks! and thanks for watching them!! :D

[@seansullivan1798]

Favorite KSP series

[@wass6088]

Nicee i was waiting for you to post another episode since am really enjoying this series dont stop you are making great content ❤

[@yeetusfeeetus6386]

I recommend the DE_IVAExtension mod, and ASET Consolidation IVAs. Since personally i get annoyed with other iva mods. Other than that, great episode, can't wait for the next one.

[@tadeopuga9888]

Are u planning on making your mod config a modpack by any chance? Your ksp looks insane

[@cbxcrusader7799]

Bro made a hunter killer 💀

[@Guyformwasteland]

yooo another cool vid

[@lcasbdr254]

This video is a certified pog

[@twiexcursori]

Forget shaky cam, talk about those Gs the wasp is pulling!

[@user-uf2dv2sl4c]

You somehow made a switchblade/lancet drone

[@brandom9414]

Watching on my phone, a lot of the footage was pretty dark even at full brightness. Fun video though!

[@hubbletrubble7875]

To remove the quicksave min altitude you just have to dig into your settings file for it and set it to zero

[@smooneychad]

Wait you can do that? I will have to try that out I had not idea!

[@MrSzymonpik]

I like, the series.

[@jaccorademaker3219]

Second yippeee!!! (I know its cringe but ill take the opportunity any day

[@justynabudner8114]

I think you Landed near val's home

[@Concavenator_corcovatus]

Eve before mun? Wow.

[@springnutica]

With trajectories I think your problem is it’s calculating the re-entry at retrograde when your doing prograde

[@smooneychad]

Could be, I've been known to do some rather dumb stuff like that. I'll have to set my re-entry angle first and give it another go!

[@fredrickbambino]

custom colors on parts would be cool

[@war_fish]

MOREEEE

[@ahyourdogisdangerous7736]

Your should make the engines on the wings go up so its a vtol

[@cosmocgames]

Hey! I'm going to again suggest the British space shuttle prototype, just saying...

[@smooneychad]

That sounds awesome, I found The Multi-Unit Space Transport And Recovery Device (mustard lol) which is extremely cool, is that what your talking about. I'd love to do something like that!

[@cosmocgames]

@@smooneychad yes, something like that would be great to see, and it would be great as you could visit almost any planet... but I will leave that for you to figure out...

[@intellectualbaguette7507]

i really want to know how you get your mods to work. do you use forge or do you install them manually?

[@smooneychad]

I use CKAN it’s really really easy to use once you have it installed and there are a few good tutorials on it (it also has the nice feature where you make lists like this into a mod pack and download them all at once!)

[@iumasz6088]

Doesn't Eve in Parallax usually have plant life? Why is your eve so barren?

[@JimmyThree-Balls]

Hope you are enjoying the atmospheric autopilot mod!

[@smooneychad]

Very much so, has made things much easier!

[@JimmyThree-Balls]

@@smooneychad you might like another mod called ztheme. makes the ui modern, clean, and dark mode

[@rebel6301]

meow :3

[@NicolasP-eh4mw]

Would a helicopter ssto work?

[@Not_Dane_Heart]

new vid!!!!!!!!!

[@Guyformwasteland]

can someone help me with lazy painter mod in ksp? it doesnt work, i mean it doesnt paint

[@smooneychad]

You may need to download TURD if you don't have it already, all lazy painter does is make it a lot easier to use TURD and doesn't actually paint things itself. Hope that helps! :D

[@PixelPenguin-gio]

Mod list?

[@smooneychad]

It’s in the description ( though I’m still working on getting it all tidy and organized) there’s also a link to the full pack there too

[@PixelPenguin-gio]

@@smooneychad ok

[@A.af-space]

First!

[@Sfsturtleyt]

Make this top comment for no reason :D Edit: Thank you guys so much!

[@lcasbdr254]

No

[@TransfemToast]

Jump

[@fredrickbambino]

good luck

[@Tacosmos]

Aye, sir !

[@GUSTJUSTFUST]

Yes sir !

[@lcasbdr254]

make this comment more famous than @Sfsturtleyt 's .