I built a plane so wide it BROKE REALITY in Kerbal Space Program 2!

Kerbal Space Program 2 is finally here, this time we have to create the world's widest airplane! It was harder than expected, but nothing the UK Space Agency can't solve- even if it did defy physics and break reality!
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[@Vicky21987]

Anyone else actually really interested in seeing RCE attempting to do a serious KSP2 series in which he builds space stations, moon bases and so on? So much engineering potential!

[@lsl3135]

That's cause he's not a real engineer

[@alexandercaires5921]

Yes...but at the same time a silly playthrough would be just as fun.

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Another Matt has those videos covered 😅

[@clashhoyland9583]

​@@RealCivilEngineerGaming who?... Still be interesting to see you do it Edit:Thanks, I've got the answer: Matt Lowne Great video btw

[@luckyteapot]

​@@clashhoyland9583 @mattlowne

[@kimmipops5143]

Matt: “We need flaps” - Goes and doubles engines, still no flaps 😁😁 Love it!

[@andrewhawkins6754]

Don't worry, he just made his wings into flaps lmao

[@deanohasajob]

I was losing my sh** when that was happening...

[@NojRel]

A civil engineer trying aeronautical engineering is like an architect trying civil engineering.

[@darkdaedriclordgaming5830]

So true lol

[@Peter_Morris]

When I was in college my aerospace friends always told me they could make a brick fly if it has enough thrust. I think even dirt doctors can understand that. As proven in this video!

[@bikespike4150]

@@Peter_Morris as an Aerospace Major i can confirm this: Attach to plane.

[@SephirothRyu]

The latter sounds a lot like North American infrastructure.

[@shawnio]

youtube suggest the content and then these youtubers just turn into whatever is popular at the time. they all do it now

[@AntellPryyde]

Fun fact: Kerbals in KSP1, and probably KSP2, have stats! They determine how brave, or how dumb your kerbals look in the camera view. Rarely, Kerbals spawn as "badasses", who are *always* having a blast, and Jeb is always a badass.

[@thomasjones4893]

You can move the camera in the VAB by holding the middle house button or focus on a part with the middle mouse button :)

[@Joze1090]

Lol my dude really didn't take 3 seconds to google how to pan camera in KSP 2

[@martingrm5770]

Matt: "let's not be silly" Also matt: makes the wings bigger than the whole plane a few seconds later.

[@captaindelta43]

Classic Matt over engineering skills 🤣

[@burntalive]

@@captaindelta43 Why engineer anything if you're not gonna OVER engineer it!

[@davidaugustofc2574]

That's not silly, an infinitely wide wing would have 100% efficiency.

[@f.u.m.o.5669]

That's insulting to flying wing aircraft and gliders.

[@jimmymcgoochie5363]

RCE: *does the Bridge Challenge* Also RCE: NO BRIDGE REVIEW!?!?

[@herrdoktorjohan]

Probably because that bridge is not a True Bridge, but a product of architecture.

[@beelseboob]

@@herrdoktorjohan That doesn't mean RCE shouldn't review the bridge, only that it should score 1.0 at most.

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

Well, to be fair, he did also smash into the bridge with a jet. Can't have a bridge review on a bridge that has gone through a brief but violent period of rapid unplanned disassembly.

[@thetestinggrounds7855]

IKR!!!

[@budshoot6951]

How does an engineer totally neglect elevators on a plane?

[@opticFPV]

I'm honestly surprised he got into the air without them lol. I thought as soon as it took off it was just gonna do a backflip

[@ez_theta_z9317]

he's a civil engineer, not an aeronautical one

[@David-qi1ys]

Wonder if/when he moves to helicopters how many attempts or videos it'll take before he discovers tail rotors are a thing?

[@grifentaunton9610]

@@David-qi1ys watch his trail makers videos😂

[@kaedanthegamer9245]

They were already built in the wings

[@ThirdInLine]

Jeb died because Jeb pulled in excess of 15 g's. Jeb is now a very meaty pancake/soup.

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

Can we reasonably describe a plant-based lifeform as "meaty?" Maybe a cellulosey pancake/soup? lol Either way, thank Kraken that kerbals can recorporeate over a relatively brief period of self-repair.

[@CloudCuckooKing]

@@ledumpsterfire6474 The important part, regardless of consistency, is that Jeb became soup. But yes, it's a good thing he was mostly contained soup. He probably got back up faster that way.

[@ThirdInLine]

@@ledumpsterfire6474 has anything been released saying they're plant based? I didn't know if there had been

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

@@ThirdInLine That's the running fan theory, but I don't think it's ever actually been confirmed one way or the other. They're green and they don't seem to need food to survive though, which could very plausibly suggest photosynthesizing chloroplasts and chlorophyll lol

[@ebnertra0004]

Jeb was reduced to a soup-like homogenate

[@cryovizard9461]

“It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s… RCE’s aeronautical engineering skills.”

[@paulkanja]

damage 💀

[@SALEENS7GTR5]

It got off the ground?

[@secretmotive3274]

The fact that he didnt see that the nose cone is sideways made me die lmao

[@dailygamerlifes]

I love that Civil doesn't spell out acronyms, he just sounds them out.

[@captaindelta43]

One of these days a young scientist with proper science and engineering masterclass knowledge will see these KSP videos from RCE and question his sanity while having a laugh about ,seeing the great banter and efficient engineering skills from Matt .

[@thomasp404]

4am and watching RCE and kerbals having unfortunate incidents is a perfect way to wake up and annoy the people you live with by laughing so hard

[@SpolberStation]

Australia issues

[@thomasp404]

@@SpolberStation unfortunately

[@Devilish__]

another shrimp on the barbie

[@Unknown-ne1lo]

In my time zone it's 6pm and it is a perfect way to unwind after work.

[@thomasp404]

@Al that's just upsetting and enraging to some of us when you say that to an Australian. It's become something that some people will just get violent over when foreigners say that to them. We don't have "shrimp" here. It's just called prawns and most of the time we don'treally grill or BBQ them unless they're "green" (raw) with shell on . We've heard that enough and are sick of it. We even ran advertisements that I believe ran worldwide sometime in the 2010's to correct that phrase. Paul hogan did that as a campaign stunt for Americans to visit Australia for tourism. It was effective due to his status as a movie star with crocodile Dundee, making him famous worldwide and Americans back then being uncultured and not really travelling outside of the states for holidays.

[@andrzejczajka7222]

I love every "UK Space Agency" music interlude Matt puts in his video.

[@LKLM138]

You can move your camera by pressing mouse wheel. Also alt and different mouse keys change camera. Also helps with the tailpiece, to look at the ship from 45 degrees from front, then turn the tailpiece to face the end, and hover mouse to the tail, it finds nearest attach point intself and voila!

[@jasonpatterson8091]

*VAB Camera controls:* Right click rotates the camera about the focused part. Middle mouse click on another part to change the center of focus. Middle mouse held on the background lets you translate the camera vertically. Scroll wheel to zoom.

[@FSXgta]

Annoying that they changed it from ksp1

[@user-sx1fg7lc3c]

The cuts to the zoomed in view of Jebs face shaking back and forth make me laugh everytime

[@gurrz1126]

There is a way to make it even wider, if you turn the plane 90 degrees in the VAB you get more length allowance. Only drawback is you have to turn it on the runway.

[@alonebysunset]

as someone who originally bought the game when he was 11, and played for 2 years along with Minecraft exclusively, this man has improved since his earlier videos, and impressed me. he has gotten past the "normie KSP let's play" phase, and is actually building functioning vehicles, which when this is literally rocket science, is impressive just to take off and land in an in-air plane! I am not sure if he got there on his own, or watched a tutorial, but he done did a good job whatever the case may be. a few mistakes are made on occasion, but as a rule of thumb, RCE, if you want something to attach to the side of a vehicle (like wings or landing gear), aim the cursor on the vehicle where you want it to go, if you want it to attach to one of those attachment points (like a nose cone), aim your camera to the side, and with the part grabbed, position it correctly, and move it close to the green circle (or the gray cylinder in KSP2), and click when it snaps. also, I saw you had snapping on while applying landing gear to your wings, using the move tool will work, especially if you have it set to local, but snapping works weird with some parts, primarily most if not all wings, sometimes on fuselages it won't work either, but that is a rare example. when trying to place anything on a wing, you should always turn off snapping, unless you want it on the center line of the wingtip, even struts as the inside of the wing will catch the strut's other end. I will edit/reply to this if I figure out what the third thing I wanted to say was... (I just realized this vid is 1 year old lol)

[@kyle333halfevil]

Matt: has an engineering degree Also matt: doesn't understand the fundamentals of aircrafts

[@jdotoz]

He's a civil engineer, their stuff isn't supposed to move.

[@Mobius118]

It keeps looking more and more like a U-2 and I’m absolutely loving that

[@TheThreatenedSwan]

Seeing a jet get up to speed then pitch up for an extremely vertical climb is one of the coolest things ever

[@looncraz]

Coming up with the idea of wireless wings is such an architect thing... but only an engineer could make it happen.

[@Noki_live]

Sure you can go wider. Make the wings super small during attachment and stack like 10 per side and increase the size afterwards

[@steventaylor8723]

@6:54 Dude, you added intakes at angles that don't actually intake just so that you could get the color scheme you wanted... This is the DEFINITION of behaving like an ARCHITECT!!!!!!!

[@kiltysalter2966]

Your wings would flap less if you used turned up fins on the tips to combat the eddy currents generated at the edge. Like modern airliners and eagles have.

[@chrisakaschulbus4903]

4:46 "wings back out..." Number one pilot. :D Also you should use SAS and turn your wing flaps down in force. It overcorrects and your vehicle is fighting itself.

[@SynSpiderz]

New drinking challenge: take a drink every time Matt says "UK Space Agency" and Rule Britannia plays

[@lonnierh0dgejr41]

RCE building a plane without horizontal stabilizers but then converting it to a flying wing design. pure win!

[@BaeronBubba]

I'm wondering if you can make a single stage Plane -> Space using a dual setup. (Think SABRE engines. You know, that UK space program?)

[@Syllaren]

Single stage to orbit is one of the most beloved builds in ksp, it's harder in ksp2 due to the fuel differences(the rapier engine which is basically the saber is very inefficient in space so for anything beyond LKO it's not really effective)

[@jamescarr229]

VAB cam was driving me crazy! Middle mouse button on a part to switch the focus - it's a game changer!

[@zachbarnes8906]

To be fair, it is not very hard to break reality in KSP2 at the moment

[@Apedragon92]

If you select the button just left of the colour button and double click a part the camera will focus on that part. However there is a bug where trying to move a part does nothing so you have to click on the button left of the last button I told you about (the one left of the colour button) and then click on the button at the far left of that toolbar, from my experience this usually helps. You can also double click any part when flying to focus on it.

[@idkanything1234]

Hi rce just wanted to tell you I love ur videos and your the enginering goat

[@VittorioSergi]

ehy RCE, just a heads up, the rear wheels needs to be a smidge foreward of the center of lift to be able to use them as pivoting points for rotation, that's any kind mechanical pitch that relies on the gemetry of the plane rather than sheer power from the engines. AND, more importantly, ideally planes should have both center of mass and lift in the same point, that's why they have fuel pumps that move fuel around to balance the craft, but in KSP you want you lift right behind the center of mass. Remember, a plane with a center of lift behing the center of mass flies bad, a plane with the center of mass behind the center of lift fliues once.

[@Me_Myself_I]

8:57 RCE just built the U-2 spy plane

[@briankale5977]

11:44 Middle mouse single click on a part when it is highlighted green and that becomes the new center of where the rotation is. The camera is great.

[@The_Box_King]

Day 36 of asking Matt to play SpaceFlight Simulator.

[@neto8116]

It’s actually a really good free game

[@luckyteapot]

​@@neto8116 ain't free on pc

[@provi_2244]

​@@luckyteapot phone emulator *exists*

[@ryanfroon]

Yeeees

[@LegendReptile109]

I’m with you bud

[@Gunn3r71]

Matt you can change where your camera is positioned in the VAB by middle mouse clicking on the part you want to be at the centre of your screen.

[@SephirothRyu]

And when the world needed him most... Danny was replaced by an architect.

[@inanimatej]

16:06 don’t think anyone mentioned this yet, but there is a known issue where multiple engines pulling fuel from the same fuel source causes major FPS loss. So, 40 engines on the single fuel tank row in the middle is what’s causing the FPS drop. You can fix it by having a single fuel source for each engine.

[@nicholas360cap2]

Play spaceflight simulator is good

[@andyd8370]

@11:45 You can click MMB to center the camera on a part in the VAB. There are methane-only tanks. Typically you want the center of lift slightly behind the center of mass for stability. For better pitch control you need control surfaces far away from the center of mass, like tailfins (more torque).

[@mboyette92]

Love you RCE

[@groundsymphony]

Love you Michael

[@huskiesarecool1274]

@BuilderMAN who is Michael?

[@mboyette92]

@@huskiesarecool1274 Michael is me

[@Daniel-qs8ec]

just love the nose cone on sideways, and the tail fins you mentioned were missing... but never put on lol.

[@jackpaxton9391]

I need to see Matt try and “colonize” a planet in KSP. That would be awesome. Maybe try and bring everything all in one trip.

[@jackpaxton9391]

@@jamesgames128 lol

[@EricBurns1]

Matt there's a way to get custom flags in KSP2. So you can put the UK flag in it. Matt Lowne made a good video for it.

[@EULAL1A]

How are you everyone? Hope your doing well. Remember, no matter what any one says, you are special, and there is always some thing you are good at. Enjoy your day

[@user-sx1fg7lc3c]

🥹

[@mkxxv8932]

I think the colors would’ve looked better if you kept the white and red for the body but make the wings full blue, as you can change the color of specific parts

[@mkxxv8932]

But great video!

[@RealAndySkibba]

I'm pretty sure everything Matt does in KSP breaks reality. As he is wont to do in most games.

[@Yuvallyly]

Looks like you forgot the tail wing things. I believe they are called "elevators", since they control the elevation of the plain.

[@heygek2769]

They control the pitch. (whether the nose points up or down) Usually installed on the tail, they work by pushing the tail down or up, rotating the aircraft around it's center of mass. So essentially, to point the nose of the airplane up, you push the tail down.

[@Yuvallyly]

@@heygek2769 that's what I ment by controlling the elevation. You make the plain go up by pointing it's nose up. Thanks for specifiying. BTW they are called "elevators", right?

[@_Cluuth_]

Hi Arsey-E love the content

[@andrewd9677]

RCE's interaction with his editors is always so dang funny. I love it

[@crusoe246]

Chat be like: DAY 999999999999999999 OF ASKING RCE TO PLAY SOME RANDOM VIDEO GAME

[@CattyTatty]

8:22 the CoL (center of lift) should be a little bit behind the CoM (center of mass) that is why you flipped because of science

[@Walker_96365]

The reason the wings bent so much is because they were too long. The supports didn’t have the strength to stop the torque from the end of the wings being so far away. You then made is far worse by putting a ton of power on the weak wings. If you want it to work, you will need to phase fewer engines and place them closer to the fuselage as well as using struts to make the wings stronger.

[@Scott-jk5zk]

I love this guy's content too much I actually cheered when I saw the blue air vents

[@lordgenerias]

Tim Allen would approve of your design philosophy. Plane not getting off the ground? Add MORE POWER, and make it BIGGER! *Manly grunting and chest thumping*

[@jesselindsey9760]

I really do like how your airplane is flapping its wings like a bird. It knows what it is.

[@0LeeMann0]

Real civil engineer: *Kills a poor gentleman* Also Real civil engineer: For the UK SPACE PROGRAM! *Rule Britannia plays*

[@Sic_Ca_Rax]

RCE I think you should take inspiration from nature... shorter wingspan = more / quicker maneuverability... longer wingspan = longer flight distance, less maneuverability... Hence why birds near motorways have evolved to have shorter wings and birds on the coast have developed larger wings. However if you want Rodan kinda size, you need the plane to be thick but light

[@Bizub4]

Petition for Matt Lowne to collaborate with RCE. It'll be the joining of the Matts.

[@iridescentbones2322]

Could you stack like a dozen wings end to end at a small size then increase each one starting with the outermost wing for maximum length? 21:52

[@GeorgeFormanismydad]

You can, I've made one wider after watching this just because I was curious. He just wasn't that smart with it

[@Kebabs91]

Brroooo...... You need elevators!! Just add smaller wings to the tail of your planes. You're only using wings and a rudder at the moment. The elevators control your pitch, and the "main wings" control your roll, the rudder controls yaw. That'll make flying planes a lot easier.

[@yrag0789able]

Try to use the wings as pistons... retract the inner one in (by making it shorter) and add one on to the end... then make the second one short, and add a third.... the put a wheel on the outer most wing and make it long then add another wheel, and make the middle wing long again then add another wheel and make the inner wing full length... could probably get a 3rd wing in there

[@fvoarin1307]

Make the wing really short, and keep stacking wings next to it. Then expand the end wing to max, and continue down the wings until the last one. Open editor and launch. Idk if this'll work, but that's how, I assume, you can make the wingspan way larger

[@XxCrazZyNo0oBxX]

It's crazy to see you at 1.6 Mil subs! I remember when you reached 10k at the very beginning and to see you reach that in 2/3 years is mental! Nice work!

[@blankblank9904]

this last version would probably be amazing for sunlight chasing flights. basically put a lot of photovoltaic systems on it, have a electricity based Propulsion take over in upper stratosphere, just needing a bare minimum of power in comparison to lift off and fly always in a Timezone lit by the sun. everlasting science vessel in kerbal and real life. well, provided reality would allow such a wobbly wing XD its like a giant version of Solar flights of Airbus. except for size and starter propulsion it could be like there Zephyr programme. that being said i dont know if its part of Kerbal to have a purely solarbased propulsion once you reach stratosphere. 🤔

[@spblackey]

15:35 - realizes he forgot elevators... then forgets elevators again

[@stephenp8232]

The nightmare plane... wondering what it looks like on the inside of the wings and dry bays. The drunk spider on speed trying to make a web

[@jamesscalzo3033]

Loved the video @Real Civil Engineer! Can't wait for the next video man! You've got my "Actual Jet Aircraft from the Military Forces around the World" Challenge and my "Actual Warship from the Military Forces around the World" Challenge for KSP to try if you want a Challenge man!

[@tjselvey]

PS per Scott Manley you can ctrl+c a build, then paste into a notepad program to get the json, which can then be edited, copied, and then pasted into the VAB.....

[@seanet1310]

The tail looks like you were trying to design a P3 Orion, anti submarine warfare aircraft with MAD Boom (Magnetic Anomaly Detector. ) Did the architects kidnap engineers and force them to build submarines?

[@lazilexi]

Fun fact: flying vehicles which work via flapping their wings like a bird are known as ornithopters!

[@Marlosian]

Can't you go wider still by attaching a chain of parts to a part in hangar? Spawn wing 1, as wide as possible so you can connect another. Spawn wing 2 and attach it to wing one, just inside frame like you did in the video. You now have one large wing, let's call it wing 1,2. Spawn wing 3, attach it to plane. Detach wing 1,2 from plane and put it to wing 3. You now have wing 3,1,2. Spawn wing 4, attach it to plane. Detach wing 3,1,2 from plane and put it and the end of wing 4. You now have wing 4, wing 3, wing 1 and wing 2 attached to the plane in that order. Keep spawning wings and attach the whole wingchain to the new pieces untill your computer breaks.

[@crimsonharvest]

bro you need so many more wheels for that much mass. what kerbals do with wheels is keep adding them until you stop bouncing. if you want a challenge, lets see you fly a VTOL plane over to the runway on the disused island airbase. That means it takes off and lands vertically, but flies like a plane.

[@madscitechify]

you are absolutely killing it with these videos. i know KSP2 has been getting some hate, but damn if these arn't great vids! keep it up!

[@linoskretzer4212]

to increase the wing width further, you could attach the large wings, make them small and attach more on the outside and make them small again and then from the outside inwards make the wings as large as you can

[@8jof544]

20:08 Pimp my Ride the video game changed a lot ! 😂

[@corruptedfate13]

RCE pleaseee look up how to pan the VAB camera, with knowing that your potential will skyrocket, usually it’s just one button while you rotate will make it pan instead!

[@kru9918]

11:44 you can middle click a part to focus it. You can also hold middle click to pan.

[@ColwellMarcus]

Hey RCE, the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk only lasted 12 seconds. So you are definitely flying 21:40

[@KematianGaming]

You can change the center of rotation of the camera in the VAB by Middle Mouse on the part you want to center also there are specific Methane Fuel Tanks where you get more Fuel per Tank while not needing to care about the oxidizer

[@ryanyoung8288]

Put your com in front of coa. Moving coa back increases stability. With how that was responding you'll probably want to go just behind the center of the ball, almost at center

[@johnw81floyd]

That nose cone shouldn't have made me laugh as much as it did.

[@yanakievful]

a crazy idea - it might work or it might not work, can you try to attach the left to the right wing without a central body of the plain, make them connected to eachother and then add the central body - either clipping in or bellow them? this way the center of mass shouldnt interfere with the flapping

[@heygek2769]

Center of mass is simulated in a realistic way, there is no way to 'cheese it' as far as I'm aware.

[@yanakievful]

@@heygek2769 my logic isn't to cheat it rather than to make the win connection on top of it weather than on the sides where it connects to the body. Like real airplanes they don't have left or right wing, they have one big one and attach the fuselage to it

[@devarshihazarika4871]

3:01 Scott Manly's blessing

[@darioschottlender]

"Wings definitely taking off, body... Not so much"

[@kristofevarsson6903]

2:19 "Piloting skills! Piloting skills!" _9/11 reenactment_

[@valecasini]

4:10 wow this is basically a flying wing (if you delete the center plane) 10:29 Tip: while trying to attach the part press "Alt" to force it to that node

[@LycanFerret]

Watching RCE say he isn't making a fighter jet and wants more of a commercial airline, while still having a fighter jet body-shape, makes me hurt inside. The tail should be higher with its prongs up top for a wide wing-jet shape. It adds stability. Where a lower tail prong and straighter body with smaller wings and a more front-back engine allows for speed and aerodynamics.

[@akacyclonus]

Matt's Next challenge should be actually making it to another planet with a bridge as a payload

[@Tlwhite6887]

I know you could make space stations in KSP 2, but could you engineer a Dyson Sphere or any similarly difficult things like a colony ship?

[@tuckers91]

I think you need to do a rotating strongest shape. A helicopter as sorts, spinning fast enough with wings to go take off

[@jasong4460]

13:54 I wouldn't worry about looking straight. We love you just the way you are

[@jsloan8863]

As a machinist I’m glad you’re a civil engineer and not a mechanical engineer or it’d be illegal for me to watch you

[@marciosantos1227]

7:15 he made a thinner "stealth bomber" that stands out , that must be a feat of enginnering !

[@TechniTiger]

Someone hasn't seen an airplane before :p Ailerons and flaps in the main wing swing DOWN to increase lift during take off, the Elevators in the tail pull up. This plane had no tail, and the ailerons are swinging backwards.

[@greenaum]

You know that picture of Jeb at the beginning, close-up and surrounded by red lights? It's the "Daisy, Daisy" scene from 2001 A Space Odyssey!