KSP 2: Ridiculous Air Launch Plane

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It dawned on me that TOO MANY players of Kerbal Space Program 2 are making inefficient and unsafe launchers. I decided to show the community who's boss by making a BEAUTIFUL, safe, and practical air launch vehicle! US Air Force, take note!
Here's the Reddit post from Johnnyoneshot, who beat me to the punch for this concept it seems...
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[@SpaceCapybara732]

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[@gigachad2632]

I farted

[@concretepipe234]

...that promotional stuff in the video is a lie, ive played the game, shut up if you even think to reply YoU pLaYeD a FaKe CoPy!

[@KillR000Y]

I remember when I used to play Pixel Starships

[@Flyingpapaya]

is this a subtle middle finger towards Take-Two or am i insane

[@jakewhitaker8279]

Can confirm, there is someone in the Air Force watching this

[@Lonstrianmapping]

You?

[@MattLowne]

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[@101TrainBoy]

I'm fairly certain they already tried a similar approach during the cold war

[@gigachad2632]

@@MattLowneI farted

[@pixelgamer4985]

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[@theobviousguy5752]

The bug at 6:50 happens after staging when the spent stage is ~2.5km away. If you save after staging and then revert when the bug happens it seems to fix it

[@spaceflight001]

WE MADE KRAKEN WOKE UP WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@rustyneedles3743]

wow, bugs still plaguing this dogshit game, who would have thought ...

[@theobviousguy5752]

@@rustyneedles3743 I mean its still fun and they're getting better/easier to deal with

[@rustyneedles3743]

​@@theobviousguy5752 dude, come on now, the game has been almost unplayable, do you remember what they sold potential players? do you remember the trailers? do you remember how fucking long they've been developing this game for? surely you do? right? hell, just take a look at the reviews! I personally knew the game was going to be a flop and nowhere near early access standards, like, honestly I wouldn't even know where to start when criticizing this game or pointing out it's failures and yet the fuckers put a full release price tag on it! wtf, I sure as hell wasn't going to be one of the consumers to fall for that bullshit, the devs are literally taking the piss out of buyers/players ... and only to spit in their face some more and slow the patch/update cadence, shit I believe Sons of the Forest is on their 7th update! this game is a total dumpster fire and people really need to get with reality and quit making excuses, it's not going to be finished for a long, long time yet! The only thing that will save the game or entice me to buy it will be modders and what additions/fixes they bring to the table, but if left in the hands of the crooks who have developed/marketed the game thus far, yeah, no thanks and seriously, only those with a room temp IQ decided to buy this game and support these mother fuckers, if anything, the community should have lost their shit at this mess and though many did, many have remained silent, which doesn't bode well for future development of games, not when these development companies see they can literally make pay day from fucking the gaming community over!

[@rustyneedles3743]

@@theobviousguy5752I just don't understand the gaming community or consumers in general, like, name one thing you would be pleased with owning, after having paid full price BUT you only get 10% of what was once advertised/promised? ... a house? a car? a gaming PC? lol ... one would be mad to be pleased with any of the above after having paid full price, yet games get excused? wow ... oh and worse than just receiving 10%, you soon after purchasing get told that the other 90% will come at an even slower rate! ...

[@Tomd8002]

An interesting design to try would be to attach the plane wings and jet engines directly to the rocket fuselage and then detach them when firing the rocket’s engines to get to space

[@spaceflight001]

good idea.

[@C.Sharpe]

That sounds like an SSTO with extra steps

[@chicasdasfggh]

@@C.Sharpe which is decidedly not an SSTO...

[@C.Sharpe]

@@chicasdasfggh of course not, jettisoning the wings would count as a stage, but you'd still have to carry all the fuel you need for the jets in the fuselage and at that point you might as well just keep them attached and make an ssto. That's why I said SSTO with extra steps.

[@danielwulff]

@@C.SharpeYou can use wing mounted tanks, or the jet fuel tanks could be detachable from the main rocket fuselage. It’s not anything like an SSTO because the rocket itself can have stages too, so that itself is designed completely differently. It’s just a disposable air launch craft.

[@Lonstrianmapping]

It's always a honor to be on his missions Edit:376 LIKES!? PS:THANK YOU MATT I LOVE YOU AND YOUR VIDEOS THANKS FOR HEARTING

[@slidingontheice]

! hi bob

[@Lonstrianmapping]

@@slidingontheice hello

[@spaceflight001]

HI BOB HOW WAS UR TRIP ON THE MUN

[@Lonstrianmapping]

@@spaceflight001 i almost died so... Great!

[@whiterungamer]

​@@Lonstrianmapping How does it feel to be spaghettified?

[@Amelia-mq6hm]

Matt really said "Air launch complex? I find it's actually quite shrimple"

[@spaceflight001]

*simple

[@vulpinegwr]

@@spaceflight001 shrimple 🦐🦐🦐

[@spaceflight001]

@@vulpinegwr shrekimplishimplerionshire

[@Phlarx]

I agree that Minmus should look more minty; but the saturation bump made it look irradiated! :D Perhaps needs to be more blue, instead?

[@Photostar625]

agreed

[@jacobaung2431]

For anyone wondering, the mod he was talking about is FMRS, which allows you to pilot the spacecraft normally into space, then open the tab and revert back to the stage separation event. If the detached stage has a probe core, you will be able to pilot it and land it somewhere. Meanwhile, the main spacecraft will detach and will not be under control. However, once you revert back to the main spacecraft you piloted into orbit, FMRS will merge the timelines and place the detached stage exactly where you landed it, allowing you to actually recover he detached stage and still have the mission in orbit. A win-win! Hope this helps! Also, please make sure FMRS is armed or else nothing will work!

[@ICKY427]

now launch a craft from a plane AND catch it with the same plane. maybe not in atmosphere, but yeet the plane up to suborbit to launch, then send the plane back up to recover the craft

[@Hurley210]

This is the kind of meaningless mission that I would love to see

[@cdz9400]

Your Air launched rocket from Ksp 1 was the first video I ever watched from your channel, so this video means alot to me

[@foxyahriana]

The lack of green/mint on minmus made me sad when I landed on it 😞 Space is such a varied and wonderful place. I feel like it was a massive mistake

[@minifitz646]

C-5M Pilot here, many constraints keep the plane from doing this, but the easiest answer is that structural limitations with the visor would keep it from being able to be safely opened at the speeds required for such a maneuver, even though it would be totally cool

[@mephisto8101]

I had an accidental perfect recovery not long ago: two stage to orbit, with a mothership on top of a recoverable booster. After staging, I ignited the engines of the mothership and switched to the booster. By chance, the time it tool to land the booster in the ocean, the mothership had reached an Apoapsis of 140 km and I had enough time for the circularization. I was pleasantly surprised, because I expected only one of the two to survive in a single timeline.

[@Stewartiscool]

Imagine flying a plane, but the cockpit it at the back. That must be so weird.

[@randomperson1731]

Great video! The timing was interesting because this week I built a few similar air-launched rockets where the plane was built as just another stage of the rocket, so when it reached altitude the front part of the fuselage dropped off and ignited an engine.

[@dickinaround87]

FMRS is an incredible mod. It handles all the quicksave juggling that you're doing anyway, but with the added benefit of merging the results at the end.

[@VitalSpaceAgency]

Isn't it just for ksp1?

[@dickinaround87]

@MorningDawn-lt5es yes, though I imagine something similar can be easily implemented for KSP2 if KSP2 ever becomes something more than a scam.

[@markuskoivisto]

@@dickinaround87early access isn’t a scam

[@sixstringedthing]

@@markuskoivisto EA isn't a scam. But paying full price for Early Access to a game that's been in development for 4-5 years, is still fundamentally broken in ways that often make it unplayable, and for which updates are being released at a glacially slow pace sure feels like a bit of a scam to me. I hope they totally fix it all eventually, not holding my breath.

[@RadiantCataclysm]

THIS IS AWESOME. Thank you so much for being fairly consistent with your uploads even though life is pretty chaotic. I love your channel.

[@Sulaiman-zq5sf]

Hi Matt. First, thank you SO MUCH for getting me into KSP, I can't thank you enough. Will you do a blunderbirds or the stranded with KSP 2 when the performance gets stable and consistent? And will you ever do KSP 1 vids again?

[@tedarcher9120]

I remember making one of those in 2013, switching to the plane before making insertion burn and then back again to circularise

[@eekee6034]

And here I thought I was being clever with my idea for bringing back the XB-70 Valkyrie as an air-launch vehicle. It was designed to be a mach-3 bomber, but what would the aerodynamic effects be with the bay doors open?! Hey Matt, are you still thinking of doing KSP1 videos with mods? I'd love to see what you'd do with the Whirlygig planet pack. The home planet has incredibly high gravity but spins very fast so that there's something like 4G at the poles but 'only' 1.7G at the equator. All the atmosphere is at the poles too, so it's rather like a super-Tylo at the equator and a super-Eve at the poles. There's also a moon with a SoI so small that if you do a normal transfer you have to start your insertion burn outside its SoI. Hmm... I guess I started this paragraph in far too meek a way for such a challenging system! :) Up to you if you want to do it; I've just always been fascinated by it. I feel similarly about Minmus 2.0. As a non-player, I find the glassy surface a bit fascinating, but I get bored with grey surfaces very quickly so I don't think I'd like to land on it very many times. Gorgeous landscape! KSP2 really does have looks going for it, at least in the landscape department. Thanks Matt! :)

[@jerrybaughman4981]

For my air launches in ksp 1, I always made the plane autonomous with a probe core. I still make sure it's theoretically possible to recover everything, but I basically sacrifice a probe plane without sacrificing any crew members

[@pathindsley]

Agreed about Minmus. I love the current look in KSP2, but I think it could look even better with a little bit more green.

[@Zurkan0802]

"On Minmus Jetpacks work okay." Well I don't know how it is in KSP2 but in 1 you can get in Orbit around Minmus with it ^^

[@rayceeya8659]

In KSP1, I usually airlaunced with the payload on the back for aerodynamic reasons. I also build SSTOs that work like this. I think my better builds use about 16 Rapiers to get a full orange tank to orbit.

[@cosmic7234]

i like the color of minmus. even mars, the "red planet" is just a dirty brown color, despite supposedly being red and rusty IRL

[@Olive_Gamer139]

Game devs: We will SLAY the kracken! KSP 2: haha kracken go brrrrrr

[@RockAristote]

Congratulations for your patience with this Buggy mess!

[@bryantarms]

The C-5 launched a Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile once.

[@LikeGG]

I'd love to see matt build a space station around dres, I really like the rework of the planet but the game is so glitchy I just can't be bothered to invest more than 10 minutes in a mission, at least not until rocket wobble and orbital decay get fixed

[@ahmed4363]

At least they fixed the weird orbits after entering a new SOI

[@MrMacgyver69]

I can’t wait until KSP2 approaches the absolute awesomeness of KSP1. By then, I might even buy a computer to run it!! Awesome videos as always! Big thanks for sticking through this mess. Cheers.

[@Eagle-kp7fx]

Its great to see how far the game has come, this would be impossible, we would need tom cruise to run this mission if it was to happen on launch day.

[@unhommequicourt]

It s not great, it s pretty sad

[@PRSRic]

Recently deleted been buggier than ever for me with last update

[@civillian1]

thank you for your perseverance. I'm not quite motivated enough yet to actually start playing the game, but video's like these give me hope that the game will be playable within my lifetime.

[@cj719521]

I fully agree about the color of minmus. I _love_ the mint ice cream color of the original game’s Minmus, and with how easy it is to land on, I’ve got a lot of memories with that color as the backdrop. I’m hoping that change is in the table during early access.

[@Blind_Hawk]

I did something similar in KSP 1. But the other way around. The plane hanging on the rocket should be released at the highest point before leaving the atmosphere. I wanted to test out how fast the aircraft can go when launched by a missile.

[@birbeyboop]

"wobbling" like that is actually fairly realistic. real aircraft wings bend and flex at least just as much

[@adamdavidsonx]

Thank you for the link in the description to the Johnnyoneshot's post.

[@simonschaller857]

Nice to watch someone else fight the kraken for once, was building a 100% reusable boeing spacefreighter style heavy lift rocket plane. The kraken didn't like it, took a few days to get it work.

[@demben9335]

I get to go on airforce bases because i am in the CAP and ive seen the c 17's fly and an issue with the nose opening mid flight would be drag. The drag would most definitely make it stall out and crash

[@francescohenaut39]

If Minmus was a bit mintier it would look better, but no as minty as you did, like, just a tiny bit green

[@kevinwashington8937]

Hey Matt, Booster 9 was lifted onto the orbital launch mound yesterday.33 engine static fire coming soon. Big fan

[@demandro]

Yeah, I like old Minmus, it looks like a giant globe of minty ice-cream

[@R0bobb1e]

Nice! Very smooth segue @MattLowne !!! :D I am impressed with this one!

[@biff1019]

when multiplayer comes out airlaunches gonna be so much better

[@EvanSenpai]

i used to play pixel starships and then forgot about it but matt reminded me thanks lowne aerospace

[@snaeb-ps3bd]

I have a C-5M replica in KSP, might try something like this

[@adamantium1983]

Oh god Matt, you never cease to amaze 😂.

[@ewanfarley]

omg the ground clutter is so good looking, especially that mountain forest 😩😩😩

[@user-gy3yf9hy6h]

Clutter?

[@danilocoelho9915]

I bought this game on launch but I`m still waiting for it to get in a better state to really start playing. Hopefully the next big update will bring, besides science stuff, a lot of quality of life bug fixes.

[@boypenguin9946]

Petition for Matt to remake the Minmus Hotel in KSP 2 here

[@dylanwatts9344]

Huh, the plane did a happy dance 😆

[@nameless5413]

"i was on a tangent the whole time" yes that basically the main reason why i watch random tangents into space news and completely unrelated booze talk

[@FunkThompson]

I remember spending 20 some-odd hours trying to figure out a basic, Falcon-type launch vehicle with fully recoverable boosters and such in KSP 1. Probe cores on the boosters, chutes, etc. PITA and it never worked.

[@DobbsyLondon]

I've not seen KSP2 properly. The wing widgets during construction.... ooh nice.

[@ebenwaterman5858]

Thanx for the tips.

[@danielweaver7435]

The problem could be during the ignition in the plane id think it would melt the bottom or try to hot stage the plane and it could blow up the ship what could happen would be the ship would get driven out by those wheels and they would be on the roof and the wheels on the ship and once the ship gets far enough out then the engine ignition could happen.

[@spaceflight001]

WE GETTING TO THE MUN WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@TheOriginal1234]

I want to see what matt thinks about this comment

[@spaceflight001]

​@@TheOriginal1234yea me too

[@wxb200]

I like how Minmus looks in KSP2. However, I also agree with you. There's no nostalgic-feel to Minmus in KSP2. More mint would be nice...

[@FlyingGospel]

I really really really dislike what they've done to Minmus tbh. It's basically unrecognizable, and the flat oceans are no longer flat, which sucks, because you vould do so much super fun stuff with that in KSP1. KSP 2 has been devastatingly awful so far.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

@@FlyingGospel this is the first I've seen of Minmus because I've been very much putting off exploring the kerbolar system until the game is in a state that'll not ruin the excitement of that with constant bug fighting, and I cannot agree more. It's so grey and drab and robbed of the character of the original. I'm reminded of the book Larklight in which a bunch of mountains on the far side of the moon got named things like "Mount Dismal", "Mount Horrid" and "Mount Repugnant" and stuff along those lines because the guy who discovered them was just utterly dissapointed with what he'd wasted his day finding, and if it's still like this by the time colonies are implemented, I'm naming my minmus base Port Dreary or something like that.

[@FlyingGospel]

@@RAFMnBgaming 100%. Unpopular opinion but Minmus was my favorite place to go. I'd bring all kinds of silly crazy contraptions there because so easy to get to, land, and could build speed cars on the flat oceans to connect my bases. The bright green was so familiar that I felt at home every time I'd touch down there. This minmus has zero appeal to me whatsoever. They could've improved the textures resolution and maybe ad a few details and interesting features, but conpletely change it to the point it's basically an entirely new world? Why? Some of us have real attachment to that place. Come on.

[@CalinBocian]

I did a similar thing in ksp1, with a Mk3 CArgo Ramp in front.

[@hizzy70]

Remember before the game came out the team claimed they had defeated the kraken in the preview trailers? ahhh the days when i was pumped for KSP2, Those were good times

[@Saika_Sakitora]

seeing that ad make me wanna see Matt play starsector someday. it's pixel 2d space game kinda like the samething but on different scale

[@NomadUniverse]

Wings are meant to flex, and the control surface movements need to be less violent. Smooth application = smooth flexing. If you watch an A380 landing, pay attention to the wings and watch them gradually sag as the lift drops off then compare resting position with flying position and you'll see strait away how much they flex. This is a good craft, it just needs some tweaks.

[@spacedude_clips]

I like the lego rockets at 4:39

[@QuirkyView]

I didn't really notice any wing wobble when you were talking about it, but also... wings wobble on real planes :P

[@alan-daniel]

I think when he said wobble he was actually talking about the SAS control surface oscillation, which probably could have been totally fixed by making the pitch control surfaces much smaller or setting a much lower Authority Limit on each of them

[@Javelyn_Shadow]

Great video Matt, thanks for the amazing content, especially considering the state of the game.

[@MrHuum0]

Omg, I had made exactly the same looking craft in my ksp2 😂

[@stratometal]

They already launch rockets out of cargo planes, just not from the nose, they chuck them out the back! Its called Rapid Dragon.

[@Sulaiman-zq5sf]

The kraken loves KSP 2 rn

[@aidenwikto9492]

These sponsors make my intrusive thoughts win💀.

[@Anas-Ali-Qazi]

if you have parachutes after the stage seperation, it should save them

[@Zoso14892]

"What you talking about, Minmus looks grea- Oh my god, that's so much better!" Me, two minutes ago.

[@therocinante3443]

Amazing how it has the same and MORE bugs than the original.. And less features!

[@thomaswells8967]

The Air Force deployed a minuteman III from the back of a C-5 as a test in 1970’s. It was successful

[@DownundaThunda]

I had the opportunity to buy KSP2 a couple weeks ago, and was very tempted, but the performance issues and game breaking bugs still in the game dissuaded me from doing it. I will buy it eventually, but it will be when the game is in a more refined state.

[@meawreg]

absolutely fantastic video!

[@MicahMesser]

Matt, your ad read transitions are FLAWLESS.

[@spacebear7214]

Baby thats what I've been waiting for!!!

[@AvelTheCat]

Moistcritikal reference?

[@liamoliverdarroch6482]

I like the saturation thingy fart like that, but I think there are more important things to change...

[@grummanschumann6475]

yea i guess i can agree that its a bit grey looking. i wouldnt suggest it be as bright as you edited it but a lil more green would help maybe

[@chrisstopher2277]

Wow watching these physics compared to that new plane building game really shows how unoptimized this game is. KSP is huge though and the planets and space is really cool.

[@kinamuranyan]

The really reminds me of the 1974 test where the US launched a Minuteman II ICBM out of the back of a C-5 Galaxy

[@zertex2830]

9:45 the plane took a dump there. xd

[@Noobontheark]

what you can do is when you have reusable stages you do like the falcon rockets do so you have 2 screens one of the rocket and one of the plane or the reusable stage

[@stephanedegremont4961]

Maybe there's a world in which we'll be able to play such missions in multiplayer so that the plane can be saved.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

that saturation tweak at 14:46 was so pretty both for minmus and everything else. Kinda hope there'll be a mod to apply that effect to the game & UI.

[@MartinDlabaja]

it was actually pretty awful

[@RAFMnBgaming]

@@MartinDlabaja to each their own I suppose.

[@chrissugg968]

It's perfectly possible to transfer a Kerbal from Minmus orbit onto the surface and back again without a ship, using only the EVA suit thrusters.

[@ColdWindPhoenix84]

I vaguely recall something about dropping a missile out the back of a US Air Force C-130. Maybe I'm mistaken, but it sounds familiar.

[@fvzoq7708]

can you do a tutorial on the manuever nodes because im having issues

[@christinabalfoort2126]

Make a custom interplanetary space station with a big custom engine made of fairing with a buncha nuclear engines in the big engine

[@GenJeFT]

So at about 4:40 you can see the plane despawn just at the bottom left of the screen. The despawn caused the game to lag and once the game stopped lagging the rocket completely fell apart. That is a bug report right there.

[@ChampionR-vn1ib]

I know I’m a bit late to this, but the stress load for the C-5 galaxy‘s wings would be too high, also the front hatch does not open up mid flight, may be going out the back it would work, but that would have to be at an incline, and a soon as the craft, his way would have to tip back down and bank away.

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

It's somewhat epressing how few space kraken attacks actually take place in outer space.

[@aapjeaaron]

That solar panel bounce though.

[@yeah_thats_tim]

Love when you upload ksp content! Are you ever going to do modded ksp 1? Maybe some bd armory?

[@SomeRandomPerson_IDK]

He should try khabeloh system mod and use a kraken drive hyperdrive

[@Ihatetechnology]

So you got me thinking, what if you built a plane that deploys a rocket, BUT the plane is designed to glide back to the ocean. It would launch from the front of the plane (or glider) as if the first stage of a rocket. but then it naturally glides back down. I mean you would need to completely rethink the plane itself. It may not even look like a plane once the rocket is launched but it might work. Like the front half of the plane's fuciliage is the rocket.

[@Emost514]

Dam you Matt for suggesting an amazing free game, I'm now hooked on this game! I love pixel game style 🤓

[@Thisandthat8908]

15:57 that sounds very much like it doesn't, does it? I feel there is a logic bug in that sattement.

[@SanosukeTanaka]

I'm starting to think KSP2 is never going to stop being too buggy for me.

[@newgirlde]

I too miss my minty Minmus. :( I'm sure eventually someone will re-mint-ify Minmus.

[@ShadowFreedum]

Love it 👏🏻👏🏻 keep up the great work Matt

[@Tw_space]

New video and 20 minutes long, best ksp utuber