Simulating The BFS Descent 'Skydive' In KSP - Fly By Wire with kRPC

[@TommoCarroll]

New Scott Manley video? About the BFS? Including KSP? Yup. Yup. Yup.....uumm....YUP!

[@milkywegian]

Aspect Science you keep commenting same shit on every video.

[@TommoCarroll]

Milkywegian what? I don't even know if I've commented on Scott Manley's before or at least much before?

[@thenotflatearth2714]

2024: How Not to Land with a Modern Artist Onboard Uh oh

[@DingXiaoke]

The Spherical Earth Hahahahahaha

[@crimson7676]

Lol i can just imagine the artists on IVA out there painting on canvas

[@imagineaworld]

Quite frankly, id be ok with that... i cant stand that guy lol

[@death_parade]

I still remember the one with the radar glitched Falcon 9 booster dancing on the drone ship XD

[@EtzEchad]

I'm glad it didn't work the first time. It wouldn't be KSP without a lot of explosions. :)

[@CyberSamurai4Life]

Scott doing this video is the first thing I thought of when I watched Elon show the simulation of this process last week

[@flyingfiddler90q]

Me too.

[@VeeLogi]

I was pretty sure of it as well. Been looking around if anyone else would try this, I'm happy Scott did!

[@maan7715]

Oh man, those failed attempts at the end with that music cracked me up The one where you landed on a mountain side and the crew cabin rolled down the hill...ugh. Kinda nightmarish. One question: If the rocked lands with basically the right velocity, but kinda falls over like on these videos, but there are no more fuel in the tanks, would it explode in real life?

[@mcgaffin4506]

It would not explode, but pretty much destroy itself under its own weight, this is basically a 50meter tall building that just falls on its side, that breaking and shuttering though, flying everywhere

[@captainkiddoregon]

"The one where you landed on a mountain side and the crew cabin rolled down the hill...ugh. Kinda nightmarish." Yeah, you could almost spin the Uranium right out of the Kerbals head with that much centrifugal force. Fun video Scott.

[@535phobos]

I guess the tanks are still under pressure. Some of the failed Falcon 9 landings exploded when falling over, but without a huge fireball, because of the empty tanks. So maybe something like that. Just a thought

[@Haos666]

There is no such thing as "no more propellant in the tanks" even if the engine burns out. There will be bit more LOX or fuel left and plenty of fumes in the so called "empty" one, enough for a small fireball.

[@maan7715]

Yeah, I was thinking they can't be all empty. But I don't know the engineering part at all so I had to ask. Also yeah, the failed falcon rocked attempts came to mind, where they said they ran out of propellant but there was an explosion. And yeah, a big falcon rocket falling over is probably enough to shatter the whole thing completely. I have a feeling that this way to land a rocket is pretty risky bit Then the current way of landing- the cabin falls from the sky with a parachute is not exactly better either.

[@randyhavener1851]

"Random unscheduled disassemblies" Scott you ARE the BEST!!

[@AbbreviatedReviews]

Rolled down a mountain at 2000 rpm but survived.

[@theldraspneumonoultramicro405]

i actualy tried to figure out how fast it spins but i cant due to the fps beeing to low and .25 playback speed beeing to fast.

[@Known_as_The_Ghost]

Remind yourself that it is possible to frame advance KZbin videos.

[@nikolai502]

Tough chaps those kerbals

[@unvergebeneid]

No Kerbals were harmed in the making of this video.

[@t65bx25]

Penny Lane Many engines and landing struts were.

[@Maeyanie]

Yep... they may not have been too happy, but at least they survived.

[@SuperKingslaw]

The Flying Squid......So long and thanks for all the fish.

[@notenoughpaper]

your videos are my absolute favorite youtube podcast and they never cease to impress me

[@sungyunkim7450]

If it works in ksp, it works in irl too

[@junseok916]

오오 한국인이당

[@PhillipNutt]

Oh man I know Tim is going to be stoked out of his mind you showed his clip. Love you Scott Manley!

[@docpossum2460]

I feel like Falcon is a place holder for another word I mean, think about it, Big Falcon Rocket, Big Falcon Ship, Falcon Heavy.

[@mr.2minutes161]

Don't forget the "Big Fuckin Rocket" one

[@tetsujin_144]

No ship, Sherlock!

[@AndyOO6]

Love any news on Space x and the BFR, thanks so much for all the hard work on it.

[@j0ckel617]

Hi Scott, I just realised something. The pendulum rocket you talked about a while ago actually hat one big advantage. Of course it doesn’t right itself BUT with this setup you can stage the fuel tanks while keeping the same engines all the way up which should save quite some weight

[@THEdragonOfRainbows]

I love how Jescas Kerman would briefly get scared when something exploded, then immediately go back to smiling. What a cheery kerbal. I think those three orange-suits might've been a bit nauseous after all that rolling, though.

[@PaulPaulPaulson]

That's a decent descent

[@blinkwont]

Bonus points for the on point key change into the outro song

[@TeddSpeck]

Great video, Scott. Hilarious ending. Love the music, funny and catchy. And seemed familiar. I kept hearing, da da da de da da da daa daa. I heard funk. Took me a minute to sort it out. Memorable vocal line from Flashlight by Parliament. Just similar of course.

[@thomasfholland]

Awesome Scott! If there was a Nobel Prize of Patience - you would get it!!

[@giantnanomachine]

When someone's failure montage looks more successful than most of your routine missions. Bless Jeb and Val's love for explosions, I would have been dragged into Kerbal Labour Court so often by now...

[@pesterenan]

That is awesome! Great use of krpc to change the control scheme! Now I wish KSP implemented infernal robotics hahaha I guess you could make a simple suicide burn script to help you hover at the last minute with a PID Controller attached to the throttle. Man that capsule rolling off the mountain was incredible! Hahahhahhha

[@biomecaman3514]

Hi Scott, Kerbal Operating System may be about to automate the wings in a manageable way. You cold automate the whole process even. Great vid!

[@andrewlindenfeld6222]

The fact that no kerbals died in the making of this video(that you showed anyway) is quite impressive!

[@DavidOwensuk]

Awesome - I admire your tenacity!!! Another great video!

[@b1n4ryb1rd7]

Good news folks, the guy who made Tundra exploriaton mod is currently working in the new bfr design! He said that it could be ready by the end of this month

[@BarelyFunctionalTK]

so many spacex and bfr videos after the recent conference, i love it

[@TheSpot501st]

WOW WOW WOW thank you! This helped me a lot to understand how BFS uses aerodynamic for re-entry! And also SKILLZZZ!

[@ImbecileNerd]

I knew when I watched the SpaceX animation of the 'Skydive' I knew good old Scott would try and reproduce it in KSP. That day has come!

[@Angrymuscles]

How could you ever doubt Jebediah? Of course he would make that landing, regardless of re-entry profile and g-loading. Jebediah is the man.

[@jeffreyp2449]

I loved the blooper bit at the end!

[@kevinshepardson1628]

I love in one of the failed attempts Valentina's expression: "Crap crap crap crap... I'm alive? I'M ALIVE!"

[@dylanwatts9344]

I actually play a campaign in which I only did tourist contracts for the most part, converting profit and rep into science, using plane like re-entry vehicles. This reminds me of that

[@LostAnFound]

Interesting feedback about the risk of the de-facto vertical stabilizer being a control risk if it were to roll out of the leeward side during reentry. An oscillation on a craft that size would either rip it to shreds or eventually centrifuge the passengers to pancakes.

[@kedrednael]

Cool! To make the suicide burns easier you can switch the SAS to radial out when most of the horizontal velocity is gone, so it doesn't try to go upside down when you reach a standstill.

[@airwolfguy]

Rolling Capsule. Most entertaining crash of your KZbin career thus far!

[@veleriphon]

Finally, music Kerbal enough for KSP.

[@ahaveland]

So this is what Scott has been up to since the press announcement! Well done! To anyone thinking of being invited, ask yourself if you still want to go! :-) (I'm sure they'll work out the bugs first)

[@zeg2651]

Haha, I like the unplanned disassembles at the end 😂💪

[@merendell]

ok that music + ksp + bits explodeing and I thought for a moment I'd warped into a danny video once you got done talking.

[@maggiomanagement8649]

You completed my past year of ksp fumbling thank you

[@KsNewSpace]

kRPC is so underrated.. incredible tool! Great job btw! I'm still trying to do this manually with Kerbal hinges made out of thermometers lol

[@CTCTraining1]

Superb ... I’ll never ask “What could possibly go wrong?” again. :-)

[@Hans-jc1ju]

The transformation from plane to virus mode looks really cool

[@dabigman440]

The memory of Danny lives on

[@brianmcrock]

Hahaha! Beautiful endings, man! A little hot...a little hard...a little crunchy...great vid!

[@LeutnantJoker]

How interesting that SpaceX seems to agree with you on that third fin now :D

[@tjrage1]

Finaly oh kerbals how i missed you, keep it up scott

[@gcewing]

You've invented a new landing technique -- the Cartwheel Landing!

[@tommohawkinaction]

Haha love the bloopers. Another great video!

[@ranoonay]

Never be in mid drink during a Manly landing... you’ll most definitely choke from sudden outbursts of laughter

[@claxvii177th6]

That was epic beyond words

[@alphajager5469]

i think you have a bit to much thrust vectoring range enabled on that centre engine, but still very impressive.

[@brian554xx]

That last one would be a great way to find out what Kerbal vomit looks like!

[@lescarneiro]

I love how you go the extra miles to try it as "real" as possible, you're the real Rocket Man...ley!

[@LadySerenaKitty]

Yay a new KSP vid from Scott Manley!

[@TheStrayEagle]

Scott, I think you might have more luck if you reduced the drag on the rear control surfaces by folding them "forward/down" (anhedral in appearance; directions on a rocket are hard) rather then "aft/up" (dihedral in appearance) as you seem to have them configured. If you review the SpaceX video, as the craft transitions from predominantly forward flight to "falling with style", you can see that the SpaceX rendering is folding these surfaces "forward/down". I think the difficulty you were running into was as you fold the rear control surfaces aft/up you effectively increase the tail fin surface area and introduce more of the roll instability that you were fighting. Folding these surfaces forward/down would move the center of lift/drag more central as well which would probably make it more stable.

[@mpvader1]

AMAZING VIDEO! I hope you will make a lot of kOS/kRPC videos in the future

[@lukebrown3779]

New ksp video from Scott? Yes please!

[@baneblackguard584]

my eye always gets drawn to their faces when something goes wrong. KSP wouldn't be KSP without those images of the kerbals

[@horacefairview5349]

When it's not pukey it's explody :)

[@chrictonj9503]

Certainly enjoyed the "Fail" music. :)

[@tincannavy3188]

Well at least all the crashes were survivable... Nice song choice btw it was very interesting.

[@Kualinar]

Any landing that you survive is a good landing. So, those where all successful landings. I really like the last one down the mountain. Capsule : Look ! I'm a wheel ! I can roll down that mountain slope ! Crew : We are going to get sick. We ARE sick.

[@Cirrus4000]

I always use SAS in Radial Out mode when I'm close the ground and want to make sure that any over thrust does not cause a flip or unwanted vector change. Looks like this may have helped in some of the failed landings :)

[@moosemaimer]

Whenever I'm trying to land some weird contraption and I'm not sure how the thrust is going to work out, I find it is helpful to go into Mechjeb's SmartASS and set my attitude control to "UP" once I get my horizontal speed under control, so it doesn't try and flip around if I accidentally go into a hover.

[@vegguid]

Lol that poor person on the trumpet in the music on the end XD

[@patrickfargie1146]

This was an accurate glimpse into the future at the end 🤣

[@mattipiirainen2337]

Loved the last crash!

[@j.michaelantoniewiczii5309]

BFS Astronaut Pilot Training MUST have the attempts with the music!!

[@rkramer5629]

That trip down the mountain side.... lmao I can imagine Kerbal jelly coating the inside of that thing ☠️

[@CristianCiotti]

You shall definitely do another KSP series!

[@crabot1]

Yay, I vote Scott as the first official test pilot for BFR

[@kurtweinstein8450]

The new BFR/BFS design commits what Kerbal has taught me is a cardinal sin. Those drag surfaces on BFS may move center of drag ahead of CoM making it unstable during launch. I would be more amazed if you made a video of this launching to orbit with flipping and becoming uncontrollable.

[@shawndouglass2939]

Enjoyed watching all those RUDs😜!!!

[@c4pt1n54no]

That blooper reel is only second to the one Spacex released a while ago using actual rockets

[@jackmcslay]

No artists were harmed in the making of this video

[@theldraspneumonoultramicro405]

that last fail would be freakin horrifying to be on, and deadly, no way anyone could survive the g-forces involved in that, including the Big Fucking Stage.

[@Cruzie_06]

Love the new intro.

[@scottmanley]

That’s my old intro - for Kerbal

[@MichaMajewski]

what if. Disable wings posiotioning BFR after engines take place? To many variables = to many failed attempts...

[@averagegeek3957]

I already know that this is going to be interesting.

[@jbrothers79]

So a question. The whole belly flop maneuver that the Starship is going to do. How many G's is it going to pull when it does the flip and burn right before landing? That's going to be a crazy ride for the folks on it.

[@guitarwally1]

That last one has to be the worst way to die. I don't think I want to be on the BFS Moon ride at all

[@m00hk00h]

No "fly safe"? :/

[@scottmanley]

I really didn't think it needed it this time.

[@julienhalleux8659]

There's nothing safe about flying this thing one might say.

[@SnaxDesAvions]

"fly safe o7" there you go :p

[@AnvilDragon]

Makes me wonder if pairs of grid fins could be added to the top and bottom of the Falcon Heavy upper stage to bring it down.

[@fogllama]

The folding surfaces remind me of Burt Rutan's Feathering on SpaceShipOne and Two. Except scaled up for orbital speed and a really big Falcon ship.

[@TananBaboo]

Scott Manley got it to work in KSP... it’s a done deal!

[@robrocksea]

Is it just me but why not land in a Large Lake? Seawater is out due to corrosion, but plenty of big ponds around, like a nice big round one in the middle of Southern Florida, Ochanochee ? or for better equatorial launches/recoveries, Lake Nicaragua or Mouth of Amazon River? A 90% recovery is better than a 10% recovery. ?

[@jarateman6427]

Some lucky Kerbals at the end of that video!!!!

[@codemonkey2k5]

They REALLY need to make it possible to have a Kerbal vomit in their helmet. Especially that last attempt.

[@PlutoniumBoss]

1:35 "still has quite a few bugs" It wouldn't be cutting-edge KERBAL SCIENCE if it didn't.

[@robertstuckey6407]

I got so excited because I thought this meant that the advanced fly by wire mod was finally working. apparently not .

[@GuilhermeFurst]

Hullo Scott, here is a suggestion for a video, how does navigational systems works in spacecrafts, for example, I know how the artificial horizon sort of works for aircraft, and even that inertial something resembles something more like the actual navball. But what how spacecraft can determine their prograde and momentum velocities, orbits and whatnot, you know, these easy info we take for granted on KSP.

[@mbm3708]

there's a channel called " vintage space" that covers just that!

[@SoliaOrganization]

Principia mod I just found out is updated! You should totally do a video on it!

[@jerry3790]

You had all of those crashes because you never said fly safe.

[@Lesserthannone]

Scott, I knew I'd be watching you do this. The only question is, why'd it take so long ;)

[@zapfanzapfan]

Nice carousel down the hill :-)

[@svega1998]

The real Mr. Worldwide

[@Eagles_Eye]

and whow, those kerbals got some stomach control, i would have puked after riding a rolling cabin for so long xD

[@mustang5132]

I know this is old and there are probably updates that help with this but SimpleRockets2 is perfect for doing things like this. There aren’t many different parts but they are all very modular and you can shape them any way you want. Creating Starship on there is much easier and it looks much better too