SSTO VTOL BREAKDOWN / How To Video.

Helping YOU make you're very own VTOL SSTO.
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GAME : Kerbal Space Program VERSION 1.12.5
MUSIC : Sirius Beat - Beast Mode
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Kerbal Space Program in game music.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS :
1. When do you upload videos? - I make videos as often as I can.
2. What do you do for a living? - I work a full time construction job plus any overtime I can get.
3. Where can I download the craft file? - No downloads as of yet. I don't have the time, but these videos are meant for you to be inspired to build your own crafts.
4. WHY isn't the video in ULTRA REALISTIC SUPER HIGH DEFINITION? Because unlike your rich ass that can afford a KILLER PC, I have to use what little money I have, to make sure that there's a roof over my head and food on the table before I can spend it on things like CPUs and GPUs.
Thank you.
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DLCs:
BREAKING GROUND & MAKING HISTORY EXPANSION
(NOT of the VANILLA game but still counts as STOCK and not a 3rd party MOD)
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MODS:
I USE CKAN for KSP VERSION 1.12.5
WATER FALL ( Makes rocket exhaust and sound better )
CHATTERER ( Kerbal radio ingame voices )
EASY VESSEL SWITCH (Press ALT and click on any craft)
CAMERA TOOLS (Cinematic stuff)
KERBAL ENGINEER (Technical readouts)
SIMPLE CONSTRUCTION (NOT IN CKAN - building and mining for metals) www.curseforge.com/kerbal/ksp...
TRAJECTORIES ( Shows flight path prediction )
ASTRONOMERS VISUAL PACK (Planets, Stars,)
ENVIRONMENTAL VISUAL ENHANCEMENTS ( City lights, Stars etc...)
PLANET SHINE (Light reflecting off of planet\moon onto your ship)
SCATTERER (Realistic water, Realistic sky\space lighting)
VESSEL MOVER (Move craft over planet surface quickly)
RCS BUILD AID (Helps with RCS thruster placement)
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SYSTEM:
GPU: GeForce GTX 1650
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor 3.80 GHz
- Memory: 32.00 GB RAM
- Resolution: 1920 x 1200 59Hz
- OS: Windows 10
THE CHANNEL:
This channel is about Kerbal Space Program and can consist of SSTO building tutorials and rocket building tutorials. Some times the videos contain bad language and adult humor but on a low level. In these videos no planet is safe as we can explore space together by landing on places like Duna and Jool and build large Duna colonies or orbital space stations. Also, Interplanetary SSTO builds seem to be a hot topic in the KSP community so I will be touching on those as well. I also build SSRT space craft. These are fun to build and easy to fly! Warships or space warships are one of my favorite things to make. Stock weapons can be very challenging and so when building them over time , you get to see the evolution of the designs. Same thing with the Warships. They get better and better with each new design.
Now , I know it's considered cheating but Kraken drives are a fun way to put things like warp drive ( like in Star Trek ) and or hyper drives ( like in Star Wars ) in your Kerbal space program game. These game mechanic loopholes are fun to figure out as you find out how they work and how to incorporate them into your star ship design.
Everything from Outposts on far away moons and Mining Stations around asteroids and comets, you name it I've ether built it or it's on my to do list! I still haven't really explored things like building SpaceX starship or any of the NASA spacecraft, and I think that's because it been done to many times. Recreations of spacecraft can be found almost everywhere on KZbin now and so making yet another one seem redundant. Only if the spacecraft recreation is of one that I loved as a kid will I even attempt to build it. Like the Apollo Moon Lander, or the whole Apollo rocket! Now that rocket was cool!
Many people have ask me if I'm ever going to wear my Mandalorian helmet ever again for my videos. And , yes. when the time is right, and I get a new wabcam, I will be dawning the helmet once more!
Thank you everyone! ... This is the way.
#SSTO #VTOL #KSP #HowTo

[@trueandneo]

I find the fact that VAOS doesn't have 100k subscribers yet utterly mystifying

[@neves5083]

One of the biggest mysteries in human civilization The found out how to make Roman concrete but not why Vaos hasn't exploded yet

[@zenothksp]

Ikr? This channel makes such great video's, a shame really...

[@valecasini]

I think that is because KSP and especially SSTO are of a niche of viewer here on KZbin (and I think in general)

[@crucialbeatle7935]

One would call it perplexing, like seriously the sheer quality of these videos is amazing

[@luisvega6580]

Mind Boggling

[@arvolder]

For some reason, the electronic music makes it feel like 2013 youtube. So many youtubers have left, yet you're still the same and making VTOL SSTOs Love the content VAOS, you deserve more subs

[@leonardobonanno5115]

The dedication and quality stands out man. Your passion for KSP is very inspiring to me, I'm high right now and this is cool asf.

[@zechd2406]

Best ksp KZbinr

[@ArchaicAlibi]

How to weed the cult wheat from the space chaff: "But Vaos, you should've closed off the rear green nodes on the service bays!" Wait for it...

[@briancox2721]

If you're using KER, look at the torque value included with the full delta-V stats. That's how hard your engines at full throttle are trying to rotate the craft about the CoM. You can translate and rotate the engines to reduce the torque. Anything less then 1 is usually controllable, but aim for less then 0.1. doing it this way is more precise then just eyeballing the purple thrust vector. It also allows using less reaction wheels and less control surface deflection. This gives less dry mass, more delta v, and less drag.

[@guard13007]

An extra note about matching height of landing gear: The closer your landing gear are to the center of mass, the more weight they hold, the more their springs will compress. For my fighter designs, the main landing gear are always slightly lower than the front, because when physics are loaded, this makes them sit closer to level than they otherwise would be. This probably matters a lot more for aircraft than spacecraft, but for a horizontally taking off spacecraft, it definitely makes a difference too.

[@NickBDesigns]

Great work! I love the “you should have watched the whole video” It’s a 19 min video that doesn’t feel long enough Space cult

[@wxb200]

I, too, find the fact that VAOS doesn't have 100k subscribers yet utterly mystifying

[@crucialbeatle7935]

Hahaha the music and the beginning is amazing!

[@marshelene]

how tf do you have so little subs? you're doing amazing work, good luck!

[@pjludda4323]

Listen at dat FUNKY FRESH JAM while watching dat SSTO that just SLAPPS

[@sa1vi]

Now I understand why I fail so much with my designs. Thank you for this MASTERCLASS that I'm going to study and keep like gold! You're the best! ♥♥♥♥Something similar to the cargo SSTO VTOL at the end of this video is my goal!.

[@christopherhovord3516]

glad to see you made out of that tunnel safely

[@mschedler4984]

Very instructive and helpful. Thanks VAOS.

[@Rare_K_]

if anyone makes a craft with the mk2 parts,there is also the inline mk2 Drone, SAS reaction wheel thingy, which is actually pretty powerful.

[@sgt_retiredcharlie4102]

Awesome Tutorial brother! Thanks for all the explanation. I've been using RCS Build Aid for years and never know that about the Red Ball! LOL I'm going to try to build that VTOL and land it on Laythe. Wish me luck!

[@atl4s676]

THANK YOU VAOS!

[@stratotramp6243]

Love those concealed intakes 😎

[@butwhy7138]

This is cool asf man

[@seyeruoynepotsuj]

Heyyy, so you could put nose cones behind the air-intake housing on those nacelles to remove more drag, and maybe tilt the wings up a lil for better lift, and how about dihedralling (totally a word) them a tad too for more stability in atmosphere. Anywayys, off to have breakfast.

[@vaos3712]

🤣🤣🤣

[@redscopio3027]

You watched the vid didn't you, we know the lies #spacecult

[@cluelessgod97]

I never bothered with VTOLs too much but had made a Harrier AV-8A not long ago and man. I just love VTOL! I definitely need to try a more SSTO VTOL for other bodies also. This has gave me a cool layout to start with 👍

[@PalassCat]

Interplanetary VTOLs are hell: you can't get far with rapiers only, nukes are heavy and bulky, the tradeoff between TWR and dV doesn't allow to VTOL well in high gravity. Huge rotating engine nacelles with nukes and rapiers combined tend to wobble a lot. Grapes of engines each with it's own pivot look ugly and are hard to arrange around center of mass.

[@cluelessgod97]

@@PalassCat I love a challenge, so will have to come up with something very soon. On Xbox so makes life even more of a challenge as is haha, but all in good fun... just got done with a Chinook. Trying to do more Kerbin Vehicles as I've been to and landed on every Planetary body bar Lathe and Tylo (and Jool ofcourse. Only brief entered atmo and have made orbit).

[@PalassCat]

@@cluelessgod97 Laythe is the best place for SSTOs because rapiers work in airbreathing mode at even higher altitude than on Kerbin. I always use it as a base camp for all operations around Jool and did some spaceplane missions to Eeloo and Dres after refueling on Laythe.

[@cluelessgod97]

@@PalassCat I will keep this in mind thankyou! I've been trying to design a colony for Laythe also and VAOS's prior video on the base idea with the big thermal protector had me inspired for a design... I may do a unmanned base arrival and use a VTOL SSTO or if I struggle I'll have a VTOL in payload and attempt a manned landing with that to drop off crew and refuel and dock/return to Kerbin... I'm literally flooding with ideas right now haha. Thank you

[@cluelessgod97]

@@PalassCat what's the atmo resistance like compared to Kerbin? Like, if my parachutes safely slow down decent on Kerbin, will it also on Laythe?

[@guard13007]

Haha, love the "secret" tips.

[@illegalgamer7045]

Make a vtol firetruck

[@stratotramp6243]

This reminds me of a Cave Johnson phrase "Science isn't about why!, it's about why not!?" 😆 not entirely sure why we'd need a VTOL firetruck... But because we CAN build it we SHOULD!

[@illegalgamer7045]

@@stratotramp6243 i agree

[@intergalacticGM]

The rcs aid mod! Wow I have it installed and didn't even know what is that for, life saver for SSTO planes. (A friend of mine gave me the game and I installed all his mods with Ckan)

[@ComradePhoenix]

Damn, its been a full decade since I've heard dubstep.

[@valecasini]

Oh boy I'm starting to love KZbin recommendations! (Only 25 minutes after the upload) 4:55 mmmh so the parachute with the node on the top (to attach on it the tower escape system) create more drag (without that system snapped on top)!? Cuz I recently have done an airplane with a parachute on the nose cone and it work very well but if that parachute have more drag than a normal nose cone then I'm loosing a lot of potential of that craft (I haven't yet unlocked the small nosecones so I can't do test as for now) 8:14 🤣🤣

[@JimmyThree-Balls]

You should check out and learn throttle controlled avionics and show it off. That and atmospheric auto pilot you can do amazing things in ksp

[@steamproductions]

Cool! You should have more subs Also I think piolet broke your ssto record just watch the video

[@Sooqa00]

In this rcs build aid you can look thrust torque. This mod more helpful then you can imagine)

[@zaphods2ndhead193]

I watched till the end. Lol. Only 13 days left to 2.0!!!

[@GABRIEL-ej4ei]

A bit late to seeing the video but space space cult forever. "You should of watched the whole video" Good tactics Capitan

[@thefenresgamer666]

Imma go make to variations of this ssto One with raipers, one with whiplash and panthers.

[@PalassCat]

Nice little thing, both aerodynamically and aesthetically. I'd like to see something like this but Mun or Duna - capable. All my medium range VTOL SSTOs tend to have terrible aerodynamics, even worse look and they can VTOL only on Duna or lesser celestials because only nuclear engines can rotate (I couldn't put all types of engines on hinges without too much wobbliness or ugliness)

[@user-gy3yf9hy6h]

Great video! Really helped! Just a quick note, you made a grammatical mistake in the description, it says "Helping YOU make you're very own VTOL SSTO" , when it should say "Helping YOU make your very own VTOL SSTO". But it doesn't matter, great tips!

[@chadjeremiah5048]

Hectic dubstep music

[@fiercebluejay13]

First!

[@Imarius086]

I was wondering about the node on the back of the service bay the whole video XD

[@gamesonly40]

you should try free iva mod in ksp. It is really great mod that allows the Kerbal to move around the ship in first person (inside). Really great for base

[@eekee6034]

Music: Awesome! Ship: Serious Business! Kerbal: Waddle! Clamber! Stumble! Me: 🤣

[@lunarcod7187]

the hazardish incident

[@larsnnamdre8697]

No not the first dang it

[@SteveS63]

Thanks for this video. I made mine a bit bigger (4 section shuttle cargo bay w/8 Rapiers on each wing). It's a bit touchy on the controls but took it to orbit and landed it. Over shot the runway a bit, about 1/4 of the planet, so I'm wondering when is a good time to retro-burn? I tried 90* prior that time so was planning to try about 170* or so. Do you have a ball park area that you use for retro-burn on a space plane? Also, how can I determine if I have enough wing? I could not maintain altitude without keeping the nose up so I'm thinking I need more wing sections but am running out of places to put engines. My TtW ratio is about 1.33/1 with an empty cargo bay.

[@captainjirk9564]

When I'm aiming for the KSC I like to be in atmosphere by the desert to the west, if that helps. Re-entry takes a long time, it'll be a lot of trial and error before you get it right.

[@traviscecil3903]

You should have watched the who.......But, I did watch.

[@Erika-ky2ph]

I love you

[@LordOfSky_41G]

:O

[@lordanubis9783]

How do I build this on Xbox without the helpful tools? Btw thanks for your awesome Content!

[@vaos3712]

i wish i could help you but im only PC

[@imtall31]

I'm not sure what I did wrong. When I go go to normal flight, my craft just wants to keep banking one way or the other. I feel like a victim of the kraken.

[@luisvega6580]

Bug ThE FUK OUT! too funny 😁

[@franciscomaio4612]

What about VTOL ssrt space plane?

[@SPACECATIZZY]

im not sure why but for me my robot parts do not want to go down, if I start with them in "vtol" mode, they snap back to flight mode, and even point upwards. i am playing modded, so I hope it isn't a mod issue. any ideas?

[@vaos3712]

14:50 … also make sure your robotic parts have Autostrut Disabled.

[@beimanuel942]

am i buggin or you turned off restock when you did a test flight

[@Spacewalker1870]

why does for me (im building a vtol jet) and im using the same technice of engine placement like in a service bay/hinge combo and for some reason one of the two hinges will decide it doesnt want to work at all... IDK why it does this but it like makes the hinges not work/turn

[@vaos3712]

14:49 😎

[@Spacewalker1870]

@@vaos3712 Thank you, although I did manage to figure this out by testing, but this is still helpful to know as now i know for sure that is the problem

[@Spacewalker1870]

and interestingly enough this has happened to me before where I encounter a problem because I dont watch the entire video lol

[@JustBadAtGames]

SPACE CULT!

[@Misty0639]

When is the next colony vid???

[@vaos3712]

no clue

[@solaxiom2797]

So... ugh... If you are still reading comments, I need helpT_T For some misterious reason one of the hinges always wobble like shit, no matter if its copied or rebuilt by hand. Seems like a bug to me, actually. So, ugh... whats your game version exactly?

[@blakec8723]

I followed the whole tutorial. The problem is that when I switch from vertical to horizontal, the hinges become super floppy. How do I fix this?

[@vaos3712]

make an action group that locks the hinges after the switch. just spam it until ur sure their locked. then make an action group that unlocks them before you go vertical.

[@blakec8723]

@@vaos3712 Tried that. I get an error message saying something like: cannot lock hinge while it is moving. It looks like the Rapier gimbal is messing it up? I tried disabling gimbal before locking, which didn't work. I also tried increasing damping and decreasing traverse rate. And I made it slightly different from your tutorial (main difference I used a drone core instead of the cargo bay thing).

[@vaos3712]

@@blakec8723 Ya thats a common error message, best u can do is spam the lock action group key and hopefully it locks after a few time. Also the reason i put only the engine and two light weight aerodynamic parts on the hing is because those hinges are horrible with too much weight. So put as little as possible on them or the wobble will be real bad. Other than that, all i can do is wish you the best of luck captain 🫡

[@blakec8723]

@@vaos3712 Thanks. I hope you get to 30k subs soon. Your content is amazing.

[@larsnnamdre8697]

Hi one question why dont you upload your blueprints so every one could downlode them??

[@vaos3712]

one day. 😎

[@larsnnamdre8697]

Nice😎

[@hatman4818]

Nice😎

[@aarongarcia4388]

Damn I really want to use this design but for some reason it completely just doesn’t work :/ I even built it following your vid to the inch Edit: Yeah for some reason the second I shift the engines the hinge fucking breaks , I love KSP

[@xTwisteDx]

That intro needs to be trimmed back a bit. Almost clicked away.

[@Chan-minion]

Don't show lockheed martin this

[@cript3109]

Man, this ssto dosen't work for me. Why?

[@cript3109]

I've followed every step, until the end of the video. it can't fly

[@cript3109]

The engines don't have enough thrust in VTOL mode and when i try to take off normally, the engines start to swing and i crash.

[@xionix4]

VAOS ARE YOUE EXCITED FOR KSP 2?!?!?!??!?!!!???!?/!1?!!11!??!ONE!1?!??/!??SLASH!/!??!

[@keylaneproductions1977]

This doesn't work

[@vaos3712]

That’s strange. Everyone else is telling me that it works fine. Maybe you have a mod like FAR or something messing up the craft flight characteristics. Good luck on getting it figured out. 😎👍

[@keylaneproductions1977]

@@vaos3712 for something more in depth, vtol mode kinda didn't work on the right engine but I fixed that. Shuttle mode works fine but vtol mode flips it over. (I am unable to see dry mass)

[@keylaneproductions1977]

I never figured it out@@vaos3712

[@BOMBO-]

unfortunate intro

[@christopherhovord3516]

[@Imrandom69]

:O