MAXIMUM RANGE: 10+ Circumnavigations on Jet Power | KSP 1.10.1

[@Stratzenblitz75]

Big thanks to Ridge for sending me this wallet and supporting the channel! Here’s the site if you want to check them out! > ridge.com/S75 Oh and also, do you nerds like data? Well, I recorded a bunch of information over the flight (such as lat/long, engine temperature) so if you want to analyze that, be my guest! Feel free to download the csv here: drive.google.com/file/d/1_dx2Cfos_2amoO7W_nQD6YQ0Ue3P_z65/view

[@DeezNuts17999]

I like your ksp content

[@ThePyrojen]

RIPOFF WALLET

[@Bibibosh]

Hey dude. Is it possible to discard the used fuel tanks to reduce weight?

[@Stratzenblitz75]

@@Bibibosh Adding drop tanks like this would allow it go significantly further, but then it wouldn't be single stage anymore.

[@Bibibosh]

@@Stratzenblitz75 We Australian's have such tiny rockets, but your rocket is a strong masculine rocket. Mucher than miner but. i have always dreamed of a rocket that sheds its weight like a snake. Like a pez dispenser. Yeah a pez rocket! Dude .... make a Pez Rocket. Hahaha

[@randomguy0047]

It's not a Stratzenblitz video without poor little wings trying their absolute hardest to lift a megachonker

[@smakkacowtherealone]

It's also not a stratzenblitz video without over 1000 parts no matter what the size

[@ATemplarIGuess]

Its also also not a Stratzenblitz video without spending at least a dozen hours piloting

[@sushijones]

"The aim of this mission is to achieve low Kerbin orbit." "Sounds easy enough." "You haven't heard HOW low..."

[@Piglin_Emperor]

Well. Laythe has Oxygen too.... Hmm.... if we find an all-Sea circle on Laythe.... we can orbit.... close Enough to take a Sample while in Orbit?

[@xfyre128_8]

Can we take a moment to appreciate this man's PC it didn't instantly die running 3.24 tons of flags

[@Stratzenblitz75]

While it didn't die during the flight, it sometimes did if I crashed the plane. One time when I crashed it into the terrain, the game almost exceeded my 32 gb of memory.

[@drdesten]

rip

[@sr-fk9dz]

@@Stratzenblitz75 I would just to crash

[@j.r.7339]

@@Stratzenblitz75 3GB of Ram?! Why not 64 or 128? xD

[@psun256]

@@Stratzenblitz75 What are your pc specs?

[@stanleybowman-hood6194]

0:55 never thought I would see a jet engine shrine in my life

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

No one jet should have so much pow-er!

[@vuza752]

That engine shines brighter than my future

[@britishneko3906]

I want it

[@KnightofSaintJohn]

That moment when you realize that If Stratz had just bounced for a couple more hours, he could've made a nice round 20 circumnavigations....

[@cyrylo23]

He did only ~1/3 of 20th circumnavigation so he had ~2500km to go. Bouncing at 6.2m/s would take almost 5 Earth days, its over 3 times as much time as all the other 19 circumnavigations.

[@KnightofSaintJohn]

@@cyrylo23 but still.... ;-)

[@Stratzenblitz75]

I'll have you all know I tried really hard to make this 20 circumnavigations. Sadly, my optimization efforts didn't quite make it...

[@kerbodynamicx472]

What about utilizing the efficiency heat shield wings?

[@KnightofSaintJohn]

@@Stratzenblitz75 I hope this goes without saying, but I was just messing with ya ;-) Couldn't resist trolling you a little hehe

[@Zuckerkome]

Stratzenblitz: No clipping tanks Also Stratzenblitz: *810 FLAGS*

[@hamburgerhamburgerv2]

no clipping _tanks_

[@deadmemes21]

Never said anything about flags

[@VortexStolenName]

when that lil bit of water finally comes out of your ear 6:40 15:35 dangit again

[@bca_4321]

i legitimately thought my speakers were dying

[@keithcrusader]

Glad I'm not the only one with this issue...

[@somethingforsenro]

@@keithcrusader it's probably just that the audio in those sections got copyright struck

[@Tarbarian]

As a note for the curious, this aircraft (assuming Kerbal physics in real life) could almost circumnavigate the Earth twice (80,150 km vs 73,308 km).

[@super4jet]

So that would mean if you were to fly from New York to let's say Singapore and you missed the approach (or you're just going around), you would just fly around the earth and try again. Well but one issue remaining is everyone on board starved to death by then...

[@ValentineC137]

Lines up pretty well taking into account that kerbin is 1/10 the size then 40,075 x 1.9 (19 rounds on kerbin) = 76,142.5 which is slightly over what he achived, likely caused by altitude variations and differences in equator path compared to the starting flight path

[@anunayy]

@@super4jet We can carry food... Oh wait, Can humans drink Liquid "fuel".

[@sentientlemonbattery]

i mean humans have made planes that flew for 2 months straight so its definitely possible but very improbable

[@thelordz33]

@@super4jet you wouldn't starve to death in 2 days

[@theoncomingdork1]

stratzen: im gonna do 19 circumnavigations of the world over 21 hours of real time and land it intact again ocean: hehe water bouncy

[@nikolamatic9457]

"To cool the engine, I put 3 tons of flags" Seems alright

[@Ikaros---]

I need an explanation of this.

[@kedrednael]

​@@Ikaros--- The engine on its own can't get radiate enough heat and will blow up. But it transfers some heat to each attached flags, which each radiate some of the heat, they act like radiators. I think he didn't use normal radiators because those give more drag?

[@captainheat2314]

@@kedrednael flags radiate more heat per ton than radiators

[@kedrednael]

@@captainheat2314 Wow that's crazy. Thanks captain heat!

[@Coli2603]

@@captainheat2314 KSP logic at it’s finest

[@Peterscraps]

classy music choices dude.

[@katsukamijo3943]

The musis is so enjoyable I didn't even skip the continuous and monotonous laps around kerbin. Just went with it (y)

[@MisterGoose]

Sadly I am only the 68th like in this comment

[@Mpinecone]

a man of culture i see. How ya doing peter?

[@mr365truck]

didnt know you liked ksp

[@Stratzenblitz75]

I only curate the best synthwave ;)

[@Electric_Bagpipes]

We all know rapiers are the best for endurance flights! The trick is to get above the atmosphere. You don’t even need your engine much after that!

[@danielstatler954]

Man's a damn genius. Why didn't he think if getting into orbit. Infinite circumnavigations

[@greecevstheworld]

@@danielstatler954 there is a way to get to orbit but you need to use momentum from rotation

[@moonwalkhi]

@@greecevstheworld he made a video on that..

[@SteviePonder123]

I have just started doing "real physics" in school, and can I just say, these have been a big help

[@Stratzenblitz75]

That's awesome! I'm really happy these videos are helpful for you

What is "real physics"?

[@MemeMorto]

@ Ele ta estudando física

[@davisdf3064]

This is honestly air-intaking... I mean breathtaking

[@turf6863]

Breathtaking.

[@davisdf3064]

@@turf6863 thanks!

[@translatedfatwas4218]

@@davisdf3064 Thanks*

[@riot2136]

Why must we suffer Reaper poopyhead*

[@skippy6875]

Que the dad jokes

[@bexterollie]

This is what Bradley Whistance means when he says that he is going to take a “shallow ascent profile”.

[@chickennugget5557]

I saw you doing this on the discord stream... all I can say is, you had fun trying to land the craft in the water

[@deimos434]

hehe angry stratz go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[@michagrill9432]

🤣

[@prrki]

hey that's me in the pilot's seat

[@siriusk1453]

How ya feeling after 19 circumnavigation

[@prrki]

:husk:

[@Nova-gj1wj]

@@prrki well said

[@archae108]

I thought you were called Perky

[@josephu9447]

Do you feel tired after hours of flying on a jet?

[@fictionalarachnid7197]

Ok Stratz, but you've already done jets to orbit, which is infinity circumnavigations lol

[@crugleberryandfriends4740]

Orbit decay is a thing, but you’re right, it would be thousands of circumnavigations (maybe more I don’t know how aggressive orbit decay in KSP is)

[@jackwarbiany6067]

@@crugleberryandfriends4740 past 60 (maybe 70) kilometers, KSP doesn't simulate an atmosphere

[@jamnchips]

@@jackwarbiany6067 it does a little bit if you're in physics warp although that could be bc of floating point errors

[@michagrill9432]

@@jamnchips probably the latter. Considering how easy it is to awake the kraken i guess its the error XD

[@Stratzenblitz75]

While this true, I wanted to a "low speed" circumnavigation challenge with an aircraft. Of course its really easy to beat this with anything that can get to orbit

[@cannonCoder]

"The engine is outputting almost 400 MW of heat." With 107 tons of jet fuel, burning it fast enough to produce that heat would burn through the tanks in about three hours. Kraken: lol conservation of energy

[@ghost0mega407]

A thing thats good on your videos is that we can hear the fun you had while doing that. Dont change.

[@harryf9885]

I love how this turned out to also be an accidental infinite range kraken drive watercraft.

[@owenschafer4750]

Alternative title: Kerbin's Longest Yeet

[@russiangoose4349]

or as i would say the worlds longest yeet that doesn't end in a burning pile of wreckage in the first two minutes

[@thelastroman7791]

14:20-15:30 That has got to be the most breathtaking sequence I’ve ever seen in a KSP video. The visuals, the music, everything was so perfect it actually made me tear up, bravo sir.

[@distraughtcat]

6:40 when you finally pop your ears

[@David-py7os]

For some earthly reference, that's roughly about 1.83 trips around the Earth's circumference

[@kspmissions9314]

I guess I'm ready to have my mind blown again

[@ITER345]

Really should be the most upvoted comment

[@zchris13]

FYI: Fuel consumption is directly correlated with thrust. Thrust decreases with altitude. Conveniently, so does drag. This bears further investigation.

[@Aim54Delta]

I was really confused when he decided to make something fly at sea level. My efforts to make something akin to an SR-71 got really interesting really quick in terms of how far they could go by flying high and fast. I was impressed he got as far as he did with a low level flight like this.

[@mayw6571]

As someone who has a modest understanding of aerodynamics and thermodynamics - I want to tear my hair out at KSP's silliness. JETS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! As someone who loves a good engineering challenge, I salute your awesome work, once again! o7

[@eekee6034]

Sometimes, I feel like that. I couldn't make a plane like this and be happy with it except just sometimes, like when I'm in the mood for hacks.

[@dsdy1205]

Sounds like the both of you need Ferram Aerospace

[@madsphilipsen7078]

1 word: Art. Absolutely love the mathematical approach.

[@SameBasicRiff]

Dude you are BY FAR my favourite YT channel, combining Electronic Gems, 3Blue1Brown, and Scott Manley all into one channel almost. THANK YOU for EVERY SINGLE VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!

[@berylrose2270]

The distance visualization is super cool!

[@luciousmcleverson9516]

I half expected the bouncing to be part of your plan and have you bounce around the world again.

[@Aceb_k]

"Special thanks to *the people in the vc for helping with sanity*"

[@horticultural_industries]

"We have a strange case of bouncy water."

[@auregamer5]

Next video: infinite range boat powered by bouncy water.

[@sierra1513]

"bouncy water" kinda just sounds like waves

[@comradesoupbeans4437]

laughs in desk fan with an RTG and wings

[@harryf9885]

It is incredible seeing how far you were able to compromise the other aspects of the plane in pursuit of range while still getting it to work. The fact that it needs to go super sonic to take off and takes multiple laps of Kerbin on a special low lying path to reach it’s cruising altitude is so cool to me.

[@freddierhodes8201]

When you realise that his calming and interesting voice got you to watch 20 mins of a plane flying in a straight line..

[@sidoubenras7277]

I appreciate the time you dedicated to this.. I love ksp and everything related to it... Very cool vids as always

[@thecodewarrior7925]

The cinematography is amazing, as always. The low flying shots, the appropriately metal jet engine shrine to the greatest engine of them all, shots with highly specific framing to make room for elements in post… The amount of thought and care that goes into filming these is incredible, and it really shows. I’ve watched your getting to orbit under jet power and Duna under electric power videos at least a dozen times, and they never fail to elicit a sense of awe. But Eve ∞ 2… that one is a masterwork. The music, the cinematography, the sheer scale and engineering of it… it gives me chills every time, even after easily twenty times watching it. Edit: I just rewatched it and how could I forget the *editing!* The smash cuts, the transitions, making use of music beats to accentuate events, make hard cuts feel natural, and so much more! There are so many little details that don’t just *happen.* It takes deliberate thought, time, care, and a loving attention to detail, and you demonstrate all of those time and time again.

[@jaapaapje586]

18:06 and he waddles away

[@internetnetman6846]

0:56 the legendary jet engine of glory it will give stranzenblitz75 his likes and subscribers

[@ricesilew1278]

You have just invented the powered orbit! Congratulations! With your newfound knowledge (and possibly a bug or two), can you build an aircraft that does not need to land? I think solar may be your best option, but I don't know...

[@durvius2657]

Great video, amazing editing, and love how you do data collection. Really inspires me to learn more. :)

[@Stratzenblitz75]

Thank you! I did the data collection with KRPC. If you're interested in programming, I highly recommend you check it out; its super versatile

[@Milkyway_Squid]

For reference, the longest IRL flight was 41,467.46 km by Steve Fossett

[@GeomancerHT]

In the 60's a couple of guys flew a cessna during almost 70 days covering 150,000 miles.

[@dsdy1205]

That was with refuelling tho...

[@kittyn5222]

​@@dsdy1205it's still a long flight

[@nerfjanetreal]

0:56 its also the "i break when you touch me with a finger" engine

[@izen9999]

"Let's do this again" Wait what *Actually lands this monstrosity at 70 m/s* w h a t

[@henrikr8183]

I appreciate seeing LaTeX in a KSP video

[@ryanm.191]

I’m expecting the next video to be something like ‘in flight drilling and refuelling’ or ‘air to air refuelling’

[@matt1yas]

"I had a lot of fun doing that"... 21hrs straight behind a screen doing circles around Kerbin... not my definition of fun but damn you got my respect

[@mekafinchi]

Damn that was almost 1 and 7/8 of a circumnavigation of the IRL Earth

[@ondrikb]

Absolutely mindblowing! I don't have any other words to say.

[@Stratzenblitz75]

Thank you Ondrik!

[@chillmemegod4197]

Just subbed! been watching you for a while a video I watched from you was the mass driver one that was great but on the other hand When Stratzenblitz releases a new video Me: Its about to get crazy

[@Piolet1549]

Looks like you did get hearted, gg

[@chillmemegod4197]

told ya

[@Kahoonamints-xf6kb]

The whole lapping plane thing was cool and must have taken a lot of time, but the number of probes he put around Kerban must have taken WAY longer. Give this man a reward or something.

[@kaptain1477]

Imagine a rocket engine with this efficiency.

[@t_y8274]

It's called a kraken drive

[@hamburgerhamburger4064]

@@t_y8274 e v e n b e t t e r

[@XTARSAGENCY]

Its the Legendary N U C L E A R T H E R M A L E N G I N E yep

[@faruk4310]

nerve engine

[@hphp31416]

@@XTARSAGENCY about a quater of isp

[@catland88]

Congratulations. You built a... Loiter capableish intercontinental supersonic cruise missile, with terrain guidance. What the hell.

[@AstronomicalYT]

The amount of time you must have put into this video is ridiculous

[@Stratzenblitz75]

Yea... I wanted this to be a quicker video, but it turned into a huge endevour to get working. It took several days to optimize my design to the point I was happy with it, and then a literal day to fly the mission. It turned out this is really complicated thing to optimize for. As I mentioned in the video, its not a good idea to load up as much fuel as possible since then you'll end up flying slower. I did a lot of tests to find out what the best fuel loading would be and eventually settled on what I had in the video. In the end, I'm very happy that the supersonic option ended up better. With a subsonic design, I was only getting an estimated 10-15 circumnavigations and that would've taken much longer due to flying slower.

[@carrotsandrunning]

And after all that, my favorite bit is the kerbal on the beach

[@RileyMarkley]

These are the best ksp videos available. Keep up the good work.

[@doughboi20956]

Everyone else using flags as cosmetics and Strats is here using them as radiators and light speed progectiles

[@aditya7808]

Your videos are insanely underrated!!

[@giraudy221]

Was kinda expecting you to end with making a custom version out of rotors and fairings Any plans for the next livestream?

[@beaclaster]

With (custom car engine) - fuel injector and burner torch?

[@kevinduliesco5468]

My man had a sponsor,let's congratulate him:)

[@cooldude2251]

"Oh no the nose cone blew up. Gotta try that again." Me: Oh I lost an engine, a landing leg and a Kerbal. Eh that's the best I got time to go home.

[@toasterhavingabath6980]

Eh its *just spares*

[@missingno-xk7kp]

I love FM84 holy shit. Never thought I'd see someone using his stuff in a KSP video of all places.

[@natsirt9809]

wow. I never really used goliaths for anything before except for airliners. Now I really want to make a laythe SSTO with them

[@eddycolangelo]

I mean, I know he's just flexing on the whole ksp community at this point, but jeez, the creativity, the effort, he puts into it, it's crazy!! Nice video, as always 😂😂

[@SlacksOfficial]

9:30 mmyes powr

[@a4h426]

As always, a remarkably impressive video, can’t imagine the work that went into it, thumbs up for sure

[@kwekker]

Why is the audio weird past 5 mins

[@douglasdtlltd]

Strange

[@lilithname4100]

My guess is that the background music is copyrighted and was cut out by youtube. This results in a very bad audio quality of what's left.

[@jordanmcintyre7953]

Cause he is in a plane

[@Akotski-ys9rr]

Copyrighted music. It’s KZbin’s automatic music removal tool

[@kwekker]

@@Akotski-ys9rr ah that makes sense I guess

[@cryoshakespeare4465]

I love your commentary vids, really combine well with the epic music video skills!

[@JOSHTIME1]

hehehe the plane looks like me drawing a goose at age 5

[@laminatedpipe]

Wow what an awesome video. The time you must have put into this is amazing. Great job my man I’ll have to watch your other videos as well

[@Stratzenblitz75]

Thank you! I hope you enjoy my other content as well!

[@freddymaster0057]

I did did same thing a few months ago, got 9 times around kerbin exactley, landing at ksc with > 10 units left, part count of around 30 dont remember, with a cruising speed of about 1700m/s at an altitude of 24km

[@David-fi9yu]

"We've also run out of ice shit" 7:04

[@spookykitty2327]

unpopular opinion: if a piece of content (audio/video) is allowed to be used in a KZbin video, then it should be allowed to remain as is even if the copyright status of the content changes.

[@Adam_32]

Great work Stratz, love your stuff man. Keep on chugging along!!!

[@gibhacker8121]

5 days 4 hours = 34 hours of continuous flight

[@Stratzenblitz75]

kerbin days are 6 hours long, so that does work out to 34 hours. Its is weird how short kerbin days are

[@skippy6875]

Then again, the kerbin Soler system is a lot smaller than earths. (I'm shore everyone knew that)

[@skippy6875]

And I'm sure I spelt shore right

[@benistingray6097]

Just discovered your channel, recommendations actually worked this time lol. Absolutly love your unique craft desings, you got a sub more!

[@tech_of_steel20official]

What happened to your audio from 4:15 to 6:41? (it also happens a bit after flameout again) other than that very cool video, might try this out sometime

[@sb1396u]

There is most likely copyrighted music and KZbin I believe has a tool that removes the music while attempting to preserve all other audio

[@tech_of_steel20official]

@@sb1396u Yeah... I've used it before, not the greatest thing, that's why I always check if a song is copyrighted.

[@superconfort]

I love the love you put on your videos. THANKS

[@notaulgoodman9732]

Why is the audio busted? Around 5-7 minutes in.

[@spagamoto]

Pilot: Tower, be advised. We've got about 5% fuel left. ATC: Copy. Do you need a list of nearby airports for emergency landing? Pilot: Negative, tower. We can reach all of them. ATC: *blink*

[@irregularguy6465]

is it just me or does the audio sound like he's underwater sometimes in this video

[@yeetus9191]

yeah i was wondering why nobody pointed this out

[@Roswellandco]

@@yeetus9191 copyright

[@Roswellandco]

copyright

[@Phoenix-ik7bm]

man you just keep adding more and more crazy ksp records to your belt.

[@pearified371]

what happened to the audio at 4:10 ?

[@ray_rg23499]

Copyrighted music

[@EvelynNdenial]

discovering the wiggler drive by accident was a great way to finish this.

[@silvervaliant]

Why is KZbin recommended always so up to date?

[@Elijahish]

This man has all the time in the world if he can do challenges like these.

[@taurinetrashmann259]

If you crash this thing you’re going to have an instantaneous ecological disaster with all that fuel

[@ee8475]

I like this guy. he plays games to learn and use math and stuff. I enjoy hearing about all this. subscribed

[@asdoesstuff]

Bro why when you get to the part where u introduce the thing the voice goes weird???

[@chwedcheesebgr]

KZbin compression over time, I watched it long ago and it sounded normal

[@Almond_ESQ]

@@chwedcheesebgr It'll be because KZbin or himself has isolated his voice probably because of copyrighted music.

[@chwedcheesebgr]

@@Almond_ESQ that doesn't explain the dive in quality in the voice unless it was lazily done and was left low bit

[@notyourroad]

Very impressive! Dang you're practically scraping some of those peaks toward the end.

[@hamburgerhamburgerv2]

What’s with the sudden audio quality decrease?

[@mikestion4629]

I like how this contraption is capable of going SO FAST that it's capable of racing the goddamn Sun. that's poggers as hell

[@M167A1]

I want to play with that "sol flyer" now to reverse engineer it

[@denikec]

I love your music choices. I thought I left my spotify playlist on at first lol

[@Zorro9129]

Range is technically infinite with in-flight refueling.

[@witchofengineering]

It is funny how tips to maximize range in KSP are almost entirely different to the ones in real life. Also, your flights reminds me, I once circumnavigated the entire Kerbin using a propeller-powered boat ), with some small plane wheels to cross that land gap, (took few days of real-time, planned out some waypoints and used KOS program to follow them) except starting at KSC and then turning back to it, followed almost 100% the same path as your plane.

[@gioworno]

I did a transfer from the KSC to the south pole in 10 minutes with only jet power (all of it below 25km), is it good? (Also, the plane has enough delta-v to circle the earth (probably))

[@eekee6034]

Uh... I'm not an expert but have had a bit of fun with planes. I think the stock Ravenspear Mk3 could probably do it in 15 minutes if you're good at landing, and it's not really a great plane. I threw together a plane in 15 minutes which is its equal but uses much less fuel. I'm almost sure the stock Dove could do it in 10 minutes if you unloaded the oxidizer. The Dove is pretty awesome in some ways; hard to beat for high lift, high speed, & high acceleration, but it's short-range. So... your plane is pretty good; up there with the best of stock.

[@gioworno]

@@eekee6034 oh a lot of stuff happened since i made this comment, my new plane is capable of doing atmospheric orbits now :D

[@humbletrack5448]

Bro... No way.. 😮. Everytime you outsmart yourself!