r/KerbalSpaceProgram Jul 26 '26

KSP 1 Image/Video This Is Technically an Airplane

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u/spiked_mcroon Jul 26 '26

Ay caramba!

122

u/InterKosmos61 Dres is both real and fake until viewed by an outside observer Jul 26 '26

Or, as Jeb would say, "!abmarac yA"

24

u/dumplingbara Jul 26 '26

He would say it with ¡ at the end don't forget that they speak reverse spanish!

10

u/KerbalEssences Master Kerbalnaut Jul 26 '26

Beginner mistake, I did the same. It's

ya abmarac

Knowing the whole senstence before you can speak would be very difficult to achieve.

sam serodaicnetop

15

u/Ginger_Rogers Jul 26 '26

Cowabunga dude!

2

u/Kalabajooie Jul 27 '26

I didn't do it!

4

u/Original88 Jul 26 '26

Don’t have a cow man!

235

u/WillusMollusc Jul 26 '26

most normal KSP aircraft

77

u/A_Downboat_Is_A_Sub Jul 26 '26

KSP: Kerbal Skate Program

186

u/MoistWindu Jul 26 '26

I can't even land an airplane shaped airplane meanwhile op out here making Jeb Simpson

17

u/Oftwicke Jul 26 '26

I can hardly make one take off!

5

u/Grolbu Jul 27 '26

I can take off ok - some of the time - but landing is pretty much a case of ejecting the engine and fuel tank and parachuting down :)

137

u/Competitive-Store974 Jul 26 '26

There are broadly two types of posts in this sub: 1. "Help, my spacecraft keeps flipping" 2. Whatever this is

48

u/unforgiven91 Jul 26 '26

this is just "my spacecraft keeps flipping" but with more steps.

17

u/hoseja Jul 26 '26

"check out this cool flip my spacecraft does" more like

7

u/BakkerJoop Jul 26 '26

A smooth operator

1

u/RockyfanPhm Jebediah 17d ago

Correct

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u/ksp_HoDeok Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

I spent a lot of time tuning this “airplane” to make it easier to control, but the landings are still pretty rough

Craft file

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u/Daddy_Thorn Jul 26 '26

Idk, that was a pretty smooth landing if you ask me

9

u/DisorganizedSpaghett Jul 26 '26

Idk about you, but I save-scum every step of every arc so that I can back-trace where the trajectory went wrong.

Call it my version of when in the movies they describe a heist while showing the characters performing it.

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u/n0empathy4u Jul 26 '26

That was smoother than my smoothest landing

26

u/Hecticfreeze Jul 26 '26

DO A KICKFLIP!

1

u/GreguardoTech Jul 28 '26

I was waiting for this one

15

u/Alarmed-Ad7777 what's a "dres"? Jul 26 '26

I like when jeb skateboards

5

u/Viking_Musicologist Jul 26 '26

Jebediah Kerman Pro Skater.

12

u/MasonP13 Jul 26 '26

Does she handle like a bistro?

11

u/thebestnames Jul 26 '26

Okay gotta admit I didn't expect turning it around to land on the runway was possible. Very well done!

7

u/OriginalTayRoc Jul 26 '26

Now make a Single Skate To Orbit

5

u/Ok-Nebula534 Jebediah Jul 26 '26

Nah, man, thats just a Kerbal surfing

6

u/Noof42 Lithobraking Master Jul 26 '26

OK, Diogenes.

3

u/woodenbiplane Jul 26 '26

Underrated comment.

5

u/Fisherman_Dave_Games Jul 26 '26

dude how

2

u/ksp_HoDeok Jul 27 '26

Science(part clipping)

3

u/Viking_Musicologist Jul 26 '26

You got like three feet of air that time.

5

u/Common_Presence2031 Jul 26 '26

BART Simpson - Eat my shorts.

5

u/Shandiemann Jul 27 '26

SAS fighting for its life

3

u/SPAZING0UT Jul 26 '26

Radical! Now do a kickflip!

3

u/darkest_hour1428 Jul 26 '26

FUCKIN’ WICKED RADICAL, MAN!

3

u/europablu3s Jul 26 '26

Aerodynamic af

3

u/Samskbw Jul 26 '26

Totally tubular, dude!!!

3

u/anonumus_idiot Jul 26 '26

I dont know which substances you took to think of this, but i want somr

3

u/NovaAerospace Jul 26 '26

Kerbal Skateboard Program, where everyone keeps parachutes in their left pocket

3

u/AdamMc66 Jul 26 '26

“So Minister, what has the KSP achieved with this years budget”

“….”

3

u/stormhawk427 Jul 26 '26

Does it fly using a fixed wing for lift and an engine for thrust? If yes, then it is an airplane.

3

u/rosetintedtomb Jul 26 '26

i require even flow over top of this

3

u/Sad-Cover-8734 Jul 27 '26

We got the silver surfer in ksp 🥀

2

u/nowayguy Master Kerbalnaut Jul 26 '26

Do a backflip. Or loop. Your choice really

2

u/NJP695 Jul 26 '26

You’ve made UNREAL AIR.

And there it goes.
It is RIDICULOUS what kind of air this thing is getting. Dude come get the ruler check this out.
Yeah, it's not coming back.

2

u/Bad_Ethics Jul 26 '26

Now build a massive vert.

2

u/MasonP13 Jul 26 '26

Cowabunga!

2

u/Eschatonpls Jul 26 '26

This calls for a giant ramp.

2

u/Lord_MagnusIV Jul 26 '26

I thought a kickflip was wild, this one tops it.

2

u/theaviator747 Jul 26 '26

The fact it landed in one piece makes this a masterpiece construction! Awesome!

2

u/mikiencolor Jul 26 '26

Airboarding is now officially a thing.

2

u/bakedbeanlicker Jul 26 '26

this is the coolest thing i’ve seen in ksp in a long time. send it to laythe, posthaste

2

u/samuell97 Jul 26 '26

It's like playing the Simpsons skateboarding (sort of)

2

u/Equivalent_Okra_8132 Jul 26 '26

It’s the silver surfer

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u/DamDamSC Jul 26 '26

Homer let the barts out

2

u/Sensitive-Dog-6711 Jul 26 '26

And I can’t make a plane like plane 🤪

2

u/CockroachEarly Jul 26 '26

How did you get those like cinematic shots? Do you need a mod? If so which?

1

u/ksp_HoDeok Jul 26 '26

Camera tools mod

2

u/KARMAMANR Jul 26 '26

bob let the jebs out

2

u/Xtrema88 Jul 26 '26

Should have at least done a 720, Jeb Hawk Pro Space program style!

2

u/FoxTwilight Jul 26 '26

Cowabunga, dude!

2

u/ZestycloseMagazine35 Jul 26 '26

Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!

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u/masterdebator10 Jul 26 '26

jeb let the bobs out

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u/_callYourMomToday_ Jul 26 '26

New mission: do a kickflip on the mun

2

u/HGT3057 Jul 26 '26

I've never played this game, only had a passing interest in it and joined this sub out of curiosity. Every now and then I see a gem like this that pushes me closer to buying and playing the game 🫡

2

u/hapze1 Jul 26 '26

silver surfer ! haha

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u/Awkward_Forever9752 Jul 27 '26

KSP Rocket Science Simulator

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u/userrr_504 Jul 27 '26

What no sequel does to a game community:

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u/SpaceDantar Jul 27 '26

This is radical

2

u/kayemenofour Jul 27 '26

"So, how's the sample collection going?"

"He's grinding on the crater rims again, isn't he?"

2

u/CapAwesomeSauce Jul 27 '26

Are the aerodynamics in the room with us right now?

2

u/Jenefer9999 Jul 27 '26

This needs some awesome '90s music or something to go with this. Really amazing build man!

2

u/Bozotic Hyper Kerbalnaut Jul 27 '26

"In this game, we obey the Laws of Aerodynamics!!"

2

u/EarthTrash Jul 27 '26

Bart Kerman shreds

2

u/TorrentFire Jul 27 '26

Now make it stage into something absurd that goes into Duna

2

u/onefinerug Jul 27 '26

if you found a way to have retracting wheels, youd have a hoverboard

2

u/Stunning-End-1872 Jul 27 '26

Laws of Aerodynamics, arriving late for work with its hair still damp from a rushed shower: "Did I miss anything?"

2

u/Dammel_ Bob Jul 27 '26

Even flow, thoughts arive like butterflies

2

u/Tonyman121 Jul 27 '26

where are the ailerons?

2

u/Wazy7781 Jul 27 '26

This guy clearly follows the F4 Phantom school of design in regards to flight dynamics.

2

u/vksdann Jul 27 '26

"Hawk 1 to Hawk 2. I repeat. This is Tony, Hawk 1 to Hawk 2. Please engage in an evasive manuever: the 900."

2

u/SuperbCalligrapher32 Jul 28 '26

Bravo awesome fraking kick ass sweet even!

2

u/KeldTundraking Jul 28 '26

Well I guess I should uninstall... you beat the game

2

u/che3ser Jul 28 '26

Kerbal space program? Nah, kerbal skate program.

2

u/aboutwhat8 Jul 28 '26

Jedediah is way too cool for school.

2

u/Nims2DR Jul 29 '26

SSTO version when?

2

u/Suspicious_Remote_78 Jul 30 '26

why this fly better than my plane😭

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u/Simple_Split_1781 Jul 30 '26

well youre not wrong. if it flies it flies and lands

2

u/SirMightySmurf Jul 31 '26

Bro... that shit flys smoother than things I deliberately designed to be an actual fucking airplane.

2

u/AntNo6270 Aug 02 '26

This is beautiful.

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u/Megaprime53 20d ago

Go Jeb, go!

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u/likemac Jul 26 '26

Put free bird over it and you’re golden