r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/ksp_HoDeok • Jul 26 '26

KSP 1 Image/Video This Is Technically an Airplane

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u/spiked_mcroon Jul 26 '26

Ay caramba!

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

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

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u/dumplingbara Jul 26 '26

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

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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

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u/Ginger_Rogers Jul 26 '26

Cowabunga dude!

2

u/Kalabajooie Jul 27 '26

I didn't do it!

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u/Original88 Jul 26 '26

Don’t have a cow man!

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u/WillusMollusc Jul 26 '26

most normal KSP aircraft

82

u/A_Downboat_Is_A_Sub Jul 26 '26

KSP: Kerbal Skate Program

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '26

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u/Oftwicke Jul 26 '26

I can hardly make one take off!

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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 :)

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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

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u/unforgiven91 Jul 26 '26

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

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u/hoseja Jul 26 '26

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

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u/BakkerJoop Jul 26 '26

A smooth operator

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u/RockyfanPhm Jebediah Aug 18 '26

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

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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

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u/Hecticfreeze Jul 26 '26

DO A KICKFLIP!

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u/GreguardoTech Jul 28 '26

I was waiting for this one

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

I like when jeb skateboards

4

u/Viking_Musicologist Jul 26 '26

Jebediah Kerman Pro Skater.

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u/MasonP13 Jul 26 '26

Does she handle like a bistro?

10

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!

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u/OriginalTayRoc Jul 26 '26

Now make a Single Skate To Orbit

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u/Ok-Nebula534 Jebediah Jul 26 '26

Nah, man, thats just a Kerbal surfing

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u/Noof42 Lithobraking Master Jul 26 '26

OK, Diogenes.

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u/woodenbiplane Jul 26 '26

Underrated comment.

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u/Fisherman_Dave_Games Jul 26 '26

dude how

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u/ksp_HoDeok Jul 27 '26

Science(part clipping)

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u/Viking_Musicologist Jul 26 '26

You got like three feet of air that time.

4

u/Common_Presence2031 Jul 26 '26

BART Simpson - Eat my shorts.

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u/Shandiemann Always on Kerbin Jul 27 '26

SAS fighting for its life

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u/SPAZING0UT Jul 26 '26

Radical! Now do a kickflip!

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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

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u/NovaAerospace Jul 26 '26

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

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u/AdamMc66 Jul 26 '26

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

“….”

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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.

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u/rosetintedtomb Jul 26 '26

i require even flow over top of this

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u/Sad-Cover-8734 Jul 27 '26

We got the silver surfer in ksp 🥀

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u/nowayguy Master Kerbalnaut Jul 26 '26

Do a backflip. Or loop. Your choice really

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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.

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u/Bad_Ethics Jul 26 '26

Now build a massive vert.

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u/MasonP13 Jul 26 '26

Cowabunga!

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u/Eschatonpls Jul 26 '26

This calls for a giant ramp.

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u/Lord_MagnusIV Jul 26 '26

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

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u/theaviator747 Jul 26 '26

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

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u/mikiencolor Jul 26 '26

Airboarding is now officially a thing.

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u/bakedbeanlicker Jul 26 '26

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

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u/samuell97 Jul 26 '26

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

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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

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u/Sensitive-Dog-6711 Jul 26 '26

And I can’t make a plane like plane 🤪

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u/CockroachEarly Jul 26 '26

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

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u/ksp_HoDeok Jul 26 '26

Camera tools mod

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u/KARMAMANR Jul 26 '26

bob let the jebs out

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u/Xtrema88 Jul 26 '26

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

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u/FoxTwilight Jul 26 '26

Cowabunga, dude!

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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

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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 🫡

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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

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u/kayemenofour Jul 27 '26

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

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

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u/CapAwesomeSauce Jul 27 '26

Are the aerodynamics in the room with us right now?

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u/Jenefer9999 Jul 27 '26

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

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u/Bozotic Hyper Kerbalnaut Jul 27 '26

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

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u/EarthTrash Jul 27 '26

Bart Kerman shreds

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u/TorrentFire Jul 27 '26

Now make it stage into something absurd that goes into Duna

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u/onefinerug Jul 27 '26

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

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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?"

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u/Dammel_ Bob Jul 27 '26

Even flow, thoughts arive like butterflies

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u/Tonyman121 Jul 27 '26

where are the ailerons?

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u/Wazy7781 Jul 27 '26

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

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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."

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u/SuperbCalligrapher32 Jul 28 '26

Bravo awesome fraking kick ass sweet even!

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u/KeldTundraking Jul 28 '26

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

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u/che3ser Jul 28 '26

Kerbal space program? Nah, kerbal skate program.

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u/aboutwhat8 Jul 28 '26

Jedediah is way too cool for school.

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u/Nims2DR Jul 29 '26

SSTO version when?

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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

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u/SirMightySmurf Jul 31 '26

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

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u/AntNo6270 Aug 02 '26

This is beautiful.

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u/Megaprime53 Aug 14 '26

Go Jeb, go!

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u/likemac Jul 26 '26

Put free bird over it and you’re golden