Skydiver here! Done about 20 wingsuit jumps. Proximity flying is what you were referencing, and is usually done with a base jumper set up. It's also very dangerous! Skydiving itself is relatively safe, barring operator error!
Also, there are skysurfing boards. But those are very dangerous, provide no lift and only drag, and are dangerous due to the fact that you can easily give yourself a "horseshoe malfunction." That is, when you deploy your parachute, there is a chance the pilot chute can deploy between your legs like threading a needle. The results can very likely be entanglement with the chute (even if you cut your main chute away it can stay wrapped up) and subsequently death be rapid deceleration. Otherwise known as the "splat" effect.
drewnonstar I remember seeing those skysurfing boards when I was a little kid in the intro of the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers The movie! haha that's awesome that they really exist.
Scott Manley Impressive. Still waiting for a rocket assisted landing suit. That reminds me, you should make like a drop pod or rocket platform or something like that in KSP.
That was cheating. IMHO, you'd have to land on something not set up to provide a soft landing. If he didn't have those boxes, he would have had a pretty bad day.
Scott Manley - Says "fly safe" (Tries to land a surf board, from space, with no protection, in a miniature lake smaller than an inflatable family pool)
Stefan Spatz Benson, Arizona, blew warm wind through your hair My body flies the galaxy, my heart longs to be there Benson, Arizona, the same stars in the sky But they seemed so much kinder when we watched them, you and I...
This video truly accrues more evidence for my theory: Command Pods are actually hazardous components of a spacecraft. Kerbals survive better outside of them. Ergo, Command seats FTW :P
Watching Scott maneuvering through KSP's clunky crafting system with such elegance while it takes me half an hour to construct a bloody rover there's nothing left for me to do but to envy
I know that this Reply is over a year late but they are called Skegs and are much needed for control.I am glad that I ran across this one because I was born and raised in Hawaii. Love surfing! I am gonna try this one. especially since I am at 1.1.3 right now and got plenty of parts mods
DUDE! That was awesome. As an aside I have seen video of people jumping out of a plane with something that looked like a cross between a surf board and a snow board, it was sized in between and had places to shoehorn your feet into so you stayed on the board, at some point they pulled the cord for the chute and the board drops off their feet to dangle from a cord.
Thanks for building stuff like this! I have actually watched a lot of your interesting designs closely, as I'm ALWAYS afraid to overlap wing pieces and have parts clipping into each other because I assume it'll just make it explode. But like with the tail control surfaces you have overlapped here I see again that I can be much more liberal with constructing things than I allow myself to be. Keep up the Science and Gaming, thanks for the vids!
I was going to suggest dropping it from a big aircraft rather than launching from the ground, like with the X-15... but then you dropped it out of orbit instead, which was awesome. I like how the pilot looks super calm while crash landing into the swimming pool. What a quintessentially Kerbal moment. XD
"None of these have been fatal, they only left them paralyzed from the neck down." - Scott
"he is not dead, he is just... inanimate." brilliant, i have to remember this one :)
The good side of this is none of these things have been fatal, they've just left him paralysed from the neck down.
Scott is such an optimist
"He's only mostly dead"
That smallfighter could be worse...
he could be dead.
trisymphony Hes not dead its a trick......get an axe! and axe him a few questions! :p
Misterdazzling nice
My favourite quotes:
"Well he's not dead, he's just...inanimate."
"This thing actually flies rather well when it's flying forwards."
I like how the broken piece of surfboard flew away at the end.
Could make it into a slygif.
Dacino Hoihe
Or not...ffs.
"He's not dead, he's just... inanimate"
You copied trisymphony
@@lumbagouncle800 I think we all copied Scott
@@lumbagouncle800 are you an actual idiot? @Ur senpai said it first. trisymophony copied him
Skydiver here! Done about 20 wingsuit jumps. Proximity flying is what you were referencing, and is usually done with a base jumper set up. It's also very dangerous! Skydiving itself is relatively safe, barring operator error!
Also, there are skysurfing boards. But those are very dangerous, provide no lift and only drag, and are dangerous due to the fact that you can easily give yourself a "horseshoe malfunction." That is, when you deploy your parachute, there is a chance the pilot chute can deploy between your legs like threading a needle. The results can very likely be entanglement with the chute (even if you cut your main chute away it can stay wrapped up) and subsequently death be rapid deceleration. Otherwise known as the "splat" effect.
drewnonstar I remember seeing those skysurfing boards when I was a little kid in the intro of the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers The movie! haha that's awesome that they really exist.
You should totaly do this again with the Wii Balance Board!
He's not dead, he's just.... inanimate.
Scott Manley-2015
Jurassick1546 *"Fly Safe~"* Hell yeah.
*PEEPEE*
"It's starting to shake a little bit, I wonder if there's any physicsless parts..."
*entire spine of surfboard is made of physicsless struts*
After hugging the mountain and gliding all the way back to KSC from orbit... we need a newly named Kerbal....
Korliss Kerman. (After Jeb Corliss)
Cg23sailor Or Gary Kerman - after Gary Connery - first person to land a wingsuit.
Scott Manley Wait, you said land a wing suit?!?!?!?
SlyTy98 th-cam.com/video/DEP8juRSBRo/w-d-xo.html
Scott Manley Impressive. Still waiting for a rocket assisted landing suit. That reminds me, you should make like a drop pod or rocket platform or something like that in KSP.
That was cheating. IMHO, you'd have to land on something not set up to provide a soft landing. If he didn't have those boxes, he would have had a pretty bad day.
Scott Manley - Says "fly safe"
(Tries to land a surf board, from space, with no protection, in a miniature lake smaller than an inflatable family pool)
This is probably one of the coolest videos I have seen yet from KSP.
Totally reminds me of the Treasure planet movie, where the kid surfs through the canyons on his solar sail surfboard thingy. So badass
Scott makes a flying surfboard that flies better than most of my ships and spaceplanes
Scott is not the hero we need, nor deserve, but he surely is the hero we want.
During re-entry:
"WHYYYYY!? WHY WON'T I DIE!?"
flies a surfboard from space and halfway round the planet, only to crash it and almost completely destroy it in the ceo's swimming pool
18:07 Watch the wing. o.e
I must go, my people need me!
"it was kinda white and gold, only once I was sitting by the side of the pool did I notice it was blue and black."
:OOOOOOO
soundslave stop if you want answers to the white and gold go to shi show
No! Not this fight again!
Luke Diggle
I just assumed it was just two dresses and someone was playing a prank. So I ignored that episode of sci show.
As soon as I heard Scott say white and gold I came down here for a comment like this xD
Skip function is the best thing you added since the invention of the wheel
ProNerdPanda Some people ask to see the building, but I know you pros just like to see it crashing.
Heh, building is for nurds. The crashing is where it's at.
ProNerdPanda you have pro and nerd in your name not just pro
+ProNerdPanda is that a Scott Pilgrim avatar I see there?
I like at the very end, the surviving wing separates and flies off on its own, gliding in to the air.
We only need ability to rename Kerbals and BAM!
WE GOT JAMES BOND SURFING FROM SPACE.
Simon Seal we have it.
+Simon Seal go in game files and you can name them
Looks also like a homage to the final scene of John Carpenter's Dark Star ;)
Stefan Spatz I was wondering how long it would take for someone to make this reference.
I was thinking the same thing! All we need is a beach ball alien!
Stefan Spatz Benson, Arizona, blew warm wind through your hair
My body flies the galaxy, my heart longs to be there
Benson, Arizona, the same stars in the sky
But they seemed so much kinder when we watched them, you and I...
Stefan Spatz Haha, was about to make the same comment! :) I can hear the country song in my head! Still my favorite Carpenter film.
"Let's have some music in here, Boiler."
By far the most awesome thing I've seen this month. Bravo, good sir.
when you coast to the space center at the end it looks just like a desert skiff from return of the jedi
This is now one of my favourite videos of yours. Right up there with your old KerbalCon contribution
At 18:07 that wing is like: "I'm outta here!"
Hello, Scott Manley here. Today we're fucking physics.
Liam Evans lol
Did you just... lol your own joke..?
Tal Kornfeld no, I meant to add it to the end.
I want him to say this in a video XD
Wei Zhao exactly :D
10:05 that guy working in his office looking out the window WTF is that :D
An awesome video on a channel full of awesome videos. You are a true hero, sir.
This video truly accrues more evidence for my theory: Command Pods are actually hazardous components of a spacecraft. Kerbals survive better outside of them. Ergo, Command seats FTW :P
Truly a breath of fresh air to watch and listen to your commentary.
Everybody's suuuurfiiiin', surfin' Kerbal space. /beachboys
I have enjoyed many of your videos.
This one is truly epic lol
One of the coolest things I have ever seen in KSP! Keep up the good work.
One of the more entertaining things I've watched someone do on this game. Definitely looks like a lot of fun flying that.
Watching Scott maneuvering through KSP's clunky crafting system with such elegance while it takes me half an hour to construct a bloody rover there's nothing left for me to do but to envy
So awesome!! Just needed the Hawaii Five-0 theme and you're all set!
You, sir, are a mad-man!
I love your videos.
I know that this Reply is over a year late but they are called Skegs and are much needed for control.I am glad that I ran across this one because I was born and raised in Hawaii. Love surfing! I am gonna try this one. especially since I am at 1.1.3 right now and got plenty of parts mods
amazing creation from the manliest if men, Scott Manley! keep up the fun videos!
The film 'Dark Star' came to mind :)
One of your funniest and most honest video since a long time!
thank you
That is quite literally my favorite thing I've ever seen in KSP. Particularly that first launch, and how much it behaved like a surfboard.
5:50 I swear I heard a cat meow. The first time I heard it, I thought it was my cat and started searching the room for him
It's an Aloha shirt Scott! Glad you got to visit our beautiful islands!
Welcome back Scott! Glad you came home safe!
Scott, you just made every Eureka 7 fan's dream come true.
Danny2462 = Scott Manley confirmed
Same energy, different direction.
@@AssistantCoreAQI like what happens during reentry
i really want to see a part 2 cant get enough of this surfboard
Dude I def enjoy watching your videos man haha. Keep them coming
THAT WAS BRILLIANT XD. Love how u managed to get back to the space center hahaha
18:09
" A true hero, surfing back from space,
I'm Scott Manley, fly safe."
That sounds pretty cool‼️🙂
I am simply amazed at how survivable this little craft is!
Now we just need to mass produce these hoverboards and the Back to the Future Prophecy will be fulfilled.
hans iI
He's like a leaf on the wind.
That was amazing! And so creative!
DUDE! That was awesome. As an aside I have seen video of people jumping out of a plane with something that looked like a cross between a surf board and a snow board, it was sized in between and had places to shoehorn your feet into so you stayed on the board, at some point they pulled the cord for the chute and the board drops off their feet to dangle from a cord.
Omg make a Green Goblin Glider with 2 jet engines
Joshua McLellan Something like this th-cam.com/video/BgXwdz9yZxY/w-d-xo.html
ya but it has to be a VTOL - and self propelled
you could use actives for the tips too
i dont mod games, so mine doesnt work so well
One of your best experiments ever!
Great Video,Scott! You inspired me to create my own KSP surfboard! It actually "flies!"(glides)
You should do the Hijacked plane rescue, but with a surfboard as the rescue craft...
Bodacious.
Dude, Scoot was so radical man, did you see how awesome his board was.
Major Missile
Hang six!
Nassault
*_TOTALLY GNARLY DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD_*
_I'm sorry._
Lithium No you're not.
Love your videos Nassault :3
That looked incredibly fun!
Jaw-dropping awesomeness! Bravo!
Hi Scott, Love your vids. Your my go to guy when I need to learn game play.
Great video! Surfing down from orbit reminded me of one of the final scenes from the 1974 movie Dark Star.
That is possibly one of the coolest things I've ever seen in KSP
Welcome back Scott, Missed ya! ;)
binging scott's old videos, very fun
A surfboard that can get beyond the atmosphere? Sign me up!
I feel like this is a valid first step for any space program.
Somehow, I feel like this is the ultimate crossover between KSP, Eureka 7, and Dr. Strangelove...
erebus08 E7!
"Back in control!"
*Flips over in victory, thus losing control*
"Nvm"
"we want this thing to be stable" he says, about to surf through atmospheric reentry.
Awesome experiment into the aerodynamics of KSP.
A new definition for Windsurfing!
Awseome video, loved this one!
Shakas bro!
Can you put this for download? I really wanna fly it... I made my own, but it's really unstable and wobbles a lot.
Dani Paunov it’s quite simple, probably less than 10 partsyou can build it
Did you build it yet?
Probably my favorite thing I've seen someone make in KSP for awhile. I may have a stab at making one myself.
Jebadaiah is just shreddin'..... His board to pieces.
Welcome back, Scott!
Thanks for building stuff like this! I have actually watched a lot of your interesting designs closely, as I'm ALWAYS afraid to overlap wing pieces and have parts clipping into each other because I assume it'll just make it explode. But like with the tail control surfaces you have overlapped here I see again that I can be much more liberal with constructing things than I allow myself to be.
Keep up the Science and Gaming, thanks for the vids!
This reminded me of the air surfing in Eureka 7.
Thats so AWSOME!!!! great vid
It looks to function like the Kerbal equivalent of a wing-suit. Well discovered!
it amazes me how well that flew.
I was going to suggest dropping it from a big aircraft rather than launching from the ground, like with the X-15... but then you dropped it out of orbit instead, which was awesome. I like how the pilot looks super calm while crash landing into the swimming pool. What a quintessentially Kerbal moment. XD
I want download now ;-; I can just recreate it but its so cool
The 49 dislikes are probably all engineers...
met fourthousand Or physicists
☭
Or kerbals
They wanted to surf the World Wide Web... they couldn’t find a spider's web big enough so they surfed the World instead.
Awesome build!
Silver surfer Kerman is a herald of Kerblactus!
this is absolutely impressive
remembers me on the classic movie "Dark Star"
That was pretty gnarly dude!
this has now become a chanel staple
haha great video as always scott
thanks for teaching me stuff :D
thats the best surfingvid i ever seeing XD
Therapist: don't worry surfer Scott Manley cant hust you
surfer Scott Manley: flies a surfboard through atmospheric reentry