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...
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
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 was watching the video, and then this happened: 3:23 *Scott:* "My wife actually bought me a Hawaiian shirt, and I just thought it was cool-looking, it was kind of white and gold, and I thought 'oh, that's a pretty nice-looking shirt'. Only once I was sitting at the side of the pool did I notice that it actually was --" *Me:* "-- BLACK AND BLUE!!!" (Also, this was one of your most awesome videos ever, Scott.)
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.
So, after watching this, I went back through your archive of KSP videos to check, and, it's confirmed. This is definitely the silliest thing you've ever done in the game.
***** It's still a let's play. Let's play is any video where a youtuber plays a game and talks with the audience, wether real-time or in post, Scripted or not. Then there's Walkthroughs, which are NOT let's plays.
***** Walkthroughs are people playing to show you how to do something, Also known as guides for individual achievements/activities, Let's plays are people playing a game for fun.
You got the name right, but they're usually not angled and boards typically have eith one or three. They also aren't used for turning. Their function is to prevent yaw. The rails (the sides of the board) in conjunction with longitudinal weight transfers are what's used to turn.
From an aerodynamic standpoint your skegs are in the right place but from a hydrodynamic standpoint they would make your board stiff as a.. well... board. The thruster has the twins roughly 6-8 inches forward of the single. I haven't a tri to measure because I drive a twin because I like the old school maneuverability - I have my own custom 6'4" design with a roundedpin tail and channel starting just aft of mid that progressively deepens as it goes aft, widening between the skegs and sloping down and away from the stringer and widening out to the rails so the stringer actually acts as the third skeg. It's a great design that I have used in 2ft beach breaks to 20ft Mexican hurricane to 6ft barreling Fiji tropical reef (double overhead hollow on the face because the water is only 2-3ft deep over the reef). I have been surfing for 40 years and have seen a lot of change in design and technique.
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
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've used parachutes (which, when grabbed by KAS, can still be right-clicked to deploy) to do an extreme exoatmospheric BASE jump, but I've never surfed down through re-entry!
If you switch off the angle snap while placing parts, it'll place them adjacent to the surface normal of the object you're attaching it to. Makes figuring out the orientation of the thing you're attaching a lot easier.
This made me think: does it matter which way the tail fin is, other than it's in the way while landing, and that there's an f-load of stuff in front of it. But the hull and the wings can be arranged so, that the tail fin has a steady airflow through it, right?
Well that worked better then I thought it would I have to give it a try with the small rocket boosters, hope you liked you're trip i used to live in maui for 4 years.
"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.
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.
"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
You should totaly do this again with the Wii Balance Board!
"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*
He's not dead, he's just.... inanimate.
Scott Manley-2015
Jurassick1546 *"Fly Safe~"* Hell yeah.
*PEEPEE*
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.
This is probably one of the coolest videos I have seen yet from KSP.
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)
Scott is not the hero we need, nor deserve, but he surely is the hero we want.
Totally reminds me of the Treasure planet movie, where the kid surfs through the canyons on his solar sail surfboard thingy. So badass
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
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?
During re-entry:
"WHYYYYY!? WHY WON'T I DIE!?"
Scott makes a flying surfboard that flies better than most of my ships and spaceplanes
"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
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."
18:07 Watch the wing. o.e
I must go, my people need me!
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
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
I like at the very end, the surviving wing separates and flies off on its own, gliding in to the air.
By far the most awesome thing I've seen this month. Bravo, good sir.
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?
This is now one of my favourite videos of yours. Right up there with your old KerbalCon contribution
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
when you coast to the space center at the end it looks just like a desert skiff from return of the jedi
One of the more entertaining things I've watched someone do on this game. Definitely looks like a lot of fun flying that.
amazing creation from the manliest if men, Scott Manley! keep up the fun videos!
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
Truly a breath of fresh air to watch and listen to your commentary.
It's an Aloha shirt Scott! Glad you got to visit our beautiful islands!
At 18:07 that wing is like: "I'm outta here!"
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
"we want this thing to be stable" he says, about to surf through atmospheric reentry.
The film 'Dark Star' came to mind :)
One of the coolest things I have ever seen in KSP! Keep up the good work.
One of your funniest and most honest video since a long time!
thank you
Everybody's suuuurfiiiin', surfin' Kerbal space. /beachboys
Scott, you just made every Eureka 7 fan's dream come true.
"Back in control!"
*Flips over in victory, thus losing control*
"Nvm"
18:09
" A true hero, surfing back from space,
I'm Scott Manley, fly safe."
That sounds pretty cool‼️🙂
Great video! Surfing down from orbit reminded me of one of the final scenes from the 1974 movie Dark Star.
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
So awesome!! Just needed the Hawaii Five-0 theme and you're all set!
This reminded me of the air surfing in Eureka 7.
Silver surfer Kerman is a herald of Kerblactus!
Thats one heat resistant space suit
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
remembers me on the classic movie "Dark Star"
Danny2462 = Scott Manley confirmed
Same energy, different direction.
@@AssistantCoreAQI like what happens during reentry
I was watching the video, and then this happened:
3:23 *Scott:* "My wife actually bought me a Hawaiian shirt, and I just thought it was cool-looking, it was kind of white and gold, and I thought 'oh, that's a pretty nice-looking shirt'. Only once I was sitting at the side of the pool did I notice that it actually was --"
*Me:* "-- BLACK AND BLUE!!!"
(Also, this was one of your most awesome videos ever, Scott.)
I have enjoyed many of your videos.
This one is truly epic lol
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.
You should do the Hijacked plane rescue, but with a surfboard as the rescue craft...
Welcome back Scott! Glad you came home safe!
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
A new definition for Windsurfing!
The 49 dislikes are probably all engineers...
met fourthousand Or physicists
☭
Or kerbals
it amazes me how well that flew.
Skip through the building and go to 7:17!
I feel like this is a valid first step for any space program.
Awesome experiment into the aerodynamics of KSP.
You, sir, are a mad-man!
I love your videos.
Ah, some ridge bashing in the mountains towards the end there! Great way to stay airborne if the wind is blowing against the ridge...
Great Video,Scott! You inspired me to create my own KSP surfboard! It actually "flies!"(glides)
He's like a leaf on the wind.
So, after watching this, I went back through your archive of KSP videos to check, and, it's confirmed. This is definitely the silliest thing you've ever done in the game.
"Physics? What's physics?"
Ksp merch!
I hope your gonna have another ksp let play series :D
***** There's not one official designation.
***** It's still a let's play. Let's play is any video where a youtuber plays a game and talks with the audience, wether real-time or in post, Scripted or not. Then there's Walkthroughs, which are NOT let's plays.
I tought walktroughs you use when you get stuck in a game and lets plays are just people who play games who you watch for fun
I thought he wanted to start the next one when 1.0 comes out
***** Walkthroughs are people playing to show you how to do something, Also known as guides for individual achievements/activities, Let's plays are people playing a game for fun.
You got the name right, but they're usually not angled and boards typically have eith one or three. They also aren't used for turning. Their function is to prevent yaw. The rails (the sides of the board) in conjunction with longitudinal weight transfers are what's used to turn.
From an aerodynamic standpoint your skegs are in the right place but from a hydrodynamic standpoint they would make your board stiff as a.. well... board. The thruster has the twins roughly 6-8 inches forward of the single. I haven't a tri to measure because I drive a twin because I like the old school maneuverability - I have my own custom 6'4" design with a roundedpin tail and channel starting just aft of mid that progressively deepens as it goes aft, widening between the skegs and sloping down and away from the stringer and widening out to the rails so the stringer actually acts as the third skeg. It's a great design that I have used in 2ft beach breaks to 20ft Mexican hurricane to 6ft barreling Fiji tropical reef (double overhead hollow on the face because the water is only 2-3ft deep over the reef). I have been surfing for 40 years and have seen a lot of change in design and technique.
That was amazing! And so creative!
Was it white and gold? Or was it black and blue?
TheNerdsInsanity sci show answers at sci show I can't be bothered to explain
Yes.
TheNerdsInsanity See it here - compare with my Blue & Black swim shorts twitter.com/DJSnM/status/584881286495412224
TheNerdsInsanity Both!
I am simply amazed at how survivable this little craft is!
Somehow, I feel like this is the ultimate crossover between KSP, Eureka 7, and Dr. Strangelove...
erebus08 E7!
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
Now we just need to mass produce these hoverboards and the Back to the Future Prophecy will be fulfilled.
hans iI
Jaw-dropping awesomeness! Bravo!
Dude I def enjoy watching your videos man haha. Keep them coming
A surfboard that can get beyond the atmosphere? Sign me up!
i really want to see a part 2 cant get enough of this surfboard
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!
THAT WAS BRILLIANT XD. Love how u managed to get back to the space center hahaha
I've used parachutes (which, when grabbed by KAS, can still be right-clicked to deploy) to do an extreme exoatmospheric BASE jump, but I've never surfed down through re-entry!
If you switch off the angle snap while placing parts, it'll place them adjacent to the surface normal of the object you're attaching it to. Makes figuring out the orientation of the thing you're attaching a lot easier.
Jebadaiah is just shreddin'..... His board to pieces.
Can you publish the surfboard anywhere? It's amazing
This made me think: does it matter which way the tail fin is, other than it's in the way while landing, and that there's an f-load of stuff in front of it. But the hull and the wings can be arranged so, that the tail fin has a steady airflow through it, right?
binging scott's old videos, very fun
They wanted to surf the World Wide Web... they couldn’t find a spider's web big enough so they surfed the World instead.
It looks to function like the Kerbal equivalent of a wing-suit. Well discovered!
Well that worked better then I thought it would I have to give it a try with the small rocket boosters, hope you liked you're trip i used to live in maui for 4 years.
Hello Scott. Can you remind a video where you teaching how to use pitch yaw and roll. Thanks.
That looked incredibly fun!