Hullo It's Scott Manley here and in mundane everyday flight by Lodfurt and Wilthis Kerman has
turned into a nightmare as Badguy Kerman has hijacked the aircraft
but little does he know they are being shadowed by a mysterious jet piloted by Moxie Kerman.
Yes moxie Kerman has a plan to save the day!
Moxie Kerman is going to try some mid-air docking here using the claw. I figured: having the stream hijacked?
Why not try dealing with a hijack in aircraft form because of the potential for things crashing and exploding?
I thought this would be a lot of fun
So boy this is going to be really really hard
this is basically a stock Velocities with a claw attached to the rear does not do a great deal for the
Aerodynamics, but it has enough thrust to weight ratio that it should be able to keep up with this otherwise
stock Mallard
So yeah Moxie Kerman here [uh] yeah. I dunno, that was a random name that came up; I obviously edited Badguy Kerman
There we go yes, so if you might have heard there was a movie called executive decision in the 90s
Which I remember because It had Kurt Russell as like a phd, you know, spy or whatever and Steven Seagal as a badass
Dude. And they did this exact thing in that movie. There's an airliner
that's been hijacked and they send in a special squad and they dock with it in an aircraft
and then the movie actually takes a turn for the awesome by
killing off Steven Seagal in that scene and leaving it to Kurt Russell who is of course trying to play a
Phd Smart dude trying to rescue a plane and
This is actually really really hard. Yeah, I'm not I wouldn't necessarily recommend
executive decision as a fantastic piece of filmmaking but
It does break from Tradition by killing off the the badass early on in the movie
Okay
So obviously they had slightly better pilots than me and slightly bigger aircraft
oh man, and they didn't fly this using keyboard controls. This is so hard. I've done this several times
This is my, my third attempt
Actually, I was successful in many previous attempts, but I decided I want to go for the cinematics
I figured out exactly what sequence of events is going to happen here to tell the story using Kerbals
That green heads-up display
Which is providing essential information during the rendezvous is being supplied by Void vessel orbital information display
It's not really displaying orbital information. I mean I guess it is displaying orbital information, but we're not really in orbit
Okay, come in
Come closer, my dear
Moxie Kerman
pilot extraordinaire, badass extraordinaire, because obviously she's gonna perform the...
She's gonna storm the flight on her own!
Now this flight has a bomb on board it has one hijacker and two crew
We're gonna Escape in this aircraft. So we just gotta get docked with the cargo hatch or whatever.
Oh too high again! good thing that planes don't really have rearview mirrors
That is quite often a problem in the aircraft were the crew- Come on!
Yes! yes! ha ha ha ha ha! ok, now
Better put the engines back on which zeroed out for some reason
Moxie! head to the-, head to the crew-, head to the cockpit! There we go!
Have a quick bit of fisticuffs with Badguy, we all know how that's gonna end up
Yes! Badguy kicked out the hatch!
And he's holding on for dear life, but his grip fails, and he falls away to his doom! ha ha!
Tis isn't very scientific is it? but it is kind of funny.
Now, Quick! we need to get off of there that bomb was linked to Badguy's
Heart rate or something like that the moment he hits the water this plane will explode
Quick, get out of there! Ludford get in there, and Moxie: You're the last one, You're the expert. Jump in.
Jump into there and then, quick release the claws so that we can escape
Yay!
There he is falling and there's a plane doomed, but the other one is escaping
Of course I had to blow it up using Whack a Kerbal. And we're now gonna throttle up, pull out of this dive.
Pulling away, where is it? Let's see if we can actually get close to the Debris
I see it kind of falling out of the sky there.
Oh look wait, we're going the wrong way
We're going up too fast let's zip over and chase after it. At least not chase it all the way down
Yeah, this is just like a pastiche of all those action movies
where crazy stuff happens. look at it I wonder when how far ahead it's got on us.
It's gonna hit the water soon!
Hey, there's light, and we escaped; Debris everywhere
But we are victorious. And that is of course
How you successfully deal with a plane hijack In Kerbal space program. Now how we
unsuccessfully deal with Hijacks
You know I think this might be slightly bugged
But never mind. Let's chase after it. I'm gonna try and fly formation with a cockpit
I think there's something really, In fact I think that is actually receding away from me here
I'm gonna Chase it down watch this. [oh], where'd it go?
I'm not really in a position to land this thing, but let's adjust my course for the runway
this approach is slightly Steeper than I would like and
No, pitch the nose down pitch the nose down, okay? Wow I am
What is going on here? It's just like pitching up like something insane
Push the nose down. I'm not, okay throttle up throttle up. Let's get out of here and let's figure out why my planes not fly-
What?
this thing is just like, um oh I like how it's in orbit at 140, 150 meters per second and
yet somehow. It's actually going way faster than that is that it
This is crazy.
Yeah, Kerbal space program physics. Do not ever change. We love you the way you are
Okay, final approach
I think, I think this is gonna be fine, but it'll certainly be better than the alternatives. Which generally involve breaking the universe
We're just gonna break this plane as we land on top off it
Gently does it
Slightly off-Center. Oh there, there we go yes! But you know
what look we have, we've only lost one tiny flap on this aircraft. We've lost the wing on the other one
but we don't care about that. A brilliant landing if I do say so myself!
That is that is truly marvelous, that is wonderful to behold.
Should probably detach this things so we can repair it, there we go. Oh yeah and we broke the front off. Let's try flying.
Wait [oh]
What is going on here? Let's try fly this again. I'm just gonna try flying this.
Oh well at least, at least this one the physics seems to be working fine. Let's uh, let's get up there, and we still have this
Advanced Grabbing unit
The heads-up display, or the Ui widget is still there. Let's turn around. Yeah Oh look yeah
There's a bit: Just floating there in the sky. Do you see it just above the runway?
Let's go investigate what this is.
Ah Yes, Kerbal Space Program
We love your physics, you are the greatest physics engine in the world
Oh Okay
Let's crank it, it's amazing how physics that can be this glitchy can be so educational at the same time
There we go. Yeah, I think, yeah that is a mark one cockpit
Just kinda floating there in the sky. I like it. That is really good
Why have I got this, why have I got this UI like sitting around here, right? It says advanced. Let's try releasing it- Oh
My goodness, there it goes, yeah we just released the the whole rear of the aircraft
I'm sorry guys. I don't think I can rescue you: bye!
(Explosions)
Go home. You're drunk. Okay?
Yeah wonder how far this thing will fly; I wonder if it will destroy. No, it's just gonna do a backflip.
Aaaand, Slap! Well there you go. I'm Scott Manly, fly safe
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