Setting The CIRCUMNAVIGATION World Record in Kerbal Space Program 2

How did I get mach 122? Well, 4200m/s is mach 12.2, and distances in the ksp system are 1/10 that of real life, so 122!

[TankManTim]

I like how the design went from completely reasonable to insanity

[rhodium]

My guy really out here trying to drift a rocket

[KrazyKaiser]

That final trajectory was mindblowing, you could have scraped across the runway and STILL escaped Kerbins SOI you were going so damn fast.

[nameofthename_]

2:19 "For some reason it wanted to veer to the side"

Said right after he turned one engine on before the other.

[ReidCaptain]

Should I try any other records in ksp2? I was thinking of maybe even attempting the land speed record myself!

[thatsstoguy]

I bet the reason why the first plane didn't work is because the jets were blocked by the elevators.

[trailbler]

Bro whipped out the desmos calculator and said "according to my calulations"

[hatman]

Well since there's no heat in ksp2 yet, you could do that in a lower orbit with an air and fuel mixture, you just have to make a craft that doesn't have alot of drag
Btw you should try a speed record to the moon and back for funsies lol

[OrbitalGirl]

ok but the speed of sound isn't affected by the size of the Kerbol system, so speed of sound would still be sqrt(gamma*R*T), so tho it wouldn't necessarily be the usual 340 m/s of low atmosphere it would probably not be mach 122

checking Earth standard atmosphere tables and assuming similar atmosphere composition, 60 km above Kerbin would probably be similar to ~80 km above earth bc density and pressure, so that gives us a speed of sound of ~282.5 m/s. So based on the fastest speed I saw while watching the video (~4550 m/s), we get Mach 16.1.

so pretty fast

[DecidedlyNinja]

I was so proud of Reid for making a plane with horizontal stabilizers.
Then he made a nuclear rocket plane that throws its reactor at the space center.

[duythuchoang]

RC at the start: So I got this jet, a bit unstable but we're going to work on that
RC halfway through: Ok so I got some boosters strapped on my initial boosters and after that I will burn straight into the ground

[jasonseigfried]

I like how instead of building for low drag, efficiency, and speed he just went "YEET ME AROUND THE WORLD"

[ModestFlamingo-znec]

Martin CITO pants went so fast he went was the the atmosphere in 00.1 seconds

[outputcoupler]

Set friction to 0 on your nose wheel to fix the veering on takeoff problem, btw.

[Roaxial]

it might be possible to get it quicker by doing 2 circumnavigations, the first one to build speed and get into position, and the second one to actually get the time

[jackdieter]

my dude goes up and down 3 octaves twice in one sentence.

[phyllostomus]

You should upload the unedited full circumnavigation if you can. That way there's a good standard of comparison for people to compete with.

[MaxGuides]

Your engines are partially occluded which matters in KSP2. …can still angle wings behind the engines even post-patch for weird vtol-like thrust at the cost of engine power…but you can always just sepraton the deflector-wings once you are airborn until we get robotics parts.

[MrTrevortxeartxe]

What the hell... are those little _Kerbonaut skeletons_ floating in orbit around planet Kerbin?? 0:13

[caleb_gilmer]

“Yo I heard you like planes so I put a plane on your plane”
3:06