Aircraft are surprisingly difficult beasts to build and control, building a stable, flyable aircraft is surprising complicated, so this is the first of a number of tutorials on the mechanics of aircraft in KSP (and to a certain extent, reality). All we concentrate on here is the dynamics of winged aircraft, we'll look at landing gear & engines in later videos. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-TFRnVyjso

Words by Scott, music, melody & performance by Skye, Rocket crashes provided by armies of dedicated engineers working with zero margin for error. We thank these engineers for their work and hope they embrace failure as a learning opportunity. Every line refers to one or more specific failure of a spacecraft, sometimes quite spectacular. Lyrics: If your main fuel tank has sprung a leak You will not go to space today If your I M U is upside down You will not go to space today If your flight com pu ter can’t count that high You will not go to space today If your S R B has a hairline crack You will not go to space today They say space is hard So you know that it’s ok that your rocket just crashed into the ground And you didn’t go to space today. When your gy-ro-scopes hit gimbal lock You will not go to space today When hyd rau lic fluid gets used up You will not go to space today When you lose con tact with ground control You will not go to space today When your cab les short and gets unplugged You will not go to space today They say space is hard So you know that it’s ok that your payload simply failed to deploy And it didn’t stay in space today. (solo?) RUD and FTS will ruin any day. Sometimes your probe will lithobrake. Or burn up in the air…… If a helium tank just won’t stay put You will not go you space today If there’s Solid Oxygen in your tanks You will not go to space today If your turbo-pump can’t handle the load. You will not go to space today And sometimes politics gets in the way and you’ll never go to space today. Or ever for that matter….. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayu0GsrvKQA