I also watch matt lowne and am still in the very stage you once were. I just launched my first working plane that can take of and land without exploding and can carry three experiments. It can travel twice as far as the island airfield and i only have the first two rows and aviation unlocked in my tech tree. My first ever flight was in Career mode. It was the Noob default command module, flea, parachute, double mystery goo combo. Nothing went wrong, and it was uninteresting, but fun, because I had just gotten the game.