-Gamah

You said collisions were allowerd, my colissions were powered by liquid fuel rockets... While I did it form the launch pad, I could have done it on the runway too... I kind of cheated, sure... but can I have a "pioneer" award or something for getting it done instead of saying it's impossible? http://imgur.com/a/oA5kX Edit: Through some tweaking/gravity slingshots I could definitely add a delta-v budget to get him to escape kerbin and independently orbit kerbol via rocket pack fuel... but as for now I'm off to bed.

helicopters fly by maintaining a near-constant rotor RPM and varying the pitch of the blades to move about the up/down movement move both (or all four) blades with positive/negative pitch (called collective) the cyclic movement (forward/back, left/right) is "added" to the collective input (the swash moves up/down for collective, but is unrelated to the cyclic tilting.) cyclic is an inverse reaction on either side of the rotor blade, if the heli is to roll left, the blade at the right will be increased a few degrees in pitch while the blade at the left will be decreased. due to physics reasons, the maximum amounts of pitch actually occur before their 90 degree counterparts, but that is the best way I can think to simplify it. the duty of the swash plate is to mix all of these inputs up to the rotor blades smoothly and efficiently.... however from the video here I think you can see it is quite clear that swash plates are not a viable option in KSP

Swash plates are impossible on stock

Am I doing something wrong..?

I'm having trouble getting the chutes to open before launch.... what am I missing?

I tried this but I accidentally gravity