Learning about planes

[Lopez de la Osa]

I am trying about planes, so I saw Scott Manley's videos... In this one:

in 4:20 he uses 'control surfaces', but when I use then, these little wings (aileron) doesn't move at all. Why? How can I solve this?

Thanks.

[Pecan]

By far the most popular and succesful tutorial on these forums is http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/52080-Basic-Aircraft-Design-Explained-Simply-With-Pictures - you might like to start there :-)

[Starman4308]

I will confirm that that guide is the best one I've seen for new players. The primary thing I would add is that Center of Lift is also known as Center of Pressure, and also happens to be Center of Drag*.

*This explains why CoP behind center of mass gives you stability: just imagine fixing center of mass, and a force trying to push CoP/CoD backwards. If CoD is already behind CoM, that force stabilizes your aircraft: it'll try to keep CoD where it already is. Put CoD in front of CoM, and you'll have a wild ride of trying to keep your plane stable.

[Lopez de la Osa]

I had read that tutorial, and is awersome to learn about aerodinamics, but I think my problem is about Kerbal software... I mean, when I add the control surfaces mentioned in 4:20 in Scott's video and I try to use, these surfaces doesn't work: they doesn't move.

[Master Tao]

Do you have any mods installed? If so, which mods? What versions? What platform do you use (such as, Windows 64-bit KSP)?

[Lopez de la Osa]

Windows 7 Professional - Service Pack 1

KSP 0.24. I am not sure about 64-bit; I use de .exe instead of the launcher, I have the KSP_x64.exe, but I use the KSP.exe to start the game.

Mods:

EngineerRedux-0.6.2.12 Carpeta GameData

DockingPortAlignment_4.0

FinalFrontier0.5.9-177

KerbalAlarmClock_3.0.4.0

and MechJeb2-2.4.0.0 which is useless until 0.25

When I said that my problem is about software I mean about the use of the keyboard or the configuration of the plane... There is something that scape to me; but the fact is that I am not able to work the control surfaces like that video shows...