PickVidsBest Aviation & aerospace engineering Videos
The 124 Aviation & aerospace engineering videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 1 introductory, 12 intermediate, 109 for a general viewer, and 2 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Wendover Productions, Mentour Pilot, AVweb.
Hovering a Helicopter is Hilariously Hard - Smarter Every Day 145
Smarter Every Day host Destin Sandlin tries to hover a helicopter and finds it very hard.
altitude chamber hypoxia training guy passes out
Footage of FAA altitude chamber hypoxia training for pilots in which a participant passes out from oxygen deprivation.
EEVblog #854 - B52 Bomber Automatic Astro Compass Teardown
Dave Jones of EEVblog tears down a Kollsman MD-1 Automatic Astro Compass, a mechanical analog computer from a B-52 bomber.
One Typo, Wrong Continent
CGP Grey explains why airport codes are inconsistent and sometimes confusing, from their origins in old weather station codes to the quirks that cause mistakes.
BTD10: The 835kph Sailplane and Dynamic Soaring
Spencer Lisenby explains dynamic soaring, a technique that lets unpowered radio-controlled gliders reach speeds above 835 kph.
Aircraft Development Update
Lilium's CTO gives a short update on the electric jet's design, certification and development.
What Is A Rotating Detonation Engine - And Why Are They Better Than Regular Engines
Scott Manley explains rotating detonation engines, how they differ from pulsed detonation engines, and why thermodynamics predicts they beat traditional jet and rocket engines.
The Three Rocketeers-2012:BBC-Future of Space trav
A BBC Four documentary following Alan Bond and Reaction Engines as they pursue the Skylon spaceplane and its SABRE engine.
British Airways Boeing 747-400 in D-Check
An Engineering Giants documentary episode following a British Airways Boeing 747-400 through a D-check, the heaviest maintenance inspection, in Cardiff.
Are Planes With Parachutes Really Safer?
AVweb's Paul Bertorelli analyzes the safety record of the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS), looking at the 90-plus deployments over 20 years of Cirrus flying.
World's First Human-Powered Ornithopter
A short clip of the Snowbird, a human-powered ornithopter built by University of Toronto students.
21st Century Jet - Building the Boeing 777 - Full Episode 1
The first episode of the 1996 PBS documentary series on the creation of the Boeing 777.
Robert Moss: Julia and the Next Generation Airborne Collision Avoidance System
Robert Moss's JuliaCon 2015 talk describes using Julia as a specification language for ACAS X, the next-generation airborne collision avoidance system that succeeds TCAS.
Feature Discovery Series Episode 3: Aerodynamics
A Microsoft Flight Simulator Feature Discovery episode in which CEO Sebastian Wloch explains the new aerodynamics simulation for the 2020 release.
How Boeing Lost Its Way
A Bloomberg documentary on how Boeing's failures around the 737 Max crashes followed a shift in company culture and cost-cutting.
Introducing Safe Return Emergency Autoland
Cirrus introduces Safe Return, an emergency autoland system for its Vision Jet.
I Landed A Rocket Like SpaceX - Scout F
Joe Barnard of BPS.space shows his model rocket Scout F landing vertically like a SpaceX booster after seven years of attempts.
1/6 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
Pierre Sprey, a designer of the F-16 and A-10, explains why he thinks the F-35 will not hold up on the modern battlefield.
MIT ACL - Variable Pitch Quadrotor
A short MIT Aerospace Controls Lab demo from 2011 of a variable pitch quadrotor flying.
Control Malfunctions & Flight Instrument Anomalies, by Captain Warren VanderBurgh.
An American Airlines training video by Captain Warren VanderBurgh on control malfunctions and flight instrument anomalies.
Electroflight | Fully Charged
A Fully Charged episode on Electroflight, an early-stage project to build a fully electric racing plane that can exceed 300 mph.
Air Traffic Control: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment covers the working conditions of US air traffic controllers and the understaffing, outdated equipment (including floppy disks) and funding structure of the FAA.
USS Forrestal C-130 Hercules Carrier Landing Trials
Short archival footage of a USMC KC-130F Hercules making unarrested landings and takeoffs on the USS Forrestal in 1963.
Ion drive: The first flight
Nature video showing MIT researchers flying the first plane with no moving parts, powered by an ion drive that creates an ionic wind from high-powered electrodes.