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.
Garmin Emergency Autoland Flight Trial
AVweb's flight trial of Garmin's Emergency Autoland system, which flies a plane to a runway and lands it when the pilot cannot.
HomeMade Electric Airplane
Peter Sripol shows his homemade Part 103 electric airplane flying, built from hobby brushless motors and batteries.
Onboard quadrocopter failsafe: flight after actuator failure
ETH Zurich researchers demonstrate a quadrocopter that keeps flying stably after losing a motor and propeller entirely, with the algorithm running onboard while a pilot flies it.
ROTATING DETONATION ENGINE
A hobbyist build-and-experiment video on rotating detonation engines (RDEs), where a continuous detonation wave spins around an annular chamber.
A380 Blade Off Test
Footage of an Airbus A380 engine blade-off test, in which a fan blade is deliberately released at full thrust to show the engine contains the failure.
AAA THE F-35 IS A LEMON PIERRE SPREY (RUNAWAY FIGHTER) FIFTH ESTATE EXTENDED INTERVW
An extended Fifth Estate interview with Pierre Sprey, designer of the A-10 and a key figure behind the F-16, arguing the F-35 is an over-engineered, expensive failure.
“Bitchin’ Betty” Says Farewell: Beloved Voice Behind Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet Retires
A short Boeing piece on the retirement of the voice behind the F/A-18 Super Hornet cockpit warning system, nicknamed Bitchin' Betty.
The wings on this Airbus flex way more than they should
A one-minute clip from Insider showing an Airbus airliner's wings flexing far more than most people expect during a wing load test.
Oregon Christmas Tree Harvest With Helicopter. Amazing Pilot!
A short clip of a helicopter pilot harvesting Christmas trees at an Oregon farm with a sling load.
Vertical Landing Rockets Before SpaceX
Curious Droid surveys vertical take-off and landing rockets that predate SpaceX and Blue Origin, including the McDonnell Douglas DC-X of the 1990s.
New World Record RC Airplane Speed 548mph
A GoPro-recorded flight of an RC glider setting a 548 mph dynamic soaring speed record at Parker Mountain, California, using only wind gradients.
Airplane crash altiport de Megève france altiport france landing without landing gear (HD)
Cockpit footage of an approach to the Megeve altiport in France that ends in a gear-up landing, with the warning horn audible throughout.
ThomsonFly 757 bird strike & flames captured on video
Amateur footage of a Thomsonfly 757 ingesting a bird on takeoff from Manchester, with a flaming engine and a safe return, with 233 people aboard.
ATTOL: Autonomous Taxiing, Take-Off and Landing test flight
Short Airbus footage of its ATTOL project, in which a test aircraft performed a fully automatic, vision-based take-off at Toulouse-Blagnac.
Boeing 707 Barrel Roll - Pilot Tex Johnston Performs Roll In Dash-80 Prototype Aircraft In 1955
Archival footage of Boeing test pilot Tex Johnston barrel-rolling the 707 prototype, the Dash-80, over Lake Washington in 1955 during a demonstration.
Egg Drop From Space
Mark Rober and Joe Barnard drop an egg from a high-altitude balloon, using a camera-guided glider to steer it to a safe landing.
Gary Connery's Wingsuit Landing without using a Parachute
Stuntman Gary Connery jumps from a helicopter at 2,400 feet in a wingsuit and lands without a parachute on a runway of stacked cardboard boxes, the first such landing.
Spacer Installation on 765,000 volt line
Helmet-camera footage of linemen installing a spacer on an energized 765,000 volt transmission line, working from a helicopter.
Total Destruction Redux: F4 Phantom vs. Concrete Wall - Additional Camera Angles
Additional camera angles of the 1988 Sandia National Laboratories rocket-sled test in which an F-4 Phantom was crashed at about 500 mph into a block of reinforced concrete.
How the 737 MAX 10 landing gear works
A short Boeing-supplied clip where the 737 MAX program's chief project engineer explains how the lengthened landing gear of the MAX 10 folds up.
XRS-2200 Linear Aerospike Engine Test fire at NASA Stennis Space Center (SSC)
A short test firing of the XRS-2200 linear aerospike engine at NASA Stennis Space Center, which was designed for the cancelled X-33 VentureStar.
Space Shuttle RTLS Abort Challenge - Without The Manual
Scott Manley tries a Space Shuttle Return To Launch Site abort in the Orbiter simulator without manuals or checklists.
RC KFC bucket aeroplane (magnus effect)
Peter Sripol builds and flies an RC aeroplane whose wings are rotating KFC buckets, using the Magnus effect (Flettner rotors) for lift.
Flyboard® Air Test 1
Promotional video from Zapata Racing showing Franky Zapata flying the Flyboard Air prototype, claiming autonomous flight to 10,000 feet, 150 km/h top speed and 10 minutes of endurance.