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.
Why Planes Don't Fly Faster
Wendover Productions explains why modern airliners fly no faster than they did decades ago, covering the economics of speed and fuel efficiency, and why supersonic travel faded.
Airbus A340 EMERGENCY - Engine Failure
Cockpit footage of a Swiss Airbus A340 crew dealing with rising oil temperature in one engine on a Zurich to Shanghai flight, ending with a safety landing.
The Long, Twisted And Slightly Ridiculous Story of Avgas Part 1
AVweb's Paul Bertorelli explains why general aviation has failed to replace leaded avgas, blaming industry inertia, bureaucratic delay and an exemption that removes the incentive.
DEFCON 20: Hacker + Airplanes = No Good Can Come Of This
A DEF CON 20 talk by RenderMan on the security weaknesses of ADS-B, the unencrypted, unauthenticated aircraft tracking broadcast.
The Long, Twisted and Slightly Ridiculous Story of Avgas Part 2
AVweb's Paul Bertorelli explains in part two of a series why general aviation has not replaced leaded avgas.
Special Lecture: F-22 Flight Controls
A special lecture from MIT's Private Pilot Ground School in which Lt.
The Original Skunk Works – Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer UK 2017
Nickolas Means tells the story of Lockheed's Skunk Works and how its engineers built the U-2, SR-71 and F-117 under tight deadlines and budgets.
The Five Freedoms of Aviation
A Wendover Productions explainer on the political agreements, from the Chicago Convention onward, that determine which airlines can fly where.
How to Design Impenetrable Airport Security
A Wendover Productions explainer on how airport security is designed, covering screening layers, x-ray scanning, and the contrast with Israel's profiling-based approach.
The real reason Boeing's new plane crashed twice
Vox explainer arguing the two Boeing 737 Max crashes were not just a software bug but the result of a company's drive to beat its rival, with a flawed MCAS design.
How to Land the Space Shuttle... from Space
Bret Copeland, in an astronaut costume, gives an energetic talk on how the Space Shuttle landed from orbit, including reentry and the unpowered glide.
The Ridiculous Engineering Of Jet Engines
Veritasium explains how jet engines run hotter than their components' melting points, using cooling air and single-crystal superalloy turbine blades.
How Budget Airlines Work
A Wendover Productions explainer on how budget airlines can sell tickets for under 10 euros.
Jet Fuel VS Diesel VS Gasoline how they burn and what color are they.
A hands-on comparison of how jet fuel, diesel, heating oil, kerosene, avgas and gasoline burn and what color they are.
Major Brian Shul, USAF (Ret.) SR-71 Blackbird 'Speed Check'
Retired Major Brian Shul tells the story of a ground speed check with LA Center while flying the SR-71 Blackbird.
Armadillo Aerospace - Mod free flight, engine restart, 4 views
A four-pane view of Armadillo Aerospace's Mod vehicle on a June 2010 boosted hop.
Boeing 777 Wing Test
A short video of a Boeing 777 wing being tested to destruction, finally breaking at 154 percent of its designed limit load.
The Wright Brothers DID Invent the Airplane
A long rebuttal arguing that the Wright Brothers truly invented the airplane, responding to other YouTubers who credit others.
Boeing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on Boeing, tracing how it went from a quality engineering company to one tied to crashes and 'quality escapes'.
Boeing 737 Stall Escape manoeuvre, why MAX needs MCAS!!
Mentour Pilot, a 737 instructor, explains the approach-to-stall and escape manoeuvre and why the 737 MAX needs MCAS while the 737NG did not.
Automation Dependency - Part One, by Capt. VanderBurgh (restored)
Part one of an American Airlines training video presented by Captain Warren VanderBurgh on automation dependency.
Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) -- Dynamics and Bifurcations
Nathan Kutz presents the spatio-temporal dynamics of rotating detonation rocket engines, including combustion fronts that behave like solitons.
Boeing 737 Unable to Trim!! Cockpit video (Full flight sim)
Mentour Pilot, a 737 captain, demonstrates in a full flight simulator why a Boeing 737 can become impossible to trim manually at high speed.
Planes clouds and vortices
A short compilation of aircraft flying through clouds and moist air, showing the spiraling vortices that wings leave behind.