The Plane That Will Change Travel Forever

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Honey lets go visit the Bahamas in our stealth bomber

As a retired 737 pilot,(EVERY version except MAX) , aircraft engineer, and simulator instructor I think this is one of your best videos yet! Not only did you cover most of the good and bad issues of blended wing aircraft but you gave one of the best descriptions of the 737 MAX debacle I've yet heard.

9:45 Fun fact: The Wright Flier, the worlds very first airplane was designed to be unstable. Both the wing and the canard provided lift, meaning if the plane left level flight it would be pushed father out of level flight by the passive forces. This was a deliberate design choice by the Wright Brothers, but subsequent airplane designers disagreed with this design philosophy and future aircraft designs were made to be stable, as you described. For the Centennial celibration of the Wright Brothers first flight a replica Wright Flier was built. Several highly trained and experienced test pilots tried to fly it, landed and refused to try again because the plane was so difficult to control. I'm not sure if the first flight was actually reenacted, but it makes that first flight even more impressive when you think about the fact that test pilots with thousands of hours of flight time were afraid to fly this plane, and the Wright Brothers did it with no flight experience at all. Can you imagine walking out to an airport, renting a Cessna 172 (one of the easiest planes in the world to fly) and teaching yourself to fly it by climbing in and taking off? You could, in theory do this. Flying an airplane isn't much harder than driving a car. But it would be highly illegal. But this was how the first generation of pilots learned to fly. Except they were not renting airplanes carefully designed by aeronautical engineers to be easy to fly. They were flying planes they built themselves with no understanding of aeronautical engineering whatsoever. Or at best very little knowledge. Early aviation is a wild and crazy story with plenty of death.

I find it incredible how I can sit and absorb your videos for 25-30+ minutes without ever losing focus. Especially impressive is how I leave feeling like I have at least some grasp of the content matter, despite my lack of engineering experience. Truly well done, you might someday consider making a video about the design process and challenges of making your own videos.

"I pay for whole wing, I'll use whole wing"

"Faster boarding times" SOLD. Let's do it

4:19 that guy knows exactly what shape he's left on his screen for filming. 😂

I’ve been hearing plans for making air travel better for decades. One of the earliest was this this flying wing idea nearly 25 years ago. Yet nothing changes. I’ll believe it when I see it.

I'd be willing to bet that those failures being due to having a single sensor rather than redundant systems can be traced back to one or more executives earning themselves a bonus because by eliminating redundancy from the original designs they managed to save the company a miniscule amount in production and maintenance costs. This sort of shit usually comes down to the suits having no clue.

I remember years back when this design was just a joke online, and there were plenty of edits with different airline liveries. Didnt expect the world to steer towards this in our timeline

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This is the best teaching audio-video that I have ever watched & heard. It is dense with information and not a single word is superfluous or wasted. Taking notes in notebooks slows the student down so he/she can come at a concept from different angles until it is thoroughly understood.

This video was extremely comprehensive and well done. Love the work put into it. A+ quality product, learned a ton.

I found the explanation of passive stability control in standard airframes to be especially clear.

I have been wondering a design like this hasn’t been in production. I remembered it this morning and my mind has been racing all day. Thanks for sharing the sentiment and talking about it.

this is an amazingly well put together, well worded, well thought out video. I appreciate your devotion to excellence in these fields.

I’m almost speechless after realizing how much of preparation and production it took to make this great video. What fascinates me the most is that I can watch this for free. This is insane. Huge thanks to the author. You’re making the world a better place.

To be fair: some of this groundbreaking new tech to reduce fuel consumption per passenger is simply "less leg space"...

What a great video! I've checked out the channel and subscribed. Well done, you've taken something quite technical and explained it in plain language without losing detail in the narrative AND managed to keep at interesting at the same time. Really good job done.