AVIATION ODDITIES | Aircraft Innovation And Research Pioneers | Episode 3

A look inside different aircraft designs and flying machines such as the X-24 Wingless Aircraft, M2-F1 Lifting Body, the Northrop M2-F2, and the Amazing Bartini Beriev VVA-14. Learn the secrets behind the Ryan X-13 Vertijet, the Dragonfly, or the HL-10.
In a little over a century, the aviation industry has gone from learning to fly to learning to fly faster, to learning to fly further, to learning to fly heavier planes, and now to having 100,000 plus commercial flights occurring worldwide every day. Aviation has indeed been at the forefront of innovation, and it has become one of the world's safest and most reliable modes of transportation today.
The video presents a brief but comprehensive overview of the variety of innovations related to aviation.
From ancient times onwards, flight has been a measure of scientific progress, a symbol of wealth and status, and a catalyst for interpersonal and international competition. It is a field that has been primarily pioneered by the dedication of individuals rather than corporations or governments for most of its history. The history of aviation is extensive and complicated, so much so that its entirety couldn’t be easily contained in any single written source.

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[thomasbell]

Gotta say that's the most futuristic-sounding pronunciation of the old fashioned "flatiron" we'll ever hear. Flat-e-ron. Kinda sings.

[brealistic]

Lifting body experiments. NASA first attempt at designing the Space Shuttle.

[Steven-pj]

Oh come now, dealing with compressibility was seen as a physics problem, nothing more. Hardly an intractable matter.

[Brightstarlivesteam]

A Carpenter called FriOt made and fkewn a HEAVIER then air craft befor the Wright \\\brothers, in the village of Saundersfoot in Pembrokeshire, Wales. He Patented the device!

[mrhassell]

The X-24B in flight used in this Video's thumbnail image, was a fascinating concept. The Northrop M2-F3, a later iteration of the same "heavyweight lifting body" category of aircraft, crashed at the Dryden Flight Research Center in 1967. Yet it was not before having reached a speed of Mach 1.6 and its highest altitude being 71, 500 feet (20, 790 m), that on December 20, 1972, it was deemed a date, set to be the last of its flights, which was flown by NASA pilot John Manke handling the demanding task, in controlling such an unconventional and dangerous aircraft.

[ididntagree]

Where's Von Braun in the aerospace section, talking about preserving human life?

[CyntjiaCocker]

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

[arturoeugster]

THERE IS NO broken SOUND BARRIER, if so, where are the broken pieces!
The linearized theory of Prandtl Glauert falsely predicted the rise of the drag coefficient:
Cd = Cdi × 1/√(1 - Mach² )
The transonic aerodynamics cured that discrepancy but not for the journalists, who like the stupid, really stupid expression breaking a ( non existing 'Barrier')
For the pilots including Jaeger the transition is unnoticeable but for the Mach meter indication.

[johnfranks]

With the sun having less mass. By your estimate 40 percent It’s gravity will decrease by the same amount therefore the orbits of all the planets will increase by the same proportion

[russellbarbee]

I'm an American pilot. I am so "tired" of these British accents narrating these videos. Aren't most of the aeronautical achievements that you're featuring American accomplishments? Yes.... So, cut the crap. It's "pretentious"!! If Americans admired the Brits so much, that we wanted to continue to speak as they do, we wouldn't have fought the Revolutionary War.

[adventuressurvivalinthailand]

To me it seeems like saying the lifting bodies led to the Space shuttle is a long bow to draw. Those lifting bodies should have led to small Gemini and Apollo sized craft that were simply shaped like lifting bodies that could land like a plane, doing away with water splashdowns. Instead (in typical American fashion), massive money was wasted on the Space Shuttle (which ironically did have wings). You may say, well the Space Shuttle had a cargo bay. I say "big deal" - we all know that rockets can easily deliver satellites to orbit. The Space Shuttle was a colossal failure (not to mention 14 dead astronauts).

[User]

Kilowatt? What in the hell is a kilowatt? Now horses, those I understand. This engine you speak of, how many horses was it equivalent to? I measure energy potential in units of horse, like a perfectly sane person.