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Aerodynamics

5 videos about aerodynamics that people linked on Reddit, from the Flight shelf.

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48 min Doug McLean | Common Misconceptions in AerodynamicsMichigan Engineering

DeGrasse Tyson is still promoting the equal transit time explanation for lift in his podcast. I listened to it and wanted to scream "no!" I know this is a hotly debated topic, but I found this video from Boeing aerodynamicist Doug McLean quite interesting. He is giving a lecture to University of…

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1 h 12 min Lecture 2: Airplane AerodynamicsMIT OpenCourseWare

…watched an MIT course on ground school knowledge. They said they know it’s not different flows of air at different speeds but they know air gets directed down so it must push something up (the wing). They then admitted to not know exactly what causes it but it doesn’t matter as we can model wing…

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10 min Lift and Wings - Sixty SymbolsSixty Symbols

…is what I'd consider the best video you'll find on lift. Tldw; physics says: Conservation of momentum - deflection argument Conservation of energy - Bernoulli argument Conservation of mass - equal time argum

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28 min The Plane That Will Change Travel ForeverReal Engineering

…side of things. I suggest starting with How Overnight Shipping Works and The Most Valuable Airspace in the World. For the engineering side of things, Real Engineering is my pick. The Plane That will Change Travel Forever is a recent video I liked, and a classic is The Insane Engineering of the…

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