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Aviation & aerospace engineering Videos Recommended on Hacker News (124)
Aviation & aerospace engineering is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 124 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 232 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Aviation: airplanes, airlines, pilots, flight training, air traffic control, jet engines, aircraft design, crashes and investigations, paramotors, drones, helicopters, Boeing, aircraft history.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Children Of The Magenta Line: “if you haven't seen this amazing talk, you should definitely give it a watch” — an HN commenter, 2024.
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11 mo on HNChildren Of The Magenta Line
Mossie Fly
11 HN recommender · 2021–2026
6 mo on HNThe Economics of Airline Class
Wendover Productions
6 HN recommender · 2017–2025
6 mo on HNDavid Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #122
Lex Fridman
8 HN recommender · 2020–2022
6 mo on HNThe Fastest Way to Board a Plane Feels Like the Slowest
CGP Grey
9 HN recommender · 2020–2023
6 mo on HNZipline - How Rwanda Built A Drone Delivery Service
Real Engineering
9 HN recommender · 2019–2023
5 mo on HNPulling Power from the Sky: The Story of Makani [Feature Film]
X, The Moonshot Factory
6 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #1361 - Cmdr. David Fravor & Jeremy Corbell
PowerfulJRE
5 HN recommender · 2019–2023
5 mo on HNBig Plane vs Little Plane (The Economics of Long-Haul Flights)
Wendover Productions
8 HN recommender · 2017–2023
5 mo on HNWhy You Should Put YOUR MASK On First (My Brain Without Oxygen) - Smarter Every Day 157
SmarterEveryDay
5 HN recommender · 2016–2025
5 mo on HNThe Boeing 787: Broken Dreams l Al Jazeera Investigations
Al Jazeera English
6 HN recommender · 2017–2024
4 mo on HNA NEW Trace! The FULL MH370 Story, so Far..
Mentour Pilot
5 HN recommender · 2024–2025
4 mo on HNHow to crash an airplane – Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer UK 2016
LeadDev
4 HN recommender · 2019–2024
4 mo on HNSuper Pointy Sprint Missile - 0 to Mach 10 in 15 Seconds - 100Gs & 6000°F
Dark Footage
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024
4 mo on HNMars Helicopter (before it went to Mars)
Veritasium
10 HN recommender · 2020–2021
4 mo on HNDrone Delivery Was Supposed to be the Future. What Went Wrong?
Wendover Productions
4 HN recommender · 2022–2023
3 mo on HNThe Vanishing of Flight 370
LEMMiNO
2 HN recommender · 2019–2023
3 mo on HNRunaway Stabilizer!! How to stop MCAS.
Mentour Pilot
7 HN recommender · 2019–2022
3 mo on HNSmall Planes Over Big Oceans (ETOPS Explained)
Wendover Productions
4 HN recommender · 2017–2020
4 mo on HNAre Electric Planes Possible?
Real Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2018–2024
4 mo on HNFesto - SmartBird
Festo
4 HN recommender · 2011–2021
4 mo on HNHow Overnight Shipping Works
Wendover Productions
4 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HNPeople & Power - On a wing and a prayer
Al Jazeera English
3 HN recommender · 2019–2024
3 mo on HNDoug McLean | Common Misconceptions in Aerodynamics
Michigan Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2019–2021
3 mo on HNHow Airlines Quietly Became Banks
Wendover Productions
5 HN recommender · 2021–2026
3 mo on HNWhy Planes Don't Fly Faster
Wendover Productions
3 HN recommender · 2018–2022
3 mo on HNAirbus A340 EMERGENCY - Engine Failure
AviationTV
2 HN recommender · 2014–2021
3 mo on HNThe Long, Twisted And Slightly Ridiculous Story of Avgas Part 1
AVweb
3 HN recommender · 2022–2026
3 mo on HNDEFCON 20: Hacker + Airplanes = No Good Can Come Of This
Christiaan008
3 HN recommender · 2015–2026
3 mo on HNThe Long, Twisted and Slightly Ridiculous Story of Avgas Part 2
AVweb
3 HN recommender · 2022–2026
2 mo on HNSpecial Lecture: F-22 Flight Controls
MIT OpenCourseWare
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNThe Original Skunk Works – Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer UK 2017
LeadDev
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNThe Five Freedoms of Aviation
Wendover Productions
3 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HNHow to Design Impenetrable Airport Security
Wendover Productions
2 HN recommender · 2019–2023
2 mo on HNThe real reason Boeing's new plane crashed twice
Vox
2 HN recommender · 2019–2019
2 mo on HNHow to Land the Space Shuttle... from Space
Bret
2 HN recommender · 2017–2023
2 mo on HNThe Ridiculous Engineering Of Jet Engines
Veritasium
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026