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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
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 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 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
3 mo on HNSmall Planes Over Big Oceans (ETOPS Explained)
Wendover Productions
4 HN recommender · 2017–2020
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 HNDEFCON 20: Hacker + Airplanes = No Good Can Come Of This
Christiaan008
3 HN recommender · 2015–2026
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 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
2 mo on HNHow Budget Airlines Work
Wendover Productions
2 HN recommender · 2017–2019
2 mo on HNJet Fuel VS Diesel VS Gasoline how they burn and what color are they.
Just Think
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
2 mo on HNMajor Brian Shul, USAF (Ret.) SR-71 Blackbird 'Speed Check'
Jan Johnson
2 HN recommender · 2018–2021
2 mo on HNBoeing 777 Wing Test
mtthw0
2 HN recommender · 2013–2023
2 mo on HNThe Wright Brothers DID Invent the Airplane
Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles
2 HN recommender · 2023–2025
2 mo on HNAutomation Dependency - Part One, by Capt. VanderBurgh (restored)
flightcrewguide.com
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HNRotating Detonation Engine (RDE) -- Dynamics and Bifurcations
Nathan Kutz
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNBoeing 737 Unable to Trim!! Cockpit video (Full flight sim)
Mentour Pilot
3 HN recommender · 2019–2022
2 mo on HNPlanes clouds and vortices
flugsnug
2 HN recommender · 2017–2026
2 mo on HNHovering a Helicopter is Hilariously Hard - Smarter Every Day 145
SmarterEveryDay
2 HN recommender · 2017–2021
2 mo on HNaltitude chamber hypoxia training guy passes out
Kevin Hayward
2 HN recommender · 2014–2020