Aerospace Engineer Answers Airplane Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED
Professor and department head for the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University Bill Crossley answers questions about airplanes and aerospace engineering from Twitter. How do airplane wings generate the necessary amount of lift to achieve flight? Can a plane fly with only one engine? Could electric airplanes replace fuel-burning ones? Is severe turbulence still safe to fly through? Why do commercial planes fly at 35,000 feet? Are planes safer than cars statistically? How much does it cost to build an airplane? Answers to these questions and many more await on Airplane Support…
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Airplane Support
0:11
Why fly at an altitude of 35,000 feet?
0:32
737s and 747s and so on
0:57
G-Force
1:43
Airplane vs Automobile safety
2:32
Airplane vs Bird
2:57
How airplane wings generate enough lift to achieve flight
3:13
Can a plane fly with only one engine?
3:51
Commercial aviation improvements
4:44
Just make the airplane out of the blackbox material, duh
5:15
Empty seat etiquette
5:38
Remote control?
6:22
Severe turbulence
6:59
Do planes have an MPG display?
7:31
Could an electric airplane be practical?
8:33
Why plane wings don’t break more often
8:57
Sonic booms
9:48
Supersonic commercial flight
10:26
Ramps! Why didn’t I think of that…
10:56
Parachutes? Would that work?
11:32
Gotta go fast
12:12
A bad way to go
12:34
How much does it cost to build an airplane?
13:07
Hours of maintenance for every flight hour
13:51
Air Traffic Controllers Needed: Apply Within
14:18
Do we need copilots?
14:44
Faves
15:08
How jet engines work
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