Special Lecture: F-22 Flight Controls

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  • Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
  • MIT 16.687 Private Pilot Ground School, IAP 2019
    Instructor: Randy Gordon
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    This lecture featured Lieutenant Colonel Randy Gordon to share experience in flying fighter jet.
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  • @unholy7324
    @unholy7324 2 года назад +16736

    Thank God I found this. My F22 has been sitting in the driveway for months waiting for me to learn it's flight characteristics. Looks like I'll be taking her to work tomorrow.

    • @ibrahimmoss
      @ibrahimmoss 2 года назад +88

      hahahha. Nice!!

    • @ati8713
      @ati8713 2 года назад +174

      Would you mind not fly over my house?please and thanks?🤙🏼

    • @agentcooper4627
      @agentcooper4627 2 года назад +225

      Don't forget to change the air filter.

    • @gdjaybee742
      @gdjaybee742 2 года назад +134

      Do you carpool? Need a ride.

    • @pnmsilva1986
      @pnmsilva1986 2 года назад +45

      I wish you luck and a nice flight dont forget the flaps to land

  • @el_compa_giants5209
    @el_compa_giants5209 2 года назад +4419

    Anyone else get here randomly and watched the whole video? Just one of those instances when the RUclips algorithm gets it right.

    • @AaronGyes
      @AaronGyes 2 года назад +41

      Indeed a great recommendation. Sometimes I need to stop worrying and trust The Algorithm.

    • @JgWerd
      @JgWerd 2 года назад +11

      That’s what got me here haha

    • @rickv9180
      @rickv9180 2 года назад +10

      same

    • @JoshFromPerth
      @JoshFromPerth 2 года назад +13

      To be fair though, it's a pretty easy topic to sell haha. I can't imagine many blokes wouldn't be into bleeding edge military tech haha

    • @supersmellyglove
      @supersmellyglove 2 года назад +7

      Same, first video I hit after going to yt.

  • @jtay8073
    @jtay8073 Год назад +259

    You can tell he's a fighter pilot, his mind is going a hundred miles an hour all the time, he's always thinking ahead, and he knows everything about the plane he was flying,

  • @robfreeman5783
    @robfreeman5783 9 месяцев назад +55

    This guy's resume is absolutely nuts.

    • @benjaminperez7328
      @benjaminperez7328 18 дней назад +1

      I’m glad he’s on our side!
      Future Four-star for sure.

  • @JV-mw7gv
    @JV-mw7gv 2 года назад +3955

    Wow, I think the most amazing thing in this video is that you have a literal f-22 test pilot who is also a highly decorated engineer, phd, and many other qualifications, educated at freakin MIT and Harvard, and there’s a student surfing the internet looking at yoga poses. Absolutely incredible.

    • @angrymario8259
      @angrymario8259 2 года назад +298

      If I had a chance to go to MIT and listen to someone like this I would never skip classes 😅

    • @palleppalsson
      @palleppalsson 2 года назад +123

      And he was also dead for four days.

    • @stevebanning902
      @stevebanning902 2 года назад +84

      lol his professor prob required him to go to the lecture and they have no interest in flight.

    • @justinnguyen3091
      @justinnguyen3091 2 года назад +19

      @@palleppalsson how was he dead for 4 days?

    • @palleppalsson
      @palleppalsson 2 года назад +96

      @@justinnguyen3091 Callsign Laz (Lazarus) Risen from the dead. Don't think he actually was dead though.

  • @sanjaygatne1424
    @sanjaygatne1424 2 года назад +2337

    Built in professor. His energy, teaching skill, knowledge, and practical experience is outstanding.

    • @Kaiserland111
      @Kaiserland111 2 года назад +75

      Meanwhile the actual professor struggled to manipulate the RUclips controls...

    • @SternLX
      @SternLX 2 года назад +32

      Kind of comes with the Job. In USAF we have "Training the Trainer" programs. Required training we have to have in order to teach any procedures to personnel without the training. Basically a program that teaches how to teach. :)

    • @GP-qi1ve
      @GP-qi1ve 2 года назад +2

      @@SternLX and then go kill people to keep oil under 100$ a barrell! So admirable

    • @SternLX
      @SternLX 2 года назад +9

      @@GP-qi1ve Okay child. Does your mommy and daddy know you're making Anti-Military Volunteer remarks. I'm sure they're so proud of you. Go Drink more of your un-fermented Soy Milk and leave the Adult conversations to Adults.

    • @gggromay
      @gggromay 2 года назад +4

      I was thinking he must be pretty bright to be an engineer and a fighter pilot at the same time, then he says war is his favourite thing because he likes "to protect people from bad guys".. Incredible, and I thought by now even the most clueless person on earth would now wars are fought for economical interests, not freedom or "bad guys".. Sounds like he watches too many cartoons.. Or people are just dumber then i imagen

  • @glennevans7754
    @glennevans7754 2 года назад +497

    Randy is the ultimate professor, he brings his experience and technical knowledge to the classroom in such a way as to make all of us wish we were pilots.

    • @christopherjoseph651
      @christopherjoseph651 Год назад +9

      What technical knowledge did he bring? He's so bad that he completely screws up how the ailerons work @19:47, and when the teacher asks him what the rotational speed is at take off @35:25 he only talks about linear speed! THIS IS A JOKE THAT ALL OF YOU THINK THIS IS WHAT DEFINES A GREAT TEACHER

    • @thomasstobie4622
      @thomasstobie4622 Год назад

      @@christopherjoseph651 Two mistakes, but how many great things?

    • @victorhopper6774
      @victorhopper6774 Год назад +1

      nopem at my age 2 g's and i'm asleep. matter of fact i was asleep for most of this. thank goodness for youth that are willing though.

    • @jainabraina
      @jainabraina 7 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@christopherjoseph651 by "What would be a typical rotation speed?", he means the speed at which you input pitch commands to the aircraft to "rotate", as in pitch upwards and take off.

    • @AutismusPrime69
      @AutismusPrime69 5 месяцев назад

      Don't simp. He is personable but lacks any technical expertise or knowledge.

  • @samcorbett8783
    @samcorbett8783 2 месяца назад +6

    This dude gave us 15 "last pieces that he will give us" and I was listening to every single word. NOTHING makes me wanna join the air force and die to a parachute training dummy more than this lecture. Thanks Laz

  • @PapiSalad
    @PapiSalad 2 года назад +344

    "Why do I have a random ass lecture on F-22 fighter jet controls?"
    -1 hour, 6 minutes later
    "Why don't I have more good lectures like this recommended to me?"

    • @MrBrownLostHisM00
      @MrBrownLostHisM00 2 года назад +6

      Dude, I love increasing my knowledge just like any other king. But this recommendation wat out there even for me and I loved every minute of it.

    • @jmonie02
      @jmonie02 2 года назад

      Lame

    • @jordaneimer2873
      @jordaneimer2873 2 года назад +6

      There is a REALLY GOOD MIT lecture on thr Chernobyl disaster. That teacher is of the highest quality.

    • @doctorpanigrahi9975
      @doctorpanigrahi9975 2 года назад

      That's because you are going to get drafted. The US will fight Russia in Europe on the month of August.

    • @PapiSalad
      @PapiSalad Год назад +1

      @@jordaneimer2873 You know, I JUST had this recommended to me about a week ago and I have learned so much from it.

  • @geraldwatts5492
    @geraldwatts5492 2 года назад +1410

    Physics and math teacher here, really enjoyed this. He teaches very clearly and directly. I also like a conversational teaching style, was nice to pick up some good habits from him as well!

    • @MagnusMas
      @MagnusMas Год назад +8

      glad you learned something from an elite top gun like him.

    • @hdjono3351
      @hdjono3351 Год назад +5

      @@MagnusMas top gun is navy he’s Air Force but yeah

    • @bruno13532
      @bruno13532 Год назад +2

      Bro. I'm a lawyer and i understand jack shit of math based sciences, or exact sciences if you will, and i still understood this.

    • @christopherjoseph651
      @christopherjoseph651 Год назад

      "I also like a conversational teaching style" that's because he's entertaining you and NOT TEACHING ANYTHING!!!!!!!!! God please DO NOT pick up some habits, unless you don't actually want your students to learn. What did you actually learn about the flight controls? NOTHING because he only talked at the most general, skim the surface, Sesame Street level. This is supposed to be a prestigious engineering college and he talked to them like they are babies. Now in his defense they probably do have the intellectual level of babies because the education system in the US has been continuously dumbed down for decades.

    • @christopherjoseph651
      @christopherjoseph651 Год назад +3

      @@bruno13532 I would hope that you could understand this seeing as he didn't say jack shit about math or science

  • @germantomcat
    @germantomcat 4 месяца назад +23

    Informative, not boring, no ads, a topic I like, just perfection.

  • @zakslt
    @zakslt 2 года назад +183

    I just found myself spending 1 hour like if it was a 1 minute video. Astonishing lecture from a wonderful teacher who combines passion, knowledge and experience along with intelligence and pedagogy... I am sure even a 10 years old kid will clearly understand and enjoy this wonderful lecture

    • @joaorodrigues-dy9rm
      @joaorodrigues-dy9rm 7 месяцев назад +2

      I wanted to be there asking questions, i know its not to everyone's interest, but engineering wise, the f22 is a pinnacle, and the students didnt participate or "lean forward" at the luck they had that day, such a talented man, that could explain every nook and cranny about that engineering megalodon

    • @-dcoogan-
      @-dcoogan- 6 месяцев назад

      @zakslt
      Pedagogy... I wanted to thank you for introducing me to a new set of words. BUT...
      Being overly pedantic, the grammatical use of the word is incorrect, as his passion, knowledge, intelligence, and experience summarize his merit and approach to pedagogy. Also, adding an adjective, like personable, ahead of pedagogy, would validate your use of it. I should actually say 'should validate' because I'm not 100% on that.
      Great word! Thanks again!

  • @mgscheue
    @mgscheue 2 года назад +3157

    My lucky day that this showed up in my RUclips recommendations. What an interesting person and great lecture!

    • @Arthuri24
      @Arthuri24 2 года назад +22

      My first thought too!!! 👍👍👍

    • @richardjangles
      @richardjangles 2 года назад +26

      So nice having a person of color represented.

    • @predator-vu7zk
      @predator-vu7zk 2 года назад +3

      RIGHT

    • @Z_TC_BY
      @Z_TC_BY 2 года назад +2

      Same here

    • @TheDoomWizard
      @TheDoomWizard 2 года назад +4

      Really? He just said flying in combat is fun. This guy is a nutjob. Climate change is about to destroy our habitat in 8 years.

  • @vpin
    @vpin 2 года назад +522

    This guy is so smart and likeable it seems as if he spent a couple thousand years in a groundhog day learning all this stuff perfecting his craft. What a great lecture.

    • @Mdmbchdr
      @Mdmbchdr 2 года назад +1

      @@foobarmaximus3506 ok virgin

    • @KunuMcGruder
      @KunuMcGruder 2 года назад +3

      @@foobarmaximus3506 many who comment negatively, do so because they themselves do not understand what actual intelligence is. They themselves believe they are smart, not realizing that "the entire picture" is beyond what they see (because they lack the intellect to process information beyond their brains limits). They believe they see the "bigger picture" (have all the information), and therefore will formulate an opinion based on what they think they know (which generally isn't much)...but they don't know that. By definition, they are ignorant, and because they are intellectually in ept, they don't even realize that they are making a subjective comment, ignorantly believing it's factual. Their ignorance is painful and embarrassing. They are clueless that smart people laugh at them (assuming they even waste any thought on the dumb comment/s).

    • @JaySmurkzTV
      @JaySmurkzTV 2 года назад

      Makes you realise the importance of experience huh.

    • @ivoryas1696
      @ivoryas1696 2 года назад +4

      @@KunuMcGruder
      He was probably trolling... That or you actually got through to him, considering that it he's gone.

    • @ivoryas1696
      @ivoryas1696 2 года назад

      vin centric
      Dude, nice phrasing on that. Like people saying the hyperbolic time chamber, lol.

  • @vincentdermience1137
    @vincentdermience1137 5 месяцев назад +15

    I wish I were 25 and had someone like you visiting my classroom. I'm 55 and a computer flight sim fan since 1982 even before it was released on Microsoft. I just love anything that flies and find your enthusiastic lecture simply rejuvenating. Thanks.

    • @MAC11007
      @MAC11007 3 месяца назад +1

      He does it for people like you.

  • @peterc3143
    @peterc3143 2 года назад +220

    Wow, the f22 sounds like an engineering marvel, even though the design is more than 20 years old now. I was reading its first flight, was in 1997.

    • @yuigahama3189
      @yuigahama3189 2 года назад +28

      As an aircraft maintenance engineer student, it is indeed an engineering marvel but the maintenance and logistics of f22 are a huge nightmare for us considering the parts they uses are way more complex and different from conventional/4th gen aircrafts

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 Год назад

      @@yuigahama3189 sometimes i forget these arent like your average corolla, and that keeping all the parts and supply chains organized must be hella difficult considering the low production volume
      When you say the F-22 is more complex than 4th gen aircraft, what parts are more complex? I was under the impression that F-22s are aerodynamically similar to other airfarmes, and that its only the electronics and stuff that are wildly different.
      Im just in highschool so idk much abt this stuff

    • @tommy.vercetti2003
      @tommy.vercetti2003 Год назад

      @@honkhonk8009 Im in high school too and don’t know much but i assume its the engines and hydraulics

    • @Michael_Lightss
      @Michael_Lightss Год назад

      It is crazy, I’ve been a fan of this jet most of my life

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 Год назад +2

      @@tommy.vercetti2003 Nah not really.
      Usually with cars, you have a large volume of production. You can make a shit ton of factories and pump out all the parts you need easily enough.
      Aircraft need a large database to track every single part installed or uninstalled, and a full history of every single aircraft that part was used in before.
      They also have sensors and whatnot operating on the aircraft in real time, to basically mesage back to Lockheed Martin, to tell them how many more units must be produced in the near future.
      F-22's are especially difficult, beacuse they probably dont use the same database that every other commercial airliner uses.
      Im also guessing that because of the low production and compartmentalization of information, its probably painfull to manage that aircraft.

  • @mpperfidy
    @mpperfidy 2 года назад +1142

    This piece is on a topic of mild interest for me. After listening for a few minutes, it became a topic of more intense interest, not because I suddenly want to qualify on any particular plane, but because it was impeccably presented and sequenced. An excellent use of an hour of my day.

    • @JustinJagger
      @JustinJagger 2 года назад +13

      100% nice to see amazing passion demonstrated, not to mention the topic (i have zero knowledge)

    • @FloridaEvoX
      @FloridaEvoX 2 года назад +17

      Holy crap, that was an hour? I was so engaged; the hour flew by. I would love to see more lectures from him.

    • @ceed266
      @ceed266 2 года назад +3

      *Raises glass and nods head*

    • @juancarlosalmiron2055
      @juancarlosalmiron2055 2 года назад +1

      Physical condition , vision , training, focus ,and knowledge ,i was told as a demo flight on a Super Etendart French Fighter jet ! And what an awesome experience of 25 minutes adrenaline !
      Today after more than 45 years , I'm sure it is a pleasure from the stand point of controls, informations , automatic computer control if any pilot becomes confused or disabled , besides graphics , for me is the right side of astronauts to be ! For me flying is the reminder to how small we are , and how beautiful this planet is , I'm not taking anything for granted , went to remote places and people shows openness ,honesty and humbleness !

    • @Showerlover
      @Showerlover 2 года назад

      I like how you measure your day per capita in hours. Nice

  • @samanthaharkness8840
    @samanthaharkness8840 2 года назад +762

    I was lucky enough to be Lazs' mechanic at test with the F22. Always a pleasure to hear him talk and to work for him. Great job Sir!

    • @JohnSmith-zk8xp
      @JohnSmith-zk8xp 2 года назад +10

      helping others achieve their dreams!

    • @kakarikiIck
      @kakarikiIck 2 года назад +14

      WOW! Your so lucky! He seems such a cool guy, and an excellent teacher. I thoroughly enjoyed this lecture of his.

    • @solidtank7957
      @solidtank7957 2 года назад

      @@draco2xx creeeeeeepy

    • @og.nohaze7740
      @og.nohaze7740 2 года назад +2

      @@draco2xx everything probably turns you on, creep

    • @draco2xx
      @draco2xx 2 года назад +5

      @@solidtank7957 i meant to say i find women that are mechanics very attractive

  • @folarinosibodu
    @folarinosibodu 7 дней назад

    This has to be the most entertaining lecture I've ever seen. Once you start watching, you cannot stop. He make concise statements. Easy to be understood by 7 year olds.

  • @AKDevilman
    @AKDevilman Год назад +32

    Hello! I am an F-15A thru E model crew chief here(USAF for 21+ years, now retired). I really enjoyed this type of instruction, it very accurately reflects what the military used to do for instruction and training. Not so sure they are still on that same path anymore or not judging from the outside now. I was also at Edwards for a few years and learned a TON about the F-22 even though it wasn't my airframe(there in the mid 90's), and a lot about the F-23. Every one of the civilians I spoke with while there said the F-23 was slated to win because it flat out was a better maneuvering aircraft, it just didn't have the range of the F-22. So the F-22 won by range criteria mainly. Now, what I find interesting is how they(the USAF and US military in general) have since picked back up the F-23 and started examining it for the next generation of fighter....Really looking forward to the advances that is keeping America dominating in the battle space above the ground and beyond.

    • @BigBoss-sm9xj
      @BigBoss-sm9xj 7 месяцев назад +2

      Thank you for your service and keeping our skies safe.

    • @ILSRWY4
      @ILSRWY4 6 месяцев назад +1

      That's simply not true, the F-23 DID HAVE THE RANGE. In fact it met or exceeded all the requirement set forth by the design cryteria. That's coming from all the Flight test pilots, including one who flew both the F-22 and F-23, Northrop and Lockheed test pilot Paul Metz, who said "the F-23 was a clear winner,It lost because of Politics, in that the government felt that Lockheed had more experience in this design support because of its experience with F-117. The F-23 was better." I tend to believe those who actually flew it. And That's just Fact.

    • @yoboi7492
      @yoboi7492 5 месяцев назад

      i can attest to the military still teaching the same way as this lecture. The best teachers i have ever had were all Sgts, Majs, and retirees.

  • @jasonrhodes0
    @jasonrhodes0 2 года назад +852

    Best hour I've spent learning in a LONG time. Thank you to everyone involved in bringing this to me.

    • @dave.cholula
      @dave.cholula 2 года назад +1

      Bravo!

    • @jacob171
      @jacob171 Год назад

      Youre welcome

    • @wooshbait36
      @wooshbait36 7 месяцев назад

      And who are you?

    • @whr3346
      @whr3346 6 месяцев назад +1

      Your welcome Jason Rhodes

    • @wooshbait36
      @wooshbait36 6 месяцев назад

      @@whr3346 You are* peasant.

  • @jasonandrew412
    @jasonandrew412 2 года назад +961

    Not sure why I had this recommended but I’m glad it was. What an interesting lecture!

    • @nagen78
      @nagen78 2 года назад +3

      same here

    • @beeboo5433
      @beeboo5433 2 года назад +4

      yeah video got picked up by the algorithm

    • @justigranger2480
      @justigranger2480 2 года назад +3

      same

    • @ShoPro702
      @ShoPro702 2 года назад +2

      Because there was a chance you might be taliban.

    • @JV-mw7gv
      @JV-mw7gv 2 года назад +6

      It’s because you likely have an advanced degree or you are the type of person who seeks an advanced degree, just my theory.

  • @danield.8615
    @danield.8615 2 года назад +33

    Mr. Gordon is phenomenal! After a few seconds I saw the one hour+ length, after 7 minutes I was bound to his lips. One of the best things he said: "I'm 100% zero different from anybody in this room" (he doesn't put himself above of his audience). Great course, I wish I could be there.

  • @ottopuppy
    @ottopuppy 4 месяца назад +5

    I was a machinist and made parts for the SR-71, and B1-b amazing aircraft, and Randy and the F-22 are
    even more amazing.

    • @MAC11007
      @MAC11007 3 месяца назад

      Lucky bastard

  • @eaglescout5816
    @eaglescout5816 2 года назад +233

    I've never piloted, but I could not stop watching this lecture. I love this instructors style, fast, clear, experienced.

    • @GrumpyStoic
      @GrumpyStoic 2 года назад +4

      He delivers his lectures like he flies his planes. Amazing.

    • @blazelysack2385
      @blazelysack2385 2 года назад +8

      Fast is great. I love the "but we'll get back to that later" with no plan of getting back to it method he uses. After about 2 more sentences both he and I have both forgotten what we're supposed to get back to later. 😂

    • @ZLOBNY2005
      @ZLOBNY2005 2 года назад

      @@blazelysack2385 ruclips.net/video/gNmw4Pt2vpc/видео.html

  • @azrizainzainal8119
    @azrizainzainal8119 2 года назад +1942

    This guy has the looks, personality and credentials to be the real Falcon

    • @yevonnaelandrew9553
      @yevonnaelandrew9553 2 года назад +20

      Agree!

    • @Artofficial1986
      @Artofficial1986 2 года назад +66

      He is more cool than Falcon - he's real

    • @ComfortsSpecter
      @ComfortsSpecter 2 года назад +13

      @@Artofficial1986 “Don’t let your memes be dreams!”

    • @C4GIF
      @C4GIF 2 года назад +1

      @@ComfortsSpecter And how about sleepy Joe Biden?

    • @Blowfeld20k
      @Blowfeld20k 2 года назад +2

      @@ignore_for_your_sanity
      SAVAGE!!!!! LMFAO

  • @david-yy6pk
    @david-yy6pk 7 месяцев назад +9

    A good teacher is not one who impresses his audience but one who inspires them through his passion. This guy is passionate about his stuff, you can tell he is good at it.

  • @JohnICGomes
    @JohnICGomes Год назад +20

    Best physics / aeronautics class I have randomly bumped into! Wish we had people like these and RUclips teaching us when we were kids!

  • @kakarikiIck
    @kakarikiIck 2 года назад +424

    The way he teaches is so engaging. Incredible lecture.

    • @Defender78
      @Defender78 2 года назад +10

      he doesn't "uh" or "but, um" once... 99 pct of dudes will say like/um/and stuff several times in one sentance

    • @kakarikiIck
      @kakarikiIck 2 года назад +3

      @@Defender78Your spot on. I had to come back and watch it again, and I was still enthralled and learned more!

    • @Wiseguy248
      @Wiseguy248 2 года назад +6

      Teaching is a real skill where others have a hard time, even if they know as much as him.

    • @Roughdog86
      @Roughdog86 2 года назад +3

      Military man! Firm, direct, straight to the point.

    • @foobarmaximus3506
      @foobarmaximus3506 2 года назад +4

      @@Defender78 Indeed. He's a brainy machine, no doubt. This is really what "smart" looks like. Not all smart people speak this well, but he is an omnipath. Pretty rare, actually.

  • @ade_dancer850
    @ade_dancer850 2 года назад +294

    I went to HBS with Laz, amazing person! What you might not know is he can also play a wicked piano! Such a talented fellow!

    • @youtubeaccount9058
      @youtubeaccount9058 2 года назад +24

      That's really cool. To be a test pilot on a high-end fighter you have to have the intelligence for aerospace engineering, plus the coordination for stick+rudder skills (and piano!), plus the emotional fortitude to handle life-or-death situations in real time. Really anybody with even one of the 3 is blessed. Then there are a few (very few) people like this...

    • @cgonz8
      @cgonz8 2 года назад +4

      How did Laz get his call sign?

    • @danielbohman5751
      @danielbohman5751 2 года назад

      Nice! Just like Goose in TopGun! 😋

    • @steveward205
      @steveward205 2 года назад +4

      @@cgonz8 He is actually a time traveler who was brought back to life by Jesus but he kept the name........

    • @antonioc3023
      @antonioc3023 2 года назад +1

      That's actually a tradition in the Air Force to party and set a wicked piano on fire, while one of them plays "Great Balls of Fire" till he can.
      At the end they collect money to get a new scraped piano for the next party.

  • @arnoldsherrill2585
    @arnoldsherrill2585 Год назад +10

    This ladies and gentlemen is how you teach something to someone, who has an interest in it but no prior experience. The biggest problem right now is education is how to keep your students engaged in what the instructor is talking about. This man has mastered that issue., and it shows in his presentation

    • @christopherjoseph651
      @christopherjoseph651 Год назад

      But didn't actually teach anything. So you keep your students entertained and they learn ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! The biggest problem is that students don't want to learn anything, they want the degree so they can make the money but they don't give a fuck about the actual subject

  • @hakunamatata324
    @hakunamatata324 2 года назад +223

    No idea why I am watching this but damn, he makes this subject so interesting and easy to understand even for someone like me who has no clue about planes.

    • @TravisFabel
      @TravisFabel 2 года назад +6

      When most pilots start in the military, they also have no clue about planes.... same with the mechanics.

    • @beison8000
      @beison8000 2 года назад +3

      now you have a lot of clues about planes.

  • @marklowe7431
    @marklowe7431 2 года назад +425

    Outstanding teacher. This man is a role model.

    • @gggromay
      @gggromay 2 года назад +4

      Role model? Iwas also thinking he must be pretty bright to be an engineer and a fighter pilot at the same time, then he said war is his favourite thing because he likes "to protect people from bad guys".. Incredible, and I thought by now even the most clueless person on earth would now wars are fought for economical interests, not freedom or "bad guys".. Sounds like he watches too many cartoons.. Or people are just dumber then i imagen

    • @cristinamiller8107
      @cristinamiller8107 2 года назад

      You need to check your comment!

    • @marklowe7431
      @marklowe7431 2 года назад +1

      @@cristinamiller8107 Role model teacher.

    • @cristinamiller8107
      @cristinamiller8107 2 года назад

      Why are you mentioning my name? I don't know who you are talking about.

    • @st3wi3D
      @st3wi3D 2 года назад +4

      Good comment man. Don't pay attention to the negativity; some people only see things through a political lens. GI's coming back from Vietnam got spat on at the airport and called baby killers. Go figure.

  • @bigfoot_18
    @bigfoot_18 2 года назад +6

    Every once in a while, the RUclips algorithm gets it right.

  • @DrummerJohn
    @DrummerJohn 2 года назад +238

    Very articulate and everything is in his mind ready to express. No notes, no teleprompter, all from experience and knowledge. I love the humble yet genius way Laz gave this lecture. I am inspired and can only imagine how well received by the students!

  • @watchandjewelryloft4713
    @watchandjewelryloft4713 2 года назад +151

    I was Navy ATC I the early 2000's. These type of guys were always so awesome to just listen to. Great caliber of people. All the best to him!

    • @watchandjewelryloft4713
      @watchandjewelryloft4713 2 года назад

      @@blokin5039 uhh what? 🤣😂

    • @watchandjewelryloft4713
      @watchandjewelryloft4713 2 года назад +1

      @@blokin5039 Navy doesn't use "platoons," except maybe SEALS. I was stationed at a TACRON and also NAS Pensacola.

    • @wakonalds3469
      @wakonalds3469 2 года назад +1

      @@watchandjewelryloft4713 ahh man A school at NAS was the worst

    • @watchandjewelryloft4713
      @watchandjewelryloft4713 2 года назад

      @@wakonalds3469 Yeah. Luckily I'm from the panhandle lol. Not too bad. And then finished up my enlistment at Sherman Field. Blue Angel practices from the control tower were sweet though.

    • @wakonalds3469
      @wakonalds3469 2 года назад +2

      @@watchandjewelryloft4713 I’m AT3 now. It wasn’t too long ago when I went through NAS. Yeah seeing the Angels practice each day really made chow more enjoyable. They’d always fly 10-12.

  • @gobills7163
    @gobills7163 2 года назад +3

    This officers lecturing skills are far superior than his even being a fighter pilot. Very special human being. Fantastic

  • @eduardowormittag2113
    @eduardowormittag2113 Год назад +74

    3:31 AM here and I'm enjoying every bit of the video - such a awesome piece of machinery, more amazing teacher.
    Wish I could be there on MIT to learn and experience that

    • @christopherjoseph651
      @christopherjoseph651 Год назад +1

      Why is he such an amazing teacher, what did you actually learn, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. He didn't go into any details on even one topic. He's so bad that he completely screws up how the ailerons work @19:47, and when the teacher asks him what the rotational speed is at take off @35:25 he only talks about linear speed! THIS IS A JOKE THAT ALL OF YOU THINK THIS IS WHAT DEFINES A GREAT TEACHER

    • @thomasvleminckx
      @thomasvleminckx Год назад +7

      @@christopherjoseph651 Take your pills, Mr. Joseph. It's time for your nap.

    • @X3RTY
      @X3RTY 9 месяцев назад

      @@christopherjoseph651 stop replying to every comment, nobody cares and you are just wasting time

  • @the_jones528
    @the_jones528 2 года назад +636

    If every professor were this interesting, the world would be a lot smarter.

    • @tunacant9106
      @tunacant9106 2 года назад +35

      No. The world has to be a lot smarter to have these quality professors. You got it the other way around.

    • @goodgoyim9459
      @goodgoyim9459 2 года назад +4

      professors dont make people smarter. you fail to understand what intelligence is or means. ironically, one would have to be of your proposed "smarter" lot to realise that in the first place, guess you have a long way to go as well (based on your own retarded logic)

    • @imbored3416
      @imbored3416 2 года назад

      @@tunacant9106 abso fucking lutely.

    • @mwara2444
      @mwara2444 2 года назад +10

      These type of guys are so far and few in between.
      My entire High School career there was only one professor that had a great personality and could keep me interested on the entire course subject even with subject matter I could care less about.
      In college I only had two professors with great personality. One was the Sci-Fi nerd who would put joke answers on multiple question tests that none of the class caught except me. Doctor Who references Star Trek references and made up science. Like listing types of crystals one of them being dilithium.
      Really give it up to teachers though it's more of a sacrifice than a career. They should be respected more and paid more for it

    • @psychepeteschannel5500
      @psychepeteschannel5500 2 года назад +6

      Yet students would still chat of Facebook. The thing is, not everyone is interested in aviation, especially military aviation. Like some people just really dont find it even remotely interesting or important. Sure we can say "b-but, its like the pinacle of our "moving" technology" (except maybe space flight, but that is SO different), but what does that really mean? What is the cold hard value of this principle. Its nothing. Noone cares. You can know flight physics and technology forward and back, have thousands of hours on a simulator... and still be a "loser" in the eyes of society, unless you make it all into a careeer or business... :(

  • @natereg9747
    @natereg9747 2 года назад +176

    F*cking Master Class level of lecture!!!!!
    That’s how you teach avionics, systems, and aerospace engineering. Round of applause everyone!

    • @worldoftancraft
      @worldoftancraft 2 года назад

      There was too much of water to give such praise.

    • @carolschiffpeters2414
      @carolschiffpeters2414 2 года назад +2

      Bravo

    • @tekanova7480
      @tekanova7480 2 года назад +1

      This is a great video of this talk there won't be a quiz!

    • @VidarrKerr
      @VidarrKerr 2 года назад

      Yeah dude, black magic and wizardry controls the plane. Sweet dude.

  • @kunti_putra
    @kunti_putra 3 дня назад

    This course has come as a God sent to me. Got my F-22 Raptor last year on Black Friday for a nice 40% discount. Was looking around for tutorial/course since then.

  • @roywhiteo5
    @roywhiteo5 3 месяца назад +1

    Bumped into this guy in Sunnyvale last night. Apparently he didn’t know this lecture was going to be posted on youtube and now he gets recognized all the time

  • @TrainerAQ
    @TrainerAQ 2 года назад +217

    I'm an airline pilot and I watched this whole thing cause it's just so interesting. Reminds me of my days in college.

  • @rakeshswami11
    @rakeshswami11 2 года назад +274

    We want clones of this guy in every school & college.

    • @NathanDudani
      @NathanDudani 2 года назад +1

      @Lum inosity lmfao

    • @mugglepower
      @mugglepower 2 года назад

      'That's coming along soon'

    • @blazedpyro5055
      @blazedpyro5055 2 года назад

      Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off FOUR waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours--the works. People need heroes. They don't need to know how he died; clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers„
      "Mythology for Profit"
      Morgan Stellartots Keynote Speech

    • @blazedpyro5055
      @blazedpyro5055 2 года назад

      @@foobarmaximus3506 how the fuck do you not know what thats from?

  • @SupremeUnicorn
    @SupremeUnicorn Год назад +6

    I could take 1000 hours class from this professor on any topic, he's just great at everything he does, the tone, the speed of delivery, the knowledgeability of the topic, his interactions with learners, encouraging questions by rating them great questions, not shying away from any topic and in the same time staying within the boundaries of confidentiality. he could teach how to fly a plane in a nursery school.

  • @christinestill5002
    @christinestill5002 Год назад +3

    I am fascinated. So happy I even know what an E6-B is. But our instructor might like my story: yrs ago at EAA (Oshkosh) I saw Gen. Chuck Yeager just standing alone. So I asked for his autograph & then told him he flew the X-1 the same week I was born! He laughed heartily then said "Young Lady, I think that's more info than I needed." He was very polite. I was surprised that so many young pilots were walking right passed him. They didn't recognize him. Imagine. Great plane but the SR-71 Blackbird will always be my favorite.

  • @lastfirst6626
    @lastfirst6626 2 года назад +91

    "Combat missions were fun!", chuckle chuckle.

    • @chrismathewsjr
      @chrismathewsjr 2 года назад +28

      sociopathy is always weird to see in the wild so nakedly, isn't it?

    • @p_serdiuk
      @p_serdiuk 2 года назад +16

      @@chrismathewsjr Professionalism, rather. This is not the place to discuss war.

  • @DIDYOUSEETHAT172
    @DIDYOUSEETHAT172 2 года назад +68

    My fist degree is mechanical engineer, then later in life I achieved my degree in computer engineering. Watching this gives me the urge to hit the campus again. The bod is a little creaky but the mind is still hungry. The wonderous creativity of the human mind never cease to amaze and inspire. Excellent lecture!

  • @wootle
    @wootle 2 года назад +5

    What an amazing lecture. Not only is he a god-level pilot but also an amazing teacher! The way he engages the students is amazing.

  • @nissimlevy3762
    @nissimlevy3762 2 года назад +45

    This guy is one of the most humble people I have ever witnessed

    • @Paul_Halicki
      @Paul_Halicki 2 года назад +6

      Honestly, he's a typical test pilot in terms of disposition. In a conference room full of engineers, everyone goes silent when the test pilot speaks. He doesn't have to shout. The engineers know whose ass is in that cockpit.

    • @abelnicolae
      @abelnicolae 2 года назад

      HAHAHAHAHAHHAH humble. Oh my good God, you actually are all the same :D mindblowing

    • @blink182bfsftw
      @blink182bfsftw Год назад

      Lol yeah he's not humble, which is fine, but come on

  • @ragingraven6738
    @ragingraven6738 2 года назад +117

    As someone who’s passion is aviation this was such a neat presentation to watch. As an A&P Mechanic I got a good chuckle watching a room full of aeronautic engineers incorrectly state the positions the ailerons are in when a Cessna is banking to the right.

    • @brizbane1
      @brizbane1 2 года назад +8

      Hey man I'm an AME from Canada and also played it back like 12 times lmaoo

    • @foobarmaximus3506
      @foobarmaximus3506 2 года назад +2

      As an A&P mechanic, you know less than nothing about this class and the people in it. A&P mechanics ... oh never mind. You wouldn't understand anyway.

    • @thewise65
      @thewise65 2 года назад +4

      They made question my knowledge about ailerons

    • @octimizer
      @octimizer 2 года назад +2

      I stopped the video and ran to my flight simulator to check. He probably just got confused when he turned the airplane around to match the audience's perspective.

    • @edwinparson346
      @edwinparson346 2 года назад

      Brilliant mechanical minds think alike... As a a10 flight control maintained manual reversion is real reverse flight control surface movement explained. Its the control surface taps that fly backwards...

  • @scheerlon
    @scheerlon 6 месяцев назад +1

    This is so amazing. I turned 35 today and was about 9 years old, when I played F-22 Lightning. 26 years later somebody on the internet explains me all the things I wondered (well, not all of course) about this plane.

  • @remy9240
    @remy9240 5 месяцев назад +2

    DCS brought me here! This guy is a legend !

  • @craig8876
    @craig8876 2 года назад +138

    The USAF has people called "patches"--men and women who graduated the USAF Weapons School and wear a special black and gray patch--and I know a few of them. They comprise the short list of the smartest people I've ever met . . . and that Test Pilot patch is a whole other league.

    • @TacoMagic
      @TacoMagic 2 года назад

      nice

    • @adamschackart6859
      @adamschackart6859 2 года назад +22

      An elite brotherhood forged in the fumes of dry erase markers.

    • @foobarmaximus3506
      @foobarmaximus3506 2 года назад

      And the one's I worked with at NASA were the top .001 percent of those. Yeah. Work daily with astronauts, then get back to me. Air Force. LOL Shit, USN aviators are better than anything the USAF ever let in a cockpit.

    • @Chris11249
      @Chris11249 2 года назад +5

      @@foobarmaximus3506 Watch out, we got a bad ass up in here!

  • @yeahaighht4353
    @yeahaighht4353 2 года назад +115

    This is one of the most interesting and beautifully put together lectures I have ever watched! Can't get enough of this guy!

    • @mikkihintikka7273
      @mikkihintikka7273 2 года назад +2

      fun thing that if something is popular in youtube its super easy subject...

    • @Make-Asylums-Great-Again
      @Make-Asylums-Great-Again 2 года назад

      @@mikkihintikka7273 👌 smarty

    • @quadpumped34
      @quadpumped34 2 года назад +2

      this is how the war machine recruits its personell.

  • @timothyroth8073
    @timothyroth8073 2 года назад +6

    Fell asleep watching another RUclips video on rc airplanes (which I have an obsession with lol) and woke up to this video believe it or not gradually .
    Felt so natural and informative I think I will make it my new morning alarm !
    Seriously though dude has an AWESOME teaching style !

  • @fredrikmagnusson6469
    @fredrikmagnusson6469 3 месяца назад +3

    I can't explain why i watched this. but im glad i did. Feels like time well spent.

    • @FriedAss69
      @FriedAss69 3 месяца назад +1

      i watched the whole thing bfore, but here i am watching the whole thing again

  • @FS2K4Pilot
    @FS2K4Pilot 2 года назад +53

    The cool thing was a few years back at the Cleveland Air Show, they finally had the full F-22 demo, and he was doing Cobras and controlled flat spins and it was very, very cool, but then it finishes up and flies off.
    Then I look back, and there’s the Goodyear Blimp, and it’s getting closer and closer, and then it floats gracefully over show center (and it is HUGE), does a 360 degree pirouette, takes a bow, and floats away. It was such a neat contrast to the F-22.

    • @xenophagia
      @xenophagia 2 года назад +1

      Dude...that sounds epic...and strangely comedic.

    • @FS2K4Pilot
      @FS2K4Pilot 8 месяцев назад

      @@xenophagiaI know. The contrast of the two was absolutely beautiful.

  • @animalk1
    @animalk1 2 года назад +584

    This was an incredible privilege to watch. So much fascinating and interesting details about what its like to fly this plane and what makes it work. I was actually surprised that he was willing to reveal so much of the performance characteristics. Regardless thank you!

    • @MelbaOzzie
      @MelbaOzzie 2 года назад +35

      Yes, I was thinking the Chinese were sitting there taking notes like crazy!

    • @gavinohlhauser1258
      @gavinohlhauser1258 2 года назад +17

      Those aren’t real numbers, it can do much more

    • @mcshakycheese7396
      @mcshakycheese7396 2 года назад +13

      You'd be surprised what is considered unclassified info. A lot of things are modular to the point where only the most specific part of data is classified and all else is unclassified.

    • @falconfighting4793
      @falconfighting4793 2 года назад +3

      The moving of the aircraft control surfaces are seen in the demo's of the F22. The Cg and Cl position in slower flight is that gives the headaches to be duplicate from the others

    • @nauuwgtx
      @nauuwgtx 2 года назад

      @@MelbaOzzie plot twist: that's just the tip of F-22's powah

  • @matthew1131
    @matthew1131 Год назад +38

    I could watch content like this all day. I love how he makes everything so understandable!

    • @christopherjoseph651
      @christopherjoseph651 Год назад

      I love how he makes everything so understandable! That's because he ONLY TALKED ABOUT THE MOST SIMPLISTIC things. If someone didn't understand this they are so dumb they may as well be dead. I really hope you didn't come away from this thinking you learned something about the flight controls because you didn't. A great teacher makes things that are complicated easy to understand, NOT someone who makes the most simplistic thing easy to understand. Teachers that only teach the most simplistic things are HORRIBLE teachers because they don't actually teach anything

    • @dellhp9564
      @dellhp9564 7 месяцев назад

      Yeah that's why aerodynamics engineers are hired by hedge funds and high frequency traders because the math can fry your brains

  • @Grumpy_Fish23
    @Grumpy_Fish23 3 месяца назад +3

    This is probably one of the coolest and most interesting videos I've randomly stumbled across in a long time

    • @MAC11007
      @MAC11007 3 месяца назад

      Honestly

  • @manurocker1
    @manurocker1 2 года назад +21

    Man i remember watching this video at like 250K views and thinking holy shit, its perfect. The kind of video that could make a non aviation enthusiast fall in love with this plane. The eloquence intermingled with a certain playful curiosity but also encased in military poise, combined with the instructors depth of knowledge well beyond the boundaries of the actual aircraft, make this an absolute gem.

  • @dayglo98
    @dayglo98 2 года назад +9

    I don't even own an F-22 and I still watched till the end, that's how good the lecture is.

  • @alessio272
    @alessio272 5 месяцев назад

    Man this Randy guy can present! If I knew what he knew i wouldn’t be able to speak as fast and organize my time segments. Phenomenal instructor and public speaker.

  • @AgonxOC
    @AgonxOC 2 года назад +1

    What a natural skill you possess Mr. Gordon! Very enjoyable lecture. Keep teaching as much as you can!

  • @madpistol
    @madpistol 2 года назад +62

    This definitely ranks in the top 3 "Most Interesting Lectures" I've ever watched. Great stuff!

    • @soty5562
      @soty5562 2 года назад

      Who are another two?

    • @BillyBobby123
      @BillyBobby123 2 года назад

      Yea i gotta know the other 2

    • @lucasng4712
      @lucasng4712 2 года назад

      What are the other two

  • @ankhenaten2
    @ankhenaten2 2 года назад +601

    I notice that this is only the *Declassified* stuff, classified stuff might include the: anti gravity generator, and cloaking settings and emp beam emitter manual

    • @incxbxs
      @incxbxs 2 года назад +29

      nobody know thats why they classified.

    • @hughlevantjames905
      @hughlevantjames905 2 года назад +41

      anti gravity lmao did you skip your high school physics lessons?

    • @SHVRWK
      @SHVRWK 2 года назад +20

      @@Chad_Max Humans are aliens in the eyes of aliens.

    • @stevenstandley1241
      @stevenstandley1241 2 года назад +10

      @@incxbxs China knows.

    • @rainalane1638
      @rainalane1638 2 года назад +10

      And FTL drive 😂

  • @dougmoore8314
    @dougmoore8314 2 года назад +4

    This fellow really knows the F-22 well. And can explain it to me. Amazing!

  • @ShaunPrince
    @ShaunPrince Год назад +3

    What a fantastic guest speaker. The knowledge, passion and class interaction was stellar. I don't know how I found this video, but glad I did. Entertaining as well as educational and informative.

  • @stevestewart-sturges2159
    @stevestewart-sturges2159 2 года назад +95

    Both my father and I were in commercial aviation, both of us flying and servicing helicopters, from the late 60's to early 80's, and yes, they can be a handful to fly, the margin for error compared to a fixed wing is extreme, it takes a completely different skill set to operate a rotary wing effectively ... The rest of this lecture I found very interesting, the pilot giving it, animated and interactive, loved his style of lecturing. I am sure those attending this understood just how experienced and skilled "Laz" is as a pilot and instructor... Thank you !

    • @nhatnamtrinh5017
      @nhatnamtrinh5017 2 года назад +3

      Not to mention that combat helicopter pilots, including MedEvac pilots, face greater danger than those on jet fighters.

    • @IRobinson44460
      @IRobinson44460 2 года назад

      @@nhatnamtrinh5017 Amen.

  • @joshuaeagan6012
    @joshuaeagan6012 2 года назад +71

    a professor who interacts with the students. simply wonderful. I have watched this three times.

  • @TheWesman45
    @TheWesman45 3 месяца назад

    I've never seen anyone who could so clearly communicate concepts with their hands. When he said wing tips or negative G his non verbal communication instantly made me understand what he meant. Really good lecture.

  • @stevenclimb
    @stevenclimb 2 года назад +7

    Wow, that was one of the best lectures I've ever witnessed. Just amazing to watch!

  • @michaelschwartz9485
    @michaelschwartz9485 2 года назад +12

    19:45 I believe you had the Cessna aileron positions reversed in the right bank example. This is one of best videos! Great job and thank you very much for your service Sir!

    • @donf3739
      @donf3739 2 года назад +6

      I caught that too. Must've been a group brain fart.

    • @elnatan4508
      @elnatan4508 2 года назад +2

      Ow my goodness, I Was looking for this comment lol. Caught it while watching it for the 10th time :D

    • @richardcampos1089
      @richardcampos1089 7 месяцев назад +2

      I thought I was the only one that caught that mistake!

  • @mikeaninger7388
    @mikeaninger7388 2 года назад +12

    Who searches for this stuff? Not me. For the first time I got a recommendation that I actually loved. Truly a fascinating experience. What scares me? Well let’s just say I recently saw Boston dynamics robots dancing. Now I’m envisioning the Strauss waltz with a couple of F 22s in the sky… 🤣

  • @trashcanbandit7122
    @trashcanbandit7122 Год назад +3

    I wish I saw this day 1. Wonderful speaker.

  • @amazingperson9604
    @amazingperson9604 Год назад +3

    22:06 it does feel like it sure would! You can search on RUclips an F22 pre-flight check and you see when they test the elavator the whole thing shakes, which is nuts

  • @lucasklaassen135
    @lucasklaassen135 2 года назад +75

    Wow. What a guy. Such a good professor, in every way imaginable!

  • @proosee
    @proosee 2 года назад +207

    The question why wings are on the top of "cessna-type" planes was left kind of unanswered so I will try to do it here briefly. When you design "normal" plane, you want to make it stable, meaning: without any input or with a little "wrong" input from pilot it should just flight straight instead of just bank on one side and lose all the lift. The easiest way to do this is to put sum of lift forces from both wings above the center of of gravity, so you make plane being "pulled up" by wings (in contradiction of wings "pushing up" the plane in which scenario your center of gravity can slide to the side if its not directly above the lift force). There are two common ways to do it, in most airliners wings are mounted at the bottom (for many reasons) and go slightly up as you approach the tip of the wing, so if you are flying straight, forces from your wing are pointed a bit towards each other (thus, generating a bit drag, as a tradeoff for stability), when you bank left, your left wing will have force from your left wing pointing more upward and your right wing force will be pointing more to the left (so less upward) and create feedback loop which will level your plane back to going horizontally. Now, if you put your wings on the top of the plane you don't need them pointing upwards because you already have your lift force above the center of gravity. In fighters which are fly-by-wire, you don't care about stability, computer will correct all input mistakes made by pilot and other factors, thus, trading off stability for less drag and more maneuverability seems like a good idea.
    Disclaimer: I'm not aviation expert, so this might contain some inaccuracies or even be wrong, I just don't know why visibility was main reason pointed out in the lecture for wing placement and aerodynamics and plane stability was somehow dismissed.
    I think this video explains it better than me: ruclips.net/video/ODP9efQBddA/видео.html

    • @RsRj-qd2cg
      @RsRj-qd2cg 2 года назад +3

      Then on large aircraft with very heavy engines and long wings, like the B-52, Il-76, C-17, etc, wings are on top. The Il-76 and An-225 actually have a hump in the fuselage where the wings attach. Curving the wingtips up would be difficult with the giant engines hanging from them, and the engines would strike the ground if the wings were low. Or they'd need a very tall landing gear, which is not a good thing on a superheavy aircraft; they actually want to have short, thick landing gears that are practically on the side of the plane instead of the bottom).

    • @proosee
      @proosee 2 года назад +5

      @@RsRj-qd2cg You don't need wings curved up in An-225 because of the effect I've described above. In fact, wings in An-225 are pointed a bit down to reduce pendulum effect because it was to hard too maneuver (yes, you can overdo with stability too). Engine weight is not a factor here. Plane needs to maintain its shape regardless of where engines are placed, for B-52 and other heavy-lifting army machines it is good to have engines at the top to reduce problems when using dusty runways. There are many factors here, but weight of engines is not one of them. If you are afraid of engines hitting the ground you can always place them on the top of wings, the downside is that whenever you increase the thrust your nose will go down a bit (but this is the case for topwing planes as well).

    • @nik7204
      @nik7204 2 года назад

      Yes

    • @cluerip
      @cluerip 2 года назад

      @@proosee anhedral high wing aircraft also have stability due to pressure forces. The low side wing has much higher presser at the wing root causing a restoring moment. High side wing the opposite. The high side wing is flatter to the flow and would generate more lift causing negative feedback. Low side wing less lift.
      They are still stable in this configuration since the forces balance out. (otherwise we wouldn't fly planes like that)
      You're right that there is such a thing as too much stability. If a plane was too stable, you couldn't fly it. It would only fly itself!

    • @proosee
      @proosee 2 года назад

      @@cluerip I think this is just a different perspective on the same phenomena, but I really appreciate your comment, never thought about it that way, seems like deeper analysis.
      What about F-22? I once heard it is on the edge of being unstable, so without fly-by-wire systems human would be unable to fly it, can you confirm it or deny it?

  • @korlilkatana7653
    @korlilkatana7653 2 года назад +3

    This just might be my favorite video ever.

  • @brisoley450
    @brisoley450 2 года назад +2

    Excellent!!! . . . This man has some seriously massive brain power!!! The speed of his flawless delivery of information is amazing! I have been in love with the F22 and the F35 since they came out but never had heard such an amazing lecture about the F22. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

  • @majr72
    @majr72 2 года назад +17

    Col Gordon is a great person and an excellent leader had the honor of working for him out at Edwards AFB at the F-22 compound while him being the squadron commander. Hope he gets his stars soon. Love the fact that the Raptor model has an ED (Edwards AFB) tail flash.

    • @Paul_Halicki
      @Paul_Halicki 2 года назад

      @@foobarmaximus3506 Your comments detract more from you than from the target of your unfounded insults.

  • @aa-hd2zg
    @aa-hd2zg 2 года назад +12

    He is a man with a confidence, great knowledge and real life experience, it's such a great lecture

  • @k-rio-kesperto2408
    @k-rio-kesperto2408 5 месяцев назад +2

    At 19:48 when He asks what happens with the right aileron if trying to turn right, everyone says "down" and He confirms. However should be the oposite... to turn aircraft right the right aileron should move up while the left aileron should move down

  • @stuartw969
    @stuartw969 Год назад +1

    I’ve been a ppl for 25 years, Cessna, Pilatus and now cirrus. BUT I learned so much from this excellent talk. Thanks!

  • @Legion7734
    @Legion7734 2 года назад +100

    43:25 "I could put my kid in a F-22 he could turn the stick all day at any speed and nothing bad would happen to the airplane" I wonder what would happen to his kid though :D
    Jokes aside, such a fantastic way of lecturing. To be able to explain such partially abstract and complex things in a way that even someone like me without any or close to no prior knowledge about flying can understand what he means is fascinating.

    • @BamaNick
      @BamaNick 2 года назад +9

      "Over G, Over G, Over G" Over G's create a lot of inspections maintenance has to do

    • @mosesgikeri6750
      @mosesgikeri6750 2 года назад +1

      They say if you can't explain it to a six year old kid then you don't know it it doesn't the field if you know it you know it

    • @tomaszwota1465
      @tomaszwota1465 2 года назад

      @@mosesgikeri6750 six year old are quite dumb though, as is the saying.

    • @spindrift2009
      @spindrift2009 2 года назад +2

      You realize this is akin to the tech going into self driving cars. (Though self driving car tech is actually more complex due to the image processing software…it’s super complicated stuff to do virtually real-time).
      They could easily make this plane into a remotely operated drone nowadays. No risk to a soldier, and cheaper.

    • @foobarmaximus3506
      @foobarmaximus3506 2 года назад

      He's talking to young people working on a private pilot's license. LOL Yeah. It's pretty simplified.

  • @judycaraballo8295
    @judycaraballo8295 2 года назад +70

    Great presentation, I don't fly planes, I am a grandmother who has 3 grandchildren who will see this and know how far they can go. I watched it 2 times.

    • @makl485
      @makl485 2 года назад

      Apart from I've got 2 children and no grandkids, I'm 100% onboard with your statement. This is an awesome presentation!

  • @rb26xs14
    @rb26xs14 2 года назад

    Can truly tell how passionate he is. Amazing video from start to finish.

  • @eddieb9102
    @eddieb9102 Год назад +2

    This is a very informative and though-provoking video. The instructor does a really good job discussing aeronautical concepts in a clear and concise way that make it easy to understand.

  • @hyypersonic
    @hyypersonic 2 года назад +32

    Its fascinating to know that he probably has knowledge of the 6th gen fighters and might have even flown prototypes of it. What an awesome lecture

  • @johnstock5833
    @johnstock5833 2 года назад +15

    We're so freaking lucky to get this quality content for free. Thank you MIT!

  • @georgeyoung1810
    @georgeyoung1810 2 года назад +2

    I would take absolutely any class this gentleman was teaching!! Well done sir!

  • @VisionZR
    @VisionZR 7 месяцев назад +1

    This is probably one of the only lectures I really enjoyed, but I am an aircraft enthusiast, so I guess this is up my alley ;-;

  • @aaronestrada44
    @aaronestrada44 2 года назад +34

    Reminds me of engineering in college when I thought a final project/presentation on propulsion and wing lift would be EASY. I teach engineering now and came across this lecture for some inspiration. So glad I did.

  • @harrisashraff
    @harrisashraff 2 года назад +16

    Was about to sleep when I saw this on my recommendation. Started to watch the first 5 min and ended up watching the full lecture for the guy's enthusiasm. You guys at MIT are really lucky to have Lecturers and professors like this.

  • @sjones8738
    @sjones8738 Год назад +1

    I watched this video and found it quite interesting and fascinating to listen to Mr Gordon presentation. It was more interactive for everyone. It had to be great to attend this class at MIT. That guy has outstanding credentials. He is an outstanding instructor.

  • @jeroenk3570
    @jeroenk3570 Год назад +8

    That was great, thank you. The people who designed and wrote the code for this aircraft must understand aerodynamics and propulsion so incredibly well to get it working like that.

    • @atticusrussell1225
      @atticusrussell1225 Год назад +2

      Or at least we hope the people doing the code review do 😂😬

  • @lbgstzockt8493
    @lbgstzockt8493 2 года назад +415

    This makes me want to study aerospace engineering.

    •  2 года назад +100

      I study aerospace engineering. This is nothing like aerospace engineering. This is a class for pilots.

    • @william9385
      @william9385 2 года назад +12

      You’re probably better off going to a part 147 school and becoming an aircraft mechanic. Or an actual pilot. I’m an aircraft mechanic and i love my job.

    • @cerewaffle900
      @cerewaffle900 2 года назад +22

      @ yeah… not quite the same in structural analysis, control systems, fluids, or dynamics and vibrations…

    • @BobbyGeneric145
      @BobbyGeneric145 2 года назад +12

      Im an airline pilot and an artist... Thought I wanted to do aero engineering. One semester later I realized that I was wrong!

    • @CodiakLBJfan
      @CodiakLBJfan 2 года назад +1

      Lmao oof

  • @smnoy23
    @smnoy23 2 года назад +41

    I guess I watched enough Ace Combat vids that youtube took the initiative! Interesting lecture!

    • @KaionKleever
      @KaionKleever 2 года назад

      Same here bro :)

    • @gwinbeer
      @gwinbeer 2 года назад

      Grew up with AC04 & Mobius 1

  • @erikkeen4136
    @erikkeen4136 2 года назад

    The flight command systems working behind the scenes are just WOW!