I'm not sure why there are some negative comments on this video. As someone who struggles to focus, I really enjoy the delivery of these lectures. The information is relayed concisely, and momentum is preserved by quickly progressing through/between the topics. I struggle to sit through 95% of lectures, where irrelevant examples and anecdotes are introduced, causing me to lose interest. Thank you for making your lectures publicly available.
one didn't the see main neuralgic point: the attachments of the wings to the fuselage!? where can I find technical drawings or even instructional videos? thanx!
some of the slides are not reflecting the regions you are not highlighting in the presentation. Difficult to understand which region you are talking about in the diagram. Specially in V-N Diagram.
Unfortunately Aviation isn't my area of expertise. I'm very much an Engineer first. My interest in aviation is secondary to my interest in the engineering.
Are you familiar with the lift equation, because the explanation can be found in there. The amount of lift required to keep the aircraft in the air is fixed by the weight at any given moment. Therefore, there is a balance between the lift coefficient term and the airspeed term. To increase airspeed you need to decrease the coefficient of lift and vice versa. The coefficient of lift is controlled by the aircraft pitch attitude, which is controlled by the elevators.
The throttle and elevator controls are counter-intuitive. To fly faster you pitch the aircraft nose down. To climb you increase the throttle. It isn't quite so simple as this, but it is accurate to a first approximation.
You've just discovered one of the big challenges of learning to fly. Pitch for airspeed, power for descent. Excess thrust is what allows an aircraft to climb.
I don't like lectures very much: Most lecturers may present sufficient expertise but suffer heavily from rhetorical quality. All those "aahs", "aehms" and interruptions until they find back to their concept again are causing an audience totally losing their focus. Apart from that was the content of this lecture quite basic, lacking of any content about contemporary standards or developments - and in certain aspects, like the last bending moment diagram, simply wrong. There are better lectures on youtube - not to mention documentaries with proper narrators.
"There are better lectures on youtube - not to mention documentaries with proper narrators" Can you point out some of your resources? I'm trying to learn more and this lecture helped a lot, so I think that your resources can do it even more.
pity the speaker has no passion for the topic he is talking about ... such a bland delivery .... could have used a computer voice to get the same effect ...
4mm actual skin but engineered with 8inches of apparent skin surface ... no plane is a metal sheet it has internal structure part of that internal structure ... the exterior surface to the interior surface although mostly empty is engineered to act as if it was solid ... so yes the skin is only a few mm thick but its apparent depth is closer to a foot thick ... glossing over that this early BAD FORM
think flying buttress on a cthedral it makes the effective wall depth 30 feet ... not 6 feet ... allowing the building to carry more weight so it can built higher ... same as the fuselage of a plane its skin may be 4mm thick its effective skin is 8inches thick ... while a proportional coke can would be 4 inches approximately MAJOR difference
have to vote this video down simply because this teacher is not teaching reciting ... he is not educating he is indoctrinating and he knows it tha is why he has no passion about what he is talking ... this is the garbage portion although somewhat useful it just promotes the same old over and over again and NOT innovation
Not all engineers are teachers. It is a shame seeing such interesting material presented in such a way. I'm sure he's passionate about the subject, but perhaps not the idea of teaching.
