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"The F-16 was a radical new way of thinking about fighter aircraft."
"One of the company's latest concept designs is called the maverick and it completely revisits the basic design principles of what an aircraft should look like."
"A truly radical twin-engine stainless steel aircraft."
"This airplane is one of the best looking fighters of World War II."
"Designing a plane: balancing thrust, control surfaces, and wing placement for stability."
"By moving our wing backwards, we end up with a more stable plane."
"The lightning was equipped with tricycle landing gear."
"Focke-Wulf leans heavily into the FW 187 and has some really good practical ideas."
"But whatever aircraft this new generation of designers creates one thing is certain soldiers and generals will always rely upon them to patrol the skies of potential adversaries to photograph to listen and to transmit back their vital intelligence."
"The fighter is equipped with a fuselage blended wing and four body vortex control strikes a fairly classic solution for the fourth generation."
"Building an aircraft absolutely does [need a formal systems engineering process]."
"The Moog SureFly... a two-seat hybrid aircraft that's well impressive."
"Aircraft stability is achieved when the center of gravity is located ahead of the center of pressure."
"The unconventional design of the YF-23 complemented the advanced fly-by-wire system perfectly."
"No plane was more well built, no jet more superior, and no story more tragic than the Avro Arrow."
"The ability to land on water was a huge plus."
"It can fly just a few meters above the ground and by that I mean just above the Treetops."
"The finished aircraft is a very attractive looking fighter."
"Next generation aircraft will need to process and communicate a truly staggering amount of information being fed to it from its onboard sensors and those of nearby and even faraway friendly platforms."
"The tiny holes at the bottom of airplane windows have an extremely important function of regulating the air pressure inside the cabin."
"The Bear had a crew of between eight and ten."
"It takes off and lands like a conventional aircraft."
"It still created enough [lift] that it had a superior climb rate over a conventional aircraft."
"We can finally enable brand new aircraft designs that have never made it into commercial use."
"The unmatched versatility of the a6 is in keeping with the basic design considerations for the aircraft."
"The f-14 structure is made up of 25% titanium, reinforcing the overall structure of the plane."
"The aircraft looks very high quality and very highly detailed externally."
"The main controversial point of the 295 heritage was its power plant. The 214 became the world's largest passenger turboprop aircraft."
"Drawing a variety of different aircraft can also help you develop a much keener sense of function and design."
"The two biggest changes are going to be the wing, obviously with the cannons versus the straight A, and then the articulated scoop underneath."
"Diamond built a long wing. There's a lot of reasons for that. Number one reason is the stall characteristics that it provides, especially for this aircraft."
"The F4U Corsair, initially facing challenges for carrier operations, was primarily adopted by Marine Corps squadrons for use from island bases, leveraging its strengths without the complexities of carrier landings."
"The Valkyrie’s wingtips, ingeniously designed to fold downwards in flight, lent it a predatory grace."
"It could really lead to the biggest shift in aircraft design since the Inception of stealth more than a half century ago."
"Now because the engines were rear mounted and not underneath the wings in pods the whole aircraft could sit lower making it easier for the ground crew to access the luggage hold."
"Early prototypes had a squared off wingtip but the tip Vortex was much stronger than thought so they had to install these large radius curves known as their cuckman tips."
"What a cool plane I mean it's got these you know two big Merlin engines that stick way out in front of the nose and so it's just got this bizarre kind of looking profile."
"The mig-29 is a great design. Even the fuselage of the body was a lifting body, so they gave it a sort of curved shape almost like a Cobra, a hooded Cobra."
"But at low speed, such a design wouldn't generate enough lift, therefore it requires a huge amount of power to take off and a dangerously high takeoff and landing speed."
"This plane is just what I think of when I started flying, how much I love the way that this carbon cub looks."
"3D woven carbon fiber and ceramic matrix composites offer unique properties that significantly improve aircraft performance and efficiency."
"I think it's a great airplane, if you're a fan of UMX planes, then as long as you like the way this looks, you're going to love the way it looks and flies."
"The A-10 Thunderbolt II... is literally built around the 7 Barrel 30 mm Avenger Cannon."
"The F-35 incorporates similar measures to reduce observability."
"It's a handsome looking aircraft."
"It's a really cool safety feature, but it's also something that's been used to stabilize things like jets, really fast airplanes like the Long-EZ."
"One of the reasons we're really excited about you guys building a canard is because we want you to see the benefits not only with fast aircraft but also slow flying aircraft."
"The really cool thing about a canard design is when this wing here stalls, this wing here is still flying."
"What you'll see instead of a hard break, you'll actually see where the nose will just kind of tip down and it'll keep flying."
"It's smooth and stable but being a plank, it's still really agile."
"By the way, those tiny holes in aircraft windows aren't for insects to escape; they're there to bleed air pressure between the different panes in an aircraft window."
"The Aero Pup is designed to be a very rugged airplane where you can fly into and out of just about any place where there's flat land."
"VTOL or vertical takeoff and landing aircraft are designed to finally overcome this basic limitation."
"It rides on a Norco chassis which is a huck bolted Z-frame, aircraft style chassis."
"This is really a flying fortress; it is big and fast and easy to handle."
"It was perhaps the pinnacle of blended wing aircraft design in the interwar period, at least as far as success goes."
"But the SR.53 was not just about speed and altitude. It represented a leap in engineering thought."
"Dihedral provides stability in the roll axis."
"Titles are larger, the tails are a little bit more different, and the A380s have their beautiful new red winglets."
"The Brabazon was a leviathan in every sense of the word."
"The windows on the 787 Dreamliner are notoriously large, letting in tons of natural light."
"You can then look at an aircraft and pretty much in your head think about how you can model this."
"The Maxes look so nice, I agree, a visual upgrade from the NGs."
"Hello everyone, welcome back to this video series on how to make an aircraft in Autodesk Fusion 360."
"A designer will design an aircraft, but who will be flying it? A human being, a pilot."
"The contribution of tail is towards making the aircraft statically stable in the longitudinal plane."
"The vertical tail volume ratio is another very important design parameter when you are designing an aircraft."
"This black snake scheme is so cool; I absolutely love it."
"As long as the aerodynamic center is behind the center of gravity, it will be statically stable."
"The stick operator, otherwise known as the pilot, sits inside a titanium tub capable of absorbing direct hits from armor-piercing rounds up to 23 millimeters."