Principles of Flight

Every pilot should understand at a fundamental level the principles of aerodynamics that keep their aircraft aloft. In this video, we dig deep into the principles of flight, and just what it takes to get an airplane off the ground and keep it in the air.
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  • @DiCola119
    @DiCola1195 жыл бұрын

    Omg that hand-out-the-window example is exactly what I used to do as a kid and how I visualized planes working before it was explained to me. But since then I'd never actually heard anyone use this example.

  • @sweetm4ngo
    @sweetm4ngo2 жыл бұрын

    just explained weeks worth of studying is 15 mins and very clearly too THANK YOU

  • @Amran123able
    @Amran123able7 жыл бұрын

    I've understood a lot more in this video than the past 6 months of ground school! Absolutely amazed! Please keep them coming! 👍👍👍

  • @shayanhassanbigi2310

    @shayanhassanbigi2310

    7 жыл бұрын

    You need a new school haha xD

  • @alexandrevalente9994

    @alexandrevalente9994

    5 жыл бұрын

    One thing is to understand and another is to explain others ;-) but also... some pilots thing they understand...and explain very bad. You can learn to fly without understanding what is really happening.

  • @EdWeibe

    @EdWeibe

    5 жыл бұрын

    I am thinking of going to school. I hear its expensive though.

  • @grandedizzy1168

    @grandedizzy1168

    5 жыл бұрын

    amran alkhatry me too bro 😂😂

  • @Jay-jb2vr

    @Jay-jb2vr

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@EdWeibe yes it is

  • @charlesstiles342
    @charlesstiles3425 жыл бұрын

    As an independent flight instructor I am exceedingly grateful to Embry-Riddle for sharing this material which I have my students watch to supplement training. Little wonder why they are the top aeronautical university in the world. Yes-Please keep them coming!

  • @KevinRaza
    @KevinRaza6 жыл бұрын

    This is the clearest and the most straight to the point video related to principles of flight i've ever seen. Even though English is not my native language, I was able to understand everything. Great video thanks !

  • @awenaw2165

    @awenaw2165

    2 жыл бұрын

    Among us

  • @nickromanick
    @nickromanick5 жыл бұрын

    Been prepping this lesson for my CFI practical for weeks now, and this video settled my dilemma of how to plan this in 15 minutes. Thank you so much!

  • @mypretendaccountforj
    @mypretendaccountforj2 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely fantastic, comprehensive look at the topic! Clear, concise, well illustrated, just perfect! Kudos to the production team!!

  • @shantanupoddar1831
    @shantanupoddar1831Ай бұрын

    This is far better than the teacher explaining the same thing to students in college.

  • @pyscripts505
    @pyscripts5055 жыл бұрын

    By far the best principles of flight video I've ever watched! thank you so much!

  • @judyanddy
    @judyanddy4 жыл бұрын

    I'm here for school work and I had trouble understanding the video our teacher sent us. I thought I wouldn't be able to complete the work until I stumbled upon this amazing video. The explanations and visual images helped me understand more about flight! great explanation, keep it up! Thanks

  • @harrymole7230
    @harrymole72304 жыл бұрын

    What an incredible video.. I did flight training in the 80s when audio visual aids were very low res and rudimentary. This is stunning and such a refreshing learning experience. look forward to the other videos... wow!!

  • @aneesahmed2978
    @aneesahmed29785 жыл бұрын

    Probably the best explanation I have ever seen thus far. Great job thank you

  • @tylerfielding5311
    @tylerfielding53112 жыл бұрын

    I love that the CL and the L/D Max graph was also implemented with the lesson in this video! Wow, it helped so much. I'm definitely going to watch this one again!

  • @rodericksibelius8472
    @rodericksibelius84722 жыл бұрын

    I was a US Navy Schooled and Experienced Aviation Flight Controls Systems Mechanic/Technician, '8 years' doing it. I am really amazed how Engineering Mathematical Physics applied to real world problems solutions for the advancement of man. Now we have Artificial Intelligent computerized algorithms with the fusion of miniaturized sensors used by modern Control Systems Engineers using Kalman Filtering computations by a computer to control the complex operation of an airplane in flight, drones and all types of modern automation, all that has made a Piliot's job easier today. However, A human pilot's brain though is still the most used computer for ultimate decisions for SAFETY in the commercial world.

  • @analogman9697
    @analogman96974 жыл бұрын

    These are awesome lessons. Wish I was 50 years younger!

  • @aaaaasoper
    @aaaaasoper4 жыл бұрын

    Happy to find this video and channel. I understood much more in a simpler way, than the ground school lessons. Thank you so much

  • @coolhari2000
    @coolhari20003 жыл бұрын

    Getting ready for cfi checkride and the style of explanation of this video is so elegant. Thanks much for sharing.

  • @CorySchneiderOfficial
    @CorySchneiderOfficial5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this great video! It really helps to be able to hear things in different ways, in addition to reading the PHAK and AFH.

  • @Geosbudy
    @Geosbudy2 жыл бұрын

    damn, these videos just took me back to class some details totally forgotten... If I had these videos 10 years ago...

  • @SleekDan97
    @SleekDan975 жыл бұрын

    This is the best video on the internet, thank you

  • @svenf1
    @svenf15 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for sharing these high quality videos with us!

  • @Kenny-Ross
    @Kenny-Ross2 жыл бұрын

    This video was excellent. Very detailed, visually stimulating, and well explained. Thank you!

  • @anandsubramanian7427
    @anandsubramanian74272 жыл бұрын

    Just fantastic. Crisp and clear. Great channel!

  • @noroardanto
    @noroardanto3 жыл бұрын

    Best lift explanation so far. The venturi tube animation clearly explain the bernoulli's theory on airfoil.

  • @ZimmMr
    @ZimmMr4 жыл бұрын

    Beautifully done!

  • @albertvaldez2669
    @albertvaldez26697 ай бұрын

    This is better than the online course I took a week ago!

  • @SirFrancisFoley
    @SirFrancisFoley7 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic videos.

  • @lukluk167
    @lukluk1675 ай бұрын

    Thanks a lot for such a clear explanation. The best I could find

  • @ainalen3883
    @ainalen38835 жыл бұрын

    Reading each section , and then watching your videos !

  • @lanternacademy1637
    @lanternacademy16375 жыл бұрын

    Great Video! We use this to inspire and teach high school students

  • @umarmars47
    @umarmars473 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful explanation even for a person who doesn't know anything. Greetings from Malaysia & Singapura

  • @ambi50
    @ambi504 жыл бұрын

    Excellent. Very well explained. Inspiring. Thank you very much.

  • @BEACHYz
    @BEACHYz7 жыл бұрын

    many thanks. great channel. great content. great video. please keep it up.

  • @logyscott
    @logyscott6 жыл бұрын

    Very good video, clear and concise

  • @dillonjackson1851
    @dillonjackson18517 жыл бұрын

    This video is just excellence.

  • @grumyoseph
    @grumyoseph6 жыл бұрын

    Very good explanation, very thank full!

  • @cq7415
    @cq74152 жыл бұрын

    This is wonderful, so informative and easy to understand. Thanks for sharing.

  • @dandaly2998
    @dandaly29987 жыл бұрын

    This is great. How can we get FAA credit for these classes?

  • @sorgfaeltig
    @sorgfaeltig2 жыл бұрын

    At time 4:40 there is a great mistake in explaining the priciple of how lift is created by an airfoil. The upper surface of a wing is NOT the lower half of a Venturi tube. The air is NOT squeezed into a narrower flow path. The real reason for the lower pressure of the air above the air is the curved path that the air has to follow across the upper surface of the wing. Any mass that follows a circular path - (a large part of a wing's upper surface can be regarded as as a sector of a cylindrical surface - forcing the air in a circular path for this part of a cylindrical shape) experiences two opposite forces that are perpendicular the the curved path of the airflow: a) The centrifugal force, pulling away from the wing surface, and b) the the centripetal force pulling towards the wing surface and forcing the air to follow the wing-shape, rather than following a straight line. Those opposite forces (trying to pull the airstream appart) produce a low pressure in that airstream above the wing. The difference between the low pressure at the upper wing surface and the pressure at the lower wing surface (which is close to ambient pressure) is the main reason for the lift that a wing creates.

  • @rsk6929

    @rsk6929

    Жыл бұрын

    You sound like an engineer

  • @sorgfaeltig

    @sorgfaeltig

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rsk6929 Yes, I worked as an engineer in aviation.

  • @rsk6929

    @rsk6929

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sorgfaeltig Cool I'm going to Embry Riddle to be an Aero Space Engineer.

  • @ramflyer1899
    @ramflyer18995 жыл бұрын

    Keep these great videos coming!

  • @highsky9066
    @highsky9066Ай бұрын

    Best video on internet I really got into the video ❤ Thanks Keep making them ❤

  • @TheMaxik
    @TheMaxik3 жыл бұрын

    Such a great video. Thanks!

  • @kamelkadri2843
    @kamelkadri28435 жыл бұрын

    Great Video Simple to follow and highly informative

  • @giftuzoho5235
    @giftuzoho52352 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much,watching this video explained more to me about aerodynamics 👍

  • @ayojyotika
    @ayojyotika Жыл бұрын

    The best video ever! I'm a beginner and can understand so so well.. amazing 🙌✨

  • @MrBoomBoom1942
    @MrBoomBoom1942 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing vid. Thanks! Greetings from North Korea

  • @inggie2
    @inggie24 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this!!!

  • @muhsinbadshah6388
    @muhsinbadshah63883 жыл бұрын

    Sir. So much thanks to you as your videos are very beneficial and amazing for us. Thanks sir

  • @Ben-fc2xk
    @Ben-fc2xk2 жыл бұрын

    This video is incredible!! Thank you for sharing.

  • @aircraftmaintenanceinsider

    @aircraftmaintenanceinsider

    2 жыл бұрын

    Of course

  • @jimmydulin928
    @jimmydulin928 Жыл бұрын

    Very good lesson. It would help safety and reduce fatalities, I think, if the lesson on dynamic neutral stability were added in this lesson or perhaps wait until the stalls theory lesson. Somehow this seems to get lost in the flight school program of orientation and indoctrination. We old guys can discover this by asking what causes and airplane to stall. The answer is 99.9% "the pitch angle of the wing reaches the critical angle of attack." But that, given neutral dynamic stability, is not how the airplane is designed for safety especially in turns. The airplane cannot stall itself. A pilot, or computer, is required pulling back (ok forward if inverted) on the stick. The pitch angle reaching the critical angle of attack is when the wing stalls. Pilots cause all stalls. Wolfgang, in Stick and Rudder, talked about what the airplane wants to do. In the interest of safety, and fatality reduction, we need to orient pilots in the maneuvering flight environment (say around the airport) need to allow the design of the airplane to prevent stall. In the maneuvering flight environment, where inadvertent stall is fatal, airspeed and not altitude is life. We are teaching the wrong orientation here when we insist on maintaining altitude at any cost. We need orientation toward knowledge of and even use of the potential energy of altitude to provide extra airspeed to make a turn of any bank, not just limited bank, a 1 g turn. If we turn without back pressure on the yoke, without worry about altitude, we will not stall in the pattern. The airplane is incapable of that. High altitude orientation says altitude is life. We don't live there during takeoff and landing. Down here airspeed is life. As a crop duster and pipeline patrol instructor, I have been teaching low altitude orientation since 1974. You guys have a lot more clout than me. A little help here please. At least let your students know that there is a difference in the low altitude environment and labelling it taboo does not help pilots understand the difference. They have to take off and land in non-rocket powered airplanes until they get to be an ATP. Some might even go Ag or fight fires or work low. Theory has neither vertical nor horizontal space available limitations. Airport patterns have both.

  • @abhinavsaxena5470
    @abhinavsaxena54705 жыл бұрын

    thanx for this beautiful trepresentation

  • @tomstravelingadventures
    @tomstravelingadventures5 жыл бұрын

    Very informative, thanks for sharing

  • @Aabbcczzxxcc
    @Aabbcczzxxcc2 жыл бұрын

    this video is awesome, and playlist on this channel too

  • @coosk0110
    @coosk01104 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much. Good study material for me

  • @mrgmahon
    @mrgmahon9 ай бұрын

    Great video!

  • @Arcwol
    @Arcwol2 ай бұрын

    Awesome explanation from 4:09 - 5:15.

  • @brandonmiller4632
    @brandonmiller46327 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video! Regarding the discussion of L/D; I'm not sure that flying a speed or angle of attack for that condition will allow the aircraft to stay aloft the longest (as stated at about 14:00). One must fly the minimum sink speed to achieve that. Minimum sink speed is slower than L/D and can be found using a polar curve (glider handbooks have these). L/D max gives maximum glide range, or most distance for a given altitude. Looking forward to more videos. Thank you!

  • @ERAUSpecialVFR

    @ERAUSpecialVFR

    6 жыл бұрын

    Since the manufacturer doesn't publish a Minimum Sink Speed curve for the Cessna (or most powered aircraft) we chose to simplify the discussion and go with the manufacturer's recommendation. We always encourage pilots to dig much deeper into all of these topics, and especially into aerodynamics! Glider flying is a wonderful place to start!

  • @ricp
    @ricp2 жыл бұрын

    Superb video! thanks

  • @yousifgaminguniverse4429
    @yousifgaminguniverse44293 жыл бұрын

    Iam an aeronautical engineer studient and i should that this video is so good!

  • @enkavidhaigal1707
    @enkavidhaigal17074 жыл бұрын

    The best ever explaination in the world Just do a videos about fighter jets

  • @jcdominguez2015
    @jcdominguez20155 жыл бұрын

    I am and Aeronautical Engineering student and what you've explained was summarizing my subject for subsonic aerodynamics and fundamentals of aerodynamics. This is very helpful and you will learn the basics in just 15 mins. Good job and please keep this up!!!

  • @millandianne
    @millandianne Жыл бұрын

    Great video nice job . As pilot this is great ❤

  • @MagnarNordal
    @MagnarNordal6 жыл бұрын

    This video is very good, with one exemption: The illustration at 3:20 does not explain Newton's third law, because the airflow is not deflected downwards behind the wing (it looks more like a stalled wing). According to Newton's third law is lift the opposite of the downwards force created by the air flowing behind the wing. And what is completely missed, is the fact that the air is pushed upwards BEFORE the wing, balancing the downwash behind the wing. Finally, Newtons second law is essential: Because of the curvature is the air accelerated above the wing (thanks to Bernoulli). F = m * a. This acceleration creates the downforce, and the opposite force is lift (Newton's third law).

  • @ERAUSpecialVFR

    @ERAUSpecialVFR

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the feedback! In designing this course, we had to consider not only our audience (high school students,) but also the purpose of the course. It was designed as an introduction to aviation theories and principles. Don't worry....once students enroll in a degree program at the University, they will get their fill of physics and aerodynamics. :-)

  • @alderusdmc
    @alderusdmc3 жыл бұрын

    Wouldn't the wing with zero camber also be the kind stunt planes (like the Extra 300) use?

  • @drpando
    @drpando Жыл бұрын

    EXCELLENT f'n video!!!!!!!!

  • @matthewajlouny3714
    @matthewajlouny3714 Жыл бұрын

    Great explaination of newtons laws and how it related to lift. One thing I didn't agree with the pinching of flow at the leading edge causes the velocity to increase. This would be the case for internal flow in a pipe, but not always the case for flow around an airfoil

  • @madhulatha65
    @madhulatha652 жыл бұрын

    Good presentation thanks.

  • @zachthomas7810
    @zachthomas7810 Жыл бұрын

    4:00 because mass flow rate of a fluid is constant (A1V1=A2V2) when the cross sectional area of the pipe decreases the velocity must increase. The reason pressure decreases when velocity increases is because the pressure had to increase beforehand in order to increase the velocity of the fluid. And with the airfoil it’s the same thing since the top part is curved air molecules have 5:06 to travel a greater distance over the wing than under the wing so their velocity is greater and pressure is less than the bottom. Since pressure under the wing is greater and pressure = force/area this means the force component of pressure under the wing is greater. So if you just look at the wing as its own system and Force on wing = mass * acceleration then there will be a positive (upwards) force and thus a positive (upwards) acceleration which we attribute to flying. Note that the air molecules act on the surfaces of the wing with an impulse which has a Force component (impulse = force * time) so this force from the air molecules is what contributes to the Force component of pressure and the pressure and velocity differences stuff puts us back at Bernoulli’s principle

  • @miriampopa5436
    @miriampopa5436 Жыл бұрын

    I've learned this at Guyton aviation physiology lessons! 👍✈️

  • @eskimo330
    @eskimo330 Жыл бұрын

    This is such a good video

  • @cos6840
    @cos68403 жыл бұрын

    Why is it that the pressure decreases in the Venturi tube (3:54), I understand that the velocity would increase but since there isn’t as much room in the tube I would think that the pressure would increase?

  • @BeholdSevenWoes
    @BeholdSevenWoesАй бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @The_Plane_Spotters
    @The_Plane_Spotters Жыл бұрын

    Great Video 😊

  • @kwntech
    @kwntech2 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely agree with the guy below me. Ground school online is the only way to intelligently pursue knowledge involving aerodynamics and the...actually anything related to Ground School. I wasted 6 months doing ground school with an in person instructor. Waste of time and money. I've learned more on youtube in the past month than I got from him in 6.

  • @diegogarcia2515
    @diegogarcia25154 жыл бұрын

    Love aviation.

  • @francescopiazza4882
    @francescopiazza48822 жыл бұрын

    Very good!

  • @TheScottruchek
    @TheScottruchek3 жыл бұрын

    I a,ways like your videos. Thank you!

  • @marcopavone8695
    @marcopavone86954 жыл бұрын

    Excelent!

  • @captainsledge7554
    @captainsledge75545 жыл бұрын

    You forgot that wing tip fences help lower induced drag

  • @grigorybykovskiy6763
    @grigorybykovskiy67635 жыл бұрын

    It is so weird, that angle of attack is a clime while I always thought the attack is a decline. Can be an angle of attack both climb and decline or only when plain gain altitude (climb)?

  • @ERAUSpecialVFR

    @ERAUSpecialVFR

    4 жыл бұрын

    Angles of attack can be both positive and negative, although they are almost always positive. Depending on other factors, a positive angle of attack can result in either a climb or descent.

  • @alimaabattsengel8221
    @alimaabattsengel82212 жыл бұрын

    so helpful 💜💜💜

  • @qutubhashmi1656
    @qutubhashmi16564 жыл бұрын

    Very nice video

  • @timedwards2935
    @timedwards29353 жыл бұрын

    if Thrust equals drag, wouldn't the plane be at a zero airspeed? Doesn't thrust have to be greater than drag to move the plane forward?

  • @arunkumarsukumaran3589
    @arunkumarsukumaran35892 жыл бұрын

    Very informative

  • @arunkumarsukumaran3589
    @arunkumarsukumaran35892 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @prabhakarmishra2182
    @prabhakarmishra21824 жыл бұрын

    @3.55 plz correct me, how pressure decreases and velocity increases, I think the reverse should happen, when the same amount of fluid is to be moved through it the velocity should decrease and pressure should increase, I am not talking about wing but the apparatus shown at 3.55 only

  • @soulnickos2245
    @soulnickos22454 жыл бұрын

    13:34 How do you have the most amount of lift at the lowest amount of total drag?

  • @mrsaraf3459

    @mrsaraf3459

    4 жыл бұрын

    Drag is basically air friction. Since we know that friction acts opposite to direction of motion, lesser the friction more the lift you get

  • @maxmcvicker

    @maxmcvicker

    Жыл бұрын

    You don’t. They are showing the point of lowest amount of drag. You can have more lift but drag will increase past that point on the curve.

  • @rusty9959
    @rusty99597 жыл бұрын

    This is really helpful! Thanks!

  • @leonardgibney2997
    @leonardgibney2997 Жыл бұрын

    My problem is how would such an idea, angle of attack, work with a plane flying upside down?

  • @TheMaxik
    @TheMaxik3 жыл бұрын

    I think I found an error at 2:26 According to that explanation, the angle of attack will always remain a constant. No matter the angle the plain is flying, the difference between the two values remain the same. Right?

  • @maxmcvicker

    @maxmcvicker

    Жыл бұрын

    What they did not mention here and what you are probably correctly considering is the FLIGHT PATH of the plane. If the speed of the plane is increased or decreased, the flight path will then change and then too the angle of attack will change.

  • @simonvh7836
    @simonvh78365 жыл бұрын

    Why is the pressure decreasing as the air entered the venturi of the tube (narrowed section) and what causes the air to increase it's velocity in the venturi?

  • @omarhijazine3896

    @omarhijazine3896

    5 жыл бұрын

    Because all the particles of the air are being "squeezed" into a smaller area and trying to fit all of this air thru the smaller section of the venturi. Air going thru the venturi is actually moving and not just still so it would have to squeeze in to go thru the tube.

  • @newpaltzonian

    @newpaltzonian

    4 жыл бұрын

    The constriction / reduced area cross section in the middle of the Venturi squeezes the incoming air, thereby forcing the air to flow faster (to maintain flow volume) this increasing velocity & decreasing it's pressure. Aerodynamics.

  • @Observ45er

    @Observ45er

    4 жыл бұрын

    It is the pressure difference between the large section and small section that accelerates the air. This is Newton in fluids. The pressure difference (this is called a Pressure Gradient between two regions) provides the accelerating force on the air. .. The higher pressure in the wide section is caused by the restriction. If you remove/widen the restriction, the pressure in the upstream wide section will decrease. This is easily shown when you put a finger over the end of a garden hose. It squirts farther because the pressure goes up. Smaller cross section causes an upstream pressure increase. If the poressure remained constant, the water would squirt the same distance either way. The smaller section becomes an outlet for the high upstream pressure air to "escape", just like a pressurized tank with a hole in it. .. It is not a "squeezing" and a force is ALWAYS required to accelerate any mass, even air. Saying the air is squeezed makes you think the pressure should increase. . Using the "half Venturi" idea is also not the best way to explain it, but it is easy.

  • @dmurray2978

    @dmurray2978

    Жыл бұрын

    Imagine a 4 lane highway becoming a 1 lane highway. Slow, dense traffic b4 the one lane, but traffic in the one lane will go fast, with large space between them compared to the slow traffic in the 4 lanes

  • @ankitkumarojha6103
    @ankitkumarojha61035 жыл бұрын

    Please explain how lift is directly proportional to drag.

  • @maxmcvicker

    @maxmcvicker

    Жыл бұрын

    As lift is doubled, drag is quadrupled. Drag increases as the square of the airspeed.

  • @napraznicul
    @napraznicul13 күн бұрын

    Golden final idea, available also for cars driving, but there lack of knowledge not always become ..fatality, as in airplane flying.

  • @UniversalVideoro1
    @UniversalVideoro12 жыл бұрын

    oK , check HENRY CONDA effect and the principle of Reaction -Inventor in Romania. Thks

  • @ngonikenyaditswe704
    @ngonikenyaditswe7046 жыл бұрын

    thanks cap

  • @srigi-dev
    @srigi-dev6 жыл бұрын

    What is the name of the aircraft at 11:10?

  • @ERAUSpecialVFR

    @ERAUSpecialVFR

    6 жыл бұрын

    Srigi That is the Diamond DA-42.

  • @dhafersaleh6727
    @dhafersaleh67272 жыл бұрын

    Great 👍culture 👏👌🙌👍🙏

  • @HoustonGamerTVHGTV
    @HoustonGamerTVHGTV3 жыл бұрын

    Saving to watch later

  • @GiuseppeSRedSky
    @GiuseppeSRedSky3 жыл бұрын

    Nice channel

  • @paulwl3159
    @paulwl31592 жыл бұрын

    Why does air move faster over the cambered upper surface of the aerofoil? Why does it not move faster against the flatter less obstructive lower surface?

  • @maxmcvicker

    @maxmcvicker

    Жыл бұрын

    Think of it this way instead; the air is still and the air is being knocked out of the way for just a moment by the wing. The upper surface is wider and like a big man moving through a crowd, knocks the other people standing there ( air molecules) out of the way farther but as it ( he ) passes by, the air ( bystanders ) immediately go back to their positions. They had to go further to get back so they had to go faster and that faster recovery speed caused low pressure.