Lec 1 | MIT 16.885J Aircraft Systems Engineering, Fall 2005

[alexasmithy]

very interesting thanks

[NganaJHone]

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[Ondelendo]

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[bebeheuy]

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[willamricard]

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[imegatrone]

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[bundawartini]

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[nihil1]

At people complaining about pictures: Search your feelings.

Ugh, I mean, the website! The slides are there. :P

[qu33nmnsion]

lecture starts at 14:50

[mooktank]

CAMERAMAN Y U NO SHOW SLIDES?

[SmokeDankTrees]

i want to see the pictures!

[tycoonvon]

I could ace this course.

[k6mfw]

Some of this I knew but Dale Myers gives excellent insight why the Shuttle became what it is, i.e. Fletcher and Low were faced with the end of manned space flight! Good that Dale quickly dismissed SSTO, he knows physics of the rocket equation (too bad key people didn't realize the same when they started X33/Venturestar). Dale said Fletcher spread development costs so congress doesn't get hit with a big bill later in program (too bad key people didn't think of this during Constellation).

[lvll138inrs]

where does a layman get acces to liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen?

[chair5432]

@lvll138inrs welding supply, alias company, that stuff its regulated because liq ox is highly oxidizing and explosive

[madisonelectronic]

I want him to yell "Fill your hand you son of a bitch"!

[zinkerled]

I came for the eye patch and left soon after

[THETYGUY77]

so glad this bitch is dead....he failed me

[kobebryant417]

@THETYGUY77 wow youre a fucking asshole. i hope you die you failure piece of shit. you arent at MIT's standards.

[saidzia3]

who clicked this video only for the badass eyepatch. i know i did.

[Sprinterdrift]

I'm sorry if this is in bad taste but I have to say: that eye patch is fucking badass.

[jimbopumbapigsticks]

@Sprinterdrift Not at all - it makes him look like some Indiana Jones person who teaches in between aeronautical adventures.

[TheRealBlackRefleX]

Great Person :)

[slovakmath]

MIT faculty are truly experts in their field, students are given the freedom (& responsibility) of doing research to learn materials. This is a superior method of teaching elite students who dont need babysitting, more than they need guidance. i studied their for 1 semester, IMO i learned more then than all of my succeeding studies. aside from memorizing facts, critical thinking was the main thing I gained while I was there, that by itself will allow any person to go about any career they wish

[BoIoko]

eye-patch , totally badass!

[NmHman127Nugget]

That guy has one eye and I am really exicted to watch this series

[tdlob1]

Myers is badass, what other professor have you seen that rocks an eye-patch?

[MeGg1120]

I think that the reason why the camera operator never shows the slides, it is because they might have copyright

[NicolaasJK]

Wow thank you MIT! We NEVER get the chance to study these openly here in South Africa. This is an very interesting subject. Keep on sharing.

[jeetendrag10acc2]

your university lecturers look like adventurers. Ours look like dorks unfortunately.

[XxVassilisxX]

the camera man is an idiot. he never shows the slides and you can't see what they are showing on the projector.

[PuzzlingEvidenceTV]

@XxVassilisxX Slides are added in the edit. This is the camera master copy.

[Charleswang64]

I will write down anything you say if you are wearing an eye patch.

[dvsbmx]

@rajeto11 I had to rock an eye patch for months, it sucks.

[dvsbmx]

@rajeto11

I had to rock an eye patch for months after being kicked in the face, it sucks.

[TimThomason]

@dvsbmx Yeah, but Myers has worn one for at least 20 years. It seems to have toughened the guy up.

[macabo]

Rest In Peace, Professor Aaron Cohen. He passed away February 25th, 2010 at the age of 79.

[circusboy90210]

@macabo I hope devoting his life as a conduit of knowledge was rewarding to him & his family. education is very underestimmated in this nation considering we have the best universities.

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[MrAlb0t]

i guess in avionics its more directed to plains... aeronautic covers the theme of space crafts too

[mantas1111000]

Not fully. Aeronautics are more of orbital flight. Otherwise, the NASA should be NAA.

[aerohells07]

hey i'm interested in 'aeronautical' engineering- is the course in MIT 'aerospace and avionics' the same thing??

[inmhstn]

Interesting about the P-51.

[IamJacksColon4]

im not really sure what the students are actually supposed to learn?

[HybridTF]

It's only repeated nonstop and is in the title.

Systems Engineering.

[IamJacksColon4]

ya but they are not teaching anything about it only telling stories.

[mwsource]

For those asking about slides and notes, Click on the "full course" link under the video description, scroll down and click on "Video lectures", and then on the first session topic. Lecture notes are in PDF format on that page.

Note that not all slides are in the notes, but most pertinent information from the slides are included in those notes.

[sanjeev1226]

Great! Thank you MIT for this lecture series! It will help me a lot!

[bellinivernon]

Exelente ! ;gracias ,desde argentina.

[tuktuktok]

Thank you MIT! You have inspired me greatly. I'm in the process of constucting my own upper athmosphere craft. As soon as I get my helium tank delivered I will fill a huge balloon and tie it in my lawnchair. Then I go as high as I in the athmosphere (hoping to reach stratosphere to be specific) can and jump out with my parachute. Thanks again MIT!

[michelhack1]

lol, good luck

[unknownkingdom]

@tuktuktok You'll probably die.

[waltibaba]

@unknownkingdom Natural selection at work haha! gotta love Darwin...

[macknumber]

@tuktuktok

How is your project at the moment?

[tuktuktok]

@macknumber The lawnchair selection is going well. Now I'm just gathering funds to get a gravity suit and oxygen tank. Best regards.

[Sixalienasa]

@tuktuktok Wouldnt it be easier just to slit your wrists?

[tuktuktok]

@Sixalienasa Haters keep on hating.

[Sixalienasa]

@tuktuktok Get real Dude.

[TigerGrumman]

@tuktuktok:

You will need more than an oxygen mask. At that altitude, you will also need a stabilized pressurization suit. You will also need a lifting source other than helium. The atomic mass of helium is roughly 4 times less that of Oxygen and Nitrogen. The earth's atmosphere is composed of roughly 79% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen. The air is roughly 1,000 times less dense at those altitudes which means that your won't have enough helium to get you where you want to go as a practical matter.

[Deamarus]

@TigerGrumman I think he was joking. As for helium not being good enough as a lifting source to get a man to the stratosphere, Joseph Kittinger and NASA would disagree with you there. The Japanese Space Agency has also developed newer materials that lift smaller payloads to much, much greater altitudes for a considerably smaller volume of helium, its all materials engineering and its come a long way from Kittinger's time.

[pinkie24]

the eye patch is cool

[inzhener2007]

Why the camoperator does not show us slides?

[Clovertone]

I found this quite irritating. Obviously slide are important...

[MightySaturn5]

A very interesting class...history by one who was part of its creation

[fingerboy18]

Since they are one of the most reputable schools on this planet, I think they know what they're doing :)

[aperezNWO]

Thanks for share this material

[rubixcube001]

Copyrights, it's in a few of the other videos as well, guess the slideshows aren't their original material.

[jijisinsin1]

nice!