Bloomberg
Emirates Says Still Considering Boeing 787 Order: Clark
Nov.19 -- Dubai-based carrier Emirates Airlines is still considering the Boeing 787 order and a decision is likely months away. That's according to the company's President Tim Clark. Speaking exclusively to Bloomberg's Yousef Gamal...
Curated OER
How Jet Engines Work
The details of force and thrust are covered as the individual components of a jet engine are looked at. Give your physics class an in-depth look at this technological advance.
Crash Course
To the Moon and Mars - Aerospace Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #34
Did you know that space flight has its own field of engineering? The 34th video in the Crash Course Engineering series looks at aerospace engineering and its two branches, aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. It...
MinutePhysics
Why Are Airplane Engines So Big?
Why is the size of jet engines increasing? An entertaining video lesson describes the efficiency of jet engines. The narrator describes the poor design of an engine that is too small or too big and explains why it is more efficient to...
TED-Ed
Will Future Spacecraft Fit in Our Pockets?
Say goodbye to giant rocket ships and hello to micro-spacecraft. Taking a look at the future of space exploration, this video explores the development of tiny, expendable space probes that can investigate the far reaches of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Air Power: Making a Hovercraft
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members make their own hovercraft and demonstrate how the air leaking out of a balloon can make a plastic plate hover above a table. Experiment instructions are also available in a PDF...
University of Nottingham
Sixty Symbols: Symbols of Physics and Astronomy: Propulsion Efficiency
A University of Nottingham physicist explains how a jet engine works, and demonstrates a jet engine's propulsion efficiency using a water-propelled rocket made from a soda bottle. [6:01]
Crash Course
Crash Course A&p #33: Digestive System, Part 1
Nachos are delicious. And versatile because today they're also going to help us learn a thing or two about your digestive system. Nachos can provide us with energy and raw materials, by first ingesting something nutritious, propelling it...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Bit Zee Bot: 4. Bit Zee Planning and Propulsion
The video covers the first stages of idea generation for Bit-zee and how to make Bit-zee move. [8:23]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Motors/propulsion
In this video, we re-wire Bit-zee's motors to include longer wires and then we re-attach them to his frame. This video shows more detail than the previous motor video and it is shot in real-time. This video also shows how to route the...