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4:39
Alex Gendler
Why are airplanes slower than they used to be?
4:45
Kristiina J. Hurme and Alejandro Rico-Guevara
The surprising secrets of hummingbird flight
4:19
Cory Combs
The future of flying is electrifying
10:50
Edward Paxton
Drive safer by thinking like a pilot
5:05
Tomás Chor
Turbulence: one of the great unsolved mysteries of physics
9:13
Elizabeth Streb
My quest to defy gravity and fly
8:08
Rodin Lyasoff
How autonomous flying taxis could change the way you travel
10:44
George Steinmetz
Photos of Africa, taken from a flying lawn chair
6:59
Jeff Kozak
Lessons from a former Air Force pilot on counterintuitive thinking
7:08
Richard Browning
How I built a jet suit
40:50
Elon Musk
The future we're building -- and boring
11:11
Dustin Schroeder
How we look kilometers below the Antarctic ice sheet
4:44
Nina Klietsch
Why do airlines sell too many tickets?
13:47
Nagin Cox
What time is it on Mars?
11:35
Raffaello D'Andrea
Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future
6:28
Raymond Wang
How germs travel on planes -- and how we can stop them
13:09
Vijay Kumar
The future of flying robots
17:47
Fred Jansen
How to land on a comet
5:28
Katerina Kaouri
The sonic boom problem
4:33
Joy Lin
If superpowers were real: Flight
5:58
Bastian Schaefer
A 3D-printed jumbo jet?
15:55
Michael Dickinson
How a fly flies
14:07
Andrew McAfee
Are droids taking our jobs?
25:01
Regina Dugan
From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone
9:38
Anna Mracek Dietrich
A plane you can drive
14:48
Yves Rossy
Fly with the Jetman
17:46
Bertrand Piccard
My solar-powered adventure
12:13
Ueli Gegenschatz
Extreme wingsuit flying
4:01
Peter Diamandis
Stephen Hawking's zero g flight
29:51
Richard Branson
Life at 30,000 feet
19:37
Burt Rutan
The real future of space exploration
21:20
Paul MacCready
A flight on solar wings
22:48
Paul MacCready
Nature vs. humans
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