THE VIDEO SHELF · fighter jet flight controls
Special Lecture: F-22 Flight Controls
A special lecture from MIT's Private Pilot Ground School in which Lt. Col. Randy Gordon, a fighter and test pilot, describes F-22 flight controls. Topics include thrust vectoring, the pilot command system and how software handles failures.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a fascinating insider account of how the F-22's software makes it easier to fly than a Cessna.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- Topic
- fighter jet flight controls
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2022
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From the original HN conversations
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Slightly related, but there's a great hour-long lecture [1] by Colonel Randy Gordon, who's a test pilot, discussing the flight control systems for the F-22, contrasting it (a bit) to other jets, and even to a Cessna. He talks about the tradeoffs between human factors, …
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