Flying a plane badly, on purpose.

As a former student of Southampton Uni I got to experience the Cranfield Flying Lab flight, and worked alongside these guys for two subsequent years of their annual flights at SOU airport. So great to see Tom involved with something so familiar!

godspeed guys. cheers

Thanks for reminding me how I failed to stress the "don't turn your head" enough the first time ever I carried a passenger flying on a glider… let's only say it didn't end cleanly as your lesson… I keep your opinion on the matter in even higher regard😅

11:26 – The face of a man who has learnt to appreciate the joys of airtime!

Flying at Cranfield in 2015 was absolutely one of the highlights of my time at uni as an aerospace engineering student, especially as I didn’t end up in the aerospace industry after graduation! Thank you Tom for this unexpected blast from the past!

"The plane is designed to correct for them"…unless its a 737 Max in which case those correction systems make it crash….

to be clear, the drop was due to aggressive stall recovery, not due to the stall itself. in training type aircraft (skyhawks, not saabs) you almost cruise while stalled if you try hard enough (not quite but it's fairly benign in straight wing trainers)

I did this flight a few months back, and it's certainly an experience trying to take notes while pulling 2G

Recovery from unusual attitudes is some of the best fun you can have.

Does anyone know what the hand held camera, the small one that uses a gimbal, he uses?

Nice video. The SAAB 340 had a “sofa” back in the plane, like an old bus. The guy sitting in the middle of the aisle had plenty of legroom but no tray table.

I flew a plane badly last week. Unfortunately it was real. I'll give it another go tomorrow.

Somehow I am constantly suprised at what Tom can do

This reminds me of that tragedy

the pilots of flight 1141 for some reason

It's a good thing Tom acclimated himself to rollercoasters.

At 60º of bank, in a balanced turn, you will always pull 2 g. The stick pusher doesn’t produce negative g, just reduced. Negative g is when the contents of the carpet get in your eyes.

10:10 Is probably the best "layman's" explanation of a stall I've ever heard. I'm a pilot myself, and when I take freinds and family flying I occasionally try to show and explain what a stall is and I don't think I could ever explain it that well without getting too technical! As always, incredible work Tom 🙂

I threw up in that plane

12:01 Character development

So I had worked for GE before they did the split to the 3 separate companies and I still vividly remember one of the all company calls that they do where each of the 3 CEOs would talk about the state of that section of the company. When the one for aviation (or now Aerospace company split) came on he started his spiel with "I always remember talking to the engineers of the planes and they continue to tell me that we still don't truly know what causes planes to fly. We know some things but not all. It's a lot of trial and error" and as an engineer, that always sticks with me. 😂 It still never changed my mind though on flying. I don't mind flying at all, I just naturally get motion sick easily which I hate. Ironically though, the more I can feel the plane move, the less I get sick. My husband is the opposite in his motion sickness. So the small 737s like you were on, I LOVE being on those planes because I can very easily feel the movement. I also have always felt more subtle movements than most people, even in cars and it was always sort of baffling to others on how sensitive my body was the movement. So the more often I can fly on the smaller planes, I do. I also now live in CO so it is extremely common to run into some turbulence getting in and out of the Denver airport. Recently, not only did we have the normal turbulence but we also had the usual afternoon popup thunderstorms. We were still cleared to go through the storm instead of around it and dear god, that was A LOT of turbulence. I honestly think the only reason we didn't have people freaking out is we had this group of kids that were so funny making comments during the whole batch of turbulence. The pilots were handling it amazingly but there were quite a few times we dropped some and you could feel that negative G-force. It was probably my most eventful flight I've ever been on.

Uploading this on the week of the 25th anniversary of 9/11 was certainly a choice (or perhaps purposeful to catch the algo)