The Deadly Race to Supersonic Flight (Documentary)

21 thoughts on “The Deadly Race to Supersonic Flight (Documentary)”

1. 💨✈ Racing into the supersonic era! This documentary explores the thrilling journey and challenges of achieving supersonic flight. Strap in for an adrenaline-fueled adventure! 🚀🌟

2. This is great video, very intersting. I would love for you to do something around the Hyperloop, especillay it beating the speed of sound.

3. 21:58 Damm the news were really somthing back then… Has it got any better now? 🥲

4. Thunderscreech was not designed to go supersonic. Early jet engines could not accelerate fast enough so they attached a propellor in front of a jet.

5. Slower is better

6. TU-144 could only reach supersonic with reheat, it was unable to 'cruise' supersonically – hence the high fuel consumption.

7. I did like it too

8. Great video! Keep producing videos which peak your interest, keeps them authentic and thought provoking.

9. Yaeger landing that jet is sigma male asf. Yes it was copied, but that skill wasn’t copied!!

10. Rich people need to slow down while we have a super duper climate crisis.

11. I hope the rest of the channels on Nebula are better researched and produced than this low effort ChatGPT written mess. Rough.

12. Not gonna lie….the people from this journey are simply brilliant…..doing this from the 1940's 🙌🙌🙌

13. I'm just a layman so take everything with 2 grains of salt, but even if we got to regular commercial supersonic flight in the next couple decades, it would be a little too late, because of SpaceX. In the next couple of decades Starship (or if it doesn't succeed a similar vehicle albeit a little later) will leave these supersonic flight attempts in the dust and travel in the 2 digit mach numbers around the world.

14. The Germans weren't the first to attempt supersonic planes. The creator of the Turbo Jet, Frank Whittle already had extremely powerful prototype engines that could have been used to create a supersonic airplane. The British Government and Air Ministry were not interested, and in fact, the Patent for the Turbo Jet was allowed to lapse because the Air Ministry refused to pay it. Even during the war the Air Ministry had to be convinced that it was necessary. They threw away an almost 7 year lead in British Jet development and they were still able to develop the Gloster Meteor. Had they prioritized Turbo Jet development instead of ignoring Frank Whittle and Power Jets, they could have had working prototypes within months and a working Combat Jet by 1941.

15. Salute to all the brave men who lost their life in the pursuit of supersonic flight.

16. 🔥🔥

17. I heard OceanGate are making one that can be controlled with an old N64 pad.

18. Maybe out of my league… but the feeling I get is that commercial flight at high speeds will take off when flying above the atmosphere is more developed.

19. Wow i thought I'm watching a mustard video 😂😂😂good one dude

20. YEAGER is a German word for hunter, tho sligthtly Aminized

21. Rest in peace to those who died in humans’ pursuit of supersonic flight 🤍

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