Best YouTube videos on Aviation & Spaceflight
4 videos our team picked as worth your time. Paste any of them into YouTube Collector for the full transcript, a chaptered summary, and search across everything you save.
A Powerless Boeing Falls From The Sky! | Gimli Glider | FULL EPISODE | Mayday: Air Disaster
When a brand-new Boeing 767 runs completely out of fuel at 41,000 feet, both engines die and the cockpit goes dark, and the only hope is a captain who happens to be a glider pilot, aiming a powerless airliner at an abandoned runway. (Published 5 May 2022)
How One Man Won The Space Race For America (Apollo Program: Saturn V Documentary) | Spark
How Wernher von Braun and a 400,000-strong army of engineers built the Saturn V, the largest, most powerful machine ever flown, and used it to win the race to the Moon. (Published 9 Jul 2021)
The Insane Engineering of the X-15
Real Engineering breaks down the X-15, the rocket plane that flew to the edge of space: the materials, aerodynamics and control problems its engineers had to solve, and the flight data that fed straight into the space programme. (Published 31 Mar 2021)
Boeing 747: The Plane That Nearly Destroyed Its Maker - Full Documentary
How Boeing bet the whole company on a plane no one was sure the world needed, the 747 "Queen of the Skies", and nearly went bankrupt building the jumbo jet that would define long-haul travel for half a century. (Published 17 Feb 2026)