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Why Planes Don't Fly Faster
Wendover Productions · 3 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2018–2022).
SignalTube analysis
Among 27 other explainer videos tagged Aviation & aerospace engineering, the mean is 3.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 2.9 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
75% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2018–2022; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 11 minutes 32 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2017-02-28.
- Channel / speaker
- Wendover Productions
- Verified runtime
- 11m 32s
- YouTube upload date
- 2017-02-28
- Hacker News mention years
- 2018–2022
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Aviation & aerospace engineering. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Why Planes Don't Fly FasterCurrent video | 3 | 3 | 75% | — | 11m 32s | 2017-02-28 |
| Mars Helicopter (before it went to Mars)explainer · Veritasium | 10 | 4 | 79% | No recorded overlap | 16m 1s | 2019-08-10 |
| The Fastest Way to Board a Plane Feels Like the Slowestexplainer · CGP Grey | 9 | 6 | 69% | No recorded overlap | 8m 28s | 2019-02-04 |
| Zipline - How Rwanda Built A Drone Delivery Serviceexplainer · Real Engineering | 9 | 6 | 69% | No recorded overlap | 11m 46s | 2019-01-25 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft”. Its short rationale: Economic analysis of Concorde's demise.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Ask HN: What are the most educational,interesting or insightful vids on YouTube?”. Its short rationale: Listed among most educational YouTube videos from Twitter responses.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Is killing the boom the key to supersonic air travel?”. Its short rationale: Planes flew faster in the 1960s; explains why not now.