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Hovering a Helicopter is Hilariously Hard - Smarter Every Day 145

SmarterEveryDay · 6,906,759 views · Added 1 month ago

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B1

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5/10

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Subtitles (160 segments)

00:00

Hey it's me Destin, welcome back to Smarter Every Day

00:02

If there is one thing that I learnt from the backwards bicycle experiment

00:05

Is that knowledge is not understanding

00:07

So a couple of years ago when I made the YouTube series about helicopter physics

00:11

I gained the knowledge of how they worked, but not really the understanding

00:14

so today on Smarter Every Day I'm going to try hover a helicopter

00:18

I've heard its the hardest thing you can do, specifically the Robinson 22

00:22

because it's a pure helicopter, there is no augmentation

00:25

So today on Smarter Every Day, we're going to learn what goes into doing that

00:28

and what her brain is doing

00:30

It's really quite incredible

00:33

Let's go get Smarter Every Day

00:36

I'm going to be straight up with you

00:37

I'm convinced that helicopter instructor pilots are either complete idiots, or incredibly brave

00:42

I mean think about it

00:43

They get into a helicopter with someone they've never met

00:46

and give them the controls

00:48

(Destin) This is my first rotary - (Brandon) crash course

00:51

No! I don't want to take a crash course

00:53

Notice that the controls are actually connected together

00:56

which means if I do something stupid

00:58

Brandon has to wrestle the controls out of my hand

01:01

Or just trust that I'm going to let go

01:03

That's crazy

01:04

Anyway, watch how bad I fly every single time he gives me the controls -

01:07

- and you can easily tell when he takes back over

01:10

(Brandon) Almost got it, there you go Pedal to your heading

01:13

(Brandon) laughs (Destin) crap

01:16

(Destin) So I'm going to try that, we're going to taxi down (Brandon)Yep

01:19

(Brandon) So you have the controls (Destin) I have the controls

01:23

(Destin) okay you got it - laughs

01:26

(Brandon) Alright so you have the cyclic, alright just try to hold this in this spot

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