How Do Airplanes Fly? What Neil deGrasse Tyson got wrong about Bernoulli | StarTalk
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Published 2024-05-10
StarTalk: "Hoiw do airplanes fly?" • How Do Airplanes Fly? | Neil deGrasse...
Links to videos about lift:
- This is lift: • Lift explained - Bernoulli's and Newt...
- Lift formula: • The lift formula explained
- Forget Bernoulli and Newton: • Forget Bernoulli and Newton | The eas...
- Why are so many pilots wrong about Bernoulli? • Why are so many pilots wrong about Be...
Other links:
- Holger Babinsky: Wind tunnel video. • Wing lift Holger Babinsky
- Holger Babinsky: «Lift” • Lift - Prof. Holger Babinsky
- Doug McLean: “Common misconceptions in aerodynamics” • Lift - Prof. Holger Babinsky
- Krzysztof Fidkowski: “How planes fly” • Krzysztof Fidkowski | How Planes Fly
- Khan Academy “What is Bernnoulli’s equation?” www.khanacademy.org/science/physics/fluids/fluid-d…
- NASA: “What is lift?” www1.grc.nasa.gov/beginners-guide-to-aeronautics/w…
- NAVY Productions: “Why do aircraft carriers always sail directly into the wind?” • Why Do Aircraft Carriers ALWAYS Sail ...
All Comments (21)
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Neil gets A LOT of things wrong.
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One of the great challenges in this world, is knowing enough about a subject to think you're right...but not enough about the subject, to know that you're wrong...
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I went to engineering school with guys like NDT - so eager to teach and or sound smart that they have to sound authoritative in everything, regardless of how little understanding they have of whatever topic they're wandering through at the moment.
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Tyson’s greatest work was Cosmos where he was reading from a script written by people who actually knew what they were talking about.
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As a pilot, listening to Tyson's explanation of lift was like listening to fingernails on a blackboard... Also, anytime anyone says that natural phenomenon "wants" to do something, it's time to change the channel.
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A man who truly loves the sound of his own voice.
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Tyson is NOWHERE as smart as he thinks he is.
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Listening to Tyson talk, it boggles the mind how anyone ever took him seriously.
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From the outside, it appears that Mr Tyson's self worth is wrapped around being the smartest person in any room he enters. And it doesn't seem like that meshes well with the final quote in this video.
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I'm gonna correct one thing - he wants us to think he knows it all. I wish he'd stick to topics he really knows, but he likes the sound of his own voice, so I know he won't stop.
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"Astrophysicist to the Stars" Neil deGrasse Tyson wanders into the weeds to find a rake. Steps on it.
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Magnar, well done! I too watched the Neil deGrasse Tyson video (due, in part, to his celebrity status), only to find myself muttering “no, no, no ….”. Thanks for putting together such a well researched, technically correct, exposé of three common misconceptions in aeronautics.
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DeGrasse isn't just in the wrong lane here, he's on the wrong highway!
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Tyson ain't no Sagan, that's for sure...
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On another explainer, Tyson said that airplanes taxi in the air above the airport, and not on the ground. Chuck Nice was visibly disturbed by Tyson's explanation, because even Chuck knew that aircraft taxi on the ground….on taxi ways.
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I used to like Neil’s science descriptions. Then I saw him give a keynote live at a technical conference in San Francisco. I forgot what topic he was talking about, but the number and level of bombastic arguments and assumptions was counter to what I learned from my scientific mentors. (Three of them are notable enough to have Wikipedia articles.) But upon watching this (and I’m only at 11:30 ), my level of Picard facepalming has reached a new level. How does he get these cowpies past his fact-checking team?
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NDT is evolving into Cliff Clavin from Cheers.
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As noted by others - if “Equal transit time” were correct then inverted flight would be impossible, as would flat high-speed wings that have no curvature. Holding angled cardboard out a car window forces it upward.
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Dunning-Kruger would be proud of their theory!
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and most others, also forget that you can build a plane with thin flat wings and it will still fly. Inefficient, yes, but I build balsa models like that for fun.
