Airplanes & Flying

September 11, 2024  •  EPISODE 230

Discover the fascinating history of flight and the science behind how airplanes soar through the skies. Roger Billings also explores the concept of hydrogen-powered aircraft, revealing how future planes could be fueled by hydrogen, paving the way for cleaner and more sustainable air travel.

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134 Comments

  1. Olivia R. Butler

    This was my first Science Live episode, and I really enjoyed it! Definitely will be watching more <3

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  2. Jean A.

    Watching this reminded me how grateful we need to be towards great minds like the Wright Brothers. Without them and so many others, where would are wonderful world be? Keep up the great work Acellus, I love it!!!!

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  3. Alda

    I think the history, technology, and all of the studying and exams you have to take to be able to fly a plane are so awesome and can’t wait to see what features will make flying easier in the future!

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  4. Abigail Meyers

    I like watching these episodes, thank you!

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  5. Kerrigan Gregait

    This was a fun one to watch!

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  6. Skylar Costict

    What happen if the birds wing is messed up or what happens if the bird has less feathers?

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  7. Zachary Roth

    How do airbrakes work?

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  8. Chevelle Martinez

    This such a good episode

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  9. Raymond Parris

    nice to know

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  10. Sophia S.

    Thank you for explaining what ventioneering means. The story about the Wright brothers really helped me understand it. I hope I can apply this concept in my life.

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  11. Jackson Gregait

    R-51 was funny as heck!

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  12. Bradley M

    episode 230
    I would love to learn to fly a plane.

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  13. Statham Holland

    so cool

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  14. HI

    I loved watching this video! R-51 made my day!!!:)

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  15. Gunnar Bendorf

    R-51 is the best part about listening to these lol 😉

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  16. David

    1 I did not know that airplanes needed the extra wings for something. 2 I saw that there were two types of flying flapping fast and like gliding. 3 close to the end they tried to do vertical takeoff and i laughed

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  17. Carmela

    Loved this!!

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  18. Andrea Myers

    this was fun to watch

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  19. Cory D.

    I’ve never watched science live before, it was an interesting first episode. It lets me learn without any effort, practically a movie. It’s fun to watch and I’m already thinking about all I could learn with science live, I hope to keep seeing episodes like this one!

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  20. Justin Myers-Chang

    Thank you for making this episode, I really enjoyed it!

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  21. Josiah Alkire

    I love Dr. Billing’s jet!

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  22. Liberty pabst

    This was so fun to watch!

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  23. Sofia

    This one was fun

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  24. Baily Tanner

    what exactly is liquid hydrodron and what all can it be used for?

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  25. Brayden Rauschnot

    Will vertical takeoffs be viable for airplanes in the future

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  26. Alana

    I liked watching this video. It is interesting to hear all of the historical facts.

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  27. Coy Guillory

    I enjoyed learning about the history and technology of flying a plane.

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  28. Kevin Crane

    This video was interesting and I learned a lot from it. Thanks

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  29. Aaron Crane

    This was a good episode. I like watching these

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  30. Shylo Maze

    Learning about the wright brothers and what started their curiosity was very cool.

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  31. Athena Freeman

    I like the different planes!

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  32. Shadow Maze

    When I get older I’m going to make a new kind of plane that can go really fast!

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  33. Daniel Pinegar

    How many commercial flights are there each year now?

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  34. Ryland Borchers

    That was really fun to watch. I have liked airplanes since I was a baby. The information was really interesting and cool to learn.

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  35. Lorelai V Ainsworth

    CANT WAIT 😀

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  36. Kane

    Great video

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  37. Jonathan A.

    Love it. Can you make one with centrifugal force.

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  38. julie w.

    It was interesting to find out vultures were an inspiration in the making of aircrafts! I loved learning more about this subject.

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  39. Addie

    Very funny to watch

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  40. Jordan Kinser

    I wonder what kind of buttons would need to be pressed in flight and when taking off.

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  41. Amine Fahim

    Im so excited about the upcoming technology of airplanes.

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  42. Nathan W Tanner

    Very interesting to learn about how they fly

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  43. Jackson

    who invented the first solar powered plane?

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  44. Varvara

    it was very interesting!!

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  45. Ace Thompson

    Does hydrogen have a lower energy density than actual fuel ?

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  46. Ryan

    Flying is one of the many things that people do not get the chance to even do for me. I think it is very fascinating that just two brothers and a little bit of science came up with the modern day airplane, which advanced to the airplanes that we have today.

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  47. Justin Estevez

    Great episode, thank you. I loved to hear of the history in the discovery of airplanes. Look forward to more episodes.

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  48. Ayanfeoluwa

    thank you for this amazing lesson

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  49. Jude Aarden

    so cool!

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  50. Bradley M.

    I feel confident enough to build a plane now, which is pretty darn cool. Or at least a glider, I don’t have the money to buy plane fuel.

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  51. Liberty Baldwin

    This was really interesting! Clouds are so beautiful from above!!

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  52. Elijah Baldwin

    This video was really cool to watch And i loved R-51

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  53. Ruth baldwin

    this video was really amazing and I love clouds

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  54. Kaitlyn

    I like this episode because I used to want to be a pilot.

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  55. Jessica Romero-Perez

    I loved this episode very good!

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  56. Mia Benavides

    Great live

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  57. Aiden Brown

    The wright brothers are cool too learn about

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  58. Amelia Solberg

    I think the light bulb is cool because it lights up without being plugged in

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  59. Haiynn McCloud

    I missed this over the summer! I enjoyed this so much!

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  60. Isabel Durr

    I ‘m not that into inventing yet but I still found this interesting.

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  61. Hunter Little

    Awesome information!

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  62. Daniela Petzer

    Super cool! Now I’m even more excited about airplanes than before!

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  63. Hàn Chí Nguyên

    this is all about flying, so good, i love flying

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  64. Hàn Chí Nguyên

    this is all about flying, so good, i love flying, i will be flying one day, and become the greatest pilot ever live, I hope theres a second episode about this

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  65. Zoë Nezezon

    I am re-watching this, looking for the “Ventenioring Club”’s presentation, I want to know what drone Malichi used…did they cut that from the video? I can’t seem to find it….. But otherwise great video!

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  66. Olive Wenger

    This was my favorite Roger billings so far!

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  67. Luke

    I love Dr. billings jet

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  68. Lauren Moseley

    I really enjoyed this science live!!

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  69. Andrew Santana

    Why dose a airplane have curved wings.

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  70. Dominique Schrader

    Mr, Dr. Billings made the first hydrogen car, the first hydrogen fork lift, and the first hydrogen powered motoercycle ant the first hydrogen bus and the first hydrogen house that he actually lived in. Mr. Dr. Billing made amazing things.

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  71. tul

    R-51 is so funny

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  72. Barrett Zapf

    How do you make a hydrogen powered car?

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  73. Ranulph Zapf

    I loved that video!

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  74. Maddox

    Great episode!!

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  75. Holly Sappington

    I just came back, and WOW! Everything is so different! I love it though, granted I was a little nervous when I didn’t see MR. Tobias second. Haha glad he is there though, I also love how his ties always match what he is talking about!

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  76. Bella Ochoa

    This episode and it’s topic is great! So much fun to learn about the Wright Brothers!

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  77. ezra

    cool

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  78. Kade Kaufman

    I like learning about the Wright brothers. Orville flew 50 miles on his plane.

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  79. Kourtlynn Kaufman

    Our family wants to take a trip to the outer banks and visit the Wright Brothers museum.

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  80. Karsten Kaufman

    I really enjoyed this episode, I’ve always been interested in flying!

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  81. Andrew Evert

    I wish that the Wright brothers could have the chance to see how far technology has come. And to think that only 66 years after the first flight we landed on the moon is just crazy to me!

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  82. Bella😏

    My younger sister will be using Acellus to enhance her reading abilities, which she needs to succeed in all of her classes. As for me, I’m a passionate bookworm who thoroughly enjoys reading.

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  83. Joy

    So cool!

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  84. Isabella

    Always been interested in airplanes, great video

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  85. Boston Knight

    I wish I could own a jet like you some day.

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  86. Cam

    I love science live so much

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  87. Cam

    R51 is so funny

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  88. Cleopatra Rohrer

    I made a small wooden biplane but I haven’t tested if it fly’s yet.

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  89. jonbailey haas

    why is the new hydrogen planes not able to go as far if it is 1/3 of the wight of jet fuel and can be compressed, All so there are plans to extract hydrogen 3 on the moon.Why can’t we use this insted of other hydrogen it would be abel to cool the front mush better and have a greater power output.

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  90. Sherla Joseph Victor

    Interesting

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  91. Nerissa

    this episode was very interesting

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  92. Arya

    This was awesome

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  93. Max McCall

    Why did the project get stalled in california?

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  94. Opal McCoy

    It was fascinating hearing about all of the different working parts of the wings for the airplane. Never would have thought of it like that.

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  95. DOAN NGOC

    I LIKE R-51. He’s sooo funny

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  96. Bradley walker

    i love they way it explains everything about this subject

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  97. Caiden Hiner

    I loved learning about air planes, flying and the Wright Brothers.

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  98. Callan Hiner

    I liked learning about the Wright Brothers and their determination to fly.

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  99. Riley Daniel

    I liked this video! Very interesting and lots of information.

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  100. callen callen

    I think the light bulb is cool because it lights up without being plugged in

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  101. Isabella White

    Great Episode! Loved it!

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  102. Vsevolod Chumachenko

    R-51 is just so funny! I think that he is the one that makes these episodes so extraordinary!

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  103. sadie

    I think airplanes are really cool but i have never been on one

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  104. James Hines

    I did not know about the hydrogen plane!

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  105. Andrew Ramey

    Cool video I learnded alot

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  106. Noah Proffer

    I just remembered that in September that science l!ve came back out. I totally forgot, but I’m glad it’s out again! Thank you so very very much for everything science live.

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  107. Rahmatullah Nematy

    this is good

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  108. Zenya

    Oh cool

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  109. Luna Selene Benard

    My favorite grammar teachers is the 7th grade teacher, Ms. Nila and 5th grade teacher Ms. Rebbeca.

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  110. Brady

    My mom wants me to take flying lessons when I get a little bit older so I enjoyed this episode.

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  111. Carter

    I would like to do more flight simulator games to get good at flying.

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  112. Natilee palmer

    I fly with my dad, he is a pilot. so this will be interesting.

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  113. Adrian Reece

    R-51 is one of the funniest person I have ever seen

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  114. Adrian Reece

    hi R-51

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  115. Noah Henson

    I didnt know about a hydrogen plane, that’s awesome.

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  116. Minerva

    Love this video! a lots of information!

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  117. Ava Cleveland

    I have been on a airplane but I don’t know how it works

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  118. Brian

    This was a very funny episode!

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  119. Asher Germany

    I watched this video a few weeks ago. It was so cool learning about airplanes and how they’re powered.

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  120. Campbell Dean

    how long would it take to build an all wooden plane?

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  121. Secilia Walters

    How does that lightbulb light up when it is not connected to anything?!
    💡

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  122. Aurora Rivera

    This was a very interesting episode.

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  123. Tino Salazar

    Such an interesting invention.

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  124. Kyle Saley

    My Mom is so scared to fly.

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  125. Brooke Saley

    It’s amazing how airplanes can transport over 200 people at 1 time.

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  126. Lela Eisele

    Flying is so awesome, and I’m glad to get to learn about it!

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  127. Becker Eisele

    Cool

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  128. kasani

    airplanes are cool i love them

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  129. pookie kasani love

    I love his airplane, big and wide. Also easy to ride on.

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  130. Becker Eisele

    i wish i was a pilot to its AWESOME!!!

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  131. barrett pirtle

    I liked when they talked about the light bulb and that lady didn’t know how to turn it on! lol.

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  132. Trevor Fishack

    I want to be in the air force when I get older. I love the power of speed. Airplanes go over the top with their speed.

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