Aerospace Youtubers

[CSR Performance]

What's your plane content of choice?

I do enjoy BigJetTV and while Jerry is off I've been looking for some other stuff to watch. Xyla Foxlin's series about her coast to coast flight has been good. Flight Focus 365 is ok for having on in the background, and I like Abbie Cheeseman's channel, but open to other suggestions please?

[Scrump]

Scott Manley for the space end of the aerospace spectrum.

[Collectingbrass]

13 Minutes to the moon - BBC Radio series that uses archive interviews, transcripts and flight data voice recordings from the Johnson Space centre to explain in glorious detail what you hear and why on the lunar descent. Later series cover Apollo 13 & Challenger and they are trailing a series on Artemis right now.

If you want to know what the 1202 alarm was, and just how much pressure the guy who had to make the call on it was under, give it a listen.

[IanH755]

Mike Patey for aviation engineering (builds custom/weird planes).

Blancolirio for anything accident related.

Aircrew Interview - as per the name really, started with mostly ex-UK Fast Jet but now getting a wider range of international folks on there.

Scott Manley for anything Space related.

I started with a few other UK/US aircrew based podcasts etc all of which started off very well with real world stories & experience but, with the pressure to always have "something" to talk about once all your own stories have been told, means they've all dropped into low quality, poorly researched "what's in the news" stuff which isn't good sadly.

[808 Estate]

Xyla Foxlin just for cute nerdiness.

[Mars]

Stevie Triesenberg - she has a great V-tailed Bonanza

[46and2]

Not a Pound For Air to Ground

Makes some very good military aircraft related content both technical and operational. Seems mostly focused on Cold War era, which is my favourite.

[pete]

I enjoy watching The Flying Reporter. Great content from someone enjoying general aviation for fun and as a mode of transport. It's also good practice listening to the sort of ATC comms you get as a private pilot in the UK.

[Krikkit]

46and2 said:

Not a Pound For Air to Ground

Makes some very good military aircraft related content both technical and operational. Seems mostly focused on Cold War era, which is my favourite.

Yep excellent content, minimal clickbaity-ness.

See also:
https://www.youtube.com/@Alexander-the-ok - not specifically aerospace for all content, but some good ones regardless

https://www.youtube.com/@AnimarchyHistory - Animarchy does some aerospace content, again not exclusively
https://www.youtube.com/@LazerPig - in the same group of youtube historian types as Animarchy above, much more ranty and funny than dry history
https://www.youtube.com/@CombinationK - More dry, in-depth and well researched

https://www.youtube.com/@PaperSkiesAviation - Grew up in Soviet Ukraine (iirc) and his father was a fighter pilot

https://www.youtube.com/@FlightEngineering1 - much more the dirty mechanical side

[Boom78]

I’m obviously very basic in my aero based YouTubing: Grim Reapers

[Hard-Drive]

pete said:

I enjoy watching The Flying Reporter. Great content from someone enjoying general aviation for fun and as a mode of transport. It's also good practice listening to the sort of ATC comms you get as a private pilot in the UK.

Agreed, it's a very good channel and I've only scratched the surface of all his content. It's always well worth a watch if I'm going somewhere new (Lee, Blackbushe) so I know where to aim the aeroplane.

[Merry]

Krikkit said:

46and2 said:

Not a Pound For Air to Ground

Makes some very good military aircraft related content both technical and operational. Seems mostly focused on Cold War era, which is my favourite.

Yep excellent content, minimal clickbaity-ness.

See also:

Rex's Hanger is good for pre war oddities too

https://youtube.com/@rexshangar?si=4gHSqzY8LuruV3g...

[Muddle238]

Sam Eckholm

He does some seriously interesting stuff on military aircraft, he even managed to bag a ride in a U2.

[46and2]

Boom78 said:

I m obviously very basic in my aero based YouTubing: Grim Reapers

Grim Reapers are great.

[46and2]

Krikkit said:

46and2 said:

Not a Pound For Air to Ground

Makes some very good military aircraft related content both technical and operational. Seems mostly focused on Cold War era, which is my favourite.

Yep excellent content, minimal clickbaity-ness.

Just don't listen to him when tired. His voice puts me to sleep .

[Krikkit]

46and2 said:

Krikkit said:

46and2 said:

Not a Pound For Air to Ground

Makes some very good military aircraft related content both technical and operational. Seems mostly focused on Cold War era, which is my favourite.

Yep excellent content, minimal clickbaity-ness.

Just don't listen to him when tired. His voice puts me to sleep .

Yes very soothing! I much prefer that presentation style instead of a flamboyant presentation.

[48k]

Flying Reporter. Lots of interesting GA content, airfield visits, reports on GA related matters as well as actual flights. I worked with Jon years ago at the BBC he's a really nice and humble guy and his videos are very "him" - he's not afraid to show mistakes and give honest reflections them.

Growler Jams - US Navy fighter pilot in-cockpit videos. Lots of fascinating vids of carrier operations, launches, landings, tour of the carrier, and so on. Sadly hasn't posted for a while now.

Missionary Bush Pilot - vlog of extremely challenging flights and operations around Papua New Guinea. The guy is a total pro, extremely calm and with a high level of airmanship but even so some of the flying conditions and landings are extremely puckering!

Lew Dix Aviation - proper northern lad who seems to flit between being a GA pilot then working in an airline then going back to instructing then working in an airline again. So the content is quite varied but his vids are always interesting.

[KTF]

Muddle238 said:

Sam Eckholm

He does some seriously interesting stuff on military aircraft, he even managed to bag a ride in a U2.

I think he is linked to the forces 'advertising' in the US but still puts out great content as you say.

A few from me:

HeliChris Aviation (off shore helicopter videos focusing on the day to day aspects of the role): https://www.youtube.com/@HeliChrisAviation

Zeto.r (works in maintenance for Austrian Airways so if you ever wanted to know what they do overnight on an airbus, this is for you): https://www.youtube.com/@zeto.r