I weighed an airplane... while it was flying!

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Theoretically, it should be possible to measure the weight of a flying object from far below that object - by measuring the air that object displaced when it pushes on the ground. I HAD to know if this was realistically possible, so I set about building a very large scale to measure paper airplanes and flying playing cards. After getting successful measurements, I decided to go full scale with real airplanes. bonus points to @noquarter7 for the relevant nerd snipe in last video's comments... Massive thanks to my top Patreon supporters! birdiesnbritts John Sosa Trustham Vladimir Shklovsky Aloysius Sparglepartz Jason Whatley Lohann Paterno Coutinho Ferreira nothings Eugene Pakhomov Glenn Willen R520 Nick F Mirko Rener Chris Connett Tyler Filla Chandler Freeman Benjamin Manns MPG Seth Reuter Danny Thomas Lucy Fur tiaz David Antoš Chris Duvarney Nick Wage John T Jack Serrino Ethan Sifferman Dit55 Ashley Hauck Scott Schlesier Steve James K Allan Adams Usama Chapters: 0:00 Intro - Don't let your memes be memes 1:30 A "large scale" experiment 6:34 Load cells 8:39 Poor man's orthogrid 12:31 Wait... Something's wrong 14:40 Pressure shadow 20:28 Curved flights and playing cards 26:03 Let's go to an airport 28:33 Day 2 32:02 Making excuses 34:11 Your regularly scheduled outro Media Credits: I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) http://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Arcadia - Wonders by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Run by Ethan Meixsell Not Without the Rest by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Acid Jazz by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/