Special Lecture: F-22 Flight Controls

Thank God I found this. My F22 has been sitting in the driveway for months waiting for me to learn it's flight characteristics. Looks like I'll be taking her to work tomorrow.

Anyone else get here randomly and watched the whole video? Just one of those instances when the YouTube algorithm gets it right.

You can tell he's a fighter pilot, his mind is going a hundred miles an hour all the time, he's always thinking ahead, and he knows everything about the plane he was flying,

This guy's resume is absolutely nuts.

Wow, I think the most amazing thing in this video is that you have a literal f-22 test pilot who is also a highly decorated engineer, phd, and many other qualifications, educated at freakin MIT and Harvard, and there’s a student surfing the internet looking at yoga poses. Absolutely incredible.

"Why do I have a random ass lecture on F-22 fighter jet controls?" -1 hour, 6 minutes later "Why don't I have more good lectures like this recommended to me?"

Randy is the ultimate professor, he brings his experience and technical knowledge to the classroom in such a way as to make all of us wish we were pilots.

This dude gave us 15 "last pieces that he will give us" and I was listening to every single word. NOTHING makes me wanna join the air force and die to a parachute training dummy more than this lecture. Thanks Laz

Built in professor. His energy, teaching skill, knowledge, and practical experience is outstanding.

Physics and math teacher here, really enjoyed this. He teaches very clearly and directly. I also like a conversational teaching style, was nice to pick up some good habits from him as well!

I just found myself spending 1 hour like if it was a 1 minute video. Astonishing lecture from a wonderful teacher who combines passion, knowledge and experience along with intelligence and pedagogy... I am sure even a 10 years old kid will clearly understand and enjoy this wonderful lecture

Informative, not boring, no ads, a topic I like, just perfection.

My lucky day that this showed up in my YouTube recommendations. What an interesting person and great lecture!

This guy is so smart and likeable it seems as if he spent a couple thousand years in a groundhog day learning all this stuff perfecting his craft. What a great lecture.

I wish I were 25 and had someone like you visiting my classroom. I'm 55 and a computer flight sim fan since 1982 even before it was released on Microsoft. I just love anything that flies and find your enthusiastic lecture simply rejuvenating. Thanks.

Wow, the f22 sounds like an engineering marvel, even though the design is more than 20 years old now. I was reading its first flight, was in 1997.

This piece is on a topic of mild interest for me. After listening for a few minutes, it became a topic of more intense interest, not because I suddenly want to qualify on any particular plane, but because it was impeccably presented and sequenced. An excellent use of an hour of my day.

I was lucky enough to be Lazs' mechanic at test with the F22. Always a pleasure to hear him talk and to work for him. Great job Sir!

This has to be the most entertaining lecture I've ever seen. Once you start watching, you cannot stop. He make concise statements. Easy to be understood by 7 year olds.

Hello! I am an F-15A thru E model crew chief here(USAF for 21+ years, now retired). I really enjoyed this type of instruction, it very accurately reflects what the military used to do for instruction and training. Not so sure they are still on that same path anymore or not judging from the outside now. I was also at Edwards for a few years and learned a TON about the F-22 even though it wasn't my airframe(there in the mid 90's), and a lot about the F-23. Every one of the civilians I spoke with while there said the F-23 was slated to win because it flat out was a better maneuvering aircraft, it just didn't have the range of the F-22. So the F-22 won by range criteria mainly. Now, what I find interesting is how they(the USAF and US military in general) have since picked back up the F-23 and started examining it for the next generation of fighter....Really looking forward to the advances that is keeping America dominating in the battle space above the ground and beyond.