Found And Explained

Found And Explained is hosted and created by Nick, a former aviation journalist for Simple Flying with a background in filmmaking. The channel explores engineering marvels, from famous machines to forgotten prototypes and designs that never left the drawing board.

Most videos focus on aircraft, with ships, submarines and land vehicles too. Each one tells the story of a design: the problem it was meant to solve, how it worked and what happened to it. Many cover military and Cold War aircraft. The style is documentary, with archive footage, animations and a clear narrative. Some longer uploads are full documentaries running for well over an hour.

Some highlights include:

The story of giant land ships, enormous vehicles designed to cross terrain no ordinary machine could manage.

A look at the Soviet ekranoplan, a huge craft that flew just above the water using the ground effect.

A full documentary on experimental aircraft of the 1950s, a decade of bold and unusual aviation designs.

The channel has over 880,000 subscribers.

Aerospace engineering is full of designs that failed as well as ones that succeeded, and both teach something. This channel shows the trade-offs engineers face between speed, weight, cost and safety. It is a good way into aeronautical, marine and defence engineering, and the history of how new ideas are tested.