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...

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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

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