How airplanes are made

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Building a commercial airplane is a monumental task. It takes around 4,000 really smart engineers over 7 years of planning to make one of those flying tubes with countless experts testing and re-testing each individual part (and there are 2.65 million parts in an Airbus A350). This video shows you how they make one.

There's even a test that involves shooting ducks into the engine! Minute Physics toured Airbus' facilities to bring you this fascinating video below:


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