Brian McManus's full documentary connects supersonic design compromises with the investigation of Flight 4590.
On YouTube, Real Engineering has 5,120,000 subscribers and 734,601,463 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 1,313,629 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "The Rise and Fall of the Concorde", with 611,032 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 585 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 16 of 87 in category "Science and experiments".
YouTube: The numbers today
no significant change in the last month
▲ 4,395,801 in the last 30 days
a new short video usually gets 519,555 views
YouTube: What happened lately
Brian McManus's nose-heavy plane explainer has reached about 2.4 million views.
Two days in and close to nine hundred thousand views, the single new upload is doing most of the channel's daily work on its own.
The video drawing the most views now
What Is Worth Saving Before the ISS Deorbits?
- Video published
- November 7, 2026
- Video views so far
- 589,153
- Video views, pace per day
- 63,363
- Views on its first day
- 331,469
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YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Science and experiments | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 585 of 5,393 | 16 of 87 |
| By views gained this week | 2,396 of 5,274 | 34 of 87 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 2,652 of 5,043 | 38 of 81 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 0.3% of all views the category's channels gained this week
Subscribers in the category Science and experiments
Views gained this week in the category Science and experiments
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 5,120,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 5,120,000 subscribers (no significant change in the last month)
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 730,264,607 views → November 11, 2026: 734,601,463 views · average: 149,546 views a day
YouTube: The channel's latest videos
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views | Per day | First day | Likes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
What Is Worth Saving Before the ISS Deorbits? | November 7, 2026 | 20:59 | 589,153 | 63,363 | 331,469 | 10,696 | 1,002 |
The Rise and Fall of the Concorde | October 30, 2026 | 40:09 | 611,032 | 12,186 | 205,142 | 13,006 | 779 |
The Plane That's 38% Nose | September 26, 2026 | 20:16 | 2,627,996 | 6,404 | - | 28,988 | 1,315 |
NASA’s Next Monster Telescope | August 29, 2026 | 21:51 | 740,269 | 567 | - | 15,175 | 687 |
How We Could Reach Proxima Centauri B in 20 Years | August 22, 2026 | 17:55 | 648,427 | 748 | - | 21,471 | 1,321 |
Sagrada Familia - Full Documentary | August 2, 2026 | 24:19 | 460,114 | 438 | - | 21,059 | 1,023 |
The Kurzgesagt Situation is Insane | August 1, 2026 | 11:36 | 662,399 | 160 | - | 49,990 | 4,808 |
The Forbidden Alloy of WW2 | July 2, 2026 | 1:15 short | 3,893,446 | 17,427 | - | - | 635 |
This isn’t the original Statue of Liberty | July 1, 2026 | 1:29 short | 103,168 | 47 | - | - | 83 |
Reading StarCloud’s Whitepaper So You Don’t Have To | June 27, 2026 | 21:01 | 739,939 | 1,101 | - | 32,454 | 3,861 |
$1 vs $50 Phone Charger. What’s the difference? | June 23, 2026 | 2:07 short | 169,854 | 40 | - | 10,429 | 151 |
The Dark Side of the World’s Lightest Structural Metal | June 6, 2026 | 15:08 | 578,945 | 265 | - | 18,603 | 588 |
The V-22’s prototype was even more dangerous | May 13, 2026 | 2:36 short | 584,693 | 191 | - | 40,446 | 407 |
Why the Nokia 3310 was so Durable | April 29, 2026 | 2:15 short | 519,555 | 407 | - | 37,111 | 618 |
The Insane Engineering of the V-22 Osprey | April 25, 2026 | 23:08 | 1,104,626 | 540 | - | 34,696 | 1,127 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 33.3 in the category: 30.1
- comments per 1,000 views
- 1.8 in the category: 1.1
- short vs long
- 5 short (up to 3 minutes), 10 long
average views per short video: 1,054,143
average views per long video: 876,290
YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
The Insane Engineering of the A-10 Warthog | May 23, 2020 | 16:27 | 19,130,503 |
The Insane Engineering of the F-35B | January 28, 2023 | 25:04 | 10,862,229 |
The Insane Engineering of the SR-71 Blackbird | April 18, 2020 | 18:55 | 10,256,700 |
How a Single Swedish Submarine Defeated the US Navy | April 13, 2018 | 7:06 | 10,126,550 |
The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope | December 18, 2021 | 31:12 | 8,822,837 |
YouTube: Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
The Hidden Code in the Mars Landing #shorts | February 24, 2021 | 0:58 | 27,421,675 |
The F-16s Gun Sounds Amazing | March 20, 2024 | 0:59 | 21,998,114 |
The F-35s Secret Weapon is Incredible | April 4, 2024 | 0:58 | 15,185,402 |
The Wildest Take-off of my Life | October 2, 2024 | 0:56 | 10,607,951 |
The P-38 Solved an Annoying Problem | August 27, 2025 | 2:46 | 8,514,091 |
Stories
Brian McManus's full documentary connects supersonic design compromises with the investigation of Flight 4590.
Brian McManus's nose-heavy plane explainer has reached about 2.4 million views.
Two days in and close to nine hundred thousand views, the single new upload is doing most of the channel's daily work on its own.
























