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Watch a guy get strapped on top of a flying airplane
Here’s a wild video of Richard Hammond getting strapped onto a plane as it takes off and flies in the air and does crazy aerial tricks for Top Gear. It’s the most ridiculous type of roller coaster a...
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Video: A day in the life of an airport
Here’s a time lapse and tilt shift video of a day in Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan. It’s a wonderful look into the puzzle of how a big time airport works but is also totally beautiful to see the...
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Watch these amazing F-18 night launches from an aircraft carrier
Here’s a really cool video of F-18s taking off from the USS Theodore Roosevelt at night. It’s so cool to see these flying beasts just kick off in an instant with flames burning at their tails. And it’s...
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Watch planes cut straight through Paris by flying on top of a street
Watch as airplanes cut straight through Paris as they fly right on top of Champ-Elysses and hit all the landmarks of Paris, from La Defense to the Arc de Triomphe to the Louvre and everything in...
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Watch a MiG-29 take off and immediately shoot up vertically into the sky
Wow, this is so cool. Here’s a MiG-29 fighter jet taking off from a runway and then immediately launching vertically into the sky. The takeoff looks completely normal and innocuous until the jet is a...
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Possible MH370 Debris Found in the Indian Ocean
Experts on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion say that a piece of aircraft debris that has washed up may be from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing on 8th March last year.Read...
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A New Kind of Masking Tape Will Save the Aerospace Industry Millions
When engineers build planes, they use heavy aluminum masking tape to cover up surfaces during production. Now, engineers at BAE Systems have created a new kind of tape that leaves the surface clean...
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We Cannot Allow These Awful Sliding Airplane Seats to Become Real
It’s easy to think of ways we could improve airplane seat design. It takes some sick creativity to think of how we could make it worse, though. But the world is full of sick people—like these dudes...
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A Software Upgrade Grounded Hundreds of Flights This Weekend
Were you flying to or from the eastern seaboard over the weekend? I’m so sorry. A botched software update caused hundreds of flights to be delayed or cancelled on Saturday and Sunday, so there’s a...
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The crazy simulator where pilots learn how to fly the F-35
How do pilots learn how to fly a fighter jet that cost a trillion dollars to develop (or a $100 million a pop to make)? By hopping in a total bad ass simulator that mimics everything about the F-35 in...
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All the US Navy combat jets in history
To celebrate the ingenuity of flying beast machines, we created this awesome video that catalogs all of the US Navy’s combat jets. You’ll see modern jets like the Harrier and F-18 and F-35 along with...
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FAA Approves In-Flight Internet That Might Not Suck
Slow internet is the worst possible kind of internet, as anyone who’s sold kidneys to use in-flight Wi-Fi can probably attest. GoGo, the biggest player in the airborne Wi-Fi game, has been promising...
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No, Da Vinci Wasn't The First Inventor to Dream About Human Flight
Leonardo DaVinci’s wing and glider designs have inspired literature, art, and cinema over the centuries. But plenty of other people have schemed to take to the air, long before the Wright Brothers....
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What Happens If You Take Frozen Liquids Through Airport Security
Nobody enjoys going through airports. Despite the miracle of air travel for the masses and the systems for funnelling the right people into the right places being a magnificent example of engineering...
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You Can Now 3D-Print Your Own TSA Master Keys
TSA-recognized locks provide little more than a false sense of security. That’s not news . It is news, however, that some hacker type has uploaded the CAD files of the agency’s master keys to Github,...
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The FAA Warned Boeing About the Flaw That Caused a 777 to Explode in Las Vegas
When an jetliner’s engine explodes moments before take off, people ask questions. Now, less than a week after that very thing happened to a British Airways 777, answers are starting to emerge—and...
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These photos of F-22 Arctic Raptors in Alaska are so striking they look unreal
Taken by photographer John Dibbs for Lockheed Martin’s Code One magazine, these two F-22 Raptors are flying against the snowy picturesque backdrop of Alaska and they look absolutely stunning. So...
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Boeing Wants To Harvest Electricity From the Roar of Your Plane Taking Off
Jet engines are extraordinarily loud at roughly 140 decibels–and airports have struggled with mitigating their roar since the early days of commercial flight. An engineer at Boeing wants to make the...
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How To Not Be A Jerk On A Plane
We’ve already taught you how to be a good person on an airplane , which is important, but now it’s time to learn how to not be a total jerkoff on an airplane, which is arguably more important. This...
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This Photo of an Airplane Flying Over the Bahamas Was Shot From the ISS
Earlier this week, NASA’s Earth Observatory shared a beautiful photo of the Bahamas. While the landscape is majestic and all, PetaPixel points out that the coolest thing about the photo wasn’t...
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