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Win the Airplane Elbow Rest Fight With This Clever Portable Wall

Building a wall between the US and Mexico is a bad idea, but building a wall between you and your seat mate while flying is complete and utter brilliance. As soon as you find your assigned seat the war...

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Watch a Totally Crazy Low Pass Flyby and Aileron Roll from Inside a MiG-21...

The Libyan Air Force sure loves pulling wild stunts from inside its MiG fighter jets. This time we get to see the perspective of an insane low pass—and the plane flies so low that you’d think it was...

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Crazy Camera Zoom Finds an Airplane From Miles Away

It’s a bird? It’s a... wait, yeah, it’s a plane. But the only reason you’d know that there’s a plane flying above you is because you randomly pointed your ridiculously powerful 200x zoom camera towards...

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Video Shows a Dude in a Wingsuit Getting Caught on an Airplane

These daredevil dudes are total pros, so they aren’t fazed at all when one of their guys gets his wingsuit caught on the wheel of an airplane. But holy shit, can you imagine yourself in that holy...

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Why Smaller Airplanes Are So Much Better Than Bigger Airplanes

The Airbus A380 is an amazingly ginormous airplane that can fit over 600 people inside. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner tops out at around 300. But bigger isn’t better. Read more...

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Airplanes Aren't As Gross As You Think

If you’ve ever been sick after traveling, you know how hard it can be to get on plane and try to ignore all of the smells, drafts and feelings you get from sitting in a tube full of other seemingly...

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Neiman Marcus Wants You to Put a $1.5 Million Rose Gold Private Plane On Your...

If you’re the type who insists that your rose gold smartphone matches your wardrobe, then Neiman Marcus has got the perfect accessory for you: a $1.5 million three-seater private plane featuring a rose...

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Get Free, Unlimited Wi-Fi on Flights and Bypass Paywalls

In-flight Wi-Fi is wonderful. The price to use it on the other hand, not so great. There are a few methods to get free access, but these two are relatively simple. The first requires only an iPhone....

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Plane Catches Fire at O'Hare on Fire Drill Day

A Twitter user at Chicago’s O’Hare airport just tweeted out the photo below, showing a plane on fire. Popular conservative columnist Michele Malkin also tweeted out her own photo from a plane where she...

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Second Plane of the Day Explodes in Florida

Earlier today, an American Airlines plane with 170 people aboard caught fire at O’Hare Airport in Chicago. Everyone was evacuated alive, though there are some minor injuries. But now a second plane,...

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You Can't Even See the Airplane Trying to Land Through This Impossibly Thick Fog

What the hell. The fog at London’s Gatwick Airport was basically eating up any airplane that was trying to land on the runway. Some of the planes essentially disappeared into the unknown, never to be...

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Slo-Mo Video Reveals How WW1 Fighters Didn't Shoot Their Propellers Off

There are endless documentaries that explain the clever technology that allowed World War I fighter planes to fire their machine guns through their propellers without hitting the blades. But The Slow...

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This Fighter Jet Flew So Close to the Ground That It Basically Knocked Down a...

Yowza. Watch this Sukhoi Su-27 make the lowest of low passes at an air base in Ukraine. Like, it flies so impossibly close to the ground that you can see a guy duck and essentially get blown over as...

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Feds Think Passengers Should Decide If They Want Phone Calls on Planes

Federal Communication Commission ban certain radio frequencies on airplanes, meaning traditional voice calls are prohibited, but Thursday, the Department of Transportation proposed the consumer should...

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New 17.5-Hour Flight From Australia to London Will Be The Longest In The World

File photo of Qantas Airlines flights (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)Australian airline Qantas just announced a new route that will take passengers from Perth, Australia to London. But you might...

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JetBlue Invites Passengers to Watch Fun Show Called Why Planes Crash

As many of us prepare for holiday season travel, armed with headphones and Xanax, it’s incredible to realize that we can now watch TV on an airplane. On a recent JetBlue flight from JFK to SFO, I...

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Watch Daredevils With Jetpacks Fly Next to People Standing on Top of Airplanes

If you’re going to be flying in the air with a jetpack attached to your back, you might as well do it with folks who have strapped themselves standing to the wings of an airplane. Why not, right? Read...

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Baggage Handler Locked in Cargo Hold Gets Free Ride on United Flight 

A United Express flight that took off from Charlotte, North Carolina yesterday afternoon landed in Dulles Airport in northern Virginia with some unexpected cargo: a baggage handler.Read more...

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Seeing the Northern Lights at 35,000 Feet Is the Best Reason to Fly to Iceland

Iceland’s board of tourism is doing something right because the country has become a vacation hotspot in recent years. Apparently, even the flight up north can be a spectacular experience, as you might...

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Rush Hour at One of the World's Busiest Airports Means a Never-Ending Line of...

London’s Heathrow Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world, so it’s no surprise that if you look up in the sky during the morning rush, you’ll see a line of airplanes swarming around,...

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