aeroplanes

Watch This Badass Pilot Save The Day With A Ballsy No-Wheel Landing

Last night, the pilot of US Airways Express Flight 4560 was having some bad luck. The landing gear on his turboprop twin-engine plane just wouldn’t go all the way down. So with some quick thinking and righteous piloting skills, he went in for a wheel-less, sparky touchdown, and pulled it off without a hitch.


Tomorrow’s Corporate Jets Will Be Flying Johnny Cabs

Being a commercial airline pilot isn’t as glamorous as Leonardo di Caprio would have you believe; in practice, it’s more akin to long haul trucking than aerial acrobatics. So rather than force a human pilot to endure the monotony of maintaining course, a European research consortium wants to replace them entirely — with software.


Believe It Or Not, This Concrete RC Plane Actually Flies

Had the Wright Brothers foolishly chosen to build their original flyer from concrete, their names probably wouldn’t have gone down in the history books. But South Dakota School of Mines & Technology students David Haberman and Tyler Pojanowski did, and they were the first to fly and safely land an 8kg remote-controlled concrete aircraft.


You Can Buy The President’s Real Air Force One Aeroplane

Here’s something that you never really run across eBay or Craigslist: the real Air Force One aeroplane. As in the freaking flying aircraft that has freaking transported freaking Presidents of the freaking United States of America in the freaking air. Let’s buy this thing, people!


Pulling Your Parachute While You’re Still On The Plane Is Not Fun

Wait for it. Wait for ittttt. Waaaitttt forrr itttt. Waai… and then boom, there it is. This poor guy accidentally deployed his parachute too early. So early that he was still on the plane.


Watch Boeing’s X-51A WaveRider Scramjet Blast Off To Mach 5.1

Boeing’s X-51 WaveRider Scramjet has had its share of bad luck. While its first test flight in 2010 went fine, the two that followed ended with unsatisfactory plops. Now, the USAF has just completed the fourth and final test, and the result was a screaming 370 seconds of scramjet glory and literally hypersonic speeds.


F-16′s Are Even More Awesome From The Inside

Goose only wishes he had moves like these. This stunning dash cam footage from an F-16 attached to the 51st Wing captured some intense aerial action at the recent Red Flag-Alaska exercises — including mid-air refuellings, targeted bomb strikes, low-altitude flybys and even a cameo appearance by a B-2 stealth bomber.


Monster Machines: New Flying Petrol Station Will Be Open 24/7 Anywhere In The World

KC-135 Statofortress tanker planes have been refuelling fighter craft in-flight for more than 60 years. While such longevity is commendable, the US military’s fleet of mid-air refuellers is in desperate need of an update. And that’s where this new flying petrol station comes in.


9/11 Plane Part Found In New York City

The NYPD is saying that a 1.5m long aeroplane part of a 9/11 plane has been found in an alley near the World Trade centre. The landing gear part was found three blocks from Ground Zero. It’s incredible given that it’s been more than 11 years since the tragic event of September 11.


Virgin America Installs New In-Flight System To Help You Get Laid

Richard Branson: eccentric billionaire, adrenaline junky, sworn enemy of neckties and now… matchmaker. That’s right — Richard Branson wants to get you laid. What’s more, he wants to get you laid in a goddamn aeroplane.


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