planes
Vehicles
First Render Of Richard Branson’s Underwater Plane
2:15AM AddyDugdale | A few days before Crimbo last year, Blam posted on the news that Virgin boss Richard Branson was getting into deep water. Well, we’ve now got a render of the hydrobatic Necker Nymph, as it’s been named. More »
Gadgets
5:40AM Joel Johnson | Listening to an iPod or reading a Kindle during takeoff isn’t dangerous. It’s time the airlines stopped pretending that it is. More »
Can My iPod Make This Aeroplane Explode?
5:40AM Joel Johnson | Listening to an iPod or reading a Kindle during takeoff isn’t dangerous. It’s time the airlines stopped pretending that it is. More »
Vehicles
Your Move, Captain Sullenberger
2:00AM Jack Loftus | Hudson River water landings? That’s so yesterday, man. Somewhere in the Congo today there’s a pilot who, after a slight, um, miscalculation, crash landed his plane in a lava field. More »
Random Stuff
10:20AM Nick Broughall | Last Friday, I was minding my own business when an email from Virgin’s frequent flyer program, Velocity, landed in my inbox. I’d been upgraded to Gold status because I was so close to making the grade. “Kinda weird” I thought to myself, considering I haven’t flown Virgin for over 12 months, “but a free upgrade is a free upgrade”. Except it wasn’t, as the follow up email I got four hours later was so quick to point out. More »
Virgin’s Velocity Frequent Flyer Program Is All Class
10:20AM Nick Broughall | Last Friday, I was minding my own business when an email from Virgin’s frequent flyer program, Velocity, landed in my inbox. I’d been upgraded to Gold status because I was so close to making the grade. “Kinda weird” I thought to myself, considering I haven’t flown Virgin for over 12 months, “but a free upgrade is a free upgrade”. Except it wasn’t, as the follow up email I got four hours later was so quick to point out. More »
Vehicles
The Future Of Aeroplane Seats Is Hurting My Arse Already
4:00AM Jesus Diaz | We knew that cheap airlines cut as many costs as possible while increasing passenger density. The clever clusterf–k you are seeing here—a plane with staggered side seats—may be the future of flying, only one step below standing up. More »
Vehicles
Crazy Teenager Takes Off In Homemade Pedal-Powered Aircraft
2:40AM Danny Allen | Everyone wishes they could fly, but this 19-year-old spent three years building his dream from balsa wood, rip-resistant foil and plastic wrap. And amazingly, the 26-metre wing-span has already hopped a distance of about 10 metres. More »
Vehicles
Jetpod Flying Taxi Creator Falls To His Death Testing Prototype
5:20AM Joanna Stern | We’ve been all about the air lately, but sometimes we just forget what some do to give us our future areo technology. The inventor of the Jetpod flying taxi, Michael Robert Dacre, died yesterday while testing his latest twin-engine aircraft. More »
Business
How Budget Airlines Undercut The Majors (Spoiler: Infographics)
2:20AM Mark Wilson | Personal theory: Man has a natural propensity to question what he reads but believe anything he sees in neat infographic form. And this is one heck of an infographic, comparing budget airlines (like Southwest) to traditional companies like Delta. More »
Vehicles
The Boeing Dreamliner 787 Could Be The Next Spruce Goose
12:15PM Jack Loftus | The headline takes certain exaggerated liberties, sure, I admit that, but nevertheless today marks the second time in two months that the Boeing 787 Dreamliner has been delayed due to structural failures during the testing process. More »
Phones
3:30PM Nick Broughall | This is great news for frequent travellers – Jetstar is trialling a system that lets you use an SMS message as your boarding pass, forgoing the need to actually print anything off. More »
Jetstar Trialling SMS Boarding Passes
3:30PM Nick Broughall | This is great news for frequent travellers – Jetstar is trialling a system that lets you use an SMS message as your boarding pass, forgoing the need to actually print anything off. More » 
