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People scared to fly didn’t like the video of the crazy crosswind landings at Düsseldorf. This one doesn’t show any extreme situation, just beautiful landings and take-offs in Brazil, from an Airbus A320 cockpit. Still, it may cause some vertigo.
Personally, it just makes me want to fly.
It is quite simple: just a wide-angle camera set-up by the pilots on different point within their cabin. The result is quite beautiful. It just needs more Pink Floyd.
Some planes — like some Iberia’s transatlantic flights — use tail cams to show passengers how things look from outside. I wish they also included cameras elsewhere, like the cockpit and under their belly. Bonus points: add an augmented reality game that turns the Airbus into a B-17 Flying Fortress and let the passengers fire virtual machine guns against Luftwaffe fighters. [Extracrew—Gracias Jorge!]
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Brilliant video, I loved it. But I have to disagree on the music, since it is Brazil the song should be “Mais que Nada”.
The music Sail by Awolnation fits this video much better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfph3iNC-k
Maybe it’s where they took inspiration from.
what about all that ‘please turn off all your electronic equipment during take off and landing’. Always knew its a load of c***
phones can interfere with radio transmissions (put you mobile next to a speaker some time) that’s why they tell you to turn them off among other things.
Beautiful video, if that’s not inspirational, i don’t know what is
Wonderful show of the ipads non glare screen
The swooping sensation reminds me of the parachuting part of skydiving. Absolutely incredible, and it would have been even more so with views like that!
What an awful song.
Here’s another quality video for Gizmodo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DcoVBj7pyU
The belly of the beast – a camera attached to the nose wheel of a 747 cargo plane. It’s really cool, although I believe it got the chap responsible in some hot water. I went to school with him, btw.