I keep watching this video over and over, and every time this insane guy in a wingsuit somehow manages to avoid smashing into the side of the mountain, by perfectly zipping through a ridiculously narrow cave, it's unbelievable. It doesn't make sense. He's flying at 155 miles per hour! Read More >>

We all know about echolocation, but way more is happening when a bat takes flight, and some bats don't echolocate at all. So how do they have so much precision in their flying and what's different about bats and birds? Read More >>

Remember how the internet got itself all riled up a few days ago when it found out that it would only take one rogue Android user to hack and take over an entire plane? Yeah, about that—it's not true. Read More >>

Where do you like sitting on an airplane? At the very front or the very back? At a window or an aisle? According to research by British Airways, the most popular seats on a Boeing 747 are 51B/51C, 52B/52C, 51H/51J and 52 H/52J. That's all the way in the back of the plane. Read More >>

If airlines were already keen to keep your phone switched off, things could be about to get even more militant. According to a talk by Hugo Teso at the Hack In The Box security conference, it's possible to hack an entire plane using an Android smartphone. Gulp. Read More >>

On a long-haul flight to Chicago recently, I realised something: Flying brings out the extremes in my already tedious personality. I don't know exactly what it is about being cooped up with 200 strangers in a tin tube, but facets of my personality normally kept under control, safely within a locked room somewhere in my frontal lobes with a big, burly man on the door to make sure no insanity escapes, seem to find a way out over the course of nine hours in that stale-aired cocoon. Read More >>

Bad news for those carrying a few extra pounds: Samoa Air has become the world's first airline to introduce a pricing policy which charges passengers by body weight, following a Norwegian professor's shock assertions on the subject last week. Time to diet? Read More >>

American Airlines has been leading the charge when it comes to replacing old-fashioned paper with new-fashioned iPads, and the flight into a paperless future just took a big step. American Airlines is the first airline to have the iPad replace the bulky, Jepperson manuals, eliminating around 40lbs of paper in total. This is what that freedom looks like. Read More >>

That pathetic sobbing sound you hear? It's SkyScanner, gently weeping in the corner, because Google Flights -- a handy flight-price-comparison tool that's been available in the US for a year or two -- now deals with journeys originating in the UK as well. It's painfully simple, comes with graphs rather than tacky ads, and most importantly doesn't take a trillion years to load when you click 'search'. Read More >>

You've probably spent these last dreary months in Blighty gazing out the window and longing for the feel of real sunlight on your mottled, clammy, Vitamin-D-deprived skin. Well, despite flights being ruinously expensive at list price, there are ways to use airlines' own loyalty schemes to make a relatively modest break for the skies. Read More >>

There once was a Golden Age Of Flying. You didn't have to queue up, strip down, and surrender your beverage to the Goon Squad. Meals were served on real plates instead of sad, soggy cardboard boxes. The act of travelling itself was a pleasant part of the journey—instead of a necessary act of mass-transit. These conveniences still exist for the very rich, but there was a time when all of us had access to a fantastic world in the sky. That world is never coming back, but it's still nice to look back and fondly remember. Read More >>

Yes. It's happened. Your nightmare has actually come true. An honest-to-God, real-life pilot, in charge of a plane full of people and stuff, nodded off at the wheel (stick?), halfway over the ocean. Oh, and it wasn't just once -- the master of the skies managed to have two little cat-naps. Jeez. Read More >>

Flying can be a white-knuckle affair for even the heartiest of travellers. But it turns out what you should really fear are airports; almost 60 per cent of all aircraft incidents happen there during taxiing, take-off, approach or landing. Here are runway horrorshows from around the globe that may make you rethink your next trip. Read More >>

There are plenty of quadcopters out there that you can buy if you want, but they tend to have one or more of the following downsides: They are expensive. They are fragile. They are difficult to fly. Just one can be a bummer, any pair is twice the drag, and all three just all out sucks. The pair of Arial tricksters Air Hogs rolled out for Toy Fair 2013 soar above those troubles. Read More >>

Have you got a bucket list? A list of things that you yearn to try out before you snuff it and shuffle off this mortal coil? You should get one -- they make life truly worth living. Read More >>