An admittedly rather impressive shot at getting an entire plane load of passengers doing the Harlem Shake dancing meme has ended in trouble for all involved, with US aviation experts claiming the Frontier Flight 157 could've been put at risk by having so many idiots bouncing around inside. Read More >>
Featured comment by warriorscot:
"It is a numbers game. Even at the most I have never seen an isle packed in flight to an unsafe degree. The risk of injury is a relatively minor concer..." More »
This 3m-long python flew from Cairns, Australia, to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, attached to the wing of a Qantas' passenger airplane. Sadly, the poor snake didn't survive the trip, which lasted about 90 minutes. Warning: the video is hard to watch. Viewer discretion is advised.Read More >>
Featured comment by d.j.r.burns:
"Really Sad!
"Snakes on a Plane" is far worse, yet strangely watchable. Here is a quote http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148/quotes?qt=qt0377073" More »
Hailing from a country a good day's flight away, I've become pretty familiar with the various "entertainment systems" (if you can call some of them that) airlines offer their passengers. You're probably familiar with that sinking feeling when you discover a plane doesn't have on-demand movies, resulting in another 108 minutes to start watching your chosen time-waster from the opening scenes? Read More >>
Featured comment by audaxero:
"Alas, my next flight's on one of their A340-600's seemingly, so no joy (also I need to be ready to work as soon as I arrive so no 12 hours of movies f..." More »
NASA and its partners keep making progress in their quest to design a new passenger airliner that can fly supersonic without making a lot of noise, one of the main problems with the Concorde. And that progress looks space-age awesome. Read More >>
Featured comment by Hyperstate:
"This looks awesome, I was sad when Concorde was retired as I was hoping that supersonic flight would become the norm rather than a luxury for the rich..." More »
We've seen some awesome, hilarious and good-hearted proposals but we've never seen anything as twisted as this: a guy and girl fly a two person plane and take in the sweeping views (cue: aww) but then things take a wild turn, as the plane begins to crash. Well, "crash". Read More >>
Yesterday we heard that Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel deliberately crashed a 727-jet plane into the desert. Now there’s a terrifying eyewitness video to show you just how horrific that really was. There’s no way you’d come out of that alive, surely? Read More >>
Featured comment by The Doctor:
"Actually, plans designed 40 years ago are considerably more sturdy than planes today. Back then materials science was much less understood and so safe..." More »
The people from the Pima Air & Space Museum thought it would be a great idea to make a 45-foot long paper airplane, lift it with an helicopter, and then drop it to let it glide across the Arizona desert. Read More >>
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