10 Daily Things

How can this thing fly? No rotor blades turning!

In fact the answer is simple. The camera’s frame rate matches the helicopter’s blade rotation speed.

One guy flew from Almati to Kiev on one Ukrainian carrier, had decided to bring a camera with inside a plane. What he found inside was a plane held together by duck tape…

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On the heels of significant military setbacks in 1944, the Japanese military launched a campaign of kamikaze attacks, in which pilots attempted to crash their planes into American warships. Their aeroplanes were heavily laden with explosives, so a crash meant almost certain death for the pilot. Why, then, did these pilots wear helmets?

One reason is [...]

The European Commision on Monday, April 7, cleared the way for airlines to introduce technology that would allow passengers to use their mobile phones in mid-air, but leading carriers in Germany said they would not be offering the service. The aim of the EU is to create a pan-European framework for mobile communications on aircraft, [...]

Boeing announced that it has, for the first time in aviation history, flown a manned airplane powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts hydrogen directly into electricity and heat with none of the products of combustion such as carbon dioxide. Other than heat, water is its only exhaust.
A two-seat [...]

This maneuver is performed by a TAP Airbus A310 at Portugal Airshow 2007. As you can understand this is not uncontrollable maneuver, performed by a stupid showoff pilot, but it’s intensively trained before the airshow, including possible eventualities, like crosswind, windshear and various failures that can occur.

Great video from the cockpit of an Apache AH-64 helicopter flying low and fast at Afghanistan.

This guy has incredible R/C control skills–who knew an R/C helicopter was even physically capable of this?

A Saudi Airlines Boeing 777 landed at Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia recently with a damaged wing, it appears to be leaking hydraulic liquid everywhere.

Fighter Jet failed several times on refuel attempts