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Flight Video: Helicopter Defying The Laws Of Physics

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.

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Aviation Photo: Duck tape Airplane from Ukraine

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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Aviation: Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

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 [...]

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Life Technology: Europe Approves Use of Mobile Phones on Aircraft

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, [...]

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Aviation Technology Video: The First Flight Of The First Manned Hydrogen-Powered Airplane in History

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 [...]

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Flight Video: Airbus A310 in Low Pass Turn

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.

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Flight Video: Apache Fast And Low

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

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Games Video: Extreme R/C Helicopter

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

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Aviation Video: Plane Lands With Damaged Wing

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.

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Flight Accident Video: How not to refuel a jet

Fighter Jet failed several times on refuel attempts

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