Orient Thai Crash Video
Sep.22, 2007 in
Accidents, Aviation & Flight, Video
Video taken moments after Orient Thai flight OG269 crashed on landing at Phuket airport in Thailand.
Entries for the ‘Aviation & Flight’ Category
Airbus A310 Does Low Pass Turn
Sep.22, 2007 in
Aviation & Flight, Video
Here’s a portuguese Airbus A310 doing an extremely low flyby at the Evora 2007 Air Show last week. Not only it shows that there are commercial pilots as daring as Typhoon and russians fighter pilots, but confirms that they are as crazy too.
Tied down helicopter
Sep.07, 2007 in
Aviation & Flight, Video
A Chinook is tied down and set on full power. What would happen?
Google Earth’s Hidden Surprise: A Flight Simulator
Sep.04, 2007 in
Aviation & Flight, Computing, Games
In a new update to Google Earth, a free 3D map of the entire planet, several new features have been added. While the Google Sky add-on is nice enough, it’s the Google Flight Simulator which is the most interesting addition.
Once you’ve started it all up, explored Google Sky a bit, then all you have [...]
Largest helicopter ever built
Aug.28, 2007 in
Aviation & Flight, Video
The largest helicopter ever built was a massive aircraft developed in the Soviet Union during the 1960s called the Mil V-12. The V-12 was a rather unusual test vehicle that featured two rotors mounted side by side at the ends of a large wing. Each rotor had a diameter of nearly 115 ft (35 m). [...]
