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Pretty cool demolition of a Boeing 720b aircraft. These seem to come apart a little bit easier than I would of thought.

An inflight video from a commercial Air Canada flight, showing a space shuttle launch.

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A Russian helicopter crashed into the Sea of Okhotsk during joint rescue exercises with Japan, killing one of the 13 people aboard. The Mi-14 helicopter went down off the Russian island of Sakhalin, north of Japan’s Hokkaido, when one of its rotor blades hit the water during exercises simulating an emergency response to an oil [...]

Although the Vice President`s staff warned the media the blast from the plane could knock them off the platform they decided to stay put for the best shot possible.

Swiss “Rocket Man” Yves Rossy becomes the first person in the world to fly with wings under rocket power.
Rossy was the test pilot on May 14, 2008, in a successful 6-minute flight from the town of Bex near Lake Geneva. He exited a Pilatus Porter at 7,500 feet with jet engines and a folded 8-foot [...]