Dreaming of higher altitudes, but doing their showing off right down on the deck
Lower than a Snake's Belly in a Wagon Rut, or Flying Low is Fun! Some amazing photographs of pilots indulging themselves (and unnerving those of us stuck at ground level.) My favourites: A B-52...
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One obstacle the organisers of this year's London Olympic Games haven't had to face (as far as we know) is having to clear up airplane graveyards so that tourists can come and watch the games: Getting...
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A week in the life of an airline pilot. I get that at one level it's little different than driving a bus. Except for all the many ways in which it just isn't. [Via MetaFilter]
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London Heathrow Approach Time-Lapse. I love the oddly jittery motion as the airliners bob around in the crosswind, lining up their final approach. It's strangely soothing. [Via MetaFilter]
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Pretty
A Royal Navy Lynx helicopter from the destroyer HMS Dragon fires infrared missile defence flares above the ship during an exercise in the eastern Mediterranean: [Via the inside of my brain]
View ArticleConcorde, 10 years on
I wish the this slideshow of the story of the Concorde supersonic airliner didn't feature a succession of shots of partly disassembled airframes being shipped off to museums around the world towards...
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This video of a Piper Super Cub landing on a windy mountain top is marvelous. Even when you know what's about to happen, you're watching the film and thinking "OK, in a minute he's going to bank...
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Seductively different seating
David Owen writes for The New Yorker about the designers behind business class – or, more specifically, the designers behind the design of the seating since airlines reintroduced...
View ArticleIt looks awfully cramped back there in Economy Class
Kieran Healy is proud to bring the world Air Gini: I found myself wondering what a plane with seating laid out on the basis of the U.S. income distribution would look like. So, following Beth's lead, I...
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