Aviation Videos

In clear, cool Kansas-winter skies, Cessna took its latest bizjet offering, the Citation Latitude, on its first flight yesterday morning. The two Pratt & Whitney PW306D turbofan engines that power the midsized business jet took it up to 28,000 feet and 200 knots, the upper speed limit for the flight. The Latitude has a ceiling […]

When Felix Baumgartner stepped out of his Red Bull capsule and began his record freefall 24 miles above the planet, we collectively held our breath. Within 42 seconds, the intrepid adventurer had reached a top speed of 843.6 miles per hour, becoming the first human to break the speed of sound without flying in a […]

The U.S. Coast Guard has released a video of a dramatic rescue taking place in rough open seas approximately 300 miles off the shores of Virginia on January 14. A 42-foot catamaran named Be Good Too was in trouble on its way from the Liberty Landing Marina in Jersey City, New Jersey, to St. John […]

Dramatic security video from five infrared cameras at Aspen-Pitkin County Airport in Colorado captured the January 5 crash of a Challenger 601 that killed a pilot and critically injured two others. The video, posted online by Aspen Journalism, a local non-profit media outlet, shows the airplane on its second landing attempt after aborting the first […]

An airshow routine usually lasts just a few minutes, but the time and effort that goes into that display can take months to prepare — and it’s not all about the flying. In a new video series named Live Airshow TV, performers reveal the inside stories of their day-to-day lives. The first episode features Michael […]

Ever wonder how your Christmas tree made it from the farm to the store front? In the case of the trees in the videos below, the process involved some pretty intense helicopter work. In the first video, pilot Dan Clark uses a Bell 2063B JetRanger to get the job done rather swiftly — to say […]

On the 110th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ first flight, owner-pilot John Magoffin pushed the throttle lever forward on his rare 1933 Lockheed Vega, the aircraft of choice of pioneer aviators, including Amelia Earhart (who flew one on her solo transatlantic record flight) and Wiley Post, who flew a Vega around the world twice. Magoffin’s […]

When the U.K. Environmental Agency warned of high winds in northern England earlier this month, they weren’t crying wolf. The agency cautioned of 90-mph winds in the region and parts of Scotland, forcing ScotRail to cancel train service on December 5. The pilot of an Emirates Boeing 777 trying to land at Birmingham International Airport […]

Textron, the parent company of Cessna, is moving fast on the development of its sexy straight-wing military twinjet, the Scorpion, which surprised the world with its emergence earlier this year. As evidenced by the following video, Scorpion test pilots have completed the first taxi tests and are getting close to taking the airplane to the […]

In what could be a more frequent sight in the era of government sequestration, on Sunday, November 24, EAA’s B-17 “Aluminum Overcast” performed a pre-game fly-over at Green Bay’s Lambeau Field before the NFL game between the hometown Packers and the Minnesota Vikings. Pilots Sean Elliott and George Daubner timed their approach to the closing […]