Aviation Videos

Here’s a very cool video of a P-51 Mustang and F-22 Raptor formation flight that lets the viewer scroll around the screen for an unprecedented 360-degree view of the action. From the camera position in the P-51’s rear seat, viewers can use their mouse (or finger if watching on a touchscreen tablet) to look in […]

Reports of close calls with personal quadracopters and other remotely piloted UAVs are on the rise, with the latest scary story coming from the pilot of a SkyLife medevac helicopter in Fresno, California, who says he came “within about 15 feet” of a drone yesterday afternoon before making a sharp turn to avoid a collision. […]

UK’s air traffic control provider, NATS, which created the very cool and mesmerizing videos tracking flight paths in some of the busiest airspaces in Europe, has hopped across the pond to bring us another video in their series of 24-hour data visualizations. This time, NATS partnered with FlightAware to show air traffic patterns over the […]

A beautiful display of hot air balloons of multiple shapes and colors took to the skies in Chambley, France, on Saturday in an attempt to break a world record for the most number of balloons taking off simultaneously. A total of 433 balloons took off from the Lorraine Mondial Air Balloons meet, taking place at […]

The National Transportation Safety Board has concluded its investigation into the fatal accident involving Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo. The space ship disintegrated during a test flight on October 31, 2014, resulting in the death of copilot Michael Alsbury. The NTSB concluded that Scaled Composites, the contractor for the program, failed to “consider and protect against the […]

We have witnessed some pretty challenging crosswind landings in the U.K. recently, but this might be a landing to top even the most hair-raising descents. Last weekend a KLM Boeing 777 was captured on video — that has since gone viral — while making its way into Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport during what is being called […]

It’s one thing to survive a plane crash, but if your emergency locator transmitter is damaged or fails to activate, rescuers might never find you. Studies show that ELTs often fail to send out signals in crashes, so NASA decided to tackle the issue by dropping a Cessna 172 to the concrete from a height […]

Have you seen the TV ads for the new “Mission: Impossible” movie, the ones showing Tom Cruise improbably hanging on for dear life on the outside of a military transport plane as it blasts into the sky? Hollywood CGI is getting pretty good, I recall thinking. Well, that was no CGI. Cruise actually strapped onto […]

From childhood, Christina Kurth realized her goal of working in the aviation industry. She studied and worked hard, and now has her dream job as a mechanical design engineer for Embraer where she works on executive jets, like the Legacy 450. Hear about her journey and see how getting involved in extracurricular activities helped her […]

New drone designs appear to be popping up all over the place. But here’s one we thought is worth checking out. The ARcopter is a newly designed VTOL drone designed by a company called Colugo Systems. Unlike other VTOLs, however, the ARcopter is capable of landing and hovering in windy conditions as its wings are […]