Aviation Videos

Talk about a steep dive and a perfect landing. This incredible footage captures an eagle named Darshan as he descends from the tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa, which stands at over 2,700 feet tall in Dubai. Once the bird spots the falconer, he executes a precision dive at over 100 mph, ultimately landing […]

We’ve seen cliff diving in airplanes, gliders and wingsuits, but how about in a snowmobile? In this epic video, a stunt team from Finland has modified a snowmobile and actually made it fly. Driving straight off a cliff, parachute attached, they glide down a mountain in Riksgränsen, Sweden, soaring at the same level as a […]

The second all-solar-powered version from the Swiss company Solar Impulse, Si2, took off early Monday morning from Abu Dhabi on its historic flight around the world. The team hopes that the Si2 will be able to circumnavigate the globe using nothing but solar power. André Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard, the cofounders of Solar Impulse who […]

Lauren Clarke knew there was no other career option for her after she took her first flying lessons while in college. She was hooked. In her current job at Airtec, she gets to both fly and maintain the aircraft. Browse current aviation job listings to find new career opportunities here. Get exclusive online content like […]

We’ve all seen B-roll video footage of robots busily building cars on an assembly line, spinning and whirling with impressive precision and nary a human in sight. But you’ve probably never seen anything like this. Researchers in Germany have connected a robotic arm to the cockpit section of an airplane to create perhaps the world’s […]

While we may not be able to defy gravity as pilots, this group of fliers has found a fun way to play with Newton’s law while in the air. Check out this video submitted by Flying reader Alex Mazz and see how a simple science experiment in the air can bring a smile to just […]

After launching our “Flying Is…” video contest for the first time last year, we saw so many awesome videos that we just had to do it again. When we opened up the contest in collaboration with Garmin a second time last October, we not only received more entries but even more amazing footage. Every video […]

L-3 Aviation Products has unveiled a family of ADS-B products to fit a variety of budgets, including the world’s first Mode S transponder with a touchscreen moving map allowing display of ADS-B traffic and weather data without the need to interface with an MFD. The NGT-9000 is a Mode S transponder with 1090ES ADS-B In/Out […]

Flying reader Ajay Jayaraj, a flight instructor at Aeronavigation Academy International in the Philippines, recently submitted this breathtaking footage of his experience of aviation in his home country. Check out just how beautiful it is to fly in this region of Southeast Asia. Want more? Head over to our “Flying Is” channel for all reader […]

Dassault Aviation successfully completed the first flight of its new flagship model, the ultra-long-range Falcon 8X business jet, which the company recently rolled out of its Mérignac, France-based factory near Bordeaux. The 1 hour 45 minute flight took the trijet as high as FL 400 and to speeds as great as Mach 0.80. Test pilots […]