Videos

The first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner for the British Airways recently landed at London’s Heathrow Airport to join the BA fleet. In honor of the Dreamliner’s arrival, the airline released a stunning time-lapse video that goes behind the scenes at Boeing’s factory where the wide-body airliner is made. In only 4 minutes, the video shows us […]

Chuck Aaron announced on Instagram that he is retiring from flying the Red Bull helicopter, a Messerschmitt-Bölkow Blohm BO-105 modified to withstand the rigors of aerobatic flight. In his 10-year tenure with Red Bull, Aaron has performed about 250 airshows. His last show will be at the Red Bull Air Race at the Las Vegas […]

Marking the final flying season of the Vulcan XH558, the U.K.’s Royal Air Force Aerobatics Team, the Red Arrows, took its final flight with the mighty Cold War bomber on Saturday, September 19 at the Southport Air Show. With only three scheduled displays left, the Vulcan will be grounded for good in October. The Red […]

It’s hard to deny that we love watching pilots battle the elements and nail (or not) a particularly challenging crosswind landing — whether it’s in a light single or an airliner. But how about the world’s largest passenger airliner — an Airbus A380? One YouTuber managed to catch the massive wide-body jetliner arriving at Düsseldorf […]

Perlan 2 — the glider slated to fly to the edge of space next year — has lifted off for the first time. The successful first flight was conducted yesterday from Roberts Field Airport in Redmond, Oregon. The glider was pulled off the ground by an agricultural airplane and released to soar to an altitude […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a new design for landing gear that could enable helicopters to land just about anywhere. Rather than the traditional fixed skids or wheels that are attached to the bottom of the helicopter’s fuselage, the Mission Adaptive Rotor (MAR) Robotic Landing Gear is comprised of four articulated, […]

Doc’s Friends have a reason to cheer once again as the Wichita, Kansas-based volunteer crew has reached the point of engine start in the monumental task of returning the massive B-29 bomber to the skies. The first engine run was conducted days ago at the McConnell Air Force Base on the east side of the […]

“Swarm Man” takes to the sky — er, several feet off the ground — in a DIY super drone that sounds like an army of bees. The homebuilt flying machine is equipped with 54 counter-rotating propellers fastened in a hexagonal pattern, with a chair in the center. It’s also rigged with a polycarbonate dome, which […]

With the last operational Avro Vulcan — XH558, “The Spirit of Great Britain” — retiring, fans of the British bomber have been eager to make one of the stops on its farewell tour. During its display last weekend at the Scottish Airshow, one showgoer captured footage of the Vulcan and what could have been a […]

Have you ever dreamt of doing some real adventure flying, going into remote, special spots that are best accessed by airplane? Now you can follow avid adventure pilot Ramona Cox, known in the aviation community as SkyChick, in a new series of live broadcasts that will launch on Friday. The live broadcasts are free and […]