A team of engineers and researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) is currently developing a humanoid robot that can fly aeroplanes without the need to modify the cockpit.
The man realised he could not get up after his 6-hour flight which landed on Saturday, and the crew members on the British Airways flight couldn’t help him either. Emergency ground crews were eventually called and after removing the door and employing a hoist, the man was safely lowered to the tarmac.
This has some serious ‘Final Destination’ vibes to it. A female passenger on an American Airlines flight caused a five-hour delay after she freaked out over someone who was “not real”.
So far, 440 people have ordered their flying cars, and the makers expect to make the first deliveries in 2025.
This ‘slowing’ phenomenon is called the Motion Parallax and has to do with how fast an object moves through our field of vision.
Thanks to the professionalism of the pilots and cabin crew, passengers reported that the landing was actually very smooth, with “no jarring or even loud noises.”
It looks like the Texas airport worker who was sucked into a jet engine Friday night wasn’t exactly a freak accident.
Imagine seeing one of these birds floating over Parow as it comes in for a landing at Cape Town International Airport. The future is here people.
A new study claims that supersonic flights could become a reality within the next 10 years, with jet-setters being able to fly from the UK to Australia in just two hours before the decade is out.
The 29-year-old dumbass acknowledged that the entire fiasco was part of a product sponsorship deal.
Are we being prepped for some big alien news in the near future?
Your in-flight meal today includes chicken, beef, or a highly venomous Cape cobra.
There are approximately 3 000 hot air balloon accidents every year, but this must surely be the worst-case scenario for balloonists.
Usually, you would expect passengers to bail out of a stricken aeroplane, but in this case, the plane had its own parachute which saved the lives of everyone onboard.
US officials told Russia’s ambassador to the United States that Moscow has to be more careful when flying in international airspace.
‘Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020’ has recreated almost every corner of the world, based on data from various mapping platforms.
The crash landing took place in Tombo, Brazil, and the pilot deserves credit for bringing the malfunctioning plane down without things really getting ugly.
Sometimes you just have to count your blessings, because when a plane goes down in a ball of flames you’d be excused for thinking nobody made it out alive.
Sometimes you strike gold at the airport and are bumped up to first class, and if you’re living large you may as well film the best bits.
An F-16 jet fighter pilot passed out during training, and thankfully autopilot kicked in just at the right moment. Not exactly a Top Gun moment though.
The price of a return flight is often enough to put us Saffas off travelling, but there are some cracking deals going around that might help ease the pain.
Dwarfing the Boeing 747 is no mean feat, which is why the Airlander 10 is grabbing headlines. Not the dream start for all involved, though.
Despite a frenzied rush to the departure gate, sometimes we end up cutting things a little fine. So what’s the big deal with being a tad late?
Thailand has always been a popular holiday spot for South Africans, but it’s usually the cost of a flight that hits the hardest. Not any more.
Planes usually need a hefty chunk of runway to use before they take to the sky, but it looks like Boeing have upped the ante with their new model.
Flying on a plane carries with it enough fear for many, but a false hijacking alarm? That’s just a little overboard, so you can understand the chaos.
Everyone talks about a birds-eye view, and that doesn’t come much better than when you’re behind the wheel of a plane. Take a snap, why don’t you?
Passengers aboard a Singapore Airlines flight had something of a mare, their flight forced into an emergency landing after an oil leak.
Here’s one for the more conspiratorial out there, the plane which crashed last week the victim of some politically motivated graffiti two years back.
The Egyptian military have managed to locate some of the debris from EgyptAir flight MS804, although mystery still surrounds the circumstances of the crash.