73 years after Amelia Earhart embarked on her ambitious trip around the world, a young woman has decided to do her namesake proud of full fill the mission once again.
The golden age of flying used to be an over-the-top luxury experience, including and leggy, chatty “hostesses”, fine-dining and an abundance of drinks.
It’s a fact: jets are better than pouts, as an F-16 fighter pilot has taken a selfie showcasing the new Dreamliner coming into Netherlands, and it’s pretty awesome.
Airplanes can be used for way more than purely transporting masses of people, as some people and business owners have shown to make incredible living spaces out of old planes and helicopters.
A bystander photographed the crazy moment when an airplane crashed into a skydiver as he was coming in for a landing. The light aircraft’s wing collided with the parachute’s strings, catapulting the skydiver into the sky.
After relaxing some of the laws around gadget use inside planes, the US government is considering yet more aviation rule changes. But the American public seems to have already made up their minds.
Ascape artist Anthony Martin was handcuffed, locked inside a coffin-like plywood box, and then pushed out of an airplane flying 4,460 metres above the ground. Martin said:
Travel journalist Simon Calder provides you with advice on how to get value for money from your frequent flyer miles. It can be especially frustrating when you have flyer miles but there is limited seat availability.
The National Transportation Safety Board has tweeted more pictures from the crash of Asiana Airlines flight 214. The airplane crash landed on the runway of the San Francisco International Airport on Saturday 6 July 2013.
Asiana Airlines flight 214 crash landed on the tarmac of the San Francisco International Airport on Saturday. Watch the footage that captured the moment the plane crashed and view recently released images from the National Transportation Safety Board.
This unmanned prototype of a supersonic airplane is the next thing after the demise of the Concorde. The airplane was recently unveiled and boasts some new features.
On Sunday the crowd at Cuatro Vientos airfield were left flabbergasted when a jet blew up after it crashed into a hanger. The estimated 3,000 people who attended the air show in Madrid were evacuated from the grounds when this aerial acrobatics came to an abrupt halt.
The solar-powered plane named the ‘Solar Impulse’ embarked on its maiden voyage in the United States on Friday morning from Moffet Field, near San Francisco and has successfully landed in Phoenix, Arizona. This was the first leg of the plane’s journey across the United States using energy produced by the sun.
Passengers on a Qantas flight over Australia got more than what they bargained for yesterday when they spotted a 3,6m-long python clinging on to one of the plane’s wings.
Anything can happen in the internet, and it usually does. The notion of a lunatic being taped to his seat by fellow passengers, with photographic evidence, has now been fulfilled. Click for hilarious picture and story.
We’ve all been there, the fasten-your-seatbelt sign is illuminated, the plane is taxiing, air hostesses line the aisles and everyone is asked to switch-off any electronic devices as they may interfere with the airplanes instruments, or some such drivel. But, how much truth does that bold statement actually hold, could a simple text message or something of the like actually have a severe, adverse affect on your flight? The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) investigated…
Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) have confirmed that last night an intruder at Cape Town International Airport (CTIA) managed to evade security and board a BA aircraft bound for London, he was found dead upon arrival at Heathrow Airport.
Qatar voted best airline in the world. Seal has moved on. Vodacom launches free roaming calls. Fleetwood Mac reunion. Shoprite shows massive growth. Sheen leaves twitter.
Howz this vibe, a plane landed perfectly without wheels in Poland! It took off from New York. Storyful reports: A Boeing 767 carrying over 200 passengers from New York’s Newark Airport made an emergency landing in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday. Video footage showed the Polish Airlines plane https://www.aldaorg.net/buy-accutane/ touching down on the runway without landing […]