I’ve never been a fan of airlines, especially these days. They’re pinching pennies and trying to squeeze every last cent out of us, making us pay for baggage, and in the case of RyanAir, even proposing that we carry our baggage to the plane itself.
I recently had the urge to buy a ticket at [...]
Did an airline do something to piss you off? Bump you off an overbooked flight? Leave you stranded at an airport because you were so delayed the connecting flight wouldn’t wait? Break your clearly marked FRAGILE THIS SIDE UP luggage?
Before the rise of Twitter, the best customers could do was make angry phone calls, send [...]
It’s a well-known fact that airplanes are uncomfortable, especially when the asshole in front of you suddenly reclines while you’re eating, causing you to spill your hot (watered down) coffee on yourself. If you’re tired of that, you can try out the Knee Defenders. Designed to slip over the eating trays, these things block the [...]
What is the fastest RC aircraft? Amazingly, gliders. The non-powered planes can, in skilled hands, whip up a speed of over 300mph from a relatively slow wind. That’s a velocity of around 8x the speed of the air driving it.
It’s called Dynamic Soaring, or DS, and it requires some specific land and weather [...]
This video was shot from the cockpit of a Navy Blue Angels pilot. Pretty damn awesome and scary at the same time. I can’t even begin to imagine the precision necessary for this sort of thing.
via Wired.
Seriously, who came up with this runway placement? I hope nobody actually goes to that beach to tan, because they’d get a bit more roasted than they’d like. And I can’t believe there’s actually a highway right underneath the plane’s belly. And see those people outside their cars taking pictures? Dumb. Although that’s how this [...]
In-flight Wi-Fi has been a bit of an elusive beast. Only a couple of airlines carry it, and at its current 990kbps, it’s pretty damn slow. It doesn’t help that high-altitude internet is technically difficult; somehow you need to broadcast the signal back down to servers on the surface without interfering with the plane’s navigational [...]
