Airplanes
He doesn’t have much ‘Burning Love’ for the aircraft
Most celebrities spend their millions on cars, while some take it one step further by buying private jets. Some private planes are reasonably priced – if spending around $3 million on a plane seems reasonable to you. Others, however, are like supercars of the sky, costing more than $100 million and customized to perfection. Let’s […]
It’s already had thousands of pre-orders
It’s on track for certification
They got the coolest stuff ever
Two pilots in the 1950s set the world record for the longest continuous flight aboard a Cessna 172 aircraft. Pilots Robert Timm and John Cook set the record in 1958/1959, with the aircraft staying in flight for over two months. The record required a lot of innovation, so they could keep the aircraft topped up […]
On a trip to visit Hawaii, this young couple faced a huge dilemma after working out that their Cessna 150 couldn’t fly from mainland USA due to fuel limitations, but shipping the airplane would be worth the hassle. Few places in the world are as pretty as the islands of Hawaii. But getting to the […]
This Piper Plane needed a very costly repair
This private jet was too grand to call a hangar home
An American from Maryland who found an abandoned airplane saw its potential and decided to turn it into a race car. The car belongs to Jeff Block, @speedycop on Instagram, who’s a police officer and a keen automotive enthusiast. He had always wanted to build a race car out of a plane. The fuselage of […]
This millionaire certainly knows how to celebrate in style
An American man spent three weeks building an Aerolite aircraft in his garage so he could fly it without a pilot’s license. TikTok user mcfli_gyt posted a video on his account of him flying the light aircraft, with his wife filming his first takeoff in the plane. Having had many questions about the plane, the […]
Everyone knows about Concorde, the world’s only successful supersonic airliner – but did you know the Soviet Union also had its own version, called the Tu-144? Yup, thanks to spies, espionage, and a push to beat the West, the Soviets built their version of Concorde, the Tupolev Tu-144. Dubbed Konkordski by those outside the USSR, […]