Airplanes
Speed limit enforced by aircraft? ‘Pfft. Yeah, OK,’ thought TikTok user Saige Playton as she drove past the sign in her Virginia hometown. But later, as she flipped through her mail, she found herself holding a speeding ticket. “I didn’t believe it but I guess they were serious,” her caption reads. Playton’s video has now […]
The Lockheed L-2000 could have been an even better aircraft than Concorde
Flying at Mach 10 is so speedy, it’s actually faster than a bullet. It represents an object traveling at 10 times the speed of sound. In fact, flying at Mach 10 would represent an incredible feat of engineering. And it turns out that humanity has come mighty close to flying it. DISCOVER SBX CARS: The global […]
It’s one of the world’s busiest airports – and somehow, the Chicago O’Hare runway design keeps it all running like clockwork. We’re talking 80 million passengers a year, hundreds of planes a day, snowstorms, red-eyes, and rush-hour madness. And yet, somehow, it all works. That’s not luck – it’s smart runway design. O’Hare’s layout isn’t […]
Concorde last took to the skies towards the end of 2003
This man from Dubai put a scarily powerful motor in an RC helicopter, which allowed it to shoot up to the sky so fast that the whole display looked fake. The remote control helicopter was already striking enough with a colorful exterior, but this addition meant that the model really meant business. The motor made […]
The Boeing 2707 could have been America’s big rival to the Anglo-French Concorde
Her disappearance remains one of the world’s great mysteries
There’s no room for error
A 1cm cable error caused the production of the Airbus A380 to be delayed for months, stopping the airliner from entering service. The Airbus A380 was built by Airbus from 2003 to 2021, and it became the world’s largest passenger airliner and the only full-length double-deck jet airliner. While sales ended up being poor, the […]
This TikToker just showed how he earned a $16,000 paycheck in one day as an aircraft detailer – his video taking viewers behind the scenes of what cleaning a private jet entails. It’s not every day you cancel your plans to clean bird poop off an engine. But when it’s attached to a $25 million […]
This pilot cleared up the chemtrails conspiracy theory and explained exactly why white trails appear in the sky behind planes. It’s a question that crosses all of our minds when we spot a plane flying high in the sky, followed by a wispy white trail. Over the years, many theories have surfaced in regard to […]
This was an amazing display
How’s this for a travel hack?
Modern turbofans provide huge amounts of power for commercial airliners