These F16s are performing a low level test using GoPro, and they have produced some amazing footage.
Watch the video as the Fighter Wing Skrydstrup of the Royal Danish Air Force fly past some of the most amazing an extreme scenery on the planet: the icebergs and glaciers of Greenland. The team was in Greenland to practice cold weather operation, and in this video was working on low level training.
The passengers and crew of this British Airways operated Boeing 777 are lucky to be alive after the aircraft experienced an uncontained and catastrophic engine failure on the takeoff roll. Luckily the aircraft had not departed the runway yet, and was billowing black smoke from an engine fire on the left engine. The fire seriously damaged the aircraft on the runway at Las Vegas International Airport.
If the fire had only been moments later, when the aircraft was airborne, the outcome could have been devastating. Quick reactions of the crew allowed those onboard to quickly evacuate the airplane on emergency slides. There were 159 passengers and 13 crew.
The fire shredded the left GE90 engine and sent shrapnel into the main fuselage of the 777-200 initiating fire and smoke. The video below illustrates the seriousness of the situation. Flames can be seen shooting from the fuselage at the roots of the wings near the engines.
The incident occourred on Tuesday September 8.
For Tom Cruise’s next movie, Mission Impossible Rogue Nation, he pulls off a stunt that looks surprisingly real. That’s because it is real!
Cruise actually was strapped to the fuselage Airbus A400M cargo plane to get this once in a lifetime shot. Only he didn’t do it once, he did it eight times!
Cruise, a certified pilot, was terrified of doing this stunt. He couldn’t sleep the night before, and feared for his life as the aircraft accelerated down the runway into the clear blue sky. The jumbo, four engine turbo prop circled around to land with him still holding on.
The scene is for the movie Mission Impossible, Rogue Nation, which opens in theatres at the end of the month.
Stiff crosswinds and an uneven runway make for challenging landings at Birmingham Airport in the United Kingdom, causing some airliners to overshoot.
In recent months, pilots have encountered some heavy skill-testing conditions as strong crosswinds and gusty winds pummelled the runway area.
Can you see how these airliners are using a crab crosswind landing approach?
Watch as a 767 makes a difficult crosswind landing, testing the limits of the landing gear.
On June 22, this cat stowaway was found in a wing mid-flight on an ultralight aircraft in French Guiana.
The black and white house cat appears in the cockpit camera (which was luckily on) after about 40 seconds after the airplane takes off and is only noticed by the pilot, chief flight instructor Roland Jantot after about a minute. The expression on his face as he discovers the feline is priceless.
Janot noticed that something was amiss with the aircraft wing and glanced up at the frame, doing an epic double take. The courageous and probably very confused feline is found clinging to the metal frame on the inside of the wing.
The cat is doing well and is now the mascot of the flight school Club ULM 16-34 in Kourou, French Guiana.
In preparation for the Paris Air show, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Vietnam Airlines livelry performed some amazing aerial work, particularly impressive is the near vertical takeoff, shown in this video.
The 787-9 is rehearsing for the Paris air show which is being held this week. It’s unusual for an airliner to perform such a steep climb, but the video displays the 787’s ability to perform a beautiful, aggressive takeoff.
Paris air show 2015 “dream” display is shown here from the Boeing test pilot’s perspective. The company’s team of test pilot put together an impressive routine that shows off what the 280 passenger, $250 million airplane can really do.
The Paris air show runs from June 15 until Sunday, June 21 at Le Bourget airport.
The 787 used in the performance will join a fleet of 19 787-9 airplanes already in the Vietnam Airways fleet.
