This is a video from Youtuber Animagraffs detailing what every button, switch, knob, screen, lever, and control device in a modern airliner cockpit does. SPOILER: nothing, they’re all just for show and were specifically designed to convince passengers that airplanes are flown via complex technology and not the fact there’s

This is a video of an Airbus A321neo operated by Wizz Air (like pissing in the wind) making a spectacularly low landing at Greece’s Skiathos Airport. Yikes. You know, I have friends who have traveled to Greece specifically to witness this themselves, none of which I would feel comfortable with

This is a video of lead-footed JTThornton setting the record for the fastest 24.5 mile lap around Manhattan during the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020 (there was never a better time to drive fast), averaging 69MPH in a McLaren 720S and reaching speeds up to 149MPH. Just to

This is a video from the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport where an excavator operator, about to scrap a Learjet, takes it for one last flight. Ha, I used to play with toy planes the same way when I was a kid! And my mom used to pretend the spoon was

This is some wing-cam footage of pilot Vincent Fraser making an emergency landing on a North Carolina mountain highway following the failure of his Aero Commander 100’s engine. He does a great job, and it looks like a textbook emergency landing. Of course he’s lucky that happened in the mountains

This is some recently unearthed footage of New Orleans from way back in 1898 when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. The video features six floats from that year’s Mardi Gras parade (the theme was ‘Harvest Queens’), and more than one time traveler I was able to spot by zooming and

This is a video from the sky above Los Angeles of all the illegal fireworks being set off as a plane prepares to land at LAX on the 4th of July. It looks like the apocalypse. And maybe it is. You know, having lived in LA for ten years, I

These are several shots captured by CNN reporter Francesca Street of the double-decker airline seating imagined by designer Alejandro Núñez Vicente that was on display at the recent 2022 Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) in Hamburg, Germany. Wow, there really is an expo for everything. Alejandro believes his Chaise Longue Airplane