Because nature doesn’t care about your breathtaking drone footage, this is a clip from a drone operated by Adam Culbertson of Terra Incognito Photo & Film featuring a golden eagle snatching it while it was filming the mountains of Utah. The eagle continued flying with it until it was out
This is a video of a paraglider enjoying a stunning early morning flight over the very scenic Bohinj Lake in Slovenia. Damn, that’s beautiful — it looks like he’s flying right through a painting. And maybe he is, I don’t know where we’re at with today’s teleportation technology. Bob Ross,
This is a video of the 1,002 drone light show performed by Sky Elements Drones of Fort Worth, Texas for the 4th of July, featuring American and Texan imagery. The show was definitely impressive, but the way the video was shot was equally impressive. During the performance, the Guinness World
This is a visualization created by Global Data comparing the sizes of various flying creatures both extinct and extant, but mostly extinct because Mother Nature made all the wildest models back in the day. Don’t get wrong, she’s still got some pretty crazy designs in existence, but she’s definitely grown
This is a video of Polish stunt pilot Lukasz Czepiela landing a specially modified plane (total weight reduced to 940 pounds, main fuel tank moved to rear for harder braking, plus nitrous added for taking off again) on the 87-foot diameter helipad atop the 56-story Burj Al Arab Jumeirah hotel
Captured by wildlife photographer Mark Smith, this is a video of an osprey exiting the ocean carrying a barracuda and flapping its ways back into the sky, having emerged from the sea victorious. I can’t even imagine how much energy is required to get airborne again after leaving the water
Captured by wildlife photographer Steve Biro, this shot of Bruce the Bald Eagle flying over the water directly at the camera is almost too perfect to believe it’s real. Such symmetry! And they way his wingtips are just brushing the water’s surface…so majestic. I mean except for that derpy look
This is a video imagining what the retired Concorde jet’s Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound) cruising speed, or around 1,350MPH, looks like at ground level. It’s definitely fast, but things really don’t go by as quickly as I thought they would. Now what I really need to see