This is some bodycam footage from Valdosta, Georgia where police were making an arrest on the highway when a distracted driver launches off the ramp of a parked tow truck, traveling some 120 feet in the air before crashing back down. Holy smokes! The driver is currently being treated for
This is a video from RED SIDE visualizing and comparing the speeds of various aircraft, beginning with incredibly slow planes like the Wright Flyer (30MPH) and ending with modern jets like the SR-71 Blackbird (2,500MPH). And to think the Wright Flyer first took to the sky only 120 years ago.
This is a video of a Singaporean foursome performing a choreographed indoor skydiving routine at the 2023 World Indoor Skydiving Championships, complete with a bunch of flips and twists and hand-holding and all sorts of other fun stuff. You know, I’ve always considered trying this indoor skydiving thing, but I’m
This is some dashcam footage from a California highway where a truck loses its left front tire and a Kia Soul in the adjacent lane immediately hits it, launching the vehicle like it just reached the end of a Hot Wheels Ramp. I like how the driver applied their brakes
This is a video captured by the residents of a 21st story apartment in San Francisco, who witnessed their sofa fly off the balcony and attempt a half-hearted trip to Oz during high winds. Unfortunately for it, it only makes it as far as the road below. Fortunately for locals,
Captured by drone flier Joshua Turner, this is some first person POV footage of summiting the Matterhorn in the Alps, flying along the Hörnli Ridge (the standard human route up the mountain) all the way to the very top. That’s cool, I guess I can go ahead and cross ‘Summit
Because who hasn’t dreamed of what it would look like swan diving off the tallest building in the world, this is a video from a drone flying down the exterior of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. It’s hard to believe this is real. The building, and just Dubai in general.
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