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
This is a video of wingsuiters Fred Fugen, Vincent “Veush” Cotte, and Aurélien “Bras Noir Chatard setting the world record for longest wingsuit flight in close proximity, traveling a respectable 7.5km (4.7 miles) over Mont Blanc in France. That footage around 2:30 looks like they were getting LOW. Personally, I
This is a video of Instagram user its.PilotJohn performing a nosedive to allegedly wake up his female passenger with a little weightlessness. It’s true, I’ve found nothing wakes you up in a hurry quite like thinking you’re about to die. Was she actually asleep though? That’s debatable. A debate you
Note: Check your volume, wind. Because extreme sports just aren’t extreme enough for some people and they demand even EXTREMER sports, these are a couple Instagram videos of BASE jumper David Laffargue being launched out of a human slingshot and into the wild blue yonder. That’s fun. I mean not
These are several videos of a sugar glider named Titan Bool leaping from heights to glide and land on his owner’s hand. For those of you unfamiliar, sugar gliders are small gliding marsupials native to Australia, and can glide like flying squirrels (which are rodents and not related, but an
Planes: it’s hard to believe they even work. Although I suppose with enough wind wizards held captive in the cargo hold, anything is possible. This is a visualization comparing the sizes of various aircraft from diminutive one-seaters, to the 747, AND BEYOND. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly,
This is a video of Tom Scott taking flight strapped to a personal blimp. The experience, available at Aéroplume Écausseville in Écausseville, France, costs about €60, for which they’ll strap you to a dirigible filled with 70,000 liters of helium and let you float around an airplane hanger. That’s fun.
This is some footage (including first person POV) of the latest iteration of the Jetson ONE eVTOL (electric vertical take off and landing) vehicle cruising around the countryside of Tuscany, Italy. Pretty cool, but it’s still just a giant quadrocopter capable of lifting a person. The sound of operating one