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

Because rocket science isn’t for everyone, this is a video of a man attempting to take a photo from a plane by opening a small window for a clearer view and getting the camera sucked out of his hands into the wild blue yonder. I don’t know, next time maybe

Because flying a plane requires at least a middle school level of maturity, this is a video of a pilot skywriting (skydrawing? skydoodlin’?) a giant penis in the sky. Per the guys filming: “That’s pretty cool.” “Oooh what, oooh — you know what he’s making now.” “I know what he’s

Because going nowhere fast is a real thing that happens, this is a video of glider pilot Brent Davidson traveling at 46 knots (~53MPH) in an equal headwind of 46 knots created by an air wave lifted by a mountain range below, causing the glider to just float stationary in

An unpowered glider (no props or jets) just set a new speed world record for all R/C planes (including jets) at 548MPH (882km/h) using nothing but the power of the wind in a demonstration of dynamic soaring. What’s dynamic soaring? Let me Wikipedia that for you, since I guiltily donated