This is a video of jazz musicians Dave Koz and the Summer Horns (Marcus Anderson, Marcel Anderson, Jeff Bradshaw, Leo P, and Evan Taylor) playing an impromptu concert for an Alaskan Air flight from St. Louis to Seattle (neither of which is in Alaska) during a 3-hour delay. That’s cool.

This is a video of Youtuber ProjectAir constructing and testing what he believes to be the world’s largest RC rocket plane, a radio controlled balsa glider that gets an initial blast of propulsion from a giant model rocket engine. It works surprisingly well, and the first test flight goes off

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