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

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 cockpit POV video of a plane losing engine power at 600-feet and having to make a crash landing in a nearby cornfield. This is why I don’t like flying — engines fail, and things go wrong. I mean we’re not birds, flying is unnatural. If God intended

Note: Some appropriate excitement and colorful language following the landing. This is a video of flight instructor Kilo Tango Aviation flying with student LeoStixx86 for the first time outside a simulator and surprising him by letting him land the plane. Some more details while I tighten the shoulder straps on

This is some wing-cam footage of pilot Vincent Fraser making an emergency landing on a North Carolina mountain highway following the failure of his Aero Commander 100’s engine. He does a great job, and it looks like a textbook emergency landing. Of course he’s lucky that happened in the mountains

This is a beautifully flown drone tour of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force’s aircraft collection on display in Dayton, Ohio. FUN FACT: That’s where my brother was born. In Dayton — not in the Air Force museum. Being born IN the museum would have been wild. Of

This is a video (including footage from the ground and from the cockpit) of a Boeing 767 operated by Icelandair landing and taking off again from Antarctica’s Troll Airfield, which services the Troll Research Station as well as serving as a hub to other Antarctic research stations accessible via smaller

This is a video captured by the plane watchers of Youtuber channel BIG JET TV of a British Airways Airbus A321neo landing at Heathrow Airport and aborting the landing even after touchdown due to high winds blowing it around. You can see in the slow motion footage the tail even