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

This is a video of Polish aerobatic pilot Artur Kielak performing during an airshow with a camera facing towards him to capture his facial expressions during extreme g-force maneuvers. As someone who gets motion sick just walking, I couldn’t imagine being able to do this and not passing out, crashing,

This is a video from Pensacola Beach, Florida of the Blue Angel Lead Solo performing its signature Sneak Pass at 700MPH during the Blue Angels’ final airshow of their 75th Anniversary season. I wish I could have been there to really feel that fly-by in my loins, you know? Would

This is a timelapse video of baggage handler and TikTok user DJSugue demonstrating how he utilizes his Tetris skills to pack everyone’s luggage into the cargo hold in the belly of a commercial aircraft. Neato. I thought the most interesting part of the video is how he’s pretending they don’t