This is a video of a US Air Force Boeing/Bell CV-22B Osprey 10-0053 vertical takeoff transport blowing away the rubber helipad at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, England due to rotor wash while it’s taking off during a medical-transfer training operation. Obviously, I hope the medical dummy faired better than this
This is a short security cam video from a small local airport starring a stationary, unpiloted, unpowered propeller plane taking off by itself due to high winds in the area. Anybody else pretend this was Rose from Titanic when it was happening? Good times. Unfortunately, no word how well the
Because having an emergency exit strategy in place is an important part of survival (and not pooping your pants at the restaurant table while on a date), this is a video of Tom Scott being treated to a tour of a giant wind turbine, as well as getting to experience
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
These are several shots from specialty cargo and freight hauler P. Adams Schwertransporte of a 67-meter (220-foot!) wind turbine blade being transported “on a challenging route” somewhere in Europe. I’ll say. If this were the gig I got playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 I would just point the truck at
This is a video from Haines Junction, Yukon, Canada, of a dirt devil absolutely wrecking an elderly gentleman’s fruit stand and giving his produce the ride of its life, tossing some as far as 200-yards away. Those melons probably never thought they’d get the chance to fly. Some more info