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Video parody of Northwest Flight 188: Tweetin\' from a jet plane
by B.N. SullivanWhen a Northwest Airlines A320 overflew its destination last month, the incident became a huge news story. The media circus that ensued certainly was made worse when the pilots told the NTSB the reason they had been out of radio cont...
Video: Gulfstream G650 Roll-out at Savannah
Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation's new Gulfstream G650 ultra-large-cabin, ultra-long-range business jet rolled out of the hangar under its own power on September 29, 2009 at Gulfstream's Savannah, Ga., headquarters. If the video does not play or disp...
Evergreen International's fire-fighting Boeing 747-100 Supertanker
You may have seen news clips on TV about the Very Large Aerial Tanker (VLAT) aircraft that are currently in use to fight the wildfires that are raging in California. These DC-10 and B-747 aircraft, operating under a supplemental type certificate, dr...
Airbus A320 demo ride for Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson
The YouTube blurb for this video says:Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden vocalist), is taken for a demo ride of the A320 for a Discovery Channel documentary. Bruce shows off the computerized FLCS of the aircraft and how these protect the aircraft from cont...
High Flight (...really high flight!)
Ride along on a Lockheed U-2 spyplane and check out the amazing view cruising at 70,000ft as the sky above turns black.Thanks to Jill Rutan Hoffman for the tip about this video. Follow Jill on Twitter: @LookingSkyward.If the video does not play or d...
Emily Howell Warner -- Legend of Aviation
Emily Howell Warner, the first woman to become an airline pilot in the United States, tells her story:If the video does not play or display properly above, click here to view it on YouTube....
NBAA's Ed Bolen Explains the Importance of Business Aviation on Fox Business
In this recent appearance on Fox Business, National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) President and CEO Ed Bolen explains "the importance of business aviation to citizens, companies and communities across the country, and the work of the 'No Plan...
Video: Space Shuttle Atlantis Re-entry and Landing at Edwards
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to land a Space Shuttle? Here's your chance to find out, via this video. The 'cockpit view' visuals are provided by an on-board camera as the Space Shuttle Atlantis re-enters Earth's atmosphere after 12 ...
NASA Tailplane Icing Video
Ever since last week's crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 near Buffalo, interest in aircraft icing has been heightened. The NTSB reported that shortly before the accident, the crew had discussed "significant ice build-up" on the windshield and the lead...
Video: Big New Jet Airliner
You remember the song from the 19702, Jet Airliner, by the Steve Miller Band, right? Here's a video about the Airbus A380 that uses that song as background. Turns out that old music suits this big ol' new airliner quite well. Enjoy.If the video doe...
A Little Northwest Airlines Nostalgia
The anticipated merger between Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines became a fact last week. Integration of the two carriers into the 'new Delta' will be a complex process, but it is already underway. Eventually all of Northwest's crews will wear...
