Parrot AR.Drone

Coming from Parrot later this year: the autostabilised augmented reality WiFi drone controlled from your iPhone! Demoed at this year’s CES, you know you want one!

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Another Turkish Airlines Ad

Someone at Turkish Airlines should get a grip on their advertising agency…

Thanks to Flying with Fish and The Flying Pinto for pointing this out.

Undercarriage Is An Extra $15

Turkish Airlines introduce the world's first Viagra-powered aircraft

Oh dear. Thanks to Photoshop Disasters for this…

Terrorist Escalation

Thanks to JH for passing this along:

The British are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.” The British have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz [...]

A380 Flight Deck 360 deg Panorama

This is very cool!

The Truth about Gadgets and Flying

“Everything is amazing and nobody is happy”by Meowbay

Dubai Airport

Posted via web from Chris Parker’s posterous

How Aeroplanes Work

And how it’s explained in the newspapers:

The jetbrake is what holds the thrilling-edge sluts in place during a roach on a taxiramp or a runtower. When the props are retarded on the combustion spool, sometimes the engine stalls and the hayler-ons have to go around on a mist roach. Often the plane is only a [...]

G-Limits

From “Palace Cobra”, by Ed Rasimus, a great book about flying fighters in Vietnam:

“The aircraft G-limits are only there in case there is another flight by that particular airplane. If subsequent flights do not appear likely, there are no G-limits.”
Frank Chubba, fighter pilot

Rush Hour at Newark

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