#flight

News | In The News

Airline Pilots Landing At LAX Report "A Guy In Jetpack" Flying Alongside Them

Even in an era in which congress wants to openly investigate UFOs, a dude flying alongside an airliner over Los Angeles in a jetpack is still bonkers

Travel | Travel

Everything You Need to Know About Getting a Real ID

By October 2020, if you don’t have a Real ID or a passport, you will not be able to fly.

Travel | Travel

How to Avoid Fee on Changing and Cancellation of Airline

Make sure you know the situations which can allow you to receive a refund when booking your next plane ticket. Check out cancellation fee and other charges for cancle or change of airline.

Miscellaneous | OTHER STUFF

Riding a Wild Wind, a Norwegian 787 Breaks a Speed Record | WIRED

A 200-mph jet stream has sent several passenger jets to nearly 800 mph, and helped break a (subsonic) speed record.

News | News

Canadian flew over Calgary in chair carried by balloons - BBC News

A Canadian man who tied about 100 helium balloons to a garden chair and flew over the city of Calgary is charged with causing mischief.

Food & Drink | The Cocktail Hour

Making your own cocktails on a plane -- How to mix your own drinks at 36,000 feet

By packing miniature bottles of alcohol and other ingredients, you could mix your own drinks on a plane.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Capturing a Handshake at 33,000ft for Red Bull

How in the world do you capture a photograph like the one above? Or any of the ones below for that matter? How do you deal with temperatures that run in th

Science & Technology | Science

The First Commercial Jet to Break the Sound Barrier Was Not the Concorde

On this date in 1961, a jet designed for commercial use became the first civilian craft to go supersonic. It wasn't the famous Concorde, which wouldn't break the sound barrier until an October '69 test flight, or the Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-144, but rather a humble DC-8—no. N9604Z, to be specific.