Tag Archives: airliner

Milky, Milky Night

Admin at 9:35 am May 2, 2017

The first segment of a flight from Zurich to São Paolo filmed in timelapse from the cockpit of an airliner by Swiss Air pilot Sales Wick. Sez he:

Just as the bright city lights are vanishing behind us, the Milky Way starts to become clearly visible up ahead. Its now us, pacing at almost the speed of sound along the invisible highway and the pitch-black night sky above this surreal landscape. Ahead of us are another eight hours flight time, but we already stopped counting the shooting stars. And we got already to a few hundred.

kottke

Boeing, Sweet Boeing

Admin at 4:17 pm June 11, 2014

Bruce Campbell (no, not that Bruce Campbell) is a retired engineer who has transformed a decommissioned Boeing 727 fuselage into a home in the 10-acre woods he owns outside Portland Oregon. He paid $220,000 for the plane – about ten times the cost of the land on which it rests, propped up on concrete plinths.

Bruce, who lives in Japan for half the year, is currently seeking a 747 body for a similar conversion project there.

boredpanda

Sky Whale

Admin at 2:37 pm March 7, 2014

The AWWA Sky Whale – a rather wonderful concept for a passenger airliner envisioned by Spanish industrial designer Oscar Viñals.

The plane – which can seat 755 passengers on three decks – has a blended wing design to reduce drag, emissions and fuel consumption with internal turbines generating electric power for the hybrid engines. The wings rotate up to 45 degrees to assist manoeuvring.

We want it to be real. You want it to be real.

The Beluga Airbus can’t be the only whale in the sky.

designboom

Crosswinds At ‪Düsseldorf‬

Admin at 12:18 pm November 25, 2013

Planes landing and taking off on an icy runway this year and in high speed crosswinds during a storm last winter at ‪Düsseldorf‬ airport.

Crosswind landing is part of every pilot’s training, but that won’t make you feel any less bilious at the thought of being one of the passengers here.

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