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Corinth Canal Fly-Through

Corinth Canal Fly-Through

Red Bull Air Race aerobatic pilot Péter Besenyei pulled a Luke Skywalker, flying his tiny Extra 300S D-EFBY plane through the narrow 70-foot-wide Corinth Canal with just about 20 feet of clearance on each side of his wing tips.

Bigger Than Life

Bigger Than Life

Firefight Films shot this awesome footage inside and around some incredible ice caves in Alaska, using a GoPro HERO3+ Black Edition and a DJI Phantom drone. The behind the scenes reel is loaded with amazing shots as well.

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F1 Car vs. F/A-18 Hornet

F1 Car vs. F/A-18 Hornet

Infiniti Red Bull Racing’s Daniel Ricciardo takes on F/A-18 Hornet pilot Michael Keightley in an epic demonstration of speed on the ground and in the air, while comparing notes on how they each arrived at their incredible careers.

Volcano Drone POV

Volcano Drone POV

YouTuber Shaun O’Callaghan used a DJI Phantom quadcopter to take a close look at the mouth of Mount Yasur, an active volcano on Tanna Island, Vanuatu. Fortunately the drone and the camera survived the trip.

Macau Fly Over

Macau Fly Over

Team BlackSheep takes their eye-in-the-sky drone into the air over Macau, showing the stark contrast from ancient structures outside the city to the modern metropolis that is now Asia’s Las Vegas. The track is Inner Peace by CloZee.

R/C Helicopters Lift Woman

R/C Helicopters Lift Woman

We had no idea that R/C helicopters could be so powerful, but in this video from HeliGraphix, they appear to have lifted a woman off the ground using two heavy-duty remote-controlled helis. Watch them pull a boat, with passengers, here.

Surviving a Bird Strike

Surviving a Bird Strike

Psychologist Keith Baird was flying his Cessna 210 when he encountered a flock of geese. One hit and blasted through the windshield, but Baird kept his composure, and safely landed the plane. See the aftermath here. (Thanks Judy!)

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Parrot MiniDrone & Jumping Sumo

Parrot MiniDrone & Jumping Sumo

The AR.Drone’s little siblings. The Jumping Sumo is a two-wheeled jumping toy car, while the MiniDrone can fly or ride on its wheels. Sadly, the Sumo only has a 20min. battery life while the MiniDrone lasts just 6min. in between charges.

Giant R/C Helicopter

Giant R/C Helicopter

We’ve seen huge remote-controlled jet airplanes, so it’s time to give a helicopter the spotlight for a few minutes. Josef Schmirl’s incredibly-detailed R/C chopper sounds like a real helicopter as it buzzes by, and even has a tiny crew inside it.

Flying Tiare

Flying Tiare

A typical commercial flight as seen from the point of view of pilots, mechanics and other airline crew. This amazing time-lapse POV video was captured by engineer Lionel Rabaud and his friends for Air Tahiti Nui.

Cardboard Warfare 2.5

Cardboard Warfare 2.5

(NSFW: Language) The war of the boxes escalates to the skies in Cardboard Warfare 2.5: World of Warplanes, the latest action-packed short film from the RocketJump crew. It’s a shameless plug for World of Warplanes, but we don’t care.

Helicopter Harvests Xmas Trees

Helicopter Harvests Xmas Trees

YouTuber Dan Clark pilots a helicopter to harvest Christmas trees at the Noble Mountain Tree Farm in Oregon. It seems like the trees were already uprooted and bundled before he picked them up. Here’s a POV video of the task.

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Volocopter VC200

Volocopter VC200

A marvel of modern engineering, E-volo’s electric helicopter uses 18 rotors to lift its passenger compartment off the ground. It’s designed to lift two occupants for about 20 minutes on a charge. Significantly refined since its early prototype.

Beehive Line Wingsuit Flight POV

Beehive Line Wingsuit Flight POV

“Just a bunch a dudes, tryin’ to be birds.” So goes the understatement of the year from Robert “Scotty-Bob” Morgan about this death-defying wingsuit flight through a narrow gap in a canyon in Utah. Sir, no bird is as insane as you are.

Amazing in Motion: Swarm

Amazing in Motion: Swarm

Lexus commissioned KMel Robotics to build and choreograph an army of custom flying drones to create this amazing and entertaining flying robot ballet. It’s too bad they had to cheat with VFX. Learn how they did it here, here and here.

SkyRunner Flying Car

SkyRunner Flying Car

An all-terrain buggy and paraglider in one. It has a 1L 123hp EcoBoost engine and weighs just 926lb., thanks to its carbon fiber and fiberglass chassis and carbon fiber propeller. It goes up to 115mph on land and up to 55mph on air.

Balloon Fiesta Timelapse

Balloon Fiesta Timelapse

The folks behind the Roadtrippers mobile app made this wonderful timelapse of the 41st Albuquerque International Balloon Festival. More than 500 hot-air balloons took off within one and a half hours. Watch in 4K if you can.

The Plane That Landed Itself

The Plane That Landed Itself

During a training mission in 1970, the F-106 plane that Retired Maj. Gary Foust was piloting went into an unrecoverable flat spin. He ejected, assuming the plane would crash. And then the plane went into “It’s cool bro, I got this” mode.

Russian Aerobatic Team

Russian Aerobatic Team

Awesome – and surprisingly soothing – footage from inside and outside the cockpits of Russian stunt flyers as they took to the skies over Penza in celebration of City Day. Video by STALFORM Engineering. Best watched in full screen HD.

Eagle POV 2

Eagle POV 2

YouTuber Srachi is back with more footage taken by his special cameraman – er, camerabird. Watch it soar through a variety of landscapes and even past its human friends. Who needs a quadcopter when you have an eagle?

R/C Flying Witch

R/C Flying Witch

R/C builder Otto Dieffenbach has made men fly before, but this time he’s outdone himself, making a flyable witch (or is it a warlock?) on a broomstick. What we wouldn’t give to have one of these this Halloween – with a pointy hat.

Red Bull Air Force: Rio Wingsuits

Red Bull Air Force: Rio Wingsuits

The Red Bull Air Force team took to the skies over Rio de Janeiro to jump out of a helicopter and fly by the iconic Cristo Redentor statue in their wingsuits and fan-powered parachutes. More Rio footage here and here. Pics here.

Eagle POV

Eagle POV

YouTuber Srachi uploaded this awesome POV footage taken from a camera that was strapped to an eagle. The bird was soaring above the Mer de Glace glacier in the Chamonix valley in France. It’s at once amazing and soothing.

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