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Jumbo Jet Agility Demo

Jumbo Jet Agility Demo

If you’ve ever flown on a jumbo jet and worried about the plane taking a steep angle or bank, this video should put your mind at ease – as test pilots show off just what the 280 passenger Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner is capable of. More here.

Hydrogen Peroxide Helicopter

Hydrogen Peroxide Helicopter

This one-man helicopter is powered by hydrogen peroxide gas rockets attached to the tips of its rotors. While we’re guessing it’s not the safest aircraft ever made, we’re duly impressed that it gets off the ground at all.

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Human-Powered Flight

Human-Powered Flight

These guys in Korea must have legs of steel to be able to pedal hard enough to get airborne in their wide-winged flyers. Though at times, this crash-filled competition reminded too much us of the Red Bull Flugtag.

Land Rover: Trip to Space Giveaway

Land Rover: Trip to Space Giveaway

Show Land Rover a photo or video that represents what adventure means to you for a chance to win a training course and trip to space on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two for yourself and three of your loved ones.

Fly Like an Eagle

Fly Like an Eagle

Unless you have the balls to wear a wingsuit, you may never get your wish to soar like an eagle. Here’s the next best thing – a video shot from the POV of a golden eagle as it flies over the Altai Mountains of Mongolia.

Warbird Pilot: Behind the Visor

Warbird Pilot: Behind the Visor

Rob W. Scribner’s short profile of John-Curtiss Paul, an air racer and warbird pilot. John flies and maintains legacy aircraft for the Warhawk Air Museum, a job that he’s well aware is a privilege, albeit a risky one.

Alpine Stunt Flying

Alpine Stunt Flying

Red Bull Air Force stunt pilot Hannes Arch knows how to make an entrance, taking off for his daredevil flight through the Austrian Alps from one of its awe-inspiring highways. The flying after he gets off the ground ain’t bad either.

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Avalanche Line Wingsuit POV

Avalanche Line Wingsuit POV

Scotty Bob shares one of his latest death-defying wingsuit adventures. This time he skimmed over a mountain and whizzed past a narrow opening among trees. Or whatever those green things are that YouTube seems to have censored.

F16 over Greenland

F16 over Greenland

A strangely relaxing POV video captured from the cockpit of an F16 fighter jet as it does low-level runs over the diverse and beautiful terrain of Greenland. We’re pretty sure that without the music it would be more intense.

Airplane Fireworks

Airplane Fireworks

The guys from the Twister Aerobatics Team have a really neat trick up their sleeves. Not only do they perform dizzying tandem flips, turns and barrel rolls, they shoot fireworks from the wings of their stunt planes. Truly awesome.

Low-Level Fighter Training

Low-Level Fighter Training

Fly along with a U.S. Navy pilot in an F/A-18F Super Hornet for some dizzying POV footage as his fighter jet conducts a low-altitude training run, starting over the Pacific Ocean then flying over Northern California and Oregon.

Airport Near Miss

Airport Near Miss

Three airplane videos went viral this weekend, the most dramatic of them being this nearly catastrophic screw up. A Boeing 767-300 about to land at an airport in Barcelona almost collided with an Airbus A340 crossing the runway.

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Fulcrum Drivers II

Fulcrum Drivers II

POV and on board clips from Polish Air Force pilots in MiG-29 fighters. Watch them practice formations, engage in mock dogfights and even fire a missile. The song is The Glitch Mob’s We Can Make the World Stop. Part 1 here.

Team BlackSheep: Dubai

Team BlackSheep: Dubai

Team BlackSheep shares its awesome footage of the luxurious city of Dubai, taken with the group’s Discovery Pro quadcopter. They became the first to fly a UAV over the Burj Khalifa and the Burj Al Arab.

Parrot AR.Drone 3 (Preview)

Parrot AR.Drone 3 (Preview)

The AR.Drone 3.0 – check it at 1:00 – aka Bebop uses software stabilization instead of a gimbal for less weight. It has a 14mp camera, a removable battery, GPS, a range extender/joystick accessory and Oculus Rift support.

Rally Helicopter Skills

Rally Helicopter Skills

Helicopter fly-overs provide one of the coolest perspectives on rally races. In this clip, the chopper pilot demonstrates his impressive flying abilities, keeping up with every move of the drivers below. More footage here.

Insane R/C Copter Skills 2

Insane R/C Copter Skills 2

YouTuber Tareq Alsaadi demonstrates his upgraded Goblin 770 RC helicopter by showing off his piloting skills. Watch as he makes his toy look like something from The Exorcist. Or Key & Peele‘s excitable valets.

Sea Plane without the Sea

Sea Plane without the Sea

You’d think it would be damned near impossible for a sea plane to take off from dry land, but that didn’t stop these guys from pulling off the feat by towing the plane down a runway on a trailer to get it going. Landing, on the other hand…

Flying Robot Orchestra

Flying Robot Orchestra

KMel Robotics talented team of flying drones shows off their musical prowess, playing drums, keyboards, bells, and strings. Sure, it’s all a little odd sounding, but you try being in a band with no hands or arms while hovering in the air.

Extreme Helicopter Aerobatics

Extreme Helicopter Aerobatics

While we prefer that helicopters we fly in remain upright, Red Bull helicopter pilot Chuck Aaron demonstrates some of the stomach-churning maneuvers you can pull off in a chopper if you really know what you’re doing.

US Navy VFA-27 Cruise Video

US Navy VFA-27 Cruise Video

A teaser for Shoot ‘Em if You Got ‘Em, a compilation by the US Navy’s F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter squadron VFA-27. The video features awesome cockpit and POV footage of the pilots flying and testing their weapons.

Flying with Firehoses

Flying with Firehoses

A group of Russian firefighters has a little time on their hands between calls and decides to do something fun with all those high-pressure hoses they have lying around. Sure, it’s a waste of water, but it still looks like fun.

Drone over Hong Kong

Drone over Hong Kong

Team BlackSheep took their Discovery PRO first-person quadcopter into the skies in the remote outskirts of Hong Kong for a stunning view of its incredibly green mountains and spectacular scenery surrounding the area. More here.

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