November 5, 2009 @ 9:00 pm
Denver to Singapore (and back) in 5 minutes from David DAngelo on Vimeo.
David D’Angelo flew from Denver to Singapore (and then back to Denver again) and took snapshots with his Canon S90 every few minutes/hours. His camera was attached to his neck which explains some of the odd shots in this time-lapse video. [via]
August 24, 2009 @ 5:34 pm
This was bound to happen. Two individuals, Dustin Curtis and Alaska Miller, have purchased the JetBlue unlimited flight pass and are intending to fly to JetBlue’s 43 JetBlue-served cities in 30 days (between September 8 and October 8).
They have researched the trip and believe that they will need about 83 flights to successfully reach all 43 cities. They have started a website called 30 Day Flight that will follow them on their journey. You can tune in beginning September 8 to see if they make it.
August 3, 2009 @ 10:56 am
flight patterns from Charlie McCarthy on Vimeo.
Charlie McCarthy took a bunch of long exposure photos of bugs flying under a street light and put the photos together in this video that shows just how crazy some of these bugs’ flight patterns are. [via]
March 25, 2009 @ 12:26 pm
I’ve been doing some digging in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog and I came across this familiar picture of the Wright brothers during their first flight in 1903.
What’s remarkable about this — aside from the fact that it shows the first flight — is that the image is available for free download as a high resolution TIFF at 232MB (#LC-DIG-ppprs-00626).
Part of the reason for this is because the original is too fragile to handle and thus the LoC scanned it so high that you probably wouldn’t ever need to see the original ever again.
To give you a sense of how big the scan is, below is a 100% crop of the original image. Amazing, ain’t it?
Negative shows Orville Wright at the controls of the machine, lying prone on the lower wing with hips in the cradle which operated the wing-warping mechanism. Wilbur Wright running alongside to balance the machine, has just released his hold on the forward upright of the right wing. The starting rail, the wing-rest, a coil box, and other items needed for flight preparation are visible behind the machine.
January 17, 2009 @ 1:36 am
The AP has released this raw surveillance video of the US Airways crash into the Hudson River on Thursday. The video shows how quickly people were on top of the wing of the ditched plane. Impressive!
UPDATE: Full surveillance video below.
January 15, 2009 @ 9:03 pm
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According to FlightAware, the status of US Airways flight 1549 — the same flight that crashed today in the Hudson River — is that it has arrived at its destination. I guess it’s half-right, since it also lists LaGuardia Airport as the origin and destination, even though North Carolina was the real intended destination.
And if you look down at the bottom of the FlightAware page (screenshot above), you’ll also see that the plane was only flying for 6 minutes in total before going down.
US Airways on the other hand has simply listed the flight as ‘Status Exception’ and included a phone number for those who may want to call to inquire about family members.
