Airplanes Skidding In A Snow Storm, a photo by Anirudh Koul on Flickr. Via Flickr: You don’t wanna fly from this runway! Was flying of from Montreal to London via Toronto. As luck would have it, my itenary was greeted with a massive snow storm. While trying to take off, the plane started to skid […]
Russian Mil Mi-26 Helicopters – Heavy Lifting Helicopters
I’m not as big a fan of helicopters as I am of airplanes. However, there are things that a helicopter can do that an airplane simply can’t. In situations where you need to move something big and heavy over distances where there are no safe roads, no rail and no easy way to get a […]
Emirates A380 – At Toronto Pearson YYZ
Here’s a cool photograph of an Emirates A380, registration number A6-EDC, taxiing after landing. I’ll give 2 internets to whomever can tell me how many of these A380 airplanes Emirates has on order. hint: it’s in the comments to a previous post on this site Photo credit: Mark Fisher According to the photographer, the plane […]
Recent Crash at Nazca Blamed on Wind Shear
So, I was reading over on the Kathryn Report that Nazca Airlines blames the recent crash of a Cessna 206F at the NAzca airport on wind shear. Apparently, the plane just sort of fell out of the sky, killing everyone on board not due to a mechanical failure or something like that. In case you […]
Airplane in flight in Google Maps
I know that lots of other people have found airplanes in flight on Google maps, but this is the first time that I’ve found one. I was looking up an address in Beverly Hills and started looking around the Van Nuys airport when I spotted this little gem: View Larger Map You may need to […]
Free Internet on Airplanes
Have you seen those signs on the planes offering Wi-Fi internet access? I flew on Delta airlines recently and saw the signs all over the planes, the terminal, etc. I ended up using the internet service on the plane and loved it. Of course, I only blogged, twittered and went on to Facebook, but it […]