I have found a little gem in our archive. The column is entitled Eddies within which the journalists gathered various observations.
The Eddy that amused me on this page is about an overly-enthusiatic student who wouldn't come down from flight and crept to a higher and higher altitude. He was in danger of being shot down!
Max Kingsley Jones, Flight International's deputy editor, took this footage of Airbus A380 parts as they were moved to Toulouse last week.
This video shows the ridiculousness of carrying large and very expensive parts through a small village.
A pilot friend who flies a Jodel in his spare time showed me this footage of a Tipsy Nipper light aircraft performing a spin that went wrong.
The pilot of the Tipsy Nipper, known as Youtube user goncstube, planned to perform a normal erect spin to the right, "but", he says: "for various unintentional reasons the spin went flat, up until that point I had never flat spun an aircraft.
"I eventualy mananged to get the aircraft into a normal erect spin from which I was able to recover."
"After coming to rest inverted I waited 20mins for the rescue services to come and right the aircraft so I was able to exit via the outward opening canopy.
"The aircraft rotated 26 times total, I was extremely dissorientated after the recovery to straight and level flight, and was unable to read the instruments."
It seems to be a pretty dangerous stunt and he's lucky to get out alive.
Do you have a similar experience to share?
How easy is it for a spin to go wrong?
Here is a YouTube video of the aircraft as it floats in the Hudson River:
Here is a Google Maps view of LaGuardia Airport where the US Airways A320 departed from:
vivaAerobus, Mexico's low fares airline is the latest airline to launch a charity calendar in a bid to boost its profile.
The airline was created with the expertise of Irelandia, the investment vehicle of the founders of Ryanair, Europe's low cost airline.
vivaAerobus operates a fleet of Boeing 737-300 aircraft.
Anyway, here is a video of the making of the charity calendar. Take a look at vivaAerobus' calendar site .More information on which charity the calendar supports...
A 1976 Boeing 747-200 -- one of 393 built by the company until 1991 -- is standing at Stockholm-Arlanda airport but its usual airliner-style decor has been stripped out.
The upper deck is now a conference room, and the flight deck is a wedding suite which comes with a private bathroom and panoramic views of takeoffs and landings.
You can stay at the Jumbo Hostel in a basic room with sleeping space for three adults for €110 ($150) per night.
Or you can book the top deck, complete with the flight deck suite, which comes with a private bathroom and panoramic views of takeoffs and landings for around €500 ($700).
We spotted this amusing video of a Japanese Waterpack. The poor chap doesn't travel very far but gets catapulted across a lake which looks like fun.
See FlightBlogger's coverage of the Martin jetpack...
[From BBC report] Being grossly overweight does have a bearing on reflexes and can impair agility required to perform the emergency functions".
Here's a video of Mariusz Pudzianowski pulling a Lockheed Martin C-130 as part of the World's Strongest Man 2008 competition. It's fair to say that he won the title.
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