MetaFilter posts tagged with jets

Airliner Videos

saladin — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:19:14 -0800

A collection of airliner videos. Strangely absent: Barrel rolling a 707 [YT].

Nellis AFB Air Show.

saladin — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:16:13 -0800

Vintage Flight Attendant Photos

brain_drain — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:07:58 -0800

Remember when air travel was viewed as glamorous and exciting? Of course you don't. So check out this collection of vintage flight attendant photos: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

First "Gigantic Jet" lightning captured in U.S.

spock — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:35:44 -0800

This extremely cool video captures the first "Gigantic Jets" (purportedly) ever captured in the U.S. "Think of them as sprites on steroids: Gigantic Jets are lightning-like discharges that spring from the top of thunderstorms, reaching all the way from the thunderhead to the ionosphere 50+ miles overhead. They're enormous and powerful." See also: An article on the subject from 2003, a more technical article from Nature (mirrored) and how to look for yourself.

Sport Conspiracy theories

noizyboy — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:36:33 -0800

Jets meet-up suggest that George Bush really does not like black people. A post over at Grabthar's Hammer analyses a recent photo-op of the President with the New York Jets, and figures out that the probability of the black players having been kept out of the immediate vicinity of Dubya (as you can see is the case in the photos supplied on the post) was 0.4%.

Stunts

growabrain — Fri, 13 May 2005 19:37:05 -0800

Haute Voltage stunt flight (Direct .mpg. Bonus if you read Russian)

Traffic is a Swiss guy on short final

tss — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 15:49:43 -0800

Jet-Man Project. Man straps on composite wings and tiny jet engines. From AVweb.

KevinSkomsvold — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 15:13:36 -0800

The effects of jet contrails on climate. Taking advantage of a unique research opportunity brought about by the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on America, when all commercial air traffic in the country stood still for three days, scientists have uncovered the first clear evidence. Link to British journal Nature article on subject and IPCC article.

catatonic — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:41:49 -0800

Lockheed Martin beat out Boeing for a $200 Billion contract to build the new F-35 fighters jets earlier today. Missile defense, planes that can take off vertically, bombs that fry electronics...military technology is accelerating at a really frightening pace.

SilentSalamander — Tue, 02 Oct 2001 14:41:36 -0800

Remote control jets (Yahoo news) Is this really a good idea? I've heard similar suggestions for our airways - but the article points out that centralizing air traffic has the potential to put entire fleets of jumbo jets in the hands of terrorists.