Two videos of a Eurocopter (MBB) BO-105 helicopter doing things that helicopters aren’t supposed to do!
The Redbull BO-105 demonstrating the capabilities of the helicopter:
Another BO-105 with either a very good, or a very suicidal, pilot:
It’s a bit long, but if any of you haven’t seen the F-22 Raptor at an airshow, you’ll be blown away by what it can do with the thrust vectoring control system. Second half of video is the best.
Snowboarding is for wussies. Real men fly down the mountain in their own wingsuit. (Don’t look at me. I can’t even snowboard!)
Update: Get your own wing suit at: http://www.flyyourbody.com/en/
Okay, I resisted the urge to call this post Loooowwww Blue Angels, but I guess there is a theme developing here. I’ll try to be more creative tomorrow. All I know is I need to get to Fleet Week for this show. Anyone up for a little trip to visit Mr.Chin and Big Jim?
Really great soaring footage, lots of low level stuff. (Check out the bit over the lake at the 45 sec. mark.) It always makes me laugh when I hear people comment that you have no control when flying a glider. I’m not sure how anyone thinks you can fly anything with no control. I’m pretty sure these gliders weren’t flying themselves.
I’ve arbitrarily decided that it’s Aviation Week here at Widget.ca. All that means is that I’m going to post a bunch of flying videos that I like, all in a row. A new one each day. I guess I’m pretty lazy, ’cause I post a lot of videos from YouTube, and I don’t really write anything very witty or interesting. For that you need to either go here or here. From me, what you get is stuff I find while spending a stupid amount of time surfing. Ah, well, it’s my blog. I can do whatever I want with it.
Anyway, I thought I would start off with one of my favourites of all time. This is Alain de Cadenet, former racer, and host of the fantastic Speed Channel series, “Victory by Design“, getting a little more than he bargained for. I’m not sure what show this clip was meant for. If anyone knows, please tell me. Man, the sound of the Spit gives me a woody….umm..oh, too much information? Last few seconds of audio NSFW.
Timelapse footage of construction of the Michael-Lee Chin Crystal addition at the ROM. Apparently the images were captured over a 4 year period from May 2003 to November 2007, daily at 1 pm during construction and every 10 minutes during opening week. I had the chance to climb to the top of the almost finished steel structure a couple of years ago, and it is a feat of engineering. Except for the actual floors, I don’t think there is a vertical or horizontal piece of steel in the whole structure.
(From BlogTO.com)
Reporters Expose Airport Security Lapses By Blowing Up Plane
The incompetence is frightening. (from The Onion)