The Concorde gave us supersonic transport that could travel from London to New York in 3.5 hours. Today that same journey is around 7 hours. Why did this modern aircraft fail? The crash in Paris didn’t help, but there was more to it than that. Vox’s Phil Edwards investigates in this interesting mini-doc with some […]
Airplane black boxes, explained
Airplane flight recorders are often the most crucial element in finding out what happened during a plane crash. There are two airplane “black boxes” (which are not even black) — one stores cockpit audio recordings, the other stores airplane instrument data. This short video from Vox gives a little background into the history of the […]
Why flying is so expensive (it isn’t to do with fuel)
If you’ve ever wondered why airfares are so expensive (apart from the fact that you are inside in a 107-million dollar flying machine) then this video has your answer. Wendoverproductions do a breakdown of all the costs of a fully loaded A320 with 156 passengers. I was surprised how little fuel was. Watch the Why […]
Economy passenger upgraded to “private jet” on flight to Boracay
One lucky passenger got the flight of their life on a trip to Boracay in the Philippines. Alex from Diary of Alex boarded his flight in Manila to find that he was the only passenger onboard. Technically it wasn’t a private jet as it was a turboprop, but either way Alex got to enjoy the […]
Featured Travel Video: Europe 24 – Data visualization of air traffic in Europe over 24 hours
Europe 24 by NATS shows data visualization of air traffic in Europe over 24 hours, and it is mind-boggling! There are thousands of flights in the air at any one time, and this video does a great job of representing what that air traffic looks like over Europe. Much of the video takes place over […]
Castlepool
Castlepool.com is a site that searches travel connections from point to point. Enter your destination and arrival cities and Castlepool will list all the travel details, from getting to the airport, transport options ( or other transport options like train, bus, ferry, or public transport), and then getting from the destination airport. Itineraries are displayed […]
Traveler’s Voice
Traveler’s Voice are travel advocates for a seamless and secure United States entry process. For many traveller’s one of the dreads of visiting to the USA is the entry process. Customs queues have been known to take hours, and if you you are deemed as suspicious then there is the joy of being detained for […]
Featured Travel Site: MileValue
MileValue is multi-authored miles-and-points blog that gives advice on the best ways to earn and use your miles. The site features the best credit cards for earning frequent flyer points as well as special offers. MileValue also covers how best to use your points and they have a Mile Value Calculator, where you can input […]
Azuon
Azuon is a downloadable desktop search engine for low cost airlines (available on Windows and Linux). With this software you can search multiple origin and destination airports within any specified date range to find the cheapest possible fares. This is escpecially handy for flights in Europe as their are so many low cost airlines hat […]
Plane Finder
Plane Finder tracks scheduled commercial flights in close to real time, displayed on a Google Map. You can zoom in and out of regions, use filters, and search by flight number and location. Flights are tracked by picking up ADS-B plane feeds used by commercial and private planes to transmit their name, position, callsign, status […]
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