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I don’t know about you guys, but this seems so darn realistic. It certainly applies to every time I’ve been stuck on a plane.
Link Via Laughing Squid
Fans of abandoned places and urban exploration are in for a treat, with a look at an aircraft graveyard at Vozdvizhenka air base in the Primorsky Krai region of eastern Russia, just 40 miles from the Chinese border. There is no security to stop urban explorers, just the aircraft sitting unused, with grass growing under them and nature doing its best to reclaim the base. See more pictures at UrbanGhosts. Link
(Image credit: Flickr user Maks Maydachenco)
Cockpit Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet CRJ700 in Cologne
Put yourself in an airplane cockpit! What kind of airplane? That’s your choice, as there are 14 cockpits to select from, from a helicopter to a bombardier (shown here), models from all over the world! Take a look all around in the 360-degree panoramas to get a feel of being in control, at 360 Cities. Link -Thanks, Jeffrey Martin!
Planes are never this close together, but through the magic of video (no animation, just editing), we see how well choreographed takeoffs and landings are. You can watch a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this video at GE. Link -via The Daily What
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This video shows how air traffic slowed to a halt over Europe as the volcanic ash wafted over from Iceland a couple of weeks ago.
And this video shows how traffic returned to normal after the clouds dissipated to a safe degree. -via Jason Kottke
If you could afford the best, which airline should you fly? First class is pretty spiffy on all of them, but some airlines take the concept of luxury to the upper limits. Take a look inside the top-tier accommodations of the seven most luxury-conscious airlines.
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It’s been locked up since 9/11, but Ransom Riggs of mental_floss managed a visit to the Mojave Air and Spaceport and took plenty of pictures. The inactive airport is used as a parking lot for planes and also a junkyard of planes that will never be flown again. The result is a collection of photographs that are urban decay with an aviation slant. Link
AMARC, photo via Artificial Owl
Our pal WebEcoist has a very neat post about the graveyards of "stuff" after they’re no longer wanted. This one above is the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center or AMARC ("The Boneyard") in Tucson, Arizona, where military airplanes go to die:
When U.S. military airplanes need to be repaired or are just too old to fly, many of them end up in the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center, or AMARC, in Tucson, Arizona. Some of these planes are restored to operational status while others are broken down for parts. Seen from above, the planes make beautiful patterns in blue and white against the earthy brown backdrop.
Link | The AMARC Experience website
Previously on Neatorama: Shipbreaking Yard: Where Ships Go to Die
