During the late 1920s and early 1930s, the US Department of Commerce created an air mail route between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. These enormous arrows helped pilots stay on course. The historical society of Washing...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/02/What-Are-These-Huge-Concrete-Arrows-in-the-Desert-For/[youtube XUtYlR28Yb4](Video Link)It was time for this UTAir Antonov An-24 in Bodaybo, Russia to takeoff. The runway is a pile of mud. The tail keeps sliding to the right. But the pilot doesn't care. Like General Winter,...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/25/Russian-Pilot-Yes-I-Know-the-Runway-Is-Covered-in-Mud-Your-Point/
The Dole Air Race of August 16, 1927 was from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, for a prize of $35,000. Fifteen planes were registered. Eleven qualified to start. Two crashed on the way to the starting point, and...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/26/the-deadly-dole-air-race/
The British government has opened a new airport in Wales that will provide services only to unmanned aircraft. Among them is the Royal Air Force's Watchkeeper drone, which is pictured above. Before this airport opened, t...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/31/worlds-first-airport-for-exclusively-unmanned-aircraft/
The Samarai Monocopter, developed by Lockheed Martin, is only ten inches long. But the designers don't plan to scale it up, but down. Their goal is to make one the size of a fingernail with a camera attached. Soldiers wo...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/21/monocopter-flies-like-a-maple-seed/
3d printing is such a new process that we are still discovering all the ways in which we can use it to enhance our lives. Well, the wait for the next big thing to print is over, because engineers from the UK have used th...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/30/the-first-3d-printed-aircraft/(Video Link) Bush pilots in Alaska need to be able to land and take off in short distances. Many of them recently attended a competition focusing on this skill in the town of Knik River. Bobby Breeden, a student pilot...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/09/this-plane-needs-only-10-feet-of-runway-to-takeoff/
Have you ever seen the movie Airport 1975? It was a disaster movie set on a 747 that had suffered a midair collision. The pilots were dead, leaving only a flight attendant to try to keep the plane in the air. Could an...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/17/could-a-novice-land-a-jumbo-jet/
DVICE has a slideshow of 26 strange aircraft that, although oddly designed, actually flew. Among them is the Inflatoplane developed by Goodyear in 1956. This plane had an inflatable rubber body. It was small and light...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/21/the-inflatable-airplane-and-25-other-bizarre-aircraft-that-actually-flew/(Video Link) This video from 2009 shows an emergency landing of a single-engine plane on a street in Winter Haven, Florida. Kyle Davis, the pilot, and Joe Surowiec, his passenger, were recorded on camera during this...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/08/emergency-plane-landing-on-street/
