Watch an Airplane Turn Fog Into Beautifully Spinning Cloud Spirals

It's majestically beautiful. The wingtip vortices formed when an Airbus A340 landed at Zurich Airport on a foggy night. (www.youtube.com) Plus d'info...

Photographs of aircraft shot from directly below

The Jet as Art, Milstein visited airport runways between 2005 and 2009 and created large-scale photos of various aircraft at the precise moment they passed directly overhead. (www.petapixel.com) Plus d'info...

Does the brace position on a plane really work?

We examine the various conspiracy theories surrounding the brace position, and ask whether it really increases the chance of survival during a plane crash. I hope I never have to find out. (www.theage.com.au) Plus d'info...

The Sounds of the Fastest Plane in the World, an ICBM Missile, and 28 Other Jets, Rockets, and Weapons

An aural history of the Cold War technologies that underpinned the space race and the arms race. (www.theatlantic.com) Plus d'info...