Monthly Archives: April 2010

Aviation Infrastructure for the 21st Century NASA Aeronautics Design CC

Great classic plane livery shots. Close Captioned. This NASA segment focuses on the importance of air travel in todays society. Currently, over 600 million people travel on airplanes and it is expected that over a billion people will use air transportation in the near future. Attention is turning to ways to improve what is an already crowded transportation system. A unique government and commercial plan develops the Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NGATS. The Joint Planning Development Office (JPDO) is designing a multi-stage approach to not only handle an increase in the large number of passengers, but…

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Hot Air Balloon Crash in China

Me, my brother and and best friend during the descent of our decidedly dodgy Hot Air balloon, all the way until we crash into a tree. Commentry in Scottish.

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AIRLINE TRAVEL & AIRPORTS: Return from Bangkok (Part 3)

Click the HQ button to watch in high quality. This is the third part of our return trip from Bangkok, Thailand (from the Thailand Trip videos) back to Manila, Philippines. This video features: -Entering at Gate F1 -Boarding Cebu Pacific A320 aircraft -Cebu Pacific cabin crew on duty -Take off from Suvarnabhumi airport -Landing in NAIA -Walking our way to immigration -Baggage carousel area -Security check for passengers exiting the baggage area -Exiting the arrival hall Thank you for watching my travel vids!

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AIRLINE TRAVEL & AIRPORTS: Manila’s NAIA to Bangkok (Part 2)

As requested by my subscribers, here’s a vid of my most recent trip, capturing the airports I’ve been on and the airline I took. Features: -NAIA’s waiting area -Boarding Cebu Pacific’s A-319 aircraft -Taking off at night and nothing much to see (Haha!) -The cabin and crew of flight 5J 931 -The wonderful hot inflight meals they serve on board, which doesn’t exist really -Cebu Pacific A319′s flight deck -Landing at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, with not much to see at night For those who are curious about what it’s like to fly international on board Cebu Pacific, here’s…

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Test flights through Iceland volcano ash cloud successful

The massive volcanic ash cloud that’s brought European air travel to a virtual standstill, has stranded an estimated 32000 people hoping to travel to or from Russia. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has ordered emergency measures to deal with the unprecedented crisis. The Dutch airline KLM and Germany’s Lufthansa have carried out test flights through the ash cloud. They reported no damage to their aircraft, however air space in around 20 countries remains closed, affecting millions of people’s travel plans. Forecasters believe disruption’s likely to continue for several more days as light prevailing winds are failing to clear the…

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Latest: Flights to Resume. Test Flights show “there’s no impact” in EU air space from volcanic ash.

Results of test flights show “there’s no impact” in European Union air space from the volcanic ash that has disrupted air travel this week, EU Secretary of State Diego Lopez Garrido said Sunday. EU Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas said if the ash cloud continues “moving as it moves, then tomorrow almost 50 percent of European [Union] space will be risk free.” That would allow more flights to resume, he said. “But we’ll see tomorrow what the picture shows.” The two men spoke at a meeting of Eurocontrol, which oversees air safety operations in the region. A spokeswoman for…

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