Air Travel and Airlines
Flying Fish a Hazard
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Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 07, 2016 -
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Category: Fish, Air Travel and Airlines, 1980s, North America
Motorcycle + Parachute = Disaster
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 04, 2016 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Air Travel and Airlines, 1920s, Motorcycles
Follies of the Madmen #269
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 26, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Tobacco and Smoking, Husbands, Wives, Air Travel and Airlines, 1970s
Parachute Hat
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 07, 2015 -
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Category: Technology, Air Travel and Airlines, 1910s
Insect Aircraft
This 1906 article is the lone reference I can find on the internet to this craft, and I suspect it never existed except on paper.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 08, 2015 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, Inventions, Air Travel and Airlines, 1900s, Europe
Tarantula on a plane
The crew of a Delta Airlines flight from Baltimore to Atlanta decided that everyone had to switch to a new plane when they learned that a baboon tarantula was loose on board. The tarantula had somehow escaped from its cargo shipment container.The tarantula was later found. It had never made its way into the passenger compartment. But still, a good decision to switch planes. I can imagine passengers would have freaked out if they had been surprised by a baboon tarantula crawling down the aisle. [11alive.com]
Check out the video below to see a baboon tarantula in action.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 25, 2015 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, Air Travel and Airlines
Multirotor Super Drone
The high-tech equivalent of attaching helium balloons to a lawn chair. Except it doesn't work as well.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Sep 05, 2015 -
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Category: Inventions, Air Travel and Airlines
George Bennie’s Railplane
I want to live in a world where a system of Bennie Railplanes has been in existence for eighty years.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 29, 2015 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Inventions, Air Travel and Airlines, Trains and Other Vehicles on Rails, 1930s
Hoop Skirt Parachute
What are the odds this would actually work? Maybe if you bailed out when your airplane was about twenty feet off the ground....
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 09, 2015 -
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Category: Inventions, Air Travel and Airlines, 1910s
Follies of the Madmen #250
Yes, men's socks were really improved by the spinoffs of aviation technology, and are somehow emblematic of an era of increased air travel.
From Esquire for October 1962.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 04, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Air Travel and Airlines, 1960s
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