Category: airplanes

DJI offers $145,000 for finding drone pilots who disrupted flights in China

Dunja Djudjic

Between April 14 and 21, drone pilots were flying near Chengdu Shuangliu Airport in China. Their recklessness caused more than 100 flights to make unscheduled landings or returns, and these changes affected over 10,000 passengers. DJI, the world’s leading drone manufacturer, puts a bounty on the drone pilots. They offer up to 1 million yuan […]

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Photographer travelled the world’s airports to photograph hundreds of planes

John Aldred

For most of us, simply grabbing a quick snap or our plane at the gate, or perhaps the wing through the window by our seat is enough to satisfy out thirst for photography. Not for Mike Kelley, though, oh no. He camped out at some of the busiest airports in the world to photograph planes […]

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Photographers recreate classic Top Gun scene with upside down jet to test a photography myth

John Aldred

For anybody who’s seen the legendary movie Top Gun, there’s one scene often sticks out in the mind. In it, a fictional MiG-28 is cruising through the air. Maverick (Tom Cruise) and Goose (Anthony Edwards) fly above it, inverted, in an F-14 Tomcat. Goose then proceeds to photograph the pilot of the MiG with a polaroid camera. Advertising photographer […]

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Canon pokes fun at Nikon’s photo competition blunder with cheeky social media post

Gannon Burgett

Someone in Canon Canada’s PR department is about to get a substantial raise. Last week, we shared with you the disaster of a PR move that was Nikon’s attempt for a photography competition. For those that missed it, the winning photo, which was of an airplane perfectly composed within the leading lines of a ladder, […]

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This Timelapse Shows How A Gigantic 787-9 Dreamliner Airplane Is Built in 3 Minutes

Udi Tirosh

Riddle me this? How to the transport an airplane for assembly? It turns out that inside another airplane. Jokes aside, looking at how a 787-9 Dreamliner is built can not leave you indifferent. This $264.6 million behemoth from Boeing is 63 meters long and has a wingspan of about 60 meters, so watching the unit being built […]

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