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Giant Deep Freezer Puts Airplanes On Ice
Located in Seosan, Korea a $52 million dollar facility super secret (not anymore) facility houses one ofthe largest freezers on the planet. It’s designed to subject airplanes to sub-zero freezing condition simulating the effects at 40,000 feet. The photos show an F-4 Phantom in the freezer. An you just thought that scene in Transformers where they kept Megatron was a movie set.
via: Gizmodo
Crazy & Wild Accidents With Airplanes
Dark Roasted Blend has a collection of strange, wild, crazy and sometimes tragic accidents with airplanes.
Short of the actual crash, most of the accidents depicted here occurred without loss of human life, and thus can be described as “Oops”. There is a site “Aviation Safety” where many troublesome situations are listed and discussed, with full background information for each. What you will see here is a collection of images from various such occasions, sent to us by readers who found them or even witnessed the events.
Makes you want to run out and hop on a plane doesn’t it.
ICON A5 Personal Aircraft
Remember the cartoon show The Jetsons, and how George Jetson’s spaceship always folded up into a briefcase? Well the ICON A5 Aircraft doesn’t fold up into a briefcase but it does fold up, or at least that’s the idea behind the concept.
The A5 will be pitched as a luxury product at a time when consumers are sharply cutting back. Steadily rising fuel prices aren’t likely to help, either. The A5’s engine, which burns either jet fuel or regular gasoline, earns about 18 miles to the gallon and has a range of about 300 miles.
via: Inventorspot
