A Tale of Two Airports

It seems some pilots got confused last week, and landed a gigantic cargo plane on a runway far too small for it. Still, they took off again without too much ado. The required runway length can vary with the freight load and amount of fuel in the tanks, so it wasn't that much of a big deal. Pretty funny though how they managed to get the two airports mixed up. More details at http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/massive-plane-gets-stuck-in-tiny-kansas-airport-1185902-Nov2013/ with tweets and pics as it happened.

Here Comes My Flying Car

As we near the date when Marty McFly visited the distant future, many of us have complained about the glaring lack of flying cars. Well, they may not be all that far away after all!

Flying Kiwis... with Jetpacks

There is such a thing as a jetpack, and it comes from New Zealand!

Local aviation authorities are having a hard time defining it for registration and pilot certification purposes. It's not like anything that's been before. Over in the USA, apparently they're defining it as an ultralight. Yeah. Totally the same thing.

NOT.

Check out the whole article (and video) here.

Submarine Car for sale

This is James Bond's car from the movie The Spy Who Loved Me. Apparently it's the only working one ever made, and it looks like it still goes. It's being auctioned off in London today.

Click through for an intriguing tale of how it came to its present owners!

Kiwi design: Solar-powered catamaran

The Turanor PlanetSolar is an intriguing vessel, designed by a New Zealander, built in Germany, and now being put through its paces on the Thames River in London.

It is completely solar powered with no emissions, and its name Turanor means "power of the sun" in Elvish. Tolkien's, I suppose? Nice notion, in any case. Perhaps the future of more than just boating.

More in the full article here.
And more pictures of the inside (and out) here.