airplane

I'll be going to Japan in 2 weeks and plan on doing a little bike tour there but I just received confirmation from the airline I booked with (Austrian Airlines) that the airport handling fee, which is apparently separate from the airline, for the bike would be $150 one way and another $150 back...

Currently working up in Idaho, and got to tour this bad ass Air Tanker. Check it out. It holds 11,000 gallons of retardant, and it needs a smaller airplane it front of it to lead it into fires.

Hello everyone! I'm Liras (my preffered name) from Szczyrk, Poland. I'm 18 and I've been through quite a bit of trouble in my life especially regarding the stupidity of school system... A prodigy programmer child betrayed and destroyed by the evil civilization. How romantic... :-) But you...

Saw an article about this a while back, so I saw this video which kinda shows it from a first person perspective (and in video instead of an article).

It is possible to hitchhike to remote places, such as Greenland and Nunavut Hitching a private airplane:

I've never tried it myself, but I have heard in the past that if you schedule yourself on a flight that will obviously be overbooked, (ie a flight to new york during x-mas week) and make sure to get in the back of the line while boarding. (maybe even try to pop in at the last moment) Just make...

i just found this today... ive always wanted to build my own plane and fly around america, so i thought this was interesting: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/04/make_your_own_airplane_for_700.html and it only costs 7,000 bucks... which is pretty reasonable for a freaking airplane.