Video: The Biggest Plane Ever Takes Flight On Saturday, a 500,000-pound plane with a 385-foot wingspan—longer than a football field—took flight for the first time and safely landed after two hours in the air. It’s the biggest… Johnny Jet , April 15, 2019
Video: “Game of Thrones” at the Bellagio Fountains The eighth and final season of HBO’s Game of Thrones will premiere on Sunday, April 14, and excitement is building. According to Variety, 16.5 million people watched the season 7… Johnny Jet , April 5, 2019
Video: Qantas Hosts a 10-Year-Old Airline CEO Alex Jacquot is a 10-year-old airline CEO and enthusiast who founded an airline (not legally speaking, at least yet) with his friends and classmates. When he wrote Qantas CEO Alan… Johnny Jet , April 2, 2019
Video: Mother and Daughter Pilots Flying a Delta 757 Last week while I was going through my Twitter feed (I’m @JohnnyJet), an image caught my eye. It was of two female pilots, Captain Wendy Rexon and First Officer Kelly… Johnny Jet , March 26, 2019
Video: Wildflower Super Bloom at LAX The wildflower “super bloom” is all over the news right now in Southern California thanks to this winter’s abundance of rain, strong winds and favorable temperatures. My wife and I… Johnny Jet , March 20, 2019
Video: How to Escape If You’ve Been Tied Up Former Navy SEAL Clint Emerson, author of this week’s Travel Book of the Week, has built a reputation as a survival expert. This morning, Business Insider re-shared a video… Johnny Jet , March 13, 2019
Video: Thousands of Horses Gallop Through Snow Can you imagine seeing thousands of horses gallop in the wild? The video above, shared by a local CBS affiliate, captures “tens of thousands” of the animals rushing through the… Johnny Jet , March 5, 2019
Video: Paine Field Terminal Sneak Peek Alaska Airlines created the 41-second video above to give travelers a glimpse of the new terminal at Paine Field in Everett, Washington (just north of Seattle). Alaska was supposed to… Johnny Jet , February 26, 2019
The Faroe Islands Will Host You for Helping Them on Earth Day In an age of booming tourism around the world, many destinations have seen the downside of the boom in the form of damage to their natural landscapes. In the Faroe… Johnny Jet , February 20, 2019
Video: LEGO-Themed Safety Video From Turkish Airlines Turkish Airlines has a new safety video, and for the second time it’s LEGO-themed. Characters from The Lego Movie (the sequel is in theaters now) will guide passengers through the usual routine… Johnny Jet , February 12, 2019
Video: Onboard the World’s Longest Commercial Flight Singapore Airlines recently launched the longest commercial flight in the world: a 19-hour-long non-stop from New York City to Singapore. The two financial capitals, on opposite sides of the globe,… Johnny Jet , February 5, 2019
Video: What It’s Like to Go Through Flight Training As our own Spencer Marker has written, commercial airline pilots must go through a lengthy initial training process and later “complete yearly recurrent training in order to keep [their] skills… Johnny Jet , January 21, 2019
Video: Man Surfs With Dolphins Have you seen this video of a guy surfing alongside a pod of dolphins? It’s pretty amazing. As ABC News notes, it happened in the waters off Ventura, California, last… Johnny Jet , January 15, 2019
Video: My “Upgrading a Soldier” Story on CBS Los Angeles In 2012 I wrote a post about upgrading a soldier when you get bumped to the front of the plane. After it ran, I received the nicest anonymous email/comment from one… Johnny Jet , January 8, 2019