Breakfast in Bed: Extraordinary Color Photographs Revealed the First Class of Air France in the 1950s
Air France, in full Compagnie Nationale Air France, French international airline originally formed in 1933 and today serving all parts of the globe. With British Airways, it was the first to fly the supersonic Concorde. Headquarters are in Paris. Continue reading »
Beautiful Flight Attendant Uniforms Around the World From the 1970s
Pan-Am
David Reed/Getty Images
We’ve come a long way since the early days of flying, from the rough-ride commercial airliners in the early 1900s to the glamorous, smoke-fogged flights of the 1960s. Continue reading »
Aerosutra: How People Survive On Long-Haul Flights While Trying To Sleep
According to Birute Bikelyte: “This year for the first time in my life I was traveling to other continents in long-haul flights. After unpacking plastic bags with pillows, blankets, headphones, eating tasteless food, drinking 100% pure artificial orange juice, pretending to be reading a book, watching 3 movies, finally, I felt my eyes closing.
But sleeping in the plane was not that simple.” Continue reading »
“The Secret Life Of Virgins”: Flight Attendant’s Photos Show Life In A Virgin America Crew
Molly Choma of Portland, Oregon, has spent nearly a decade working as a flight attendant on Virgin America planes. In addition to her work in the skies, Choma is also a talented photographer. Her series The Secret Life of Virgins is a look at life in Virgin America flight crews. Continue reading »
When Airplane Food Was First Class – A Mouthwatering Look At What In-Flight Meals Used To Be Like In The Golden Age Of Flying
Have you ever had any complaints about the meals served up to you during a long-haul flight? They are admittedly not the same as they were before. You can now travel back in time to the golden age of flying when airline food was actually first class. Continue reading »
Flight Of Fantasy: Incredible Art Photography By Ravshaniya Azulye
Artwork of the Uzbek professional photographer Ravshaniya Azulye is unique universes full of airy images and incredible events. Ravshaniya successfully realizes fascinating ideas in different genres, from wedding and family photography to advertisements. In this post we picked up the best Ravshaniya’s photos in the genres of portraits and staged photo. Continue reading »
Artist Humorously Illustrates the Events of His Flight That Every Traveler Can Relate To
Renowned New York Times illustrator Christoph Niemann recently took a transatlantic flight from New York City to Berlin (with a layover in London), and documented the journey in his sketchbook. The trek itself was typical for your average flight of this distance, but this is precisely what makes his work so enjoyable and humorous to read. Niemann perfectly captures the frustration, boredom, and routine that comes from sitting on a plane for over 12 hours. Continue reading »
Guy Meets Doppelganger When He’s Randomly Seated Next To Him On Ryanair Flight
Image: Lee Beattie
These two men are not brothers, nor has this now-viral photo been Photoshopped. The two strangers met on Thursday evening on a flight from London to Galway. 32-year-old Neil Douglas was surprised to find a man that looked exactly like him sitting in his seat. The doppelganger, 35-year-old Robert Stirling, had changed seats so that a couple could sit together. Continue reading »
“Flight Attendants” by Brian Finke
Photographer Brian Finke spent nearly two years traversing the friendly skies, following the life of flight attendants in the air and on the ground, from Delta and Hawaiian Air, to Hooters Air, Southwest, Air France, British Airways, Air Asia, and dozens more. His images of flight attendants waving, applying makeup and deboarding plans while smiling appear as if they were ripped from an advertisement in a glossy magazine. Continue reading »
Airline Pilot Took Stunning Photos From His Flight Deck
Karim Nafatni is an Airline Captain and photography enthusiast. He seriously got into the Art when he got his first DSLR some years ago. Addicted to height and fan of architecture, he climbs the highest skyscrapers of Dubai to take his pictures, sometimes more than 300 meters above ground. Continue reading »
Gotham 7.5K: A Rare High Altitude Night Flight Above NYC
Imagine leaning out of an open door of a helicopter 7,500 feet over New York City on a very dark and chilly night… And seeing this. Continue reading »
Thousands of Birds Take Flight for the “Snettisham Spectacular”
“The RSPB’s Snettisham Nature Reserve lies on the edge of The Wash, one of the most important bird estuaries in the United Kingdom. The Wash, on England’s east coast, supports over 300,000 birds, and Snettisham sometimes holds more than a third of them.
A few times every year, higher than average tides force thousands of waders, including Knot, Oystercatchers, Sanderlings, Pink-footed Geese, Black and Bar tailed Godwit and Plover, to take flight, and advance up the mud flats in search of food. Dan Kitwood, a photographer for Getty Images, photographed what is one of the most incredible wildlife spectacles in the UK on September 9, 2013”. – The Palm Beach Post
Pink-footed geese fly over the reserve at sunrise. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images via The Palm Beach Post) Continue reading »
In-Flight: Photography by Maria Netsounski
Absolutely amazing “in-flight” photos by Maria Netsounski from Holland. Continue reading »
A Celebration of Flight
Did you forget how amazing flight can be? Here’s 24 hours in the life of an airline, time-lapsed into something beautiful. The video, created by GE with the latest in photographic technology, is taken from the new episode of The GE Show focused on the future of aviation.
