Was that a bird or a plane? Wait… no, that was former Red Bull Air Race World Champion Hannes Arch who just rocketed through a wind farm at 300kph!

It started with a dream and ended with pure stoke. High up in the Styrian Alps inAustria, 1900m above sea level, Arch zoomed through a wind park at dizzying speeds and achieved what most would have believed to be impossible.

“When you have a such a wind farm at your front door and fly past it often, it’s no wonder you want to fly through it at some point,” the native Austrian said about his dream.

As a world champion pilot, Arch is used to zooming through massive gates at dangerously fast speeds, however the gates at Red Bull Air Races are inflatable pylons and explode when they’re hit. The worst thing that will happen is the pilot will have a time penalty.

However, as we all know, a solid wind turbine is not going to be what explodes if the pilot accidentally hits one of the 70m-high turbines – nearly three times the size of the Red Bull Air Race gates – at the Tauern Wind Park in Oberzeiring, which is just a few kilometres from where the next Red Bull Air Race is taking place at Spielberg later this month. To successfully manoeuvre through the wind farm Arch needed to turn on a dime and give plenty of room to the wind turbines, but even then, careening along at ridiculous top speeds, the distance is still quite narrow.

“Every second, you have to be perfectly clear in your mind that you have wind turbines in front of you and need to know precisely what you’re going to do next.”

Another factor to think about when slaloming through the world’s highest wind farm: nature. Red Bull Air Race courses are generally flat; and a course in the mountains is, as you can imagine, anything but flat.

“The challenge of this wind park, compared to air races, is it’s in nature. It’s not flat, so you’re going up and down – it’s in the middle of the mountains,” Arch said.

Up and down, twisting and turning – all at 300kph! With so many dangerous factors coming into play, it’s understandable why Hannes Arch is the first pilot to achieve such a crazy aerobatic stunt. It's incredible that this all happened – and you can tell from Arch’s smiling face at the end of the video that he was beyond stoked to finally check this dream off the list.

Brandon Jenkins was just a few blocks from home on an ordinary afternoon commute on his Suzuki in Mesa, Ariz., when he was violently attacked from behind with no warning.

What Jenkins didn't know was that his attacker, identified by police as Joshua Monigold, was fleeing police in a stolen truck. He apparently decided he'd have a better chance if he took Jenkins' sport bike.

The good news: Jenkins was able to fight off the attack. The bad news: when he gave up and drove off in the pickup truck, the assailant ran over the motorcycle, likely destroying it. The entire episode was caught on video from the air.

When rescuers met Shadow, the abandoned pup was just 22 hours away from being put down.

And now, he’s flying an airplane. For real. 



Shadow is a finalist on “Dogs Might Fly,” a U.K. reality show that rescues stray dogs and teaches them new tricks, with the goal of eventually training one to successfully pilot a plane.

(Dogs have proven they can drive cars, so why not?) 

The show looked for dogs “willing to go the extra mile, to problem-solve and to investigate how to work something out for themselves. That’s the kind of dog you want flying a plane,” trainer Victoria Stilwell told The Guardian. 

Shadow and two other dogs made it to the show’s final stage, airing April 3, in which they’ll be tested on how successfully they learned to fly — or at least follow the instructions to do so through a system of treat-based commands. Watch Shadow work in the preview clip above. 

Human pilots have always taken bold action to help their canines passengers when they can, but this takes things to a whole new altitude. With thousands of stray dogs in need of homes, we hope Shadow’s flight will inspire travelers to adopt furry “co-pilots” of their own. Clearly, there are a lot of shelter pups with unlimited potential. 

Happy travels!

A group of ten skydivers had the experience of their lifetime when they were given an opportunity to jump from the bomb bay doors of a WW2 bomber.


Skydivers from the Chicagoland Skydiving Center took part in this amazing event to raise money for the Collings Foundation. The Collings Foundation is a non-profit organization that operates these bombers.

They were dropped from one of the most famous bombers of WW2, the B-17, also known as the Flying Fortress. The skydivers paid $500 each to the charity and enjoyed this unique event.

After he wins the STP 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday, Kyle Busch encounters a loyal fan while stuck in traffic leaving the track. Her priceless reaction was caught on Twitter by Samantha Busch, Kyle's wife.If you're a die-hard Kyle Busch fan, what's the only thing better than going to Martinsville Speedway and watching your hero sweep the weekend?
The answer: Meeting him on the way out of the track.