Making an airplane is no longer a complex course, because the Southampton University has “printed” out an aircraft in merely a couple of days.

It is amazing to see 3D printing technology to be used in manufacturing a plane. 3D printing allows for fine-tuning without the need for great expense, cuts down the time spent on a plane, and still ensures a high quality of aircrafts. The world’s first 3D airplane is now getting ready for its first flight and you’ll soon see it flying with a speed up to 100 miles an hour.

In spite of living in different times, we’re actually sharing so many same things in our childhood. Paper plane is rightly a good example. But nowadays kids are playing with paper aircrafts much better than us, because they have the Electric Paper Airplane Conversion Kit.

It clips to a plane’s front, with the prop sticking out its back and then the device can drive your plane to fly in the air for up to about 90 seconds. Amazing.

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Add some fun to your boring journey on the planes with these creative advertisements. Look at them and share the fantastic ideas with your friends or you can even write a story about them on notebooks.

Admittedly not everybody has a chance to pilot a plane by himself, but at least we can try out the experience with a Moving Axis AirCraft Simulator. When you fly a virtual plane, the device will then tilt and shift as a real plane does. If you’d also like to build a similar one, you can check out the video below to see how Matt Thomas made this.

Designer: Matt Thomas

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Chetan Sorab would like to share some playful thought with you adults who still want to enjoy the same fun of the kids. Or even more fun. The new designs are colorful cloth hangers that have the same shape of the early World War aircrafts, and therefore each of them features an ergonomic handle for the users to hang ties or scarves. Also, those handles enable the users to reach for and carry the hangers more easily. Smart, colorful, lightweight and durable, this cloth hanger is surely a playful alternative to store your clothes.

Designer: Chetan Sorab

Hey, guys, it’s time to wave goodbye to the airplanes which only offers you confined spaces and boring time, since the New Zealand-based Martin Aircraft Co. has provided us a cleverer alternative, the Martin Jetpack. Unveiled at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s 2008 Air Venture held in the US, the personal helicopter is deemed by the Federal Aviation Administration as “an experimental ultra-light airplane”. Moreover, the Martin Jetpack is also considered as the world’s first practical device. Though still called as a ‘jetpack’, the device actually uses a gasoline (premium) engine with two ducted fans to provide lift. Getting needed power from a full fuel tank, it could fly for about 30minutes, with a theoretical speed of 60 miles per hour. Wearing a price tag of $86,000, the first ten jetpacks will be put on the market this year.

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Creative Factor: A clever and proper utilization of waste material.

To those who have been in deep love with air travel, the Airplane Hotel at the Teuge Airport in Netherlands seems quite attractive. The luxury hotel is transformed from a Cold War-era East German Airplane but features something new and modern, including 3 flat screen TVs, a sauna, 24/7 hostess, a Jacuzzi, and a Blu-Ray player.

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Anthony Toth is a 42-year-old global sales director at United Airlines, and the biggest success in his past forty years, in my opinion, may be the vintage Pan Am first-class cabin built in his garage. It has cost Mr. Toth 20 years and 50,000 dollars to build a Pan Am cabin, which includes almost everything a plane in the late 1970s and 1980s, would have, such as pairs of red-and-blue reclining seats, original overhead luggage bins and a curved, red-carpeted staircase. In addition, Mr. Toth has built a few economy-class seats, too. And in the near future, wished Mr. Toth, his garage could be turned into a cabin museum.

At present, it is really boring to go on a long-distance trip, especially for those passengers in economy plus. However, this situation will be ameliorated soon, due to the new flex-seat designs. As shown in the pictures, this product will ensure passengers more headspaces and allow them to have a good sleep. If so, even long trip will become comfortable, right?

This is designed by Belarus aeronautical engineers. At first glance, you may think that this is just a weird thing without any utilitarian value. However, it is pretty useful. In addition to make the plane more sustainable, the air vortexes on the sides of the wings can increase its power by about 30%.

This watch is based on solar system. The central red part is sun and the two planets rotating around is used to indicate hours and minutes. With the black background, this mini solar system is more vividly.

Designer: ramei keum

I bet you won’t believe that a man who can afford a private airplane will care about the tiny space of airplane storage. Maybe they do, however.

This foldable airplane is design for these weird millionaires. Because of the foldable wings, it can save much more room than a conventional private airplane. It is soooo cool. But I’m afraid that this guy will retract the wings while flying in the air, and then…OH, My God!

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Hong Kong real estate tycoon Joseph Lau has just ordered a Dreamliner VIP. Although it’s impossible for us to take a plane like this, we could still see the picture. It’s pretty cool.

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This is a new BMW 787 business jet. I can’t imagine that what the feeling of taking this kind of plane.

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This might be the world’s lightest RC plane. With transparent plastic wings and carbon fiber skeleton, it’s only weight 3.6 grams, which is less than a sheet of paper.

Except for airframe, its gear include the motor and 5:1 gearbox are swiss made, and the rudder actuator is sensitive to 64-steps, allowing 180-degreee turns within 12-feet foot wide room. A dot sized 30Mah Lithium ion guarantee its juice.

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It’s very common to see or hear something about solar-powered car. However, have you heard about solar-powered aircraft?

This Pathfinder is a plane powered by solar which is from NASA! It can stay aloft all day, powered only by sunlight. Sure, there is a backup battery system. So, don’t worry.

Wanna see the plane? See the video after the jump…

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