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As passengers, we all hope that the people keeping our plane in the sky take their jobs seriously. And, of course, they do. But that doesn’t mean those who work on board can’t have a laugh about it. After all, a little fun makes even long-haul days easier to handle.
That’s where the Instagram page Aviation Humor comes in. It’s filled with posts that perfectly capture life above the clouds, from relatable crew moments to the quirks of those traveling with them. Scroll down to see their funniest memes and don’t forget to upvote your favorites.
P.S. You don’t have to be an expert to enjoy them—if you love everything about flying, you’ll feel right at home.
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Ghostchaplain16 4 weeks ago
Never has a meme more accurately reflected the feeling when you realize you've just done this. Give that OP an Academy Award!
Isn’t it kind of mind-blowing that humans, who can’t even flap their arms fast enough to leave the ground, somehow figured out how to soar thousands of meters into the sky?
Today, flying feels so routine that we barely think twice about it. Planes take off, people sip their tiny coffees, and a few hours later, they’re across the world. But it wasn’t always this simple or safe.
Before commercial flights and low-cost airlines, there were centuries of wild ideas, daring experiments, and, yes, a few painful landings. The dream of flight is as old as civilization itself, and the story of how it turned from myth to everyday life is nothing short of extraordinary.
The very word aviation has poetic roots. It comes from the Latin avis, meaning “bird,” and the suffix -ation, which implies action or progress.
It was coined in 1863 by a French pioneer named Guillaume Joseph Gabriel de La Landelle, who literally wrote the book on air navigation, long before we had any planes to navigate.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 4 weeks ago (edited)
Stay expressionless if you want it to go faster!
Still, people’s fascination with flight goes back much further. Thousands of years ago, people in China were flying kites, experimenting with air currents, and studying how the wind behaved.
Elsewhere, ancient stories told of people trying to lift themselves off the ground. One of the most famous is the Greek tale of Daedalus and Icarus, the father and son who made wings out of feathers and wax. It didn’t exactly have a happy ending, but it showed just how far people were willing to go to understand the skies.
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Ghostchaplain16 4 weeks ago (edited)
This is me every time I fly. I'm not on a no-fly list, but I'm pretty certain I'm on a "make him run" list.
And then came the real-life attempts. Around the 9th century, Abbas ibn Firnas, a scientist from Córdoba, Spain, decided to make flight happen himself. He covered his body in feathers, strapped on wings, and actually managed to glide for a short distance.
Unfortunately, the landing didn’t go very well—he forgot to build himself a tail to slow down. A few centuries later, Eilmer of Malmesbury, an English monk, tried something similar and had the same result. Gravity, as it turned out, wasn’t easy to beat.
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WindySwede 4 weeks ago
"But what he also doesent know, ive arranged for Amsterdam family to meat him at destination.."
The first true success in getting off the ground came from the Montgolfier brothers in the 18th century. Their invention, the hot air balloon, finally allowed humans to rise into the sky.
At almost the same time, hydrogen balloons followed, and scientists began uncovering the physics behind flight. Sir George Cayley, often called the “father of aerodynamics,” figured out the principles of lift and drag, laying the groundwork for everything that came next.
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By the 19th century, inventors everywhere were experimenting with gliders, steam-powered contraptions, and early prototypes that barely stayed airborne. Otto Lilienthal in Germany made more than 2,000 glider flights, while Sir Hiram Maxim’s flying machine actually lifted off the ground, though control was another story.
These early dreamers set the stage for the two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, who would change everything.
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In 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright achieved what no one else had before: controlled, powered flight. Their plane, the Flyer, might look simple by today’s standards, but it was a miracle of design.
Just a few years later, planes evolved rapidly—by 1909, aviation pioneers were experimenting with new materials, building floatplanes, and even using aircraft for communication and military observation.
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Geoffrey Scott 4 weeks ago
The bare bones flights are rudimentary, but, we got an Allegiant flight from Toledo to Ft Walton, round trip for $150 each.
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Paul C. 4 weeks ago
One of the greatest planes ever built. One accident and it's taken out of commission. If that was the case with Boeing they wouldn't have a plane in the sky!
Ace 4 weeks ago (edited)
It wasn't the accident that did for it - they went back into service with BA and Air France a year later with some safety modifications, but the general airline slump after 9/11 rendered them uneconomic and they were eventually withdrawn from service two years later. Shame, was a beautiful thing. There was an out-of-servie one parked on the apron close to my office when I worked at BA for a while in the 90s. Absolutely glorious. But tiny, when you saw another, wide-bodied, plane next to it.
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Rick Murray 3 weeks ago
In the UK as a child I used to live on the flight path of Concorde flying to the US, and yeah, used to watch it fly over. Now in France I live on the route the BelugaXL sometimes takes to get between somewhere in Germany (Belgium?) to St. Nazaire or Bordeaux and... I don't see that one so often because for a plane that looks so weirdly massive that it shouldn't be capable of flying, it's remarkably quiet. By the time I've heard it, it's been and gone. Your average Boeing, particularly the Dreamliner, makes so much racket that even though it flies twice as high as the BelugaXL, I have time to put my coat on, step outside, and look at Flightradar24 to see where it's going *before* it passes overhead.
Pferdchen 4 weeks ago
That looks similar to an Airbus Beluga, which is an amazing plane! I assume it's for similar purposes (transporting oversize cargo, such as airplane wings and fuselages).
Forrest Hobbs 3 weeks ago
Pferdchen: that's actually an Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Turbine operated by Airbus way back - they were basically converted Boeing 377 Stratocruisers/C-97 Stratofreighters (first flight 1947, and derived from the B-29 Superfortress. The ones Airbus operated had had the original piston engines replaced by modern turboprops). Airbus retired its Super Guppys in the 1990s mostly because they were very expensive to maintain by then. The Airbus Beluga transport aircraft replaced them in the 1990s - all built new to a design based on the Airbus A300. As far as I can tell, the original Belugas have all been retired (January this year) and replaced by the Beluga XL, built new to a design based on the Airbus A330. The Beluga XLs are painted up with an actual "cute whale face" design on the front. I get to see one every now and then - I live not very far away from an Airbus factory (I mean, I'd not want to walk there from here, but it's close by if you're flying...) Wikipedia links follow.
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From there, aviation took off, literally and figuratively. Airships, like those designed by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, ruled the skies for long-distance travel until the 1930s, when large flying boats began crossing oceans.
After World War II, land-based planes and jet engines took over, making air travel faster and more accessible than ever before.
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Stardust she/her 4 weeks ago
If I remember correctly, hard landings though uncomfortable tend to be far safer than soft landings due to something in physics relating to air
Then came the digital age. In the second half of the 20th century, aviation saw huge progress with fly-by-wire systems, better navigation tools, and aircraft that could handle much of the flying automatically.
Today, the field has advanced even more. Drones, electric planes, and designs that once seemed impossible are now part of reality. From early experiments with feathers and wood to modern jets, aviation has come a long way. And even now, watching a plane lift off the ground never stops being impressive.
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Bob Brooce 3 weeks ago
That's 210 hours more than the minimum for a private certificate, and while it allows you to legally accept compensation for flying it doesn't mean anyone will hire you for anything important. In theory you can be a flight instructor and meet your first student when you've got 250.00 hours, but in practice you probably need more. Minimum for an air transport certificate, which is a minimum requirement to fly even a small airliner, is 1500 hours.
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nottheactualphoto 4 weeks ago
I think an F-16's stall speed might be more than a Cessna's top speed. Just a guess.
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Stardust she/her 4 weeks ago
To recieve the remaining luggage kindly upgrade to premium at just $599 a month or a one time payment of $7199 to recieve benefits for up to a year. Benefits include whatever’s left of your luggage, a s****y window seat that doesn’t have a window along with a complimentary crying child to really bring up the mood of everyone around.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 4 weeks ago (edited)
That is entirely contrary to Australian safety regulations! They should use duct tape.
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WindySwede 4 weeks ago
Same here, no deaths. 𝗁𝗍𝗍𝗉𝗌://𝗐𝗐𝗐.𝖻𝖺𝖺𝖺-𝖺𝖼𝗋𝗈.𝖼𝗈𝗆/𝗌𝗂𝗍𝖾𝗌/𝖽𝖾𝖿𝖺𝗎𝗅𝗍/𝖿𝗂𝗅𝖾𝗌/𝖼𝗋𝖺𝗌𝗁/𝗂𝗆𝖺𝗀𝖾𝗌/𝖮𝖸-𝖪𝖧𝖮-𝟥.𝗃𝗉𝗀
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Zig Zag Wanderer 4 weeks ago (edited)
I once met a guy who actually used to hitch around Africa with a parachute. He'd hang around airports, waiting for a light plane going his way. When over the place he wanted to be, he'd jump out and land at his destination. Sheer genius!
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Mary Peace 3 weeks ago
So that's the reason some people didn't/don't get any passion to even be a passenger. I was a nervous wreck in departure lounges, just going on holiday, but haven't flown for 30 years now. Great relief.
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David Paterson 4 weeks ago
They need a medical station half way along to treat runners who are dying from a heart attack.
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