Airplane! watch as "Otto" takes control of the plane, inflates a female companion, and takes off. Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker (collectively known as Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, or ZAZ), wrote "Airplane!" while they were performing with the Kentucky Fried Theatre, a small theatre they had founded in 1971. To obtain material for comedy routines, they routinely recorded late night television and reviewed the tapes later primarily to pull the commercials, a process Abrahams compared to "seining for fish". During one such taping process, they unintentionally recorded the 1957 film "Zero Hour!", and while scanning the commercials, found that
Hybrid-Airplane Technology H-Aero Hybrid-Airplane Technology H-Aero The Hybrid-Airplane Technology H-Aero (styled as H-AERO) is a small hybrid electric aircraft by a Baden-Baden based start-up Hybrid-Airplane Technology GmbH. Compared to common aerial vehicles it enables VTOL and extended flight endurance. The prototype H-Aero One which can source its energy completely from renewable sources via solar cells was first presented to the public at ILA Berlin Air Show from June 1–4, 2016. The patent-protected aerial vehicle was developed by Csaba Singer in co-operation with the University of Stuttgart. The prototyping and pre start-up phase was sponsored with public funds via “EXIST”, an initiative for science