A huge cream airliner with two engines flies over night clouds, a frame from a Cabin Chime film
Three passengers in their seats beside the cabin windows at night, a frame from a Cabin Chime film

You sit in this seat for hours.

Scroll to fly out of the window

Out there is a machine the size of a building. And it flies.

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You sit in a metal tube, seven miles up, for hours. Almost nobody tells you how any of it works.

So we draw it. One part of the plane, one true story, one film at a time.

Take the plane apart.

Every part opens one film. Keep scrolling.

    Why I make these

    A ground worker in a yellow vest stands in front of a huge cream airliner, a frame from a Cabin Chime film
    One person. One airliner. A frame from film 08.

    I love flights for two reasons. The size. And the fact that something that big can fly.

    Stand next to an airliner and look up. It is as big as a building. Then it takes off.

    Aviation is full of true stories that sound made up. A jet that ran out of fuel and landed on a race track. A captain who told the cabin that all four engines had stopped, and called it a small problem.

    Those stories pulled me in. I wanted other people to see them the way I do, so I started to draw them.

    Animation makes hard things easy to grasp. One good picture can show in ten seconds what a manual needs ten pages for.

    Cabin Chime is where I share my favourite stories about flight, and the answers to the things I always wondered about from my seat. Every fact comes with its source, so you can check it yourself.

    The maker of Cabin Chime

    True stories I keep coming back to

    All real. All sourced. In every one of them, everybody gets home.

    A lone jumbo jet low over a dark sea under the moon, from the film about British Airways Flight 9
    1982

    “We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped.”

    Night, 37,000 feet above the Indian Ocean. One by one, all four engines of a British Airways 747 stop. The captain picks up the microphone and tells the cabin exactly that. The crew glide the jumbo for about a quarter of an hour. At about 13,500 feet, one engine starts again.

    Watch film 07 14:08
    In production09
    1983

    The airliner that became a glider

    A brand-new Boeing 767 runs out of fuel in mid-flight. Someone mixed up pounds and kilograms. Both engines stop. The captain flies gliders on his days off, so he lands it like one, on an old air-force runway that is now a drag-racing strip.

    The Gimli Glider. Film 09 is being drawn now.
    A long-range airliner above the clouds at night under a full moon, from the film about the world’s longest flight
    2026

    24 hours and 24 minutes in the air

    An Airbus A350 leaves Melbourne on a Monday evening. It lands in Toulouse the next morning, 23,155 km later. Thirteen people on board and no passengers. They see two sunsets and two sunrises without landing once.

    Film 08 lands on YouTube soon

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    Every film so far. Newest first.

    A full moon over a sea of clouds at night, from a Cabin Chime film

    Next time you fly, you will know.

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