Back in October of '08, Airbus launched the "Fly Your Ideas" competition, where teams would compete with one another to come up with the best idea to reshape the future of air travel. An amazing 2,350 students from 82 countries...

LA-based artisan Giancarlo De Astis turns all kinds of aircraft parts from retired planes into industrial, retro-chic furniture. He gets the aeronautical leftovers from junkyards and plane graveyards in Arizona, and fashions tables, chairs, lamps and other furnishings out...