Top Gun Director Tony Scott Commits Suicide
The director of Top Gun and several other blockbuster movies jumped off a Los Angeles bridge on Sunday.
Orville Wright is Born: August 19 in Aviation History
Happy birthday to Orville Wright! Also, first flight of the B-25 Mitchell, Russian space dogs Belka and Strelka orbit the earth, and more...
Greenwood Lake Air Show Brings Back the Basics August 18th-19th
Despite funding and fiscal cutbacks within the aviation community, the original airshow model has taken flight over the past two years and will be doing so again this weekend just outside of New York City limits. For the third ...
NATO Helicopter Crashes in Southern Afghanistan, Killing 11
Seven American service members and four Afghans were killed Thursday when a coalition helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan, military officials said, in what was one of the deadliest incidents for coalition troops so far t...
Midway Airport Worker Busted Stealing Copper Wire From Runway
A fuel pump operator at Chicago's Midway Airport allegedly stole 500 ft of copper from a runway and sold it to a scrap yard.