The Boeing Company on Tuesday announced that it received a $1.6 billion contract from the U.S. Navy for initial production the 737 airliner-based P-8A Poseidon aircraft.
In a statement published by the FAA late Tuesday afternoon, the agency's Administrator Randy Babbitt announced his resignation. Babbitt had been arrested for drunk driving over the weekend.
Time lapse video of Space Shuttle Enterprise being removed from the top of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 747 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on May 13, 2012. Video produced by NASA.
Following better-than-expected success on its Caribbean and Florida routes in 2010, British Airways will increase service to many of these destinations for the summer of 2011.