As hundreds of onlookers watched, the 171,860 pound (86 ton) space shuttle Independence replica gently rose off its mobile transporter and onto the the NASA905 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
While hundreds celebrated the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental's first flight at Boeing Field on Sunday, a Nolinor Aviation Convair 580 cargo plane jumped its chocks, colliding with a fence, a container loader and another plane.
As the skeleton of the new building rises above the ground, Delta Air Lines has released a new animation showing off plans for their new expansion into Terminal 4 at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.