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WINDSOR LOCKS, CT (WFSB) - A vintage WWII plane crashed at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks on Wednesday morning and caused a large fire. Six patients were brought to Hartford Hospital, the hospital said. The Life Star emergency helicopter confirmed that it was transporting one of them.

Korea's first airborne early warning and control system aircraft, the so-called "flying command post," arrived at an air base in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang Province, from Boeing in Seattle on Monday afternoon. The E-737, nicknamed "Peace Eye," will drastically improve the military's surveillance capabilities over North Korea by flying near the demilitarized zone...

RAF Spitfire pulled from Irish peat bog A Second World War RAF Spitfire has been excavated from an Irish peat bog almost 70 years after it crash-landed. A piece of the Wreckage of the World War Two spitire that crashed into the Bog in County Donegal A piece of the Wreckage of the World War Two spitire that crashed into the Bog in County Donegal 6:00AM BST 29 Jun 2011 Six machine guns and about 1,000 rounds of ammunition were also discovered by archaeologists searching the Inishowen Peninsula in Co Donegal. The British fighter plane was piloted by an American,...

During President Obama's press conference today, he scolded Republicans for demanding tax cuts for corporate jets. From the Associated Press in 2009: Just a few months after lawmakers scolded auto executives for flying to Washington in private jets, Congress approved a tax break in the stimulus package to help businesses buy their own planes. The incentive -- first used to help plane makers recover from the 2001 terror attacks -- sharply reduces the up front tax bill for companies who buy assets like business planes.

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA (BNO NEWS) -- The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday said search and rescue efforts were still being conducted for the missing pilot of an F-16 aircraft that crashed Tuesday evening in the state of Nevada. The F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft took off from Nellis Air Force Base, which is located around 7.1 miles northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada and was conducting air-to-air combat exercises about 150 miles north of the city. At around 5:30 p.m. local time, the aircraft crashed in an area some 20 miles west of Caliente in Nevada's Lincoln County, the Las Vegas Review-Journal...

The Seattle-based flight crew testing out Boeing's 747-8 decided to take the new jet for a spin...to Pittsburgh for some sandwiches. It all went down on Wednesday, when flight test director Paul Shank handed out Pittsburgh's famous Primanti Brothers menus while in Seattle. Roughly 8 hours and 2,500 miles later, the flight crew landed in Pittsburgh to nosh on some sandwiches, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports. Staffers from the Pittsburgh-based Atlantic Aviation picked up the sandwiches, and the crew was back en route to Seattle an hour later. Shank told the paper: "Everybody loved it. They were all like, 'Who would...

The world's only female Spitfire pilot yesterday hit back at critics who complained that her Second World War fighter plane was too noisy. Carolyn Grace, 58, flies the iconic aircraft to the delight of war veterans and history buffs to shows all over the country from her base in Rendlesham, Suffolk. But one person complained the roar of the engine - which struck fear into German Luftwaffe pilots in the Battle of Britain - ruined the peace and quiet of the English countryside and complained to Suffolk Costal District Council. Thousands of flight fans and locals in her home village...

                         

What is the purpose of the wire (not shown in illustration) that runs from the mast just in front of the cockpit to the top front of the vertical stabilizer?

Alaska Airlines is not permitting its pilots to use their new iPads to access the Internet in the cockpit after witnessing Wi-Fi interference with Honeywell Phase 3 display units [DUs].

The discovery of five baby rats in a cabin compartment on a Qantas jet has caused a flight to be grounded.

My 17 year old will be flying by herself on Friday but she has to change planes in Cleveland and has less than one hour in which to do so. She will be on the same airline but she will have to get off at Terminal C and catch the connecting flight at Terminal D. When looking at the map, it does not indicate if it is a matter of just walking right over to the "D" section: http://www.clevelandairport.com/Images/Airmall_ClevelandMap_HR.aspx If you are familiar with this airport, please let me know so I can give her some peace of mind. She...

Early on Wednesday 4th May 2011, in the skies above Mojave Air and Spaceport CA, SpaceShipTwo, the world's first commercial spaceship, demonstrated its unique reentry ‘feather’ configuration for the first time. This test flight, the third in less than two weeks, marks another major milestone on the path to powered test flights and commercial operations. SpaceShipTwo (SS2), named VSS Enterprise, has now flown solo seven times since its public roll-out in December 2009 and since the completion of its ground and captive -carry test program. This latest flight saw a 6:43AM (local) runway take off for VSS Enterprise, attached to...

U.S. is loosing stealth technology lead according to top officialsThe F-35 Lightning II will fly with three different branches of the military in the U.S. and while the Marines have previously stated that it would field the F-35 with interim Block 2B software, the Navy and USAF have noted that they will not consider the jet formally operational until software Block 3B in the past. However, the USAF and Navy are now going back on that statement. According to testimony given by leaders of the USAF and Navy before Congress, the F-35 could be considered operational and put into service...

The two pilots who were flying an Embraer Legacy 600 jet that collided with a Boeing 737 at 37,000 feet above the Amazon jungle in 2006 were convicted of negligence in a Brazilian court late on Monday. The judge said the pilots, Joseph Lepore and Jan Paul Paladino, failed to adequately check that their transponder was working. Federal judge Merilo Mendes gave them a four-year sentence, but then suspended it and instead required them to do four years of community service in the U.S., where they have been since shortly after the accident. The two pilots testified during the trial...

Following operations to open, extract, clean and dry the memory cards from the flight recorders, BEA Safety Investigators were able to download the data over the weekend. These operations were filmed and recorded in their entirety. This was done in the presence of two German investigators from BFU, an American investigator from NTSB, two British investigators from AAIB and two Brazilian investigators from CENIPA, as well as an officer from the French judicial police and a court expert. These downloads gathered all of the data from the Flight Data recorder (FDR), as well as the whole recording of the last...

Search teams recovered the memory unit of one of the “black boxes” of the Air France Rio-Paris plane that crashed in the Atlantic in June 2009, investigators said Sunday. The crash had killed all 228 people on board. AP - France’s air accident investigation agency says an undersea search has located the flight data recorder from the 2009 Air France flight that went down in the mid-Atlantic. In a statement, the BEA said the black box was “localized and identified” on Sunday morning. The statement included photos of the recorder - a red cylinder partially buried in sand on the...

The remains of up to 100 victims of the worst crash in Air France's history must not be recovered from the sea bed because it is too traumatic for their families, judges have ruled. Two bodies still strapped to their plane seats were last week raised from the wreckage of Air France flight 447, which crashed two years ago killing all 228 people on board. Experts say the victims have been preserved as 'waxworks' by the extreme cold, darkness and water pressure almost three miles below the Atlantic Ocean. Robotic underwater cameras have shown many victims still intact in their...