Wright replica fails to get off the ground One hundred years to the day after Orville and Wilbur Wright soared into history on man's first powered flight, modern-day aviators sought to duplicate the feat, with a little help from 21st-century technology and supercomputers. They flopped badly. at...

JFK gave Barbara Pierce a lesson in life in the summer of 1944 (making her a "Cape Cod heiress"), and to her eventual husband, JFK gave a personal motive for revenge. Perhaps if George and Barb had announced their earlier engagement or even if George had given Barb a diamond instead of a cheap...

Hi everyone, I'm a student with about 10 flights under my belt. I had an instructor for the first 4 that I really liked. I departed for a while, then had a new instructor that I also really like - but for COMPLETELY different reasons, and I can consider him "acceptable", but not great. I wish I...

My wife and I went to see "The Aviator" yesterday. Comments: The planes and some of the flying sequences were great -- especially the S-38 and the reproduction of the H-1 and the CGI of some of the other planes. Acting: Leonardo DiCaprio should *never* have been cast as a pilot! His "flying"...

I had a wierd thing happen a week or so ago. We were VFR, and called up POU tower (class D satellite of NY Approach), 10 southwest landing with blah, blah. The tower controller told us to squawk standby. After confirming that instruction, we did so and a little while later he told us to squawk...

I would like to use a flight I took two years ago to show I've satisfied the "Long Cross Country" requirement for my Commercial ticket. On that flight, I flew from SMO to O22 (259NM), then to (124NM) in one day, then turned around several days later and flew back - CIC to SZP (353 NM) to SMO...

This is pretty cool. I got in from the"Flightweb" site. You can track all "Lifeguard" flights (Pretty much) in the US. And it's pretty much in Real Time (actually a 5 minute delay). http://www.flightweb.com/flight_explorer/

http://pages.globetrotter.net/perches/kf/kf.htm

"I Want To FLY!"-(Youth) My store to raise funds for flying lessons http://www.cafeshops.com/IWantToFly Hi! My name is Trace. I am 13 years old and LOVE to fly planes and gliders. I have a deal with my parents to split the cost of my flying lessons. My dad helped me start my "I want To FLY!"...

First private-sector spaceship rockets into history A rocket plane flown by a 62-year-old pilot soared more than 62 miles above Earth yesterday before gliding back safely to a runway in California's Mojave Desert in the first privately financed manned spaceflight. at...

120-foot journey to immortality Life: Wilbur and Orville Wright weren't born with wings, but that didn't stop them from flying. Almost 100 years ago, the duo accomplished what had seemed impossible: They solved the problem of human mechanical flight. at...