A woman who had a friend call in a bomb threat to the Philadelphia airport to avoid missing her flight to London was sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison. ... Read more...

With the first commercial space flights expected before the next presidential polls, the US government has drafted rules to oversee private space vehicles, operators and passengers, reports UPI. ... Read more...

Two Russian women set a record for blimp speeds during a contest in Moscow. Airship commander Natalia Volodicheva and second pilot Yekaterina Kochetkova set a world record for female blimp speeds on an VH-4 air ship in the category of 1600-3000 cubic meters, the Newsru.com site reported, citing a...

The concentrated beams of light from lasers are used in all kinds of high-tech gadgets - medical equipment, astronomy gear, or even something as simple as pointers. ... Read more...

A woman was arrested on suspicion of assault and being drunk on an aircraft, police said today. ... Read more...

The White House Thursday objected to Russian plans to sell advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Syria. The proposed sale has sparked concern in Washington a week before President Bush is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Europe and raises more questions about the extent to which Bush...

A loose flight control tube -- which allows the pilot to steer the plane -- could have been the cause of the crash of a home-built airplane last May that sent two men to the hospital. ... Read more...

International space station controllers are changing some spacewalk procedures following the near contamination of the U.S. crew member last month when he came too close to station jet exhaust. The issue is related to a mysterious problem controllers are having steering the outpost with gyroscopes...

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, bolstering the hopes of F/A-22 supporters, told lawmakers Thursday that the Pentagon has not made a final decision on limiting production of the next-generation attack jet to 179 planes. ... Read more...

More than 220 global aviation firms from 31countries are set to showcase their products in India’s hi-tech capital at Aero India, billed as the largest air show in South Asia, an official said on Tuesday. ... Read more...

In 2004 Russian airlines have purchased 15 used foreign-made aircraft, namely Boeing, and only 4 new Russian-made ones. These figures were disclosed on Thursday, Feb. 10, by the representative of the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency and reported by RIA Novosti.... Read more...

A few years ago at an air show in Lancaster, Ohio, Dan Schiffer noticed a man standing on the grass next to his shiny yellow WWII-era combat training plane. ... Read more...

Boeing Co. is testing demand for a new 747 wide-body aircraft and expects to decide whether to build it by the middle of the year, the planemaker's chief executive said on a conference call on Wednesday. "I think they've got a great airplane," Harry Stonecipher told reporters on the call....

The pilot of the corporate jet that plowed across a highway into a warehouse in Teterboro, N.J., told a lawyer he believes "something malfunctioned on the plane." Hostess Angelica Calad walked away from the crash at Teterboro Airport with just scratches.... Read more...

A corporate jet skidded off the runway at Teterboro Airport on Wednesday, crossing a highway during the morning rush hour and slamming into a building. ... Read more...

In aeronautics, lift occurs with an airplane because the shape of the wings combined with forward movement causes air to pass faster over the top of the wing than the bottom of the wing. If this is an immutable law regarding lift, how then can an airplane fly upside down? ... Read more...

American Airlines is rolling out a new marketing campaign guaranteeing that travelers will find the airline's cheapest fares on its Internet site. The campaign, expected to be unveiled today, says that American will refund the price difference, and throw in a $50 travel voucher, for anyone who...

Joseph Massaro, stuck in traffic on Route 46, panicked as he watched the plane slam into a warehouse. Would it blow up? Would the inferno reach his home four blocks away, where his children were waiting for their school bus? ... Read more... Source: Planenews Aviation News Portal Planenews...

Rolls-Royce knocked its arch-rival, GE Aircraft Engines of the US, off top spot in the large civil aero-engine market for the first time last year. In terms of value, the UK engineer secured 40 per cent of the $13bn (£6.99bn) market last year for commercial engines powering aircraft bigger than...

The aviators, participating in the Army Air Race-2005, today conveyed the common message that the students and youth can enrich their lives by taking up adventure activities. ... Read more...