Happy 70th Birthday LaGuardia Airport!

A mayoral tantrum, the drudgery of prohibition and the Great Depression teamed up to build New York City’s first major airport, which opened on October 15, 1939.
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Photo Gallery: SkyFest 2010 at Fairchild Air Force Base

No punches were pulled at SkyFest 2010 at Fairchild Air Force Base, where Jeremy Lindgren's gallery shares with us a plethora of thrilling military aircraft strutting their stuff!
by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren

 
 

Chopper Pilot Nearly Becomes Eligible for Darwin Award

A Florida helicopter pilot somehow made it home with only a broken arm after attempting an extraordinarily stupid maneuver with his Robinson R22 and failing miserably.
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VIDEO: ContactAir F100 Belly Landing at Stuttgart

ContactAir Flight 288, a Fokker-100 flying from Berlin-Tegel to Stuttgart, landed on its belly after its main gear would not fully deploy on landing.
by Phil Derner Jr.

 
 

Dramatic Control Tower Audio: Flight Carrying Times Square Bomber Ordered Back to Gate Moments Before Takeoff

In a turn of events worthy of a Hollywood action film, the flight aboard which suspected Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad was attempting to escape to the Middle East was just seconds from taking off before being hurriedly ord...
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