In Brief

A two-foot chunk of ice fell through the roof of a college gymnasium in Loma Linda, Calif. College officials bagged the “opaque” ice and the FAA is trying to find out if it came from a passing airliner. More airborne ice fell in a park in Oakland… Transcripts from one of two public hearings on […]

It appears the Relentless NXT Reno racer was destroyed following an emergency landing in New Mexico on its way to Palmdale, Calif. from Sun ‘n Fun. An FAA preliminary report says the unidentified pilot radioed a Mayday that the aircraft was on fire and then put it down on a dirt strip near Glenwood, N.M. […]

Pilots and families last week protested a judge’s decision to play cockpit voice recordings from United Airlines Flight 93 during the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui… Delta pilots are preparing to strike if an arbitrator voids their contract.

From 2004:Thunderbirds Crash — Truth In Images — a collection of still and video images.DHL Airbus Hit By SAM Over Baghdad — images of the stricken aircraft as it lands. From 2005Standard Floats, Dry Runway Departure — video of a water-only equipped Beaver departing a land base with some creative piloting.

Space Adventures, which arranges space tourism trips for the wealthy, is looking for a broader market. The company has announced it intends to compete with Virgin Galactic for the suborbital space race using a Russian-designed spacecraft… A government consultant and former state and municipal official is joining AOPA as its vice president of regional affairs. […]

Authorities in California have confirmed that Cessna-owned 208B Caravan went down near Yucaipa, Calif. Tuesday, killing Cessna Regional Sales Manager Steve O’Neill and Rick Voorhis, president of Pacific Aircraft Sales, Inc., which is based in Reno, Nev. The plane went down in a mountainous region about 75 miles east of Los Angeles. Inmates at a […]

In evacuation tests this weekend, Airbus successfully evacuated 853 filled seats, two cockpit crew with the aid of 18 cabin crew (a total of 873 humans) from 8 of 16 exits, ATWonline reported today. Only one leg was broken in the process… British Airways to raise crew retirement age to 60 in an effort to […]

Aerobatic pilot Nick Nilmeyer, 23, died during a practice Monday near Greenfield, Calif., in his Extra 300-S. Nilmeyer was the youngest member of the first Stars of Tomorrow team in 2003 and graduated to team captain in 2005…Custom Chelton EFIS for Vans RV-10 released by Direct-To Avionics… New data will provide better warning of solar […]

Steve Fossett says he broke Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager’s record for the greatest distance flown taking and landing off in the same spot on Friday. Fossett landed GlobalFlyer back at Salina, Kan., after a 74-hour spin around the world that he says covered more than 25,000 miles and outdistanced the old record by about […]

The former host of a game show called Press Your Luck died Monday when the Bonanza he was flying on an Angel Flight mission in California went down in Santa Monica Bay. Peter Tomarken, 63, and his wife Kathleen were killed on their way to pick up a patient in San Diego who needed treatment […]