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food

Found: A Giant, 20-Pound Lobster on a Journey

The TSA screened this surprisingly large specimen.
Sarah Laskow June 27, 2017
Anchorage, Alaska

Neighborhood Airplane Hangars

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.
The cockpit of a B-25 bomber off the coast of Papua New Guinea.
aviation

Two WWII Bombers Have Officially Been Found Off the Coast of Papua New Guinea

The B-25 is an icon of the war years.
Kelsey Kennedy May 24, 2017
Landing site of the transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown, and adjacent memorial cairn.
Galway, Ireland

Landing Site of the First Transatlantic Flight

A strange egg in a mucky bog of western Ireland marks the spot of an aviation milestone.
King Willem-Alexander.
airplanes

The King of the Netherlands Secretly Pilots Passenger Planes in His Spare Time

He is an enthusiast of the sky.
Erik Shilling May 17, 2017
The downed plane.
crash site

This Plane Crash Is Both Spectacular and, Thankfully, Injury-Free

Fireballs.
Erik Shilling May 3, 2017
Prisoners at Rikers Island watch through bars as an injured airline passenger waits for transport to a New York hospital.
crash site

The 1957 Rikers Island Plane Crash That Made Inmates Heroes

It was a frightening time for air travel.
Andy Wright May 1, 2017
Bees cover the wing of a plane.
airplanes

Bees Delay Flight

"Obviously, you don't want the bees in the air."
Eric Grundhauser March 22, 2017
Aircraft on display.
College Park, Maryland

College Park Airport and Aviation Museum

The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.
airplanes

Found, By a Danish Schoolboy: A Crashed WWII Plane in His Family's Field

As a joke, his father had suggested he look for it.
Sarah Laskow March 8, 2017
This was not the mouse.
animals

A Single Mouse Grounded a Plane in London

The obvious film-related jokes ensued.
Erik Shilling March 2, 2017
A WC-135 in air.
airplanes

Why Is an American Nuclear 'Sniffer' Plane in Europe?

It's there days after a reported "spike" in radiation on the continent.
Erik Shilling February 23, 2017
Who were Eva and Edith?
airplanes

Found: Two Mysterious Signatures on the Wing of a WWII Plane

Who were Eva and Edith?
Sarah Laskow February 2, 2017
Falcons on a plane.
animals

What Happens When 80 Falcons Fly Coach

They were probably on their way to a hunting trip.
Cara Giaimo January 31, 2017
Dodgeville, Wisconsin

C-97 Stratofreighter at the Don Q Inn

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.
The propeller can currently be found in the Air and Space Museum.
Washington, D.C.

NASA Full Scale Wind Tunnel Propeller

While most wind tunnels test scale models, the "Cave of Winds" was large enough for actual airplanes.
Tu-134 front.
Čačersk, Belarus

Chachersk Airplane

A decommissioned Soviet airplane has been used as a movie theater and a cultural center.
Canso Bomber Plane Crash
Tofino, British Columbia

Canso Bomber Crash Site

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.