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Flying Car En Route to American Roads and Skies

(June 30) -- Why drive a hybrid when you can soar over traffic in a flybrid? A flying car called the Terrafugia Transition could be on its way to American roads and skies. Equipped with a rear propeller engine, front-wheel drive, airbags and crumple zones, the Transition is as at home in the air as it is on asphalt,...

Senate Sets Aside Rancor to Pass Aviation Bill

WASHINGTON (March 24) -- It was Monday night, and Capitol Hill was consumed with partisan acrimony. A day earlier, a deeply divided House of Representatives had narrowly approved the president's signature health care overhaul. Republicans were declaring war. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told a radio station that there would...

Small Plane Crashes at New Jersey Airport, Killing 5

WALL TOWNSHIP, N.J. (Feb. 15) -- A small plane trying to land broke apart and tore through a snowy field next to a runway Monday afternoon, killing all five people aboard, including a teenager and a child, and scattering debris over 200 feet. The crash was reported at 3:45 p.m. at Monmouth Executive Airport, about 35...

FAA Seminar Draws Wrong Kind of Attention

(Dec. 22) -- As Americans continue to simmer over Wall Street's manhandling of the economy, many of the embattled banks are wisely forgoing annual holiday parties this year. But the federal government may have missed the memo about keeping a low profile. An undercover ABC News report suggests the Federal Aviation...