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The Harper government's plan to buy new fixed-wing search-and-rescue planes has been delayed yet again, The Canadian Press has learned. More...

- Iran said Sunday it had shot down what it described as two Western spy planes over the Persian Gulf, according to Iranian media reports. Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, air force commander for Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps, made the comments to Payam Engelab, or Message of the...

More than 2,000 incidents of lasers being pointed at planes have been reported this year. A spike in the incidence of people pointing lasers into the cockpits of planes has the Federal Aviation Administration worried and encouraging public vigilance. "It sounds silly, but this is a serious...

Visitors inspect the C919 prototype at an aviation exhibition during the Zhuhai Airshow. China is taking on the world’s only large commercial aircraft producers Boeing and Airbus with its first homegrown passenger jet, the C919. The C919, built by state-owned enterprise Commercial Aircraft...

Alaskan Airlines planes bump another one on the ground at Sea-Tac International Airport http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/10/27/wa.plane.wings.collide.kiro

Qantas, Australia's national airline, grounded its Airbus A380 fleet indefinitely after part of a plane's engine cover fell off mid-flight on Thursday. The airline said the twin-deck planes -- the world's largest airliners -- will remain suspended until an investigation into Thursday's incident...

Russian planes fuel Canadian dispute OTTAWA, Two Russian bombers came within 40 miles of Canadian territory this week, officials say. Two CF-18 fighter planes scrambled from a base in Cold Lake, Alberta, shadowed the TU-95s until they headed back towards Russian airspace Tuesday, Postmedia News...

2 small planes violate Obama airspace LAS VEGAS, (UPI) -- Two small planes violated airspace restrictions put in place Friday morning for President Barack Obama's trip to Nevada, officials said. F-16 fighter jets escorted both planes to nearby airports, CNN reported. The fighters were under...

Flying Southwest Airlines‏ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A mother and her son were flying Southwest Airlines from Kansas City to Chicago. The son (who had been looking out the window) turned to his mother and asked, "If big dogs have baby...