One of the best shows on earth is getting underway off the coast of California as the gray whales make their annual migration north. Biplane, Air Combat & Warbird Adventures in Carlsbad, Calif., offers you a chance to watch the show from a vantage point 1,500 feet in the air, from the cockpit of a biplane. The altitude protects the whales’ privacy and gives humans an excellent view, sometimes of entire pods.

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University of Florida scientists have grown rat brain cells in a petri dish and taught them to fly a fighter plane, according to school officials.

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If you are an aircraft buff and a stamp collector, the United States Postal Service is about to deliver for you in a big way.

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Neither age nor gravity stopped 80-year-old Dorothy Simpson from flying into the record books. According to Guinness World Records, she recently became the world’s oldest woman to experience weightlessness on a zero-gravity flight with Space Adventures, Ltd.

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Can’t get enough flying? How about flying every day? You can — at least at your desk — with the 365 Tiny Paper Airplanes Page-A-Day Calendar from Workman Publishing.

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Can you imagine 200 hours of somersaults?

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Just a year ago, a Hungarian businessman paid £320,000 for a Concorde nosecone at a Bonhams Auction. Now the only remaining “”spare”" flown nosecone is up for sale on eBay with a reserve of just £24,500 pounds — less than 10% of last year’s winning price.

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Discovery Wings Channel, a favorite among aviation enthusiasts since its debut in July 1998, has signed up for active duty.

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For the past several years, NASCAR race cars have had their windshields covered with thin laminate films that can be removed easily during a race for increased visibility. The same technology will soon be applied to U.S. Army Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters flying in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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