aviation

After flying for five days, Solar Impulse 2, a solar-powered plane, has landed safely in a Hawaii airport after flying out of Japan. The pilot, Andre Borschberg,has broken the endurance record for a solo flight.

When the elite aerial team called the Blue Angels formed in 1946, all of its pilots were men. In 2014, the same thing was true. Now history has been made with the addition of Capt. Katie Higgins, the first female pilot to serve with the Navy’s world-famous demonstration squadron.

Balloon pilots Troy Bradley and Leonid Tiukhtyaev of Russia are currently floating above the Pacific Ocean on what they hope is a record-setting flight. Now five days and more than 5,000 miles into the trip, they’re gunning for the record for longest gas balloon trip of all time.

As authorities continue to search for a missing AirAsia flight bound for Singapore, fears are growing that the aircraft is “at the bottom of the sea.” Meanwhile, AirAsia’s flamboyant chief executive, Tony Fernandes, has been thrust into the international spotlight as his company confronts its first major crisis.

It lasted only 48 hours, but a halt to American flights in and out of Israel touched an uncomfortable nerve in the small and isolated country. It lasted only 48 hours, but a halt to American flights in and out of Israel touched an uncomfortable nerve in the small and isolated country.