Personal blimp sails over fields of Amherst
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AMHERST -- There was one thing about flying planes that always irritated Dan Nachbar, a pilot with 23 years of experience. "The view is great," he said, "but the noise is awful."
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There is something wonderful about being 35,000 feet in the air, looking down on the earth, that gives an artist a new perspective.
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A privately funded spacecraft appeared to rocket past its target altitude more than 60 miles above California&#39;s high desert yesterday
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AMHERST -- On a post-card-perfect New England day -- sun sparkling, foliage nearing its peak -- the University of Massachusetts football team delivered a fall classic. Dominating all aspects of the game, the Minutemen rolled to a 48-7 victory over William &amp; Mary yesterday .
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U.S. tycoon and adventurer Steve Fossett, already famous for sailboating and solo ballooning records, claims to have soared to new heights in an engineless glider over the Argentine Andes.
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By Sonja Barisic  ATLANTIC, Va. - Spectators cheered as a rocket carrying two experimental satellites blasted off Saturday in the first launch from the mid-Atlantic region's commercial spaceport, creating a blazing streak across the sky just before sunrise.
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What&#39;s wrong with this picture? The airspace over the city is declared off-limits to all unauthorized aircraft. Some 200 police, including rooftop snipers and antiterror
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By BEN DOBBIN  ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A 19th-century commercial sailing ship, its twin masts still intact, sits upright in deep, frigid waters off the southern shore of Lake Ontario.
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A 200-foot long blimp bearing the name of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is flying over North Carolina.
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The U.S. Army has leased a blimp from the nation's only airship manufacturer and outfitted it with sensors and cameras to determine how effective the electro-optical and infrared cameras are at detecting potentially threatening movements on the ground.
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RICHMOND, Va. - A flying mammal with freakishly large ears is looking for its place in the sun.
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By Gregory Richards, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Mar. 8--NORFOLK -- It's 185 feet long and weighs about 700 tons.   Yet the vessel, named the Flint River, was high over the Elizabeth  River's brown waters Wednesday morning.
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You'll be able to zip around about 10 feet off the ground at a speed of 50 miles per hour. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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By Susan Silvers, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jun. 17--BRIDGEPORT -- When he was a youngster on the East Side, David Mestre once wrapped rubber bands around a tree, hoping he could somehow slingshot himself into space.   It didn't work.
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By PHILP, Matt  A spectacular visitor to the heavens has more of us than usual reflecting on the mysteries of the universe. MATT PHILP joins the crowds looking skywards.   On the shores of the unknown -- or, at least, Upper Cashmere -- people are massing.
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Blustery winds and frigid temperatures couldn't shake the maternal instincts of a bald eagle caught on a 24-hour camera while protecting her newly laid egg in a nest perched 70 feet above the Down East coast. For the second year in a row, images from the camera mounted on another pine tree 45 feet away are allowing online viewers worldwide to peek in on the eagle's soon-to-be growing family by logging onto http://www.briloon.org.
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AMHERST -- Steve Baylark is determined to get every last yard out of his storied college career.