Alarming footage taken from the cockpit of a flight over the Middle East captured Iranian-launched missiles soaring nearby — suggesting Iran failed to make sure the airways were clear of ...

(MANDATORY CREDIT Ebet Roberts/Getty Images) UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 12: Photo of U2; L-R: The ... [+] Edge, Larry Mullen Jnr, Bono, Adam Clayton - posed, group shot - at promotional show in ...

The team used NASA’s ER-2 High-Altitude Airborne Science Aircraft, a former Cold War U2 spy plane, which flies well above most storms. Its speed and altitude made it ideal for targeting specific ...

Please contact us at plus@slate.com for help. U2 have millions of admirers—and haters: from the fans who regard them as rock’s conscience, to the cynics who blanch at lead singer Bono’s self ...

Then, between soundchecks and hotel rooms, you cobble together album number two. U2 emerged from Dublin in 1980 with Boy. The band played post-punk, but this wasn’t Joy Division. Bono explained ...

Our union website was full of hyperbole and rudimentary ideas on how best to protect the cockpit. The most popular technique was to make certain one pilot had immediate access to the crash ax.

4. “Beautiful Day” from All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000) It seemed like U2 was a bit past their sell-by date when it came to the new millennium, as the experimental tendencies that had ...

The research group secured the use of a NASA ER-2 High-Altitude Airborne Science Aircraft. A retrofitted U2 spy plane left over from the Cold War, it flies over twice as high as commercial ...

The POV hat, 14 button controls, and the three-position mode switch give the user at least 54 programmable controls over the virtual aircraft. A yoke is an obvious target for flight sim fans who ...

Beta Technologies unveiled Monday the next electric aircraft in its lineup — a passenger-carrying version of its ALIA vertical takeoff and landing and fixed-wing vehicles. Electric vertical ...

Cirium, the world’s most trusted source of aviation analytics, has published its annual Fleet Forecast, revealing the future outlook of the global commercial passenger and freighter aircraft market.