WASHINGTON (AP) — As income tax filing season officially starts on Monday, a limited number of taxpayers in 12 states will soon be eligible to join an IRS pilot program that will allow them to calculate and submit their returns to the government directly without using commercial tax preparation software. The Direct File pilot program […]
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter was apparently done in by a particularly boring patch of Mars ground. Ingenuity suffered damage to at least one of its four rotor blades during a Jan. 18 flight, grounding the pioneering chopper forever, NASA officials announced today (Jan. 25). While team members are still analyzing what happened on that fateful sortie, […]
One person is dead after an airplane that was apparently stolen from a North Texas flight school crashed in an open field near the border with Oklahoma on Wednesday night, officials said. Preliminary investigation shows that the aircraft, a Cessna 172, was stolen from the ATP Flight School in Addison, according to a Texas Department […]
How do you enhance the connection that a watch shares with outer space beyond just evoking its history of having been flown to the moon? You replicate the look of the original, but replace its dial with a space rock. Bulova is celebrating its long history with NASA and the U.S. space program by releasing […]
There weren’t supposed to be gunshots. Fire rang out across a valley north of Kabul, where Air Force Maj. Mark Ross was leading a pair of HH-60G helicopters on what would become their final practice mission in Afghanistan on Aug. 1, 2021. The airmen were trying to ensure their Pave Hawks could reach a refueling […]
A Porter Airlines plane.Fabrizio Gandolfo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Image A Porter Airlines captain denied a passenger from boarding due to his wheelchair’s batteries, per CBC. Although Ken Harrower’s power chair uses a gel battery that IATA says is “non-dangerous.” Porter said the captain made a mistake, and booked Harrower on a flight the next day. An […]
ZANESVILLE – Aviation is his lifelong passion – and the family business. “I grew up in the aviation community,” recalled Bob Norman. “My grandfather, Earl Norman, was a certified flight instructor and also flew fire patrol for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. My father, Chuck Norman, served in the U.S. Air force and was […]
Jan. 17—The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday directed $1.5 million to a local nonprofit that is working to move 150 people out of emergency winter homeless shelters and into permanent housing by the end of April. Assembly members also set aside $500,000 for a possible pilot project to operate one or more transitional shelter programs using […]
Jan. 16—A Mannington man was arrested Friday after Monongalia County deputies responded to a disturbance at the Pilot truck stop on Smithtown Road. Deputy Cole French, who responded to the call at around 7:22 p.m., said he spoke with Gregory Buda, 40, of Mannington, on the scene. According to the criminal complaint, Buda said another […]
Jan. 16—CANYON — Eleven future teachers celebrated a milestone Jan. 12 as they completed classwork for a West Texas A&M University pilot program aimed at improving reading across the state. The WT students, all senior education majors, officially finished their coursework for the Texas Reading Academy and were recognized during a Jan. 12 luncheon in […]
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Following the settlement of a lawsuit pitting Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam against fellow billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, the clock is ticking for the Haslam family to decide whether to sell its remaining stake in the Pilot truck stop chain to Berkshire. Attorneys told a Delaware judge last week that […]
A 23-year-old pilot, Vladyslav Zalistovskyi, call sign ‘Blue Helmet,’ was killed on Jan. 5while defending Ukraine from Russian forces, the 114th Tactical Aviation Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Force, which Zalistovskyi belonged to, told Ukrainian public broads Suspilne on Jan. 8. Zalistovskyi, born in the city of Malyn, Zhytomyr Oblast, graduated from the aviation faculty of the Kharkiv Ivan Kozhedub National Air […]