NASA's ER-2 science aircraft flew instruments designed to improve satellite data products and Earth science observations.

Fackler, commanding officer of the U.S. Air Force 514th Reconnaissance Squadron Weather, flew his airplane into the seething mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb detonation. As part of Zebra ...

The plane first encountered clouds and potential icing over the Taconic Mountains, east of Albany, N.Y., with conditions ...