The Hughes H4 Hercules is probably better known as the “Spruce ... a large aircraft. Did the beach balls save the day? It’s hard to know. Today, the beach balls still hold air, ostensibly ...

Why are aircraft ... as parts get replaced. Wide-body aircraft like the Jumbo B747 – some flying for over 30 years, the oldest thought to be in Iran – are still in service, and Air Force ...

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The new home of NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour, the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, has reached new heights and ...

Closures remain on parts ... Air National Guard transported over 100,000 pounds of emergency relief supplies from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Monday using a C-17 cargo aircraft.

An aerial look at the quartz mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, taken prior to Tropical Storm Helene. Google Maps The world’s main producer of high-purity quartz, a mineral crucial to the ...

Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, the community of Spruce Pine, population 2,194, is known for its hiking, local artists and as America’s sole source of high-purity quartz. Helene dumped ...

On Saturday, the agency rescued a manatee that had become breached at the end of a runway at MacDill Air Force Base ... In the beginning, before the worst parts of the storm on Friday, we lost ...

The quartz mines of Spruce Pine, North Carolina ... Appalachian communities were harder hit because the warm air of the hurricane met colder mountain air that produced even more rain.

Hurricane Helene dropped more than two feet of rain on Spruce Pine North Carolina. The town is home to one of the world's only sources of high purity quartz— which is used to manufacture silicon ...