On The Fly…

A rocket-powered F-104 Starfighter will try to break land speed record…Eclipse said it’s “on track” for FAA certification by end of June…A 1975 Schweizer sailplane crashed into a house near Pittsburgh… Politics may have factored in collision of Greek and Turkish F-16s…A Piper Warrior hit an SUV on Friday near Oxnard, two hurt…Volcanic ash above Mount St. Helens rose to 20,000 feet…A lawsuit alleges NavCanada contributed to a fatal crash in Vancouver.

The fuselage of an F-104 Starfighter jet once flown by Chuck Yeager and Scott Crossfield has been mated with a rocket engine and will be used to try to break the land speed record some time next year...

Eclipse Aviation said Tuesday it's definitely "on track" for FAA certification by the end of June, and its Eclipse 500 will be the first VLJ to market. Six customer jets are already in the works on the production line...

The pilot of a 1975 Schweizer sailplane was killed when he crashed into a house while on final approach to an airport near Pittsburgh on Sunday afternoon...

The pilot and the driver were hurt when a Piper Warrior crashed into an SUV on Friday. The pilot was trying to return to the Oxnard (Calif.) Airport after having engine trouble on takeoff, but landed short and crossed a road. A two-year-old in the back seat of the car was OK...

A plume of volcanic ash above Mount St. Helens rose to 20,000 feet over the weekend...

A lawsuit alleges a NavCanada error contributed to a fatal crash in Vancouver last January. Pratt & Whitney Canada and SonicBlue Airlines also are named in the suit.