On The Fly…

An international aviation weather study is calling for pilot participation…A Cessna 210 pilot escaped the airplane and a lake with a bruised nose…The Naked Rambler strikes again. This time, aloft…Crewmen of an Air Force C-5 pleaded guilty to transporting Ecstasy…GlobalFlyer to make its final flight, Tuesday.

Pilots who have encountered bad weather are being asked to participate in an international study on how those encounters affected them. You can take part online and we hope the organizers of the study have a large inbox...

A Redding, Calif.-area man escaped with a bruised nose after flying his Cessna 210 into Keswick Lake, near Redding last week, after an engine failure. "Any landing you can walk or dog paddle away from, is a good landing," Robert Hicks quipped after his rescue...

A British man nicknamed "The Naked Rambler" took his act to new heights when he stripped off his clothes on airliner. Steven Gough was on his way to Glasgow to fight four contempt charges relating to similar earth-bound incidents. Gough has walked the length of Great Britain naked twice, stopping only to be arrested...

The war on drugs took a twist when the pilot and loadmaster of an Air Force C-5 pleaded guilty to transporting 300,000 Ecstasy pills from Germany aboard the plane. They were arrested loading the pills into the pilot's car...

GlobalFlyer will make its final flight Tuesday when it takes off from its base in Salina, Kan., bound for Washington, D.C., and a spot in the Stephen Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum.