Fleet Week kicked off in our eyes and ears yesterday as the Blue Angels took to the skies to practice for the weekend air show. (They will rehearse again today from noon until 4 p.m.) Here are some shots from Thursday's practice sessions. more ›

Before you head out to watch the Blue Angels tear up the skies this weekend for Fleet Week, the zippy hellions above will perform practice exercises on Thursday (from 1 to 5 p.m.) and Friday (from noon to 4:30). Expect loud rumblings and wooshing above while you're at work or at play. (Keep your cats and/or dogs indoors too, if you can help it, as the bombastic sounds tend to frighten them.) more ›

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court's oldest justice at age 78, rode an airplane emergency slide to safety earlier today when her SFO-bound flight experienced some harrowing engine trouble on the tarmac at Washington-Dulles International Airport. According to AP reports, the pilot of United Flight 586 noticed engine trouble while taxiing and immediately called for an evacuation. more ›

Jonathan and Luis Baez, two brothers from Holyoke, Massachusetts, were arrested late Wednesday after assaulting a pilot on a flight bound for San Francisco. En route American Airlines Flight 1755, a flight attendant noticed Jonathan sleeping during takeoff sans his seat belt fastened. "Unresponsive and appear[ing] to be intoxicated or on drugs," the pilot then returned to the gate and confronted the passenger, which is when things got ugly. more ›

by Andrew Dalton Right on schedule with some crisp October sunshine, Telstar Logistics (the only logistics company worth following on twitter) lets us know that the Navy's Blue Angels will be screaming in to SFO around 1:30 PM today in anticipation of their annual Fleet Week... more ›

A reader, who asked to remain anonymous, writes to SFist about a harrowing (albeit it tiny) blaze aboard a flight, prompting an emergency landing at SFO on Sunday. more ›

Today, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Virgin Overlord Sir Richard Branson, and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom celebrated the launch of Virgin America’s first international flight to exotic Toronto, Canada. more ›

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The big news this post-Xmas weekend was, of course, that little punk who boarded the plane in Nigeria and tried to blow up that Northwest/Delta flight landing in Detroit on Friday. He failed, of course, but fearing that there are more sleeper operatives out there trying to bring down planes using similar measures, the TSA has imposed a slew of "unpredictable" new restrictions and precautions, including (according to the passengers in the ABC 7 video that follows) not letting passengers out of their seats for the last hour of the flight, and not telling passengers when they would be landing. International travelers are being subjected to all kinds of new pat-downs and interrogations, and there were a number of reported incidents of suspicious persons being escorted off planes. more ›

A little airborne Viagra with your coffee, anyone? Here are a few shots from yesterday's practice aerial acrobatics. Fleet Week, for those of you who don't know, starts tomorrow. more ›

Our current obsession? Concord. Why? Because the craziest stuff goes down there. Claycord, Contra Costa Country's best blog for breaking and bizarre East Bay news, reported on an unidentified pilot who has been harassing the fine citizens of Concord with their low-flying plane. Annoying, right? But wait, it gets better. Or worse. See, just last night said plane (allegedly) dropped offensive flyers meant for the city's Canterbury Village neighborhood. According to Claycord, "[t]he low flying plane was heard once again the morning of the thunder and lightning storms over the weekend." Later, "an anonymous resident of Thornwood Drive found the flyer pictured [here] in her backyard, then found more scattered on her street, in her neighbor's yard & in some bushes." The racially-insensitive flyers have the name of the small plane's pilot's girlfriend. Go here to read more about the drama in Concord. more ›