Cessna Engineers Make Car Fly In 5 Days For Reality Show

For three Cessna engineers, a challenge posed by the hit TV show "Monster Garage" seemed simple enough: Take a car and make it fly. The Show airs tonight on the Discovery Channel.

Forest Service Simulator Preps Flying Firefighters For Cobra

Dennis Brown thunders through blinding smoke over the Bay Area in an Army Cobra gunship attack helicopter, the first just converted to battle wildfires. Using the Cobra's high-tech gear, a U.S. Forest Service aviator sees the raging flames of blazes to come with the official statewide fire-season declaration Monday. He radios data from smoke-piercing infrared gear to tankers and helicopters, ready for drops to save homes. It all looks real — but the Cobra is parked outside. Brown's playing one of several roles in a huge, complex government video game of sorts, which wasunveiled Friday.

10 French Fighter Jets Forced To Land In N.J.

Nine French fighter jets and a radar plane stayed overnight at Atlantic City International Airport after one suffered a mechanical problem and bad weather prevented them from returning to their aircraft carrier off the Virginia coast, authorities said Friday. The U.S. State Department was contacted by French officials after one of the pilots tried to buy fuel Thursday and couldn't because he didn't have the available funds on his credit card, a Philadelphia television station reported.