The RAF pilot was on a low-level training mission when he was forced into a inverted loop manoeuvre

Google has commemorated the 66th anniversary of the Roswell incident with an interactive Google Doodle showing an alien crash landing on Earth.

The woman and her pilot have been named as Jane Wicker and Charles Schwenker

The often vicious trade battle between Airbus maker EADS and rival Boeing has helped cement their position as a duopoly, says the US giant's chief executive.

Team has flown world-famous diamond formation for first time in 18 months after 2011 tragedies

A man who won the lottery twice, scooping over £1.16 million in total, joked that he was not “that bothered” by the wins and wanted more.

Warning from UK ballooning boss comes as it emerges British pilots are refusing to work in Egypt and Turkey because of safety fears

Pilots and operators say travel company used Egyptian agent that put profits before safety

A Briton badly injured in an earlier Luxor balloon crash spoke today of her horror at hearing of another tragedy in Egypt.

Former US president George H.W. Bush has been admitted to a hospital intensive care unit “following a series of setbacks including a persistent fever”, but he is alert and talking to medical staff, his spokesman said.

A third of the Earth's land surface is classified as desert, from the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica to the North African Sahara – and it is a subject that represents a life's passion for landscape photographer George Steinmetz. Inspired by a hitchhiking trip across North Africa in the 1970s, the American aerial artist has spent the past 15 years documenting deserts from above.

Residents ask charity skydivers to switch to something less noisy

Protest groups form to fight noise nuisance caused by parachute jump aircraft

From boats bobbing on the Great Barrier Reef, to hot air balloons hovering over the rainforest, and the hilltops and beaches in between, tens of thousands of scientists, tourists and amateur astronomers watched as the sun, moon and Earth aligned and plunged northern Australia into darkness during a total solar eclipse today.