We're now officially in the midst of what marketers like to call "the holiday season," and for many of us, that means traveling to see friends and family.

The Thunderbirds are the U.S. Air Force's crack aerobatics team, so they have to practice a lot to get their routines down. Mistakes can lead to horrible crashes, or, as in the case of a Thunderbird pilot flying over Tucson, Ariz., thousands of dollars in damaged property.

It's always amazing to watch military aerobatics teams perform death defying maneuvers with razor sharp precision. But those tight formations are dangerous as hell, so one little mistake can mean disaster.

You are looking at a 3,500 horsepower, 24-cylinder radial Pratt & Whitney Wasp Major engine, developed at the end of WWII for use in Boeing's successor to the Superfortress. It is mesmerizing.

As Syria's civil war continues to worsen, the Syrian government is turning to extreme measures to quell rebel forces. A couple of anonymous Obama administration officials told the New York Times that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's military has fired several scud missiles at rebel positions.

If you're a human being who enjoys cauliflower, then I'll admit, you're a bit of a beautiful mystery to me. Outside of acting as interesting texture extras in curries, I'm not really so down with cauliflower. But I always did admire the way it sort of looked like dense clouds.

Airports don't have to be terrible. These ten hubs picked by Jalopnik readers are actually all kinds of awesome.

In September, the crumpled body of a young African man was found on a London sidewalk. He was a stowaway in a plane, having fallen to his death when the landing gear opened before touchdown at Heathrow. Now the police hope to identify the body.

You're flying over the woods in an ultralight and then your engine fails. What happens next?

If you're gonna be caught in one for several hours, it might as well be interesting.

Hans Herrmann is, of course, Lucky Hans, the racing legend who, among many other things, won LeMans in 1970. I've spoken with this man in my house, even watched him play Forza for the first time. His grandson plays with my son. And yet I had no idea of his role in the development of the unmanned aerial drone.

When the first officer of Lufthansa flight 403 became ill yesterday, an off-duty airline pilot flying as a passenger took the controls and helped land the plane in Dublin.

You'd think if you were sitting on a Geo Metro made into a 12-foot limo, you'd have your LeMons racing plan pretty well wrapped up. Of course, if you said that, you wouldn't be noted LeMons loon Speedycop and his Gang of Outlaws.

Boeing seems well on its way to unveiling the redesigned 737, dubbed the 737 MAX. Now that they have the basic design finalized, Boeing's engineer will begin ironing out the aircraft's finer details.

It's Movemeber again — sure November, but also Movember — and that means you're likely to see more mustachioed faces than at other times of the year. The November mustache craze has gotten so crazy, it's even spread to passenger jets.

Going through TSA checkpoints when flying is always a chore. You have to chug your booze, take off your shoes, belt, aluminum underpants, empty your pockets, and take your laptop and engine blocks out of your carry-on bags.

Motorists on a busy freeway outside of Sao Paolo, Brazil got a bit of a shock this week when a small plane crashed right next to the roadway.

Back in 2008, Russia blew up a Georgian UAV over a contentious border area. The drone was transmitting live video the whole time and watched its oncoming demise.

The Air Force's muscle car chase cars are all kinds of badass, serving as wingmen for frail spy planes. One Camaro SS got the best view of this spindly U2 in a touch-and-go.

If you've ever traveled around Europe, then you're familiar with Ryanair. The Irish low cost airline has a fleet of 300 Boeing 737-800s, and gets thousands of people from European point A to European point B every day.