aviation

At the height of the Cold War, a non-descript building at Bakersfield's Meadows Field held a secret: workers there were building the revolutionary U2 spy plane.

At the Chandler Airport in Southwest Fresno, the non-profit New Vision Aviation is teaching young people from low-income neighborhoods how to soar, literally, in the high-paying aviation industry.

The Virgin Galactic Spaceship Two was undergoing a test flight when it crashed in the California desert. The spaceship is designed to take tourists to space.