The U.S. Geological Survey will be flying airplanes over parts of Eastern Iowa starting this month to help make new maps for ...

Off and on over the next eight months, airplanes will be flying low over Northwest Arkansas. But this isn't a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, so there's no reason to rush to the ...

To get the geological data, the plane flies as low as 300 feet. The plane's instruments measure the Earth’s magnetic field and naturally occurring low levels of radiation. The plane’s instruments are ...

The U.S. Geological Survey plans to start low-level plane flights this month across eastern Iowa. The project is part of a ...

I caught the RAF C-130 Hercules making an epic low-level flyby through the narrow valleys of the Mach Loop in Wales. In this ...

If you see low-flying planes over Missouri over the next eight months or so, it's likely nothing to worry about, as they're working for the U.S. Geological Survey. The planes are part of a survey ...

Helicopters will be flying low over northern Colorado during the next several months to conduct geological imaging, according to a news release from the U.S. Geological Survey. Beginning in August, ...

Nonconvective low-level wind shear (LLWS) in TAFs is often misunderstood; it primarily forecasts a rapid increase in wind speed with height within 2,000 feet of the surface, typically occurring in ...