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Some flights are less than 100 miles, and they're the backbone of the U.S. air system, linking small towns and big cities. But short routes were in decline even before jet fuel costs spiked.

We've covered a lot of stories this year. From first flights to a program by Ann Arbor's public library, let's go through some feel good stories from this year.

A father-daughter duo takes flight: Michigander and private pilot Sara Johnson brings father Christopher Johnson to new heights in a two-seat, single-engine Diamond DA20. Also, a look into the restoration of Ypsilanti's Woodlawn cemetery — Washtenaw County's only known black cemetery — which has been in disrepair since 1965.

Today on Stateside, another attempt by the RTA to bring coordinated mass transit to Southeast Michigan. Plus, the Detroit Police Department’s attempts to…

This story originally aired July 11, 2019 on Interlochen Public Radio's Points North program. Across the world, there's been a dramatic airplane pilot…

A century ago, a Michigan woman soared above the patriarchy, flouting the restrictions placed on women in her era.It was on this day in 1911, that Arcadia…

Remember how it was too hot for planes to fly in Phoenix last month?That could happen more often as our climate warms.Radley Horton is an associate…

There's a song from 1942 written by Red Evans and John Jacob Loeb that celebrates one of the most important groups to emerge on the home front in World…

The old GM Willow Run assembly plant, the same plant where Rosie the Riveter once worked, is in danger of being demolished. That is, unless the Yankee Air…

With the touch of a button, a massive two-story-tall bay door opens slowly, as an insistent alarm sounds, to reveal part of the former Willow Run bomber…