Planes in clouds, viewing the sun rising in the west, the dog's letter and more mysteries - Strange But True . Updated: ; Aug. 13, 2012, 10:59 a.m. | Published: ; Aug ...

Why a “hole-punch” cloud appeared over O’Hare last Friday, a brief history of falling ice injuries in Chicago, and the diversity of our city’s falling-ice warning signs.

This could happen if an airplane flies directly through a precipitating cloud, but the authors suspect something more complicated is going on, because their data locates the starting height of ...

The sampling flights continued through further tests in Nevada, with the teams perfecting techniques and equipment, while Fackler pushed to establish a dedicated cloud sampling unit. Meanwhile ...

When I suggested that the O'Hare incident might have been a vortex created by an airplane rising through the clouds, ... to accelerate so fast and go straight up in the clouds that their eyes ...

When planes fly through these cloud layers, they can create additional cooling around their wings. This cooling can trigger the supercooled droplets to freeze, transforming them into ice crystals.

Even if you don't crave the adrenaline rush of adventure sports, perhaps, while flying on an airplane, you've wondered what it might be like to reach out and touch the clouds. Or, during a ...

Ryan Katchmar, a Utah-based skydiving instructor with more than 10,000 jumps to his name, stressed that people should not skydive through clouds intentionally.If you can't see where you're going ...