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Finding the cheapest flights is easy, if you know how 05/12/2012 04:46pm • Kristi King, wtop.com WASHINGTON - Knowing when to fly and when to buy can save big bucks on vacation. Here's a tip list of the best to save when booking a flight: Search for your flight on a Tuesday or a Wednesday, these are when the least expensive flights are available. The exact best time is High-flying excitement, unique exercise at D.C. Trapeze (VIDEO) 05/11/2012 03:52pm • Maria Hallas, special for WTOP WASHINGTON - Meghan Bourke had a terrible fear of heights. "Four-story windows would give me vertigo and I would have to lie on the floor of the car to drive over a bridge," she says. After taking one lesson at the D.C. Trapeze School at the Navy Yard in Southeast, Pence’s Arlington Home Causing Indiana Election Flap 05/11/2012 01:50pm • An election battle is brewing in Indiana over Rep. Mike Pence’s home in Arlington. The Republican congressman is running for governor in his home state of Indiana. According to The Journal Gazette – a publication in Fort Wayne, Ind. — accusations are flying due to Flying through the air, 'Bound(less)' at Kennedy Center street arts festival 05/10/2012 12:21am • Alicia Lozano, wtop.com WASHINGTON - When the wind and rain picked up Wednesday evening, the dancers dangling from the side of the Old Post Office building in downtown D.C. didn't seem to flinch. "Wave if you guys are OK up there," called Project Bandaloop founder and artistic director Amelia Rud Artisphere to Host U.S.-French Hip-Hop Dance Battle 05/08/2012 01:45pm • Dance crews are revving up for a transatlantic battle set to take place at Artisphere. French dancers will be flying in to join the locals in a dance competition on May 25. The “Battle of the Dance Crews” show ends a week of events in the D.C. area for a transatlantic hip-hop festival. Terrorists eye small airplanes 05/06/2012 01:10pm • J.J. Green, wtop.com WASHINGTON - Al-Qaida's most recent edition of Inspire magazine urges sympathizers to take advantage of opportunities to attack Americans in the U.S. homeland, using whatever means necessary. Small airplanes may be among their most sought-after weapons. U.S. intelligence off Dulles one of the worst airports; BWI one of the best 05/02/2012 04:17pm • WASHINGTON - Dulles International is the seventh worst airport in the country. In a list by Travel + Leisure Magazine, readers did not like the airport's location, design, long lines, lack of cleanliness and baggage handling. In contrast, readers rated Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Space shuttle Enterprise to depart D.C. Friday 04/26/2012 07:44pm • WASHINGTON - The space shuttle Enterprise is scheduled to depart Dulles International Airport Friday morning and make its trip to a new home in New York City. The shuttle is attached to a modified NASA 747 and has been parked on "Apron W" near the center of the Dulles airfield for several days, s District Beer Hunt heads into bars this weekend 04/24/2012 04:40pm • Alicia Lozano, wtop.com WASHINGTON - Don't let the hordes of beer drinkers in crazy costumes deter you from hitting some of D.C.'s best bars Saturday afternoon. It's just the second annual District Beer Hunt running amok. The scavenger hunt is bigger than last year's inaugural event, which brou Spot a colorful bee, collect some cash 04/19/2012 02:26am • John Aaron, wtop.com WASHINGTON - It's the annual "Marking of the Bees" at George Washington University, and for those who aren't terrified of the creatures, a chance encounter with one could mean a free gift card. George Washington University students marked the backs of more than 300 bees with o Shuttle Discovery made history (VIDEO) 04/17/2012 06:50am • Colleen Kelleher, wtop.com WASHINGTON - History will be made Tuesday as NASA's oldest and most-traveled shuttle heads from the Kennedy Space Center to the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center. Aboard a modified jumbo jet, Discovery made its final takeoff. Nearly 2,000 people - former shuttle workers, Space shuttle prepares for journey to D.C. 04/15/2012 05:17pm • WASHINGTON - The space shuttle Discovery is gearing up for its final journey Tuesday morning. The 747 that will carry the shuttle from Florida to D.C. touched down on the same runway where the shuttle landed after wrapping up its final mission over a year ago, according to NASA public affairs Md. filmmaker wins big, continues festival circuit 04/13/2012 12:59pm • Vince Brando has two passions in life: film and flying airplanes."I worked on film and television productions to pay for flight school, and I worked at airlines to pay for film school," he said with a laugh.In high school, Brando and his friends played around with amateur filmmaking, but none had th NASA jets fly over D.C. for photo training mission 04/04/2012 01:58pm • WASHINGTON - Don't be alarmed by jets flying over D.C. on Thursday. It's just NASA conducting a training mission to practice aerial photography. Two T-38 training jets will fly roughly 1,500 feet above D.C. between 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., according to a release from the space agency, in preparation WTOP's Top 5 morning stories 04/04/2012 10:45am • Good morning, Washington area -- Five stories to keep you informed and get you going: Doctors look to cut wasteful spending: Nine medical societies representing nearly 375,000 physicians are challenging the widely held perception that more health care is better, releasing lists Wednesday of tests