Discover some of the most innovative flying machines redefining the future of aviation technology. From the GEN H-4 Personal Helicopter, the Guinness World Record holder for the smallest helicopter, ...

Maybe it’s time to say goodbye to the jet pack. For a long while now, when someone mentioned “personal flying machines,” the image that came to mind was of people wearing devices powered by small, but ...

For decades, the dream of personal flight, as envisioned by jetpacks, hoverboards, and flying cars, has captured our imagination. The idea is simple yet profound. The freedom to lift off and travel ...

From beginning to end the GoFly competition was about 2-1/2 years. Patterned after the original DARPA Challenge for autonomous vehicles, the timeline was split into phases, with increasingly difficult ...

Imagine if traffic could be avoided simply by flying over it. This is the concept behind the intriguing reveal of the Rictor Skyrider X1, a motorcycle that can take to the air. Although it might sound ...

It’s definitely more than meets the eye, as a team in Germany has connected 16 small, battery-powered propellers together to form the “E-Volo Multicopter”—described as “an innovative, vertically ...

Everybody dreams of flying. Leonardo da Vinci sketched dozens of prototypes for flying machines based on the anatomy of birds. The Wright brothers finally worked out the details four centuries later.

Artificial intelligence has exploded across our news feeds, with ChatGPT and related AI technologies becoming the focus of broad public scrutiny. Beyond popular chatbots, biologists are finding ways ...

After a mysterious and lengthy disappearance, the historic patent documents for the Wright Brothers' groundbreaking flying machine have finally resurfaced and are now at home in the National Archives ...