In the 1950s the Navy and Army worked on small VTOL machines to make troops go airborne. They worked, just not well enough.

A lot of personal flying machines are in the works right now, but this one from Washington-based startup Zeva Aero surely features one of the most extraordinary designs yet. The Zeva Zero aircraft ...

The Wright brothers took flight for the first time the same year The New York Times published an editorial speculating it could take 1 to 10 million years to develop a successful flying machine. The ...

When, or if, the weird-looking Scaled Composites Stratolaunch takes off from Mojave, California, as expected in 2019, it will have smashed a record that's remained unbroken for 71 years. No flying ...

In our last list of strange aircraft, we stuck to covering the weirdest jets to take to the sky, but there are plenty of other types of bizarre flying machines out there! In this episode, Hank will ...

Le Bourget, France — Just a dot on the horizon at first, the bug-like and surprisingly quiet electrically-powered craft buzzes over Paris and its traffic snarls, treating its doubtless awestruck ...

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. It’s a famous saying, but more than ever, it seems perfectly true. And one thing that humans have striven to do for a long time is to capture the power of flight.