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

After building a flying jet bike and hoverboard, Franky Zapata has created a futuristic drone. But he’s really selling an ancient fantasy like the one pictured above. “It’s being able to fly all by ...

Gears have powered the world for millennia, from clock machines to car engines. But miniaturizing them to microscopic dimensions has stumped engineers for decades. Anything under one-tenth of a ...

Airborne cameras are taking pictures of individual houses across the U.S. Insurance companies use the photos to inspect buildings after extreme weather, from hurricanes to hailstorms. But they also ...

You might say a storm is brewing in the small town of Georgetown -- but it's not the kind that brings snow -- it's the kind that brings the heat. Cincinnati snowstorm tests plow crews, website crashes ...

When Maxx Chewning sold his sour-candy business to Hershey for $75.5 million, the first thing he did—before buying a Rolex or dream home—was jet his wife and six friends to Vail on a Dassault Falcon ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A Denver woman is feeling devastated after a one-of-a-kind flying machine she bought was stolen off her porch only minutes after it was delivered, and the theft was caught on her ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

There was a time when having your own plane was a pretty clear indicator that you were part of that upper crust of society. If it was a pricey and rare electric plane, then all the more. But those ...

We tend to think of one-hit wonders as a recent phenomenon. Truth be told, they’ve always been a part of the pop/rock landscape. Go back to the 60s, and you’ll find artists and bands who scored a big ...