For adults of a certain age and a certain whimsy, there are a few technological advances we're still waiting for. From ...

Man's decades-long dream of achieving personal flight and of integrating it into the daily routine isn't as close to becoming real as we'd like it to be or would be led to believe. But Zapata is set ...

After seeing several videos of the Jetson One flying over golf courses, deserts and trees, we caught our first in-person glimpse of the flying machine in Southern California. At first glance, the ...

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 ...

After years of effort, Tacoma, Wash.-based Zeva has executed the first untethered, controlled flight test of its full-scale flying machine — a contraption that looks like a flying saucer. The ...

IRVING, Texas — Like many crazy ideas, it all started with a drink. “Margaritas are definitely what inspired us on this one,” said David May. Earlier this year, May and his friends were out to dinner ...

First exhibited in 1878, Charles F. Ritchel’s dirigible was about as wacky, dangerous and impractical as any airship ever launched Erik Ofgang - History Correspondent “When I was making it, people ...

Behind the glass of the picture window, cornflower blue wings flap slowly beneath the balloon of a muslin-covered zeppelin. Wheels connected by bicycle chains to the airship rotate, while a tiny metal ...