These lines of aviation invention are truly off the wall, and have little to do with the stolid, shrinking, conglomerated world of the big defense contractors. They were not invented here; they came ...

Man truly took to the air for the first time 105 years ago this December, setting off a chain of innovation that made human flight normal and even made space flight possible. This week New Scientist‘s ...

Here’s a game everybody plays but no one knows the ending for, oh, 25 years or more: “Guess What They’ll Become and Do.” As a father, friend and neighbor, I’ve played that game for decades. I well ...

The challenge was breathtaking in the extreme, two men in a flying machine aiming to earn a special place in aviation history by being first to cross the Atlantic non-stop and pick up a prize worth £1 ...

A cabin pressure monitor (CPM) developed by NASA engineer Jan Zysko was named NASA's top commercial and government invention for 2003, the agency said. The CPM, patented by NASA, is a hand-held device ...

The first Boeing 737 was rolled out in 1965, and after a few major modifications, it became the popular 737-200. Its replacement was another variant, now called “classic” 737s, the first of which flew ...

A Pomona man’s invention helped one man go where no human had gone before, at least by late 1932. There wasn’t anything really galactic about it, but pilot Paul Munro spent more than 37 consecutive ...

MAPÚA University graduate student Mark Kennedy Bantugon has invented a game changer for global aviation and the local agricultural sector. The “Pili Seal”—a two-component sealant made from the waste ...

A fundamental problem with aircraft is the amount of fuel they have to carry. Designers are forced to make compromises to reduce fuel consumption and to squeeze the necessarily large fuel tanks into ...