CLEAR LAKE — When they learned Clear Lake High School students were building an airplane, some folks figured it was a radio-controlled job. Not hardly. It’s an honest-to-gosh ultralight aircraft — a ...
Humans have been dreaming of personal flight for as long as we’ve watched birds soar overhead. In 1917 — just 31 years after the invention of the automobile — American journalist C.H. Claudy imagined ...
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Victor Vicari of Goreville has found a way to beat the high cost of sport flying. Instead of buying a plane, he built one in his garage. "The main reason I built it is that the ...
On Wednesday, researchers reported that they had developed a drone they're calling the CoulombFly, which is capable of self-powered hovering for as long as the Sun is shining. The drone, which is ...
Rotor X Aircraft is preparing for piloted flight testing of its Dragon eVTOL ultralight aircraft, which can be flown without a pilot's certificate in the U.S. due to its classification as a Part 103 ...
Wild aircraft are the hallmark of AirVenture, the world’s largest get-together for pilots, which starts today in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) airshow last year ...