This video explores a super light fighting vehicle so small and agile that soldiers nicknamed it the flying dragon. Built to slip through terrain where heavy armor couldn’t go, it relied on speed and ...

TL;DR: Engineers at UC Berkeley developed the world's smallest wireless flying robot, less than 1cm in diameter and weighing 21mg. Powered and controlled by an external magnetic field, it can hover, ...

The September 1, 1896 San Francisco Call (San Francisco, CA) ran this image of inventor Dr. C. A. Smith’s flying machine. Apparently Smith had a model of his airship propped up on two stools in a shop ...

Maybe it’s time to say goodbye to the jet pack. For a long while now, when someone mentioned “personal flying machines,” the image that came to mind was of people wearing devices powered by small, but ...

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 ...