I’m kitted out in aluminum trousers, fireproof layers and heavy boots. No, I’m not about to fight a fire in Southern California’s hills. Rather, I’m about to fly a jet pack, and its owner is keen I ...

As it turns out, flying around with a jet-pack is just as cool as you thought it might be. “It’s like that dream of flying you have sometimes,” Richard Browning, the founder and chief test pilot at ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Even in space, a little duct tape may work wonders. Astronaut Piers Sellers suggested using some multipurpose sticky material to fix a safety-jet backpack used during spacewalks ...