In the 1950s the Navy and Army worked on small VTOL machines to make troops go airborne. They worked, just not well enough. By Nicholas Slayton Updated Jan 1, 2026 12:53 PM EST For decades the United ...

Adding to its selling spree in recent months, ecommerce major Flipkart will now be selling its entire stake in clothing brand Flying Machine’s parent Arvind Youth Brands Pvt Ltd (AYBPL) to Arvind ...

When it comes to swords, Fan Shisan’s no slouch. An influencer from China’s Sichuan Province, his short-form video content is swarming with handcrafted blades — sometimes literally. Case in point, Fan ...

Red Bull Flugtag returns to Dallas-Fort Worth on September 13, 2025, bringing homemade flying machines and inevitable splashes to Irving’s Levy Event Plaza. The event transforms engineering ambition ...

Nature can be an instructive guide for overcoming technological barriers. In 1969, the American engineer Otto Schmitt coined a term to describe the practice of science pulling from nature’s source ...

Hear her go uh-oh. Katy Perry suffered a scare when she nearly fell off a flying prop at her concert Friday night. The pop superstar, 40, was performing her hit “Roar” as she flew above the crowd in ...

“The announcement today is a first for Joby and a first, frankly, for the broader industry, where you have piloted vertical takeoff and landing operations happening outside of the U.S.,” Joby ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Minecraft has been around since 2009, and it's had a few upgrades in the subsequent years. But today, it's getting another overhaul with Vibrant ...

The state of Connecticut made a joint resolution in 2013 to celebrate the nation’s first powered flight, and it wasn’t by the Wright Brothers. Connecticut is the only state that recognizes a German ...

Outgunned, outmanned and outspent, Ukrainian troops have kept up the fight against invading Russian forces for more than three years. They might easily have been routed were it not for Kyiv’s mass ...

Imagine gliding through city traffic, not stuck in traffic jams on the road, but soaring above them in the air with ease. The Volonaut Airbike, a jet-powered flying bike developed by Polish ...

We tend to think of one-hit wonders as a recent phenomenon. Truth be told, they’ve always been a part of the pop/rock landscape. Go back to the 60s, and you’ll find artists and bands who scored a big ...