The obsession with flying cars dates to at least 1917. That year, Glenn Hammond Curtiss, a bicycle racer turned motorc ...

Root first told his readers about how the Wrights had "outstripped the world in demonstrating that a flying machine can be constructed without the use of a balloon" in the March 1, 1904 ...

NASA tested its flying saucer-like low-density supersonic decelerator (LDSD) today. This vessel could possibly be the spacecraft for future Mars landings. Unfortunately, the craft's parachute didn ...

Much has been said and written lately about the use of the flying machine as a destructive weapon. “Bomb” dropping has been a popular feature of recent aviation meets and enthusiastic ...

The National Transportation Safety Board, who will be conducting the investigation into the crash, said it was a type of aircraft called a Buckeye Dream Machine. The initial findings from the ...

(AP) — A powered parachute aircraft flipped while landing in Kentucky ... The aircraft, called a Buckeye Dream Machine, flipped over while landing around 5:45 p.m., according to early information ...

Sometimes parachutes are attached to munitions to retard a bomb during its descent. This allows low-flying delivery aircraft to leave the vicinity before detonation. Parachutes are also used to ...

The Renaissance genius spent years deciphering the flight of birds and devising personal flying machines ... then throw out a parachute to slow their fall. Some don wing suits, with baffled ...

The troops, who are mainly from the 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, based in Colchester, are among the last expected to be deployed to the Gulf region. A group of 180 soldiers were the last ...

We mean, of course, an artificial flying machine capable of performing flight independent of ordinary winds and currents, so that under most common circumstances it can be trusted to perform its ...

Most amateur high altitude balloon payloads descend back to earth with a simple non-steerable parachute and can land hundreds of kilometers from the launch site in inaccessible areas. [Yohan Hadji ...

We are constructing a futuristic society which is populated by autonomous flying machines, houses are printed on-demand, and our companions are highly evolved robots. These advancements in IoT and ...