Discover some of the most innovative flying machines redefining the future of aviation technology. From the GEN H-4 Personal Helicopter, the Guinness World Record holder for the smallest helicopter, ...

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 ...

A Chinese company is gearing up to bring a single-seat electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to market by the end of this year—and the price tag might surprise you. Priced at roughly ...

A giant egg equipped with rotors and "Transformers"-style robots are among some of the creative designs submitted in a $2 million dollar contest to dream up new ways of flying. A giant egg equipped ...

Have you ever imagined what personal flying could look like in the near future? China's Zhiyuan Research Institute, based in Hangzhou, is bringing that vision closer to reality. They just unveiled ...

Everybody dreams of flying. Leonardo da Vinci sketched dozens of prototypes for flying machines based on the anatomy of birds. The Wright brothers finally worked out the details four centuries later.

It’s definitely more than meets the eye, as a team in Germany has connected 16 small, battery-powered propellers together to form the “E-Volo Multicopter”—described as “an innovative, vertically ...

NASMRB copy 39088001801703 bound in publisher's red cloth. National Air and Space Museum-Library stamp on t.p. Contents Ch. 1. Evolution of the two-surface flying machine -- ch. 2. Theory development ...

NASM copy 39088008693905 has bookplate: Gift of Melvin Buchner. NASM copy 39088016868143 has Smithsonian Institution Libraries bookplate: Gift of Leonard J. Raymond. Contents Ch. 1. Evolution of the ...