Witness the top 10 ultralight aircraft that you can buy and fly without the need for a pilot’s license. Perfect for aviation enthusiasts and beginners alike, these lightweight planes offer a fun, ...

Its owner will…cross streams or lakes that lie in his path, rise in the air and fly over ... The entire aircraft tilts for vertical takeoff and landing, rather than the more common wing ...

The future of commercial aviation could be taking shape inside a hangar next to Long Beach Airport. This is where Long Beach ...

or delivered as a complete aircraft. Even the category name is a bit of a misnomer: They can look like small fixed-wing airplanes, amphibs, helicopters, or gliders. Ultralights are also evolving ...

One of America’s leading aircraft designers, Jack Northrop, showed keen interest in the Horten brothers’ flying-wing glider back in the 1930s and built flying-wing airplanes of his own in the ...

Sikorsky was one of six companies downselected for Phase 1B of DARPA’s Advanced Aircraft Infrastructure-less Launch and Recovery program. The RBW design is a tail-sitting aircraft that takes off ...

But that's exactly how Silicon Valley-based Pivotal thinks it can crack the recreational aviation market: With an aircraft so simple to fly that just ... in the hands of an ultralight operator." ...

Jack Northrop proudly showed his Flying Wing bomber, which looked like a giant boomerang, 172 feet from tip to tip. The unconventional XB-35 is the first of 15 which Northrop Aircraft, Inc. is ...

Built to copy some of the 1950’s era innovations in delta-style jet aircraft, the plane is essentially a flying wing that seats four. And it’s not just all good looks: people who have flown ...