You need a pilot's license to fly most aircraft. However, a loophole allows you to fly certain ultralight aircraft with no ...

Read Davin Coburn's flying blog and listen to him discuss his adventure. Listen to Davin Coburn adventure as he describes it on the Popular Mechanics Show (podcast). We're off the ground early, seven ...

The small airplane falls sideways through the air. Its fabric-covered wings akimbo to the line it's following, like if someone where walking with one hip thrust awkwardly forward. To the uneducated ...

The basic shape of a passenger jet hasn’t really changed much for decades, but radical new shapes are inching closer to production. JetZero has announced that its beautiful blended-wing demonstrator ...

Building and flying an ultralight aircraft was a life dream for Allen Bayne Jessup, his stepdaughter said. The 73-year-old flying enthusiast built the Kolb Firefly ultralight in his garage in ...