French engineer and helicopter pilot Pascal Chretien recently flew into the history books with an aviation feat that took him only about one meter off the ground. Despite the low altitude, his ...

It's easy to look back at the history of exploration and aviation and feel like there's no mountains left to climb, that the age of the great pioneers is behind us and we're doomed to a future of LCD ...

Electric transportation is about more than cars. Trucks and buses are also moving toward electric propulsion. Planes, with their long ranges and high power demands seem to be harder. Where electric ...

It looks like something from the dawn of the helicopter period, with it twin counter-rotating rotors and what looks like a tail fin made of canvas, but Pascal Chretien used this fragile looking craft ...

There’s a lot to be said for determination. Two years ago, a contraption that looked a bit like a bouncy ball attached to a clothesline, took flight in a pioneering experiment in the German ...

Electric RC aircraft are not known for long flight times, with multirotors usually doing 20-45 minutes, while most fixed wings will struggle to get past two hours. [Matthew Heiskell] blew these ...

An eco-friendly all-electric helicopter could one day change the face of urban transportation Hartman is confident that with improvements in battery technology, weight will be reduced and reliability ...

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There’s a lot to be said for determination. Two years ago, a contraption that looked a bit like a bouncy ball attached to a clothesline, took flight in a pioneering experiment in the German ...