Summary and Key Points: The B-21 Raider, unveiled in late 2022, represents the future of the U.S. Air Force bomber fleet. This sixth-generation stealth bomber is progressing on schedule, a rarity in ...

After a mysterious and lengthy disappearance, the historic patent documents for the Wright Brothers' groundbreaking flying machine have finally resurfaced and are now at home in the National Archives ...

In the 1950s the Navy and Army worked on small VTOL machines to make troops go airborne. They worked, just not well enough.

These French cards, archived at the Library of Congress, were produced sometime between 1890 and 1900. Most of the cards illustrate important feats from ballooning history between 1795-1846, while ...

First exhibited in 1878, Charles F. Ritchel’s dirigible was about as wacky, dangerous and impractical as any airship ever launched Erik Ofgang - History Correspondent “When I was making it, people ...

Have you ever wanted to own your own flying car, hoverboard, or Jetpack? Well now you can! That statement may sound like an ad, but it isn't! You can actually go out and buy one of these flying ...

There was a time when having your own plane was a pretty clear indicator that you were part of that upper crust of society. If it was a pricey and rare electric plane, then all the more. But those ...

Leonardo da Vinci was, by any metric, a genius – but he was still limited by his time. The man may have been a secret authority on anatomy, music, art, engineering, and even frickin’ paleogeography, ...

Nature can be an instructive guide for overcoming technological barriers. In 1969, the American engineer Otto Schmitt coined a term to describe the practice of science pulling from nature’s source ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GREELEY, Colo. (KDVR) — Since the day man ...