Ideally, an aircraft would be made of something reasonably strong, light, and weather resistant. Cardboard, is none of those ...

Two decades after electric vehicles began reshaping ground transportation, a new category of electric aircraft is beginning ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Victor Vicari of Goreville has found a way to beat the high cost of sport flying. Instead of buying a plane, he built one in his garage. "The main reason I built it is that the ...

Wild aircraft are the hallmark of AirVenture, the world’s largest get-together for pilots, which starts today in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) airshow last year ...

Humans have been dreaming of personal flight for as long as we’ve watched birds soar overhead. In 1917 — just 31 years after the invention of the automobile — American journalist C.H. Claudy imagined ...

Plus, Waymos of London, AI clones and the ‘bring your own power’ era, in this edition of The Future of Everything newsletter.

When engineers dream about lighter aircraft, longer-range EVs, and nimble drones, one family of metals keeps resurfacing: magnesium-lithium alloys. They’re the lightest structural metals on earth, but ...