CLEAR LAKE — When they learned Clear Lake High School students were building an airplane, some folks figured it was a radio-controlled job. Not hardly. It’s an honest-to-gosh ultralight aircraft — a ...

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 ...

Manassas-based aviation startup Electra.aero announced Monday it has secured $115 million in Series B funding to enter pre-production and certification phase of its EL9 model, a hybrid ultra-short ...

NATO’s Innovation Fund has co-led a $22.5mn (€21mn) investment into iCOMAT, a UK startup building ultralight composites for the aerospace, automotive, and defence sectors. NATO’s fund has a budget of ...

On Wednesday, researchers reported that they had developed a drone they're calling the CoulombFly, which is capable of self-powered hovering for as long as the Sun is shining. The drone, which is ...

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 ...