Where there’s a will, there’s a way. It’s a famous saying, but more than ever, it seems perfectly true. And one thing that humans have striven to do for a long time is to capture the power of flight.

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 ...

A lot of personal flying machines are in the works right now, but this one from Washington-based startup Zeva Aero surely features one of the most extraordinary designs yet. The Zeva Zero aircraft ...

Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! (No.) It's a plane! (Ehhh.) It's a flying car! (No, definitely not). So what is it? According to its manufacturer, Opener, this is a new ultralight all-electric fixed ...

Engineering students have successfully built Singapore's first personal flying machine, dubbed Snowstorm, which they envision as a clean and simple way to realize our dreams of flying. A team of eight ...

NASM copy 39088008693905 has bookplate: Gift of Melvin Buchner. NASM copy 39088016868143 has Smithsonian Institution Libraries bookplate: Gift of Leonard J. Raymond. Contents Ch. 1. Evolution of the ...

Ancient Greek thinker Archytas built one of the first flying machines long before Leonardo da Vinci sketched his own and drones soared.

NARRATOR: A century ago, on the sands of Kitty Hawk, two brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, bicycle mechanics and inventors, built flying machines which would transform our world. Today, as we mark ...