Maybe it’s time to say goodbye to the jet pack. For a long while now, when someone mentioned “personal flying machines,” the image that came to mind was of people wearing devices powered by small, but ...

Next year, visitors to the entertainment capital of the world will be able to take to the skies without a pilot's certificate. Zapata, the French company behind a jetpack and hoverboard system that ...

Have you ever imagined what personal flying could look like in the near future? China's Zhiyuan Research Institute, based in Hangzhou, is bringing that vision closer to reality. They just unveiled ...

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 ...

A giant egg equipped with rotors and "Transformers"-style robots are among some of the creative designs submitted in a $2 million dollar contest to dream up new ways of flying. The GoFly Prize, a ...

From beginning to end the GoFly competition was about 2-1/2 years. Patterned after the original DARPA Challenge for autonomous vehicles, the timeline was split into phases, with increasingly difficult ...

Everybody dreams of flying. Leonardo da Vinci sketched dozens of prototypes for flying machines based on the anatomy of birds. The Wright brothers finally worked out the details four centuries later.